1. How to write a proper title and thesis statement…
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How to write a proper title and thesis statement…

2. Title Suggestions and Requirements:
Requirement #1 – The Format
The Boxer Rebellion: Standing Against Westernization
Two parts… all caps…colon in the center

3. Title Suggestions and Requirements:
Requirement #2 – Obvious subject matter
Standing Against Big Business: The Sherman Anti-Trust Act

4. Title Suggestions and Requirements:
Suggestion #1 – Literary Flare Example
Defiance in Leaps and Bounds: Jesse Owens and the 1936 Berlin Olympics

5. Title Suggestions and Requirements:
Suggestion #2 – Literary Flare Example
Rosa Parks: Sitting Down to Take a Stand

6. Thesis Statements Always – Give a date/era/time period of reference
Include all five W’s. The thesis is the first thing the viewer reads, so we should know immediately the who-what-where-when, and also the why-is-this-important.

7. Thesis Statements
Always – Provide a power/direction AND a clear connection to the THEME
In response to the stock market crash of 1929, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt made a daring stand by implementing his controversial “New Deal” of reform for the U.S. banking system and helped get desperate Americans back to work.

8. Thesis Statements
Always – Provide obvious evidence of your SUBJECT matter
Leave facts out, put arguments in. We don’t need to see every detail of the topic in the thesis. Leave those for the project itself. What is the point you are trying to make?
Beginning in 1517, Martin Luther stood against Roman Catholic religious practices, especially the sale of indulgences, corruption, and the emphasis on salvation through good works, thus creating the Protestant Reformation.

9. Thesis Statements
Never– Thesis statements are NEVER more than two sentences and are ideally only ONE.
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