Your final paper for this year is a research paper. Each week, you will be writing a section of this paper until it is completed. For this week, you need to find a topic you are interested in exploring more in-depth. There are number of topics to choose from, but you can explore just about anything you find intriguing: another culture, a religion, a historical event, a specific person or writer, a genre of music or art, something you find fascinating in science, a political issue you want to better understand, etc. Once you have picked your topic, you are to find THREE resources with some crediblity (Wikipedia is fine for one of them). Read them, analyze them, and print them out. Bring them into class next week, April 8th. We will work on thesis statements and outlines in class. You should have some idea of what you want to say about this topic by the time we meet.
The week of April 8th, you will write your introduction and first section of your roadmap. This should be approximately 2 pages. The week of April 15th you will write section 2, which will also be about 2 pages. The week of April 22nd, you will write section three (2 pages) and your conclusion. Your final paper should be 6-8 pages long PLUS a works cited page. This will be due by email to me on April 29th. I will grade your paper and email it back with my comments.
We will be reading two more books over this next month, A Midsummer Night's Dream (2 weeks) and The Art of Dancing in the Rain (2 weeks), so it is imperative that you manage your time well. Do not wait until the last minute to try to cram a week's worth of work into one day's homework assignment. This much work may take you 90 minutes a day. That's fair for high school level work, and you are all working very well now. Remember, this is our last month, so get ready to hustle. Summer break is around the corner. :)
