Grade weights, rather than percentages.

• Homework (graded for timely completion, not quality). 10
• Participation during discussion (graded as simple ratio of daily participation). 10
• Volunteer work “on the barricades” for a local organization, evaluated through periodic in-class reports and an end-of-term written account. 10
• In-Class Presentation on a topic in 1960s politics, society, or culture. 15
• In-Class Presentation on an issue from 2019 politics, society, or culture. 15
• Essay on a key individual, key event, social trend, or
  cultural phenomenon from 1960s America, drawing on primary sources to complicate prior scholarship on the period. 20
• Essay on an issue from 2019 politics, society, or culture, examined in relation to history. 20