Prompt: Research one alternative school (grade school or high school). Discuss how it is successful and/or why it is not successful. (Use statistics and your view to support your position. Be careful! Simply taking a position for or against it does not mean you have convinced the reader sufficiently. Do your research, and make a compelling case to support your position.
Quality: Obviously, you will be graded on how serious you take this assignment. Choose carefully. Your essay should contain a compelling, college-level thesis and several well-developed and college-level paragraphs that support a thesis and reflect the description above for the assignment. Use claim, evidence, or result. Your essay must convince the reader. Use persuasive argumentation.
Format: In fairness to everyone, essays must be formatted in the exact same way. Refer to the formatting procedures for “First page of MLA paper” in The Little, Brown Handbook. If you do not format properly, your essay will be handed back to you and considered late until it has been correctly formatted. Essays should be 4 pages minimum, double-spaced, 12 Roman font, paginated, and stapled.
Works Cited page: You must create a correctly formatted Works Cited page in order to receive credit for this assignment.