The essays in the class may be the hardest thing that you will do in the class. The exam contains 4 and the practice that you actually do in the class is a huge help. Mr. Brock will put one essay on each of the unit tests and that helps for the exam at the end of your school year. On the essays you need to use some of your vocabulary that you learn in the class like political efficacy, line-item veto, or incumbent, but you will learn those at a later time. Use good grammar and complete sentences on the essays, skip lines on Mr. Brock's essays but on the Exam essays don't skip lines.