Presidential Challenges Project
You'll be able to choose from:
- The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
- Health Care
- Economic Crisis
- Foreign Policy
Preparing for an in-class essay is a unique challenge. You will need to do a few things: first, prepare all the notes, handouts, and other materials you will want to use. Just having them isn't enough!
- You'll need to review them. One of the best ways to do that is to write a brief summary of each issue and WHY it is a challenge for President-elect Obama. That will allow you to find any holes in your knowledge.
- Next, look through your materials and review what pieces of evidence will be most helpful/interesting to you when you're writing. Remember, the idea is to explain which challenge is the biggest.
- You'll need to review ALL the challenges so you can address the others. Just because you think the war is the biggest challenge doesn't mean you don't address/refer to the others. You will need to explain WHY they are not the biggest.
- Sketch out your essay. This can be in the form of a web diagram, bullet points, an outline, or a quickwrite. Do not come to the essay-writing period without a map of your essay! That's like flying blind.
- Figure out where you're going to plug in the pieces of evidence you found most compelling. This will make writing the essay easier and allow you to focus on writing it well.
- Organize these notes in a way you can easily understand during the pressure of an essay-writing period.
4 comments:
First comment! Woo!
k, i have a question: do you want us to do a whole paragraph on the other elements and why the war (for example) is more important than the others?????
Hola, are we supposed to write what is the hardest for the president to deal with, or the most important for Obama to settle first?
can someone PLEASE answer my question, nrmind, i have mr yedid first period......
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