Writing Assignment: Social Studies Essay

Your 5-paragraph essay will involve choosing a famous person from Latin America and explaining why they are important to study in history class. Remember that you are not just reporting your research. You need to take what you learned about your person from your research and form a well-thought out argument for why this person should be studied.  You also need to remember to cite your sources within your paper and write a works cited at the end.

Here is a list of people to choose from, but you are not limited to these people if you can think of someone else you'd rather write about. You must, however, confirm that person with me.

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• Simon Bolivar
• Cesar Chavez
• Bartolome de las Casas
• Pancho Villa
• Diego Rivera
• Fidel Castro
• Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• Pablo Escobar
• Rigoberta Menchu
• Che Guevara
• Eva Peron
• Miguel Hidalgo
• Jose Marti
• Julia Alvarez
• Selena
• Juanes
• Frida Kahlo
• Oscar de la Hoya
• Gloria Estefan
• Carlos Santana
• Eugenio Maria de Hostos
• Desi Arnaz
• Celia Cruz
• Antonio Novello
• Roberto Clemente
• Atahuallpa
• Quetzalcoatl
• Sammy Sosa 

Remember: it is OK to use Wikipedia as long as you corroborate the information by confirming it with other reliable sources. Think of Wikipedia as your jumping off point for research, not your be-all, end-all.