NOTE! These Micro Assignments can only be accepted if you are IN class in person on the day due because they are meant to be participatory (group discussion) assignments.
Your write up, with a link to the article, or the pasted article itself, must be posted 1 hour before class on Turnitin AND you must have the article you have chosen AND your write-up fully available in class, either electronically or on paper for the discussion.
Format:
In the upper right have your CLASS NUMBER, Hist 110, and your full name AND THE DATE .
Assignment:
Pick the most significant current events article from the last 4 months on Climate Change that you can find from The New York Times,
The Washington Post or The LA Times.
Make sure the article indicates something of long range historical importance.
Write up task:
1) What about the article makes you think the article is about something of long term historical importance? Be detailed
2) What more specifically do you wish you knew about the subject beyond the article?
3) Can you connect, compare or contrast this contemporary history to anything we have discussed in class, particularly in toerms of
helping us to move towards solutions?
You must highlight or mark it up, & include notations, so that you are ready to explain your selection to a class partner or the class.