Wednesday, October 13

Hello! Here is a copy of out of class essay assignment #2--assigned in class today.
And one more reminder...remember your Rules of Thumb textbook. If there are any of you that have not purchased this text, I highly recommend that you do immediately. :-)


English 1A, Sections 3 and 84
Fall 2010
Course Theme: The Significance of Home
Instructor: C. Fraga

Out of Class Essay Assignment #2 (worth 200 points total)

Assigned: Wednesday, October 13
ROUGH DRAFT: If you wish to have me review a rough draft of this assignment, please submit it to me NO LATER Friday, November 5.
Due: Wednesday, November 10 (note date change on course outline)
(YOU HAVE FOUR WEEKS TO CONDUCT RESEARCH AND WRITE YOUR ESSAY…PLAN YOUR TIME ACCORDINGLY)

• Essay must follow MLA format exactly.
• Essay must be typed and double spaced.
• Essay must have a minimum of five sources on the Works Cited page. You are welcome to use the Internet for sources, but at least one of your sources cannot be found on the Internet (for example, use a book, watch a film, conduct an interview, etc.)
• You may certainly utilize the Wikepedia website to gain background information and to locate reference sites, but you may not use it as one of your documented sources on the Works Cited page.

Essay Prompt:

• For this essay, you will first select a group of people from another culture/country that you are genuinely interested in finding out more about.
• You will then conduct research in order to discover and then write about at least three significant ways in which someone from this culture/country must adapt to life in the United States.
• You will then begin by writing a thesis that is assertive and debatable.

For example, imagine that you selected the adaptation of the Hmong once they arrive in the US. After conducting some research, you decide to present information on male and female roles in marriage, religious practices and diet as the three areas of adjustment you feel are most significant and would make the most interesting reading.

Your thesis might read something like the following:

Hundreds of Hmong people immigrate to the United States every year and face many difficult challenges, particularly in the areas of religious practices, changes in diet and male/female roles within a marriage.

(An essay that asks you to address a topic such as this one would be difficult to complete in less than five or six pages, approximately.)