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Advanced Honors American History I
Unit 1 Writing Assignment Due date: Sept 17th, 11:59 pm
See question # 1 below and create a 3 page essay for that question. Be sure to address each part of the question, fully explaining your answer in your response.
Standard formatting: 1 inch margins, 12 font—Times New Roman or Comic Sans, double spaced, citations using Chicago Manual Style format.
Please underline your thesis statement.
Compare and contrast the three world societies that converged in the early settlement of America (European, American, African), and discuss the values/lifestyles each society came from and how those societies meshed in the Americas.
Your essays will be graded on the following criteria for 50 summative points
| Scored Items | Superior,done thoroughly | There most of the time | There some of the time | Not there |
| Introduction: paper begins in a way that captures the reader’s attention | ||||
| Thesis: paper has a clearly stated purpose pertaining to the question asked | ||||
| Transitions: each paragraph leads to the next with a transitional thought | ||||
| Topic Sentence: each paragraph has a topic sentence | ||||
| Coherent Paragraphs: all sentences in a paragraph deal with the topic | ||||
| Well Organized: the information is organized in a logical way that supports the thesis | ||||
| Adequate Information: enough information to support the thesis and is historically accurate | ||||
| Appropriate Citations: information from other sources is cited correctly | ||||
| Conclusion: the conclusion restates the thesis and summarizes the point of the paper | ||||
| Free of spelling,grammar, and punctuation errors | ||||
| Answered the question asked | ||||
| Neat, legible, standard formats | ||||
| Turned in on time | -------- | -------- | ||
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