{"id":21,"date":"2012-01-18T08:36:41","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T13:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi320\/?p=21"},"modified":"2016-06-23T09:35:55","modified_gmt":"2016-06-23T13:35:55","slug":"course-intro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi320\/course-intro\/","title":{"rendered":"Course Intro: Citizenship And You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For our next class: read Richard Bellamy, <i>Citizenship: A Very Short Introduction<\/i> and write a 2-3 page response paper considering some of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi320\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Bellamy.DiscQs.pdf\">these critical thinking questions<\/a>; bring the book and be prepared to discuss it in class.<!--more--> If you don&#8217;t have the book, it&#8217;s on 2-hour course reserve at the library circulation desk, or the Kindle app edition is only $4.98 for online\/mobile reading.<\/p>\n<p>Are You Smarter Than a Jay Leno Guest?<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/k_rCNpCDpAc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Citizenship Test: first pass online<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.history.com\/shows\/classroom\/interactives\/citizenship-quiz\">http:\/\/www.history.com\/shows\/classroom\/interactives\/citizenship-quiz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Find your US Senators and Reps<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.govtrack.us\/congress\/findyourreps.xpd\">http:\/\/www.govtrack.us\/congress\/findyourreps.xpd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Find your MA Senators and Reps<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.malegislature.gov\/people\/findmylegislator\">http:\/\/www.malegislature.gov\/people\/findmylegislator<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Redistricting<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.malegislature.gov\/District\">http:\/\/www.malegislature.gov\/District<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Electing a US President (Common Craft 3:30)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.commoncraft.com\/video\/electing-us-president\">http:\/\/www.commoncraft.com\/video\/electing-us-president<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Electoral College Calculator<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.archives.gov\/federal-register\/electoral-college\/calculator.html\">http:\/\/www.archives.gov\/federal-register\/electoral-college\/calculator.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Who Gained\/Who Lost in the 2010 Census<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/usgovinfo.about.com\/od\/thepoliticalsystem\/a\/2012-Electoral-Votes-By-State.htm\">http:\/\/usgovinfo.about.com\/od\/thepoliticalsystem\/a\/2012-Electoral-Votes-By-State.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>How Prisons Affect Census and Redistricting<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/\">http:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>538.org<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com\/\">http:\/\/fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For our next class: read Richard Bellamy, Citizenship: A Very Short Introduction and write a 2-3 page response paper considering some of these critical thinking questions; bring the book and be prepared to discuss it in class.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class-sessions","category-spr12","tag-spr12"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi320\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi320\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi320\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi320\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi320\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi320\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi320\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi320\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi320\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}