World War II Persuasive Essay Research Assignment
Common Task:
Research a social or historical issue related to a change initiated by World War II. Take a stand on the issue and outline your reasons. Write an essay persuading the reader to agree with your position on the issue.
Students will be able to...
- Write a thesis statement stating their position on an issue
- Determine key words which would be helpful in their research
- Locate and evaluate resources for investigation of their issues
- Examine text features as an aid in comprehension
- Identify useful information from print or electronic articles
- Take notes by paraphrasing and directly quoting
- Cite sources to avoid plagiarism
Assessed Indicators
- Apply comprehension skills by selecting, reading, and interpreting a variety of print and electronic informational texts.
- Analyze text features to facilitate understanding of informational texts.
- Apply knowledge of organizational patterns of informational text to facilitate understanding.
- Use the writing process to compose effective expressive, informational and persuasive writing.
AGOPP Research Process
A- ask questions
G- gather information
O- organize information (Use the appropriate graphic organizers to take notes)
P- prepare information (Write a first draft, re-read, revise, edit. Then write your final draft)
P- present information (Present your paper to you teacher.You willl be graded using the 1940's Persuasive Essay rubric.)
Should women in the military be allowed to engage in combat?
- Women in Combat: Why Not?
- They Shoot Women Don't They?
- Women's Combat Role on Front Burner
- Report Leans toward Women in Combat
- A Women's Place Is Not On Combat
- Panel Votes to Ban Women from Combat
Should the media have a responsiblity to inform the public about all aspects of war?
- Online Lessons: War and the Media Press Freedom vs. Military Censorship
- Censorship
- How has the Onset of War Coincided with Limitations on Press Freedom Throughout Our Nation's History?
- War and the Media: A Resource Unit
- Reporters Without Borders: War in Iraq
- Reporting American at War
- Reporting American at War: Walter Cronkite
- Edward Roscoe Murrow
Should the U.S. have used the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
- Hiroshima: Was it Necessary?
- Hiroshima: A Survivor's Story
- Pro and Con on Dropping the Bomb
- The Atomic Option
- Hiroshima: Who Disagreed with the Atomic Bomb
- Truman Presidential Library: The Decision to Drop the Bomb
- Harry S. Truman Diary, July 25th, 1945
- The First Atomic Blast--1945
- Documents on the Decision to Use the Bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Should the Enola Gay be diplayed in the new Air and Space Museum?
- Enola Gay
- The New Enola Gay Controvery: Historians Protest the Latest Smithsonian Exhibit
- The Enola Gay Controvery: Pro and Con
- New Air and Space Annex Lifts Off
Should Japanese-Americans have been sent to internment camps during World War II?
- Japanese Relocation During World War II: U.S. National Archives
- Children of the Camps: Internment History
- Internment History--Historical Documents: Executive Order 9066
- Japanese Americans and the U.S. Constitution
- Instructions to all people of Japanese Ancestry
- Ansel Adam's Photographs of Manzanar
Should the military enforce a draft during wartime?
- Background of Selective Service
- Selective Service Background Information
- World War II 4th Draft Registration
- Wikipedia Encyclopedia: Conscription
- Debate: Military Draft
Should the holocaust be taught in school?
- Noodletools
- Issues & Controversies
On-line Resources
World War II Reference Library
