•Use the general topic suggestion to form the thesis statement which will be an opinion on the topic. The thesis must have three controlling ideas. •Develop an essay map or informal outline  •Develop each paragraph using a specific topic sentence related to the controls in your thesis; thus, announcing the subject matter of that paragraph. •Use transitional devices throughout the essay and in each paragraph. •Use any combination of modes to support your arguments. • Have a well-developed introduction and conclusion. •Use quotes from the text to support your arguments. •You must have a title. •Make a “Work Cited” page with the text as the only source. Topic: Reading helps students to develop skills that will make them into a more optimally rounded person. Choose any three skills learned in reading and discuss how each one can help students to be more academically inclined.  the text  “The 1960s: A Decade of Promise and Heartbreak” By Kenneth T. Walsh  March 9, 2010 US News It was a decade of extremes, of transformational change and bizarre contrasts: flower children and assassins , idealism and alienation , rebellion and backlash . For many in the massive post-World War II baby boom generation, it was both the best of times and the worst of times. (7 words) There will be many 50-year anniversaries to mark significant events of the 1960s, and a big reason is that what happened in that remarkable era still resonates today. At the dawn of that decade of contrasts a half century ago—on Jan. 2 ,1960—a charismatic young senator from Massachusetts named John F. Kennedy announced that he was running for president, and he won the nation's highest office the following November. He remains one of the iconic figures in U.S. history. On February 1, four determined black men sat at a whites-only lunch counter at a Woolworth's in Greensboro, N.C., and were denied service. Their act of defiance triggered a wave of sit-ins for civil rights across the South and brought unrelenting national attention to America's original sin of racism. On March 3, Elvis Presley returned to the United States from his Army stint in Germany, resuming his career as a pioneer of rock-and-roll and an icon of the youth culture celebrating freedom and a growing sense of rebellion.(5 words) By the end of the decade, Kennedy had been assassinated , along with his brother Robert and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. America's cities had become powder kegs as African-Americans, despite historic gains toward legal equality, became more impatient than ever at being second-class citizens. Women began demanding their rights in unprecedented numbers. Young people and their parents felt a widening generation gap as seen in their differing perceptions of patriotism , drug use, sexuality, and the work ethic. The now familiar culture wars between liberals and conservatives caused angry divisions over law and order, busing, racial preferences, abortion, the Vie.

1. •Use the general topic suggestion to form the
thesis statement
which will be an opinion on the topic. The thesis must have
three
controlling ideas.
•Develop an essay
map or informal outline
•Develop each paragraph using a specific
topic sentence
related to the controls in your thesis; thus, announcing the
subject matter of that paragraph.
•Use
transitional devices
throughout the essay and in each paragraph.
•Use any combination of modes to support your arguments.
• Have a well-developed introduction and conclusion.
•Use quotes from the text to support your arguments.
•You must have a title.
•Make a “Work Cited” page with the text as the only source.
Topic:
Reading helps students to develop skills that will make them
into a more optimally rounded person. Choose any three skills
learned in reading and discuss how each one can help students
to be more academically inclined.
the text
“The 1960s: A Decade of Promise and Heartbreak”
By Kenneth T. Walsh
March 9, 2010
US News

2. It was a decade of extremes, of
transformational
change and
bizarre
contrasts: flower children and
assassins
,
idealism
and
alienation
, rebellion and
backlash
. For many in the
massive
post-World War II baby boom generation, it was both the best
of times and the worst of times. (7 words)
There will be many 50-year anniversaries to mark significant
events of the 1960s, and a big reason is that what happened in
that remarkable era still
resonates
today. At the dawn of that decade of contrasts a half century
ago—on Jan. 2 ,1960—a
charismatic
young senator from Massachusetts named John F. Kennedy
announced that he was running for president, and he won the
nation's highest office the following November. He remains one
of the
iconic
figures in U.S. history. On February 1, four determined black
men sat at a whites-only lunch counter at a Woolworth's in
Greensboro, N.C., and were denied service. Their act of
defiance
triggered a wave of sit-ins for civil rights across the South and
brought
unrelenting
national attention to America's original sin of racism. On

3. March 3, Elvis Presley returned to the United States from his
Army stint in Germany, resuming his career as a pioneer of
rock-and-roll and an icon of the youth culture celebrating
freedom and a growing sense of rebellion.(5 words)
By the end of the decade, Kennedy had been
assassinated
, along with his brother Robert and the Rev. Martin Luther King
Jr. America's cities had become powder kegs as African-
Americans, despite historic gains toward legal equality, became
more impatient than ever at being second-class citizens. Women
began demanding their rights in
unprecedented
numbers. Young people and their parents felt a widening
generation gap as seen in their differing perceptions of
patriotism
, drug use, sexuality, and the work ethic. The now familiar
culture wars between liberals and conservatives caused angry
divisions over law and order, busing, racial preferences,
abortion, the Vietnam War, and America's use of military force
abroad. Republican Sen. Barry Goldwater of Arizona lost the
1964 presidential election to Democratic liberal Lyndon
Johnson, but his campaign sowed the seeds of a new
conservatism
that eventually brought Ronald Reagan to power in 1980.
(4words)
" 'The Sixties,' for conservatives, were an explosion of
puerile
irresponsibility and fashionable rebellion, the wellspring of
today's ubiquitous identity politics, debased high culture, sexual
permissiveness, and
censorious
political correctness," says social policy essayist Bruce Bawer.
"For liberals, the period was a desperately needed corrective
that drew attention to America's injustices and started us down
the road toward greater fairness and equality for all." (2 words).
Adding to the

4. pervasive
sense of change were a host of technological breakthroughs.
The United States and the Soviet Union began exploring the
solar system with rockets and satellites. The Soviets sent the
first man into space, in 1961,
accelerating
a "space race" between the superpowers that reached its apex
when, on July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 landed on the moon. U.S.
astronaut Neil Armstrong stepped onto the lunar surface and
said, "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for
mankind." (2 words)
By the end of the decade, television had gone from a novelty to
the dominant medium of the age and one of the most
profound
communications tools ever. In 1961, the laser was perfected. In
1965, the Houston Astrodome, the world's first roofed stadium,
was built. In 1967, the first heart transplant was performed by
Christiaan Barnard in Cape Town, South Africa, opening up
remarkable new
vistas
in medicine. Also in 1967, the first hand-held calculator was
invented by Texas Instruments, at a cost of $2,500 each. (2
words)
In social terms, the number of college students doubled between
1940 and 1960 to 3.6 million, creating a huge pool of high-
minded if sometimes misguided activists with the motivation
and time to devote to political and social causes. Society moved
ever more rapidly from the industrial age to an economy
dominated by service and white-collar work, creating more
dislocation
and a profound sense of
disorientation
. The environmental movement was born. A key factor was the
1962 publication of Rachel Carson's book
Silent Spring
, which warned that many forms of life on Earth would die

5. because of pollution and
lethal
chemicals released by human beings and their industries. (3
words)