Organize Your Work
You will now use Organize It to outline your argument in response to the question: How did the year 1968 come to symbolize a decade of change in America?
The claims you make should be supported by evidence, including relevant quotations, from the videos and primary sources in the lesson. To begin, you can review your notes in “My Work” as well as any of the following:
| Keyboard Shortcut | Action |
|---|---|
| Space | Pause/Play video playback |
| Enter | Pause/Play video playback |
| m | Mute/Unmute video volume |
| Up and Down arrows | Increase and decrease volume by 10% |
| Right and Left arrows | Seek forward or backward by 5 seconds |
| 0-9 | Fast seek to x% of the video. |
| f | Enter or exit fullscreen. (Note: To exit fullscreen in flash press the Esc key. |
| c | Press c to toggle captions on or off |
Readings:
| Keyboard Shortcut | Action |
|---|---|
| Space | Pause/Play video playback |
| Enter | Pause/Play video playback |
| m | Mute/Unmute video volume |
| Up and Down arrows | Increase and decrease volume by 10% |
| Right and Left arrows | Seek forward or backward by 5 seconds |
| 0-9 | Fast seek to x% of the video. |
| f | Enter or exit fullscreen. (Note: To exit fullscreen in flash press the Esc key. |
| c | Press c to toggle captions on or off |
| Keyboard Shortcut | Action |
|---|---|
| Space | Pause/Play video playback |
| Enter | Pause/Play video playback |
| m | Mute/Unmute video volume |
| Up and Down arrows | Increase and decrease volume by 10% |
| Right and Left arrows | Seek forward or backward by 5 seconds |
| 0-9 | Fast seek to x% of the video. |
| f | Enter or exit fullscreen. (Note: To exit fullscreen in flash press the Esc key. |
| c | Press c to toggle captions on or off |
Use Organize It to arrange your notes into five sections: an introduction, three supporting paragraphs, and a conclusion. Your introductory paragraph should state your argument, and the closing paragraph should summarize your conclusion. Use these questions to help structure your claims in the supporting paragraphs:
- What social, political, and cultural changes were already in motion before 1968?
- How did the events of 1968, big and small, influence those changes?
- How did the use of symbols reflect and create change in 1968?
Organize It!: Your work has been submitted.
1968: A Time of Change
Calderwood Writing Course: U.S. History
