Homework Instructions

The purpose of homework is to combine facts from textbook and documents workbook into a brief one page paper.

Homework must be typed, the thesis posted to the class wiki, and brought to class by 11:00 a.m. every Monday. See the Grading page for rules about missed work.

The format for homework is the same each week.

• Create a one page mini-essay:
• Type your name, homework number and unit title at the top
• It must have a thesis (link) -- (at first your thesis may be factual, just saying what the chapter is about, but later it will become more interpretive)
• use all the key terms and the titles of all assigned documents
• put the thesis in bold
• support your thesis with three body paragraphs, each emphasizing a particular topic
• highlight, italicize or underline all key terms and document titles
• Create it in a word-processing program (save the file!), then print it out to bring to class to share. (If you go over one page, print the second page on the back, not a separate page.)
• Post the thesis on the posting board before class time on Monday (I have moved to a different posting board than the one you got a password for on Monday, so don't worry about this for Homework #1)