Current Events Assignment

You will choose a partner Pick a major topic that is politically relevant

today. Each person will then pick one side of the topic,

whether you are for the topic or against the topic.

Each person will research their side of the topic to write a reflection about their topic and will be graded on the following rubric.

Each person will lead a class debate with questions in hand to support their side or to blow apart the other person’s stance and will be graded on the following rubric.

*THIS NEEDS TO BE PRESENTED WITH RESPECT TO THE OTHER PERSON AND THEIR VIEWS! WE WILL NOT TOLERATE ANY WORDS OR ACTIONS WHICH UNDERMINE THE OTHER PERSONS VIEWPOINT!

Overview of Current Events

Assignment

Primary Sources Definition

PRIMARY SOURCES provide first-hand testimony or direct evidence concerning a topic under investigation. They are created by witnesses or recorders who experienced the events or conditions being documented. Often these sources are created at the time when the events or conditions are occurring, but primary sources can also include autobiographies, memoirs, and oral histories recorded later.

SMSU Library Secondary Sources

A SECONDARY SOURCE is a secondhand account about people, events, topics, or places that is based on what some other writer has experienced. Good examples of SECONDARY SOURCES are books, newspapers, pamphlets, encyclopedias, and other materials in which information has been gathered for you.

Primary and Secondary

Sources

I'm for no regulations in gun control so I need to research the issue using primary and secondary sources.

Primary Source Constitution is always a primary source for some of

the issue but we are not debating the Constitution or the amendments but it can be used as an argument for or against your point.

Secondary Source Type in gun control debate in Google Aurora Shooting NRA

EXAMPLE TOPIC

GUN CONTROL