Blog Post #3 - Due 9/27 - Honors P6

This assignment is for Honors Civics, Period 6.

The weekly assignment consists of five parts:

1) Read the assignment. This week's reading is Chapters 2 and 3 from Sandel's Justice.

2) Take Cornell Notes on the reading. I will collect these notes on Friday in class.

3) Find another credible source on the internet that connects to part of the reading above or to the class topic from this week ("Is America living up to our ideals?"). You can use any of the sites I have listed on the right, or more general news sites like nytimes.com. 

4) After you read the source that you find, answer the following questions as a blog entry below:

• Write a summary sentence for the text you found.
• How does the text connect to that week’s topic or to the other text you have read?
• What evidence do you have that the text you found is credible?
• Does the author present strong evidence to support his/her argument? Provide an example.
• What would the author of your text say about the class text from that week?
• What would the author of the class text say about your text from that week?

Keep in mind that everyone else will see what you write below, so please keep it professional. This post is due Thursday, 9/20, by 5:00pm.

5) Come to class on Friday ready to discuss the reading and the text you found!

If you need support or have questions, my office hours are Monday and Wednesday from 3:15-4:15 in Room 229.

Blog Post #3 - Due 9/27 - P2 and P3

This assignment is for Civics, Period 2 and Period 3.

The weekly assignment consists of five parts:

1) Read the assignment. This week's reading is from The Dictator's Handbook. It is Chapter 1, and you can find it here. If you want to print it out, you can after school.

2) Take Cornell Notes on the reading. I will collect these notes on Friday in class.

3) Find another credible source on the internet that connects to the reading above or to the class topic from this week ("Is America living up to our ideals?"). You can use any of the sites I have listed on the right, or more general news sites like nytimes.com. 

4) After you read the source that you find, answer the following questions as a blog entry below:

• Write a summary sentence for the text you found.
• How does the text connect to that week’s topic or to the other text you have read?
• What evidence do you have that the text you found is credible?
• Does the author present strong evidence to support his/her argument? Provide an example.
• What would the author of your text say about the class text from that week?
• What would the author of the class text say about your text from that week?

Keep in mind that everyone else will see what you write below, so please keep it professional. This post is due Thursday, 9/20, by 5:00pm.

5) Come to class on Friday ready to discuss the reading and the text you found!

If you need support or have questions, my office hours are Monday and Wednesday from 3:15-4:15 in Room 229.

Blog Post #2 - Due 9/20 - Honors P6

This assignment is for Honors Civics, Period 6.

The weekly assignment consists of five parts:

1) Read the assignments. This week's first reading is from We the People. The second reading is an excerpt from An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution. The third reading is an excerpt from Tocqueville's Democracy in America. The fourth reading are two of The Federalist Papers (#10 and #51). If you want to print them out, you can after school.

2) Take Cornell Notes on the readings. I will collect these notes on Friday in class.

3) Find another credible source on the internet that connects to the reading above or to the class topic from this week ("What are the American political ideals"). You can use any of the sites I have listed on the right, or more general news sites like nytimes.com. 

4) After you read the source that you find, answer the following questions as a blog entry below:

• Write a summary sentence for the text you found.
• How does the text connect to that week’s topic or to the other text you have read?
• What evidence do you have that the text you found is credible?
• Does the author present strong evidence to support his/her argument? Provide an example.
• What would the author of your text say about one of the class texts from that week?
• What would the author of one of the class texts say about your text from that week?

Keep in mind that everyone else will see what you write below, so please keep it professional. This post is due Thursday, 9/20, by 5:00pm.

5) Come to class on Friday ready to discuss the reading and the text you found!

If you need support or have questions, my office hours are Monday and Wednesday from 3:15-4:15 in Room 229.

Blog Post #2 - Due 9/20 - P2 and P3

This assignment is for Civics, Period 2 and Period 3.

The weekly assignment consists of five parts:

1) Read the assignment. This week's reading is from We the People. It is Chapter 2, and you can find it here. If you want to print it out, you can after school.

2) Take Cornell Notes on the reading. I will collect these notes on Friday in class.

3) Find another credible source on the internet that connects to the reading above or to the class topic from this week ("What are the American political ideals"). You can use any of the sites I have listed on the right, or more general news sites like nytimes.com. 

4) After you read the source that you find, answer the following questions as a blog entry below:

• Write a summary sentence for the text you found.
• How does the text connect to that week’s topic or to the other text you have read?
• What evidence do you have that the text you found is credible?
• Does the author present strong evidence to support his/her argument? Provide an example.
• What would the author of your text say about the class text from that week?
• What would the author of the class text say about your text from that week?

Keep in mind that everyone else will see what you write below, so please keep it professional. This post is due Thursday, 9/20, by 5:00pm.

5) Come to class on Friday ready to discuss the reading and the text you found!

If you need support or have questions, my office hours are Monday and Wednesday from 3:15-4:15 in Room 229.

Blog Post - Due 9/13 - Honors P6

This assignment is for Honors Civics, Period 6.

The weekly assignment consists of five parts:

1) Read the two assignments. This week's first reading is from Michael Sandel's Justice. It is Chapter 1, and you can find it here. The week's second reading is from Rousseau's The Social Contract. These are excerpts, and you can find them here. If you want to print the readings out, you can after school.

2) Take Cornell Notes on the readings. This is the part we will start in class on Tuesday. I will collect these notes on Friday in class.

3) Find another credible source on the internet that connects to either/both of the readings above or to the class topic from this week ("What makes a society just?"). You can use any of the sites I have listed on the right, or more general news sites like nytimes.com. We will practice this in class on Wednesday.

4) After you read the source that you find, answer the following questions as a blog entry below:

• Write a summary sentence for the text you found.
• How does the text connect to that week’s topic or to the other text you have read?
• What evidence do you have that the text you found is credible?
• Does the author present strong evidence to support his/her argument? Provide an example.
• What would the author of your text say about the class text from that week?
• What would the author of the class text say about your text from that week?

Keep in mind that everyone else will see what you write below, so please keep it professional. This post is due Thursday, 9/13, by 5:00pm.

5) Come to class on Friday ready to discuss the two shared readings and the text you found!

If you need support or have questions, my office hours are Monday and Wednesday from 3:15-4:15 in Room 229.

Blog Post #1 - Due 9/13 - P2 and P3

This assignment is for Civics, Period 2 and Period 3.

The weekly assignment consists of five parts:

1) Read the assignment. This week's reading is from Michael Sandel's Justice. It is Chapter 1, and you can find it here. If you want to print it out, you can after school.

2) Take Cornell Notes on the reading. This is the part we will start in class on Tuesday. I will collect these notes on Friday in class.

3) Find another credible source on the internet that connects to the reading above or to the class topic from this week ("What makes a society just?"). You can use any of the sites I have listed on the right, or more general news sites like nytimes.com. We will practice this in class on Wednesday.

4) After you read the source that you find, answer the following questions as a blog entry below:

• Write a summary sentence for the text you found.
• How does the text connect to that week’s topic or to the other text you have read?
• What evidence do you have that the text you found is credible?
• Does the author present strong evidence to support his/her argument? Provide an example.
• What would the author of your text say about the class text from that week?
• What would the author of the class text say about your text from that week?

Keep in mind that everyone else will see what you write below, so please keep it professional. This post is due Thursday, 9/13, by 5:00pm.

5) Come to class on Friday ready to discuss the Sandel reading and the text you found!

If you need support or have questions, my office hours are Monday and Wednesday from 3:15-4:15 in Room 229.