POST YOUR GLOGS HERE!

I am excited to see all the interesting glogs you all created on leaders in civil rights!

Which amendment?

Choose an amendment & write at least 2 paragraphs on what life would be like without that amendment.

So what do you think?

After interviewing three adults, what conclusion have you come to about the purpose of government?

First Day of Class

I'm so glad to meet you all today! What are some things you want to learn or get out of this class?

Digital Story of How a Bill Becomes a Law

Using some sort of video software - such as Movie Maker or PhotoStory - you and your group are going to create a digital story about the process of how a bill becomes a law.

Wiki What?

I know you've heard of and used Wikipedia numerous times but do you know what a Wiki is? We are going to try an experiment...it is up to you whether or not it is successful and we continue this.

We are going to use a wiki to do our vocabulary for this unit. Essentially, each person will be responsible for adding the words and definitions to our wiki and then for refining them and make it better.

If someone is not contributing to our group wiki, we can not continue to use this tool. I am excited to see what great definitions you all create!

What do you see in the clouds?

Do you remember laying in the grass or riding in the car and looking up to the sky and imagining the clouds were different shapes? Some would look like a dinosaur, some would look like a racecar.  This is kind of a twist on that childhood game!

Pretty soon, President Obama will make his annual "Back-to-School" speech just as he has for the past two years. We are going to create a Wordle, or word cloud, to compare these three speeches.  After President Obama's speech next week, your assignment will be to find a transcript of the speech and make a Wordle from it. Then, do the same thing for the previous speeches. When you are finished, you should have three Wordles.

The purpose of this is to determine what the main point is in each speech (Wordle does this by making words larger the more they are repeated) and then compare it with speeches in the past. 

Of course you can print your Wordles to turn in or you can copy and paste the URL the website will provide you into an email to me.

Extra Credit Opportunity: Find a speech from a past President that was intended for students. Create a wordle of that speech as well.