For tomorrow (that's Friday, September 9th to you and me), you will be writing a compare and contrast essay in class. You may write in pen or pencil, and I will provide you with lined paper. This essay will draw from the contents of chapters 1-6. The essay must have a thesis statement, must deal with both comparisons and contrasts, and must provide evidence to support the contentions you make. The essay will be scored with the College Board's score guide. The link to this guide is here. Please note that in order to attain the final two points in the expanded core section of the score guide you must have earned the first seven! For this essay you may not use your book, or notes of any kind.
Essays in this course will be drawn from the 5 themes of the course which are:
1. Patterns and impacts of interaction between humans and the environment (demography and disease, migration, patterns of settlement, technology).
2. Development and interaction of cultures (religions, belief systems, philosophies and ideologies, science and technology, the arts and architecture).
3. State-building, expansion and conflict (political structures and forms of governance, empires, nations and nationalism, revolts and revolutions, regional, trans-regional and global structures and organizations).
4. Creation, expansion, and interaction of economic systems (agricultural and pastoral production, trade and commerce, labor systems, industrialization, capitalism and socialism).
5. Development and transformation of social structures (gender roles and relations, family and kinship, racial and ethnic constructions, social and economic classes).
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