Essay # 1 Holocaust and Genocide
You are going to write an essay that demonstrates your understanding of the five yearly genocide themes for this course (sheet with the skull not the quiz themes). Select one of the themes, conduct research, develop a thesis and support your thesis in an essay. You must cite two sources from class readings and two from outside of the readings used from the time we went to the computer lab. When citing sources in your essay body, you must include a hard copy of the page (not the entire reading) you are citing. Underline the cited portion on your hard copy.
You Must:
Have an underlined developed thesis
Support your thesis
Cite additional work for support (see bottom)
Close your essay without using in conclusion or in summation
Once you have made your arguments, it is appropriate to close the paper with your conclusions. Do not use your concluding remarks merely to “sum up” what you have already written; that’s repetitious. You do not have to sum up a well-written paper, because you have made your points clearly the first time. Instead, use your conclusion to speculate on the larger implications of your argument. Here is a chance to ask yourself, if my argument is true, what else might be true? You can use your conclusion to answer the “so what?” question by placing the problem you have examined in larger contexts.[1]
Themes
Long Term Causes
Belief in causes, justification or ideology
Propaganda
Process
Allowing atrocities
Outline
My outline method is very simple. Your outline will consist of one sentence for every paragraph.
Sentence # 1=Thesis
Sentence # 2=One sentence that supports your thesis.
Sentence # 3=Follow above for every paragraph until the closing.
If your thesis is about the role of technology during World War I, and your second paragraph mentions women fighting for rights then you are not supporting your thesis.
Grading
2-Thesis developed and consisting of one sentence
2-Underlined thesis
5-Essay supports thesis-Did you support your thesis? I will ask myself this question after reading your essay.
4-Followed submission format
4-Essay is focused without getting off topic and/or using filler sentences to take up space
4-Uses four sources two from class two from outside (one outside source must be primary). Please introduce author or source when using direct quotes.
2-10 Font 1-1/2 spaced five paragraphs STAPLED with hard copy of sources.
4-Opening and closing paragraphs present
Possible Thesis
German citizens were exposed to Anti-Semitic propaganda in newspapers such as Des Strumer.
Note: Thesis does not assume that all Germans killed because the Nazis used propaganda. Thesis should have a very narrow focus. Avoid big assumptions like all Nazis believed in Nazi ideology. How could this be supported?
Essay # 1 Holocaust and Genocide
You are going to write an essay that demonstrates your understanding of the yearly genocide themes listed below for this course (sheet with the skull not the quiz themes). Select one of the themes, conduct research, develop a thesis and support your thesis in an essay. You must cite two sources from class readings and two from outside of the readings used from the time we went to the computer lab. When citing sources in your essay body, you must include a hard copy of the page (not the entire reading) you are citing. Underline the cited portion on your hard copy.
You Must:
Have an underlined developed thesis
Support your thesis
Cite additional work for support (see bottom)
Close your essay without using in conclusion or in summation
Once you have made your arguments, it is appropriate to close the paper with your conclusions. Do not use your concluding remarks merely to “sum up” what you have already written; that’s repetitious. You do not have to sum up a well-written paper, because you have made your points clearly the first time. Instead, use your conclusion to speculate on the larger implications of your argument. Here is a chance to ask yourself, if my argument is true, what else might be true? You can use your conclusion to answer the “so what?” question by placing the problem you have examined in larger contexts.[2]
Themes/Topics
Long Term Causes (focus on the problems presented by any group such as homosexuals, Jews or communists)
Propaganda (targeting women and teachers)
Allowing atrocities (What did bystanders do?)
Grading
2-Thesis developed and consisting of one sentence
2-Underlined thesis
5-Essay supports thesis-Did you support your thesis? I will ask myself this question after reading your essay.
4-Followed submission format
4-Essay is focused without getting off topic and/or using filler sentences to take up space
4-Uses four sources two from class two from outside (one outside source must be primary). Please introduce author or source when using direct quotes.
2-10 Font 1-1/2 spaced five paragraphs STAPLED with hard copy of sources.
4-Opening and closing paragraphs present
Possible Thesis
German citizens were exposed to Anti-Semitic propaganda in newspapers such as Des Strumer.
Note: Thesis does not assume that all Germans killed because the Nazis used propaganda. Thesis should have a very narrow focus. Avoid big assumptions like all Nazis believed in Nazi ideology. How could this be supported?
Additional Essay Information
1. Google Calvin nazi propaganda or use http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/
2. Select one of the topics below
3. Look through the documents and gather your sources. The first due assignment will be the box assignment. This will be a summary/outline of your essay.
The Box Assignment
Instead of writing your essay you will use this method to summarize an essay that you will not write at the moment. In other words, this format is more of an outline. The first box will be your opening paragraph with an underlined thesis. Follow all guidelines for your opening paragraph
[1] Unknown Author, Style Guide for Papers, Monmouth.edu, 2007, http://www.monmouth.edu/academics/history_and_anthropology/styleguide.asp.
[2] Unknown Author, Style Guide for Papers, Monmouth.edu, 2007, http://www.monmouth.edu/academics/history_and_anthropology/styleguide.asp.