Thursday, April 22, 2010

Amendment Debate

Who won the debate in your mind and why? Give concrete examples as to why the person or side won in your mind. Talk about facts, how the person came back, the information they seemed to know (or not know), how persuasive they were, etc...

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Constitutional Convention

1. How does the last couple of days debating show the need for compromise both back then and now? 2. What did you learn about the constitutional convention by debating the resolutions? (Either facts or the problems/procedures they had.)

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

First 4 Presidents video

Respond to this post using the "comments" portion of the post. After watching today's video about the first 4 Presidents of the United States answer these 2 questions:
1. What did they have in common? (For example: similar problems, had to overcome something, were all from the same generation, etc....)
2. If you were President during any of these 4 presidencies, what would you have done differently? (You can talk about one particular President's decision or all of them in general.)

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

President Essay

Name 2-3 facts that you learned about your President that you did not know before the essay.

Thursday, March 25, 2010

Democracy post

What does democracy mean to you? When you hear the word what do you think of? What does it stand for in America?