Your Job: Write a Chicago Style Argumentative Essay defending or critiquing a specific action, policy, or law supported by a president of your choice.

The argumentative essay is a genre of writing that requires the student to investigate a topic, collect, generate, and evaluate evidence, and establish a position on the topic in a concise manner.

Potential Resources:

Databases:

Gale in Context: U.S. History 

ABC-CLIO 

• American Government

• American History

• Daily Life Through History

• World History: The Modern Era

Books:

Warwick High School Catalog 

• Mrs. Stump has also pulled books related to this research assignment on a cart that will be in the learning commons that you may also use.

• If there is a small chapter or section you would like copied, please fill out the Pink Copy Request paper, and one of the library staff members will copy it for you.

Websites:

• The White House - Presidential Actions 

• National Archive: Federal Register 

• Congress.gov