Class, you have a three day weekend. Your job in those three days, is to blog three times. The requirement is that you need to blog about current news in politics. Within that requirement, you are free to write your posts about anything you want, weather it be some news about the Executive, maybe an upcoming Supreme Court case, or possibly an update on the Health Care issue. The only last requirement, is that you need to cite your source by providing at least one link.
By the way, I can ask people to check out a politics page on the WP like this:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/politics/
Or, if I am a slicker, more experienced blogger, I will use that link icon right above where I am typing right now, and link you to the WP Politics section like this. Which seems cleaner?
Anyways good luck, enjoy your weekend otherwise.
-Sam
PS If you are missing assignments, this is a great weekend to catch up on a few of them!
Friday, October 9, 2009
Thursday, October 8, 2009
All the President's Men Blog
Today you finished watching the fairly classic Hollywood film about the Watergate scandal. Well I was looking around the web, and I found a fantastic page put out by the Washingtonpost.com, first go ahead and read through that page here.
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Now that you've read that page, you may have noticed that in two places they actually link they original Washington Post article, written by Bernstein and Woodward. I am sure you can find one of those links on that page there, the story is called "GOP Security Aide Among 5 Arrested in Bugging Affair." Go ahead and read through that original story, try to pay attention to what governmental positions seem to be affected by this story.
Your job for this post, is to write 150 words, reacting to how you think this scandal affected peoples view of American government. I want you to think about in what ways do we rely on check's and balance's to keep our government fair, and how would this event have made you feel about the Executive if it happened today.
Feel free to explore any of the other links you find on that site, some of them lead you to some pretty cool graphics and time lines.
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Now that you've read that page, you may have noticed that in two places they actually link they original Washington Post article, written by Bernstein and Woodward. I am sure you can find one of those links on that page there, the story is called "GOP Security Aide Among 5 Arrested in Bugging Affair." Go ahead and read through that original story, try to pay attention to what governmental positions seem to be affected by this story.
Your job for this post, is to write 150 words, reacting to how you think this scandal affected peoples view of American government. I want you to think about in what ways do we rely on check's and balance's to keep our government fair, and how would this event have made you feel about the Executive if it happened today.
Feel free to explore any of the other links you find on that site, some of them lead you to some pretty cool graphics and time lines.
Friday, October 2, 2009
Blog about YOUR Congressperson
For this weekend, I want you to blog about either the Representative that represents you, where you live. You see, although the state we live in has many representatives, each one is assigned to represent a smaller portion of that state called a district. What you need to do first is find out who represents your district:
1) Go the the zip code lookup page over at USPS to find out your 9 digit zip code (like 20910-1123).
2) Once you have your zip code, head over to the Contact your Representative page at House.gov. Enter your state and zip there, and it will forward you to the House Representative that represents your district.
Now you know who your Rep is! Your job for the assignment is to blog about TWO ACTIONS your representative made in the last week. Did they vote some way on a particular bill this week? Did they attend a fundraiser event? Were they visiting a school making a speech? Feel free to look to see if they twitter or blog themselves, but every Rep most likely will have at least a News section on their own webpage. Good luck everyone.
-Sam
PS. And if you didn't finish in class on Friday, you should also finish up the Executive Department worksheet you received in the computer lab.
1) Go the the zip code lookup page over at USPS to find out your 9 digit zip code (like 20910-1123).
2) Once you have your zip code, head over to the Contact your Representative page at House.gov. Enter your state and zip there, and it will forward you to the House Representative that represents your district.
Now you know who your Rep is! Your job for the assignment is to blog about TWO ACTIONS your representative made in the last week. Did they vote some way on a particular bill this week? Did they attend a fundraiser event? Were they visiting a school making a speech? Feel free to look to see if they twitter or blog themselves, but every Rep most likely will have at least a News section on their own webpage. Good luck everyone.
-Sam
PS. And if you didn't finish in class on Friday, you should also finish up the Executive Department worksheet you received in the computer lab.
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