Mass Surveillance Prompt: Research the growth of mass surveillance in modern American society. How have federal and local agencies used any of the following innovations to monitor the activities of U.S. citizens? Argue to what extent you think these activities and technologies threaten the privacy and personal freedom of American citizens.
Tracking cell phone and social media site use
Facial recognition systems
GPS tracking
Surveillance dronesMass Surveillance Prompt: Research the growth of mass surveillance in modern American society. How have federal and local agencies used any of the following innovations to monitor the activities of U.S. citizens? Argue to what extent you think these activities and technologies threaten the privacy and personal freedom of American citizens.
Tracking cell phone and social media site use
Facial recognition systems
GPS tracking
Surveillance drones
Respond to this prompt ^
How clearly you can communicate your argument (thesis).
How well-structured your paper is with a clear introduction, thesis, body paragraphs, transitions, and a conclusion that answers the “So what?” question.
How well you can use textual evidence (at least two quotations from the articles in our textbook and two quotations from your research) to support the claims you’re making in your analysis.
How well you can use one of this unit’s videos with the authors to help elucidate and support the claims you are making in your analysis (you can just refer to the video or a line from the video).
How effectively you can use the tools of analysis that you have been using this semester to help make sense of what the research and the articles in this unit say.
How polished and professional your paper is with few sentence-level errors, following the MLA format.How clearly you can communicate your argument (thesis).
How well-structured your paper is with a clear introduction, thesis, body paragraphs, transitions, and a conclusion that answers the “So what?” question.
How well you can use textual evidence (at least two quotations from the articles in our textbook and two quotations from your research) to support the claims you’re making in your analysis.
How well you can use one of this unit’s videos with the authors to help elucidate and support the claims you are making in your analysis (you can just refer to the video or a line from the video).
How effectively you can use the tools of analysis that you have been using this semester to help make sense of what the research and the articles in this unit say.
How polished and professional your paper is with few sentence-level errors, following the MLA format.
This is the grading criteria, the book we use is rereading america by gary colombo