Class Canceled on Tuesday, November 5. Please read the following carefully

Please read the entire post carefully.

Due to a family emergency, I need to cancel class on Tuesday, November 5, 2013. Even though I am cancelling class, I still want you to do a couple things to get started on the mini-essay you will be turning in next week.

1.   First, finish watching Extreme Prison Gangs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-aYqGMeWfk. While you watch, be sure to jot down moments that you see something really wrong with the jail/prison system. Remember, part of the taxes you pay go to these institutions. Do you think your money is being misspent, why or why not? What do you want prisons to do and how is that different from what they are doing?

2.     Last Thursday, you had a choice between two articles to read. You hopefully read one and blogged about it. Please read the other one before beginning your essay outline assignment.

3.    Now that you have taken in some reputable information about the prison system in America, form a thesis that states the following:

a.     What problem(s) do you see

b.     How do you think prisons should work

c.      Why is what you are saying important, what difference do you think your ideas will make in the recidivism rates and why

4.    Then write an outline for your paper. Make sure that your points aren’t too Big/General. Speak specifically about the problems you see and how you would solve them and why they need to be solved.

5 .  Bring a print out of that outline to class on Thursday, November 7.

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Your mini-essay will be due next week on Thursday, November 14, and it will be a minimum of 2 pages. You will use a minimum of 2 quotes from the book Tattoos on the Heart and a maximum of 3 quotes from other sources we found in class. This is a really short paper that should be full of your opinions and ideas, not the words of others. You will have an intro with a thesis at the end of that intro and a conclusion. I will expect your body paragraphs to be in PIE form.

This is an argumentative essay that will have credible references in it. Everything I have shared with you I found using the Chabot databases. On Thursday, we are meeting in the library, room 119. My 7:30 class please “line up outside of the building 2300 side of the library on the ramp/walkway.” There we are going to get a lesson on how to use this database to find reliable resources for our papers. I will bring a little assignment to help guide your searching. I will also give you back your papers with an update on your current class grade.

I apologize for the inconvenience. I will see you all Thursday, November 7.