This assignment is designed to allow you to express in words what you have tried to get across in the Supreme Court oral arguments. For Friday, January 28th, 2011 write four pages, typed, double-spaced, and stapled, explaining your argument in Korematsu v. the United States. You must write from the perspective you argued in the oral exercise--that means if you were a government attorney you need to explain the government argument. Likewise, Korematsu's attorneys need to put their case forward in written form. The Supreme Court Justices need to write about the vote they caste--they need to talk about why they voted for or against the constitutionality of the issue. Remember, every successful argument has several elements to it. Most importantly, you need to use evidence to support your claim(s), otherwise you are simply giving your opinion. Likewise, you need to "meet & defeat" counter arguments raised by the opposition--acknowledge the points raised by them and explain why they are wrong as a part of your paper.
You will benefit greatly from logging in to nicenet and reading the section entitled "writing for reacting" under documents as this gives a nice description of how to write an essay like this. Since "writing for reacting" is taken from the Reacting to the Past pedagogy it starts out talking about the Athens game so it may seem a bit confusing at first, but just think of it as an example for our game. Note that you can write in the first person--that is to say as if you were arguing in 1944. Additionally, take the time to look at your notes on argumentation from earlier this semester as I will look for strong arguments, and fallacious arguments in grading this essay. Finally, this is the opportunity to expand your argument. If things did not go the way you wished in the oral presentation this is the opportunity to do a bit more research and make a stronger argument.
Submission: You will hand in your papers electronically, at the beginning of your class period,for this assignment. Send it as an attachment, not embedded in the text of the email. You MUST send this file as either a Microsoft word file(docx is fine), or an Apple Pages file. I will not be able to open any other program. Also, do not send it as a .pdf file as I wish to be able to type on your document, something I cannot do with a pdf.
Citations: Use parenthetical references and a bibliography to tell me where your information came from. Use the style guide that came as part of your book purchase to aid you.