Extra Credit -- Optional -- Assignment

Students:

I just wanted to remind everyone, and put it in writing, that anyone who wants to submit an optional extra credit essay MUST turn in a proposal to me in section February 20th [one week after the Midterm 2/14] according to the following guidelines:

• 1-page [max]
• single spaced

The text of your proposal should:

• introduce your topic [I am especially interested to hear how it relates to one of our class themes]
  
• offer a research question [you may but do not have to offer a thesis statement at this point]
• briefly outline your research strategy/sources

This will not give me time to get these back to you before the essays are due, unfortunately, but this will help produce better essays by encouraging you to organize your thoughts and commit them to paper.

Remember tomorrow we're going to go over the questions for discussion I posted previously, as well as discuss the film The End of Suburbia.