We are starting UNIT 2 this week (Oct. 18 & Oct. 20). The Unit 2 paper is due on November 15th. It counts for 20% of your course grade.

For the Unit 2 paper, you will write an Op-Ed article, an opinion piece. In this paper you’ll argue a position on a topic of your choosing.

Create a free Academic Pass account for free digital access the New York Times with your City Tech email.

Once you have your academic pass account to NYTimes.com:

  • use the Search tool to find OPINION articles on ANY topics that you are interested in, academic or not.
  • select a Date Range to make sure the article is relatively current (e.g. one month, one year, one week) and
  • select the Opinion Section to make sure that it is an opinion article.

This Week’s Readings: