This current event presentation must be about current voting rights or vote suppression. You may search newspapers, news magazines, or news-oriented websites.
Your presentation should compare your chosen topic to the vote suppression that happened during the Reconstruction era.
Once you find an article, you must do the following:
- Include the article in your document after the summary and the bibliographical citation. (5 points)
- Include a short summary of the article. Summary must be neatly written or typed. Summary must include (5 points):
- Who and what the article is about
- Where, when, and why
- Implications for the community, state, country, or world
- Whether and how it affects you
- How it relates to any current class discussions
- Include bibliographic citation (on summary page) in the following formats (5 points):
- Newspaper article: Author's last name, first name. "Article Title." Newspaper name Date: page number.
- (example) Brubaker, Bill. "New Health Center Targets County's Uninsured Patients." Washington Post 24 May 2007: LZ01.
- Magazine article: Author(s). "Title of Article." Title of Periodical Day Month Year: pages.
- (example) Poniewozik, James. "TV Makes a Too-Close Call." Time 20 Nov. 2000: 70-71.
- Website article: Author's last name, first name. "Article Title." Name of online publication. (Date posted). Date accessed. <Complete URL>.
- (example) Bernstein, Mark. "10 Tips on Writing the Living Web." A List Apart: For People Who Make Websites. (16 Aug. 2002). 4 May 2006 <http://alistapart.com/articles/writeliving>.
Your spoken presentation needs to include the information in your
summary. Your presentation needs to be at least sixty seconds long, and should have a strong beginning and a solid ending. Practice good eye contact and volume to get the best grade.