Class Essay 2: Essay Assignment: Read all of the secondary sources and select one of the primary documents. Write an essay in which you develop an argument about what your analysis of the document allows you to understand about class in the 19th century United States. As part of your argument, explain how your analysis of the document adds to or challenges the information and ideas about class in the American Yawp sections and the Anbinder article. Cite all your sources (primary and secondary) using APA style at the end of the essay. (250-350 words). Essay Structure and Checklist: Introduction (1 paragraph. 50-75 words). Your introduction should clearly state your thesis and provide an overview of the main points you will make in your essay. Underline or highlight your thesis. Body. (2-3 paragraphs. 200-250 words [total]). The main body of your essay should include the evidence and analysis that supports your thesis. Each paragraph should develop one main point and open with a topic sentence that clearly states that main point. Provide specific evidence from the primary source you selected and explain how the evidence supports your thesis. Also incorporate evidence from the secondary sources, explaining how it supports or challenges your thesis; if you are arguing the secondary source challenges your thesis, make a case for your interpretation. Conclusion (1 paragraph. 50-75 words). Provide an overview of the main points you have made and identify briefly larger questions your analysis might raise or another context in which the issues could be examined. Have you: Clearly stated your thesis? Highlighted or underlined your thesis? Used evidence from primary sources to support your thesis? Explained how that evidence supports your thesis? Explained how the secondary sources support or challenge your thesis? Put all quoted material in quotation marks? Included a list of works you used, cited using APA style? Proofread your assignment? Checked that the assignment is within the word count? secondary: From the American Yawp: “Market revolution,” “Capital and labor,” and “Immigration and urbanization.” (Citation: Locke, J. and Wright, B. (2017). The American yawp. Retrieved from http://www.americanyawp.com.) Anbinder, T. (2017). Todays banned immigrants are no different from our immigrant ancestors. AHA today. Retrieved from http://blog.historians.org/2017/02/todays-banned-immigrants-are-no-different-than-our-immigrant-ancestors/ (Also available as a PDF attachment under Secondary and Primary Source Readings). primary: Riis, J. How the Other Half Lives. New York: Charles Scribners Sons. Retrieved from http://www.americanyawp.com/reader/18-industrial-america/jacob-riis-how-the-other-half-lives-1890/
