This is a Peer Review for: Connection Essay on Expansion of US: Broken Treaties, Genocide and Land Theft in the 1800s, with readings by Menchaca, Anguiano and Takaki plus Secondary sources.

The peer review process is to help you improve your essay by sharing with classmates for them to read and suggest and point out errors you may have missed. You also get to see how other approach the essay, how you are writing in comparison to your classmates and how you can help your classmates improve their essay.

Requirements:

Write a complete draft of your essay as if you were turning in the essay for grading by me. (Essay Requirements are below)

Submit your essay here. Make sure it is accessible and anyone can open you submission.

Read and Grade 3 essays using the instructions below.

Grading for a Peer Review

Honesty is the best and only policy in this assignment. If you don’t help your classmate by pointing out where they need to work on their essay, their essay will potentially lose more points when I grade it.

MLA, using the sample paper that is posted, check the essay and make sure it is in MLA.

Start with:

• header, .5 inches from the top right: Last Name and Page number. – 2 points if this is incorrect
• heading, one inch from top: their name, class name, my name, date. – 2 points if this is incorrect
• Title: is centered, no bolds, capitalized and punctuated properly. – 2 points if this is incorrect
• Is the essay double spaced throughout? – 2 points if this is incorrect
• Is the Works Cited on a separate page, with alphabetized authors, hanging indents, proper and complete citation information for each source. – 2 points if this is incorrect.
• Are the writers names and titles of sources correct in the Works Cited? Are they assigned sources? – 2 points if this is incorrect
• are the a minimum of four sources in the Works Cited – 2 points if this is incorrect
• Is the paper 3 full pages minimum? – 2 points if this is incorrect

Introduction Paragraph:

• Are all the Main Sources, author’s names and titles of sources in this paragraph? – 2 points if this is incorrect
• Thesis, go to the last sentence in the introduction paragraph, there should be three topics. – 2 points if this is incorrect

Body Paragraphs

• Are the topics that are listed in the Thesis in each topic sentence? – 2 points if this is incorrect
  • the topics need to be in the order and in the same wording as in the thesis
• Is there a lead in (one or two sentences) before the beginning of a quote? – 2 points if this is incorrect
• Is the quote properly punctuated, and there is a citation? – 2 points if this is incorrect
  • if there are four lines of quote it should be a correctly formatted Block Quote. – 2 points if this is incorrect
• Is there a transition or explanatory sentence following each quote? – 2 points if this is incorrect
• are there six quotes total? – 2 points if this is incorrect
• are the quotes complete sentences? – 2 points if this is incorrect
• only the conclusion can use the first person “I”. – 2 points if this is incorrect

Sources: Menchaca chapter eight: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/csun/reader.action?docID=3443170&ppg=230

Takaki Chapter Four: https://taylor603.weebly.com/uploads/3/8/2/9/38299347/towards_the_stony_mountain.pdf

Aguiano, Unkown History of Latino Lynchings: https://ctlatinonews.com/academic-study-unknown-history-of-latino-lynchings/

Use this outline to organize your topics and quotes:

Topic 1

Menchaca

Takaki

Topic 2

Menchaca or Takaki

Anguiano

Topic 3

Secondary Source

Menchaca or Takaki or Anguiano

Add up all the 2’s and subtract from 100

• put the score on the first page near their name or where it allows you to enter to write a grade.
• read and grade three classmates essays.

Once you get your reviews, fix the errors, maybe take your paper to a tutor and then submit on the due date.

I will be deducting more points per error in this essay, as you should know what the requirements and expectations are by now. So help your classmates catch their errors before I grade them.

Requirements for the essays:MLA formatMain Sources in intro paragraphThesis is Last sentence in intro paragraph must have three topicsTopic sentences must have the topics in order and in same words as in thesisUse of Quote Sandwiches each topic requires two quotes from two different assigned sources total of six quotes- make sure develop your lead in on quote sandwiches and your lead outs/transitionsWorks Cited in MLA formatthree full pages not including Works Cited