HIST17 Week 6 To Kill a Mockingbird Essay Week #6 Mockingbird Essay NOTE—In order to answer this question using historical facts, you should employ: Harp

HIST17 Week 6 To Kill a Mockingbird Essay Week #6 Mockingbird Essay

NOTE—In order to answer this question using historical facts, you should employ:

Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird (almost exclusively)
Cobbs’ Major Problems Chapter 12 (completely)
the video excerpts listed on Week 6 (above)
the US History textbook website (link located on the Menu and in the syllabus),
my lecture notes,

To Kill A Mockingbird Essay PROMPT:

The novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, takes place during the Great Depression. How does Atticus quietly protest Jim Crow laws even before Tom Robinson’s trial? How do class divisions and family quarrels highlight racial tensions in Maycomb? Are these typical of the time period (1920-70) in American History?? How did this work give you insight into the Modern Civil Rights Movement?

Harper Lee’s Mockingbird essay response NEEDS to include the following:

(1) 3-4 “full” pages, typed, double spaced, w/ full name, class name, time AND date)

(2) use Times New Roman font 12 or comparable ONLY

(3) INCLUDE NUMEROUS CITATIONS from the various class sources:

For the Mockingbird essay, make sure you use that book about 75% of the time and

Cobbs Major Problems (Chapter 12) and online textbook http://www.ushistory.org/us/ (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.),

In-text citations or Footnotes/Endnotes will suffice

PLEASE NOTE:

? ALL citations NEED TO BE BOLD in order to get full credit for them

? If you do NOT cite, you will receive NO CREDIT for that question

? cite 3-4 times per each full paged typed

? NOTE…if you do NOT cite, you will receive NO HIGHER than a D (65%) on the paper!!!

(4) Page #s

(5) Thesis MUST BE UNDERLINED

(6) Margins NO LARGER THAN 1 INCH—YOU MAY NEED TO ADJUST YOUR MARGINS

ALL essays will be graded with a generic rubric

(7) Submit ALL essays HERE…(within Canvas)

http://www.towson.edu/history/succeeding/writing.asp (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

PLEASE NOTE: If your www.turnitin.com (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. “Similarity %” is 21% or higher, you will lose points and the paper will be examined very closely for plagiarism and thus could receive a 0!!!