{"id":216,"date":"2016-09-06T07:40:18","date_gmt":"2016-09-06T11:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi320\/?p=216"},"modified":"2016-09-07T10:13:16","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T14:13:16","slug":"week-1-sept-6-sept-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi320\/week-1-sept-6-sept-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 1: Sept 6 &#038; Sept 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>For Sept 6 in class: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WJlY9C7YWzI\">Leno&#8217;s Citizenship Test<\/a> (pre-2009)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wnyc.org\/story\/on-the-media-2016-07-29\">Myths about migration to US<\/a> (On The Media, July 2016)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wmtw.com\/politics\/maine-somalis-speak-out-against-trumps-immigration-remarks\/41074326\">Somalis in Maine<\/a> (August 2016)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/video\/opinion\/100000001821730\/electoral-college-101.html\">The Electoral College<\/a> (New York Times, 2012)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/wonk\/wp\/2016\/09\/01\/heres-how-little-americans-really-know-about-immigration\/?tid=sm_fb\">How Much do Americans Know About Immigration?<\/a> (Washington Post, Sept 2016)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Links &#038; resources to explore before Thurs Sept 8 class:<\/strong>  <\/p>\n<p>Take the 100-question <a href=\"http:\/\/civicsquiz.com\/100-question-u-s-civics-quiz\/\">US Citizenship Quiz<\/a> &#8211; do this before Thursday, WITHOUT looking up answers &#038; email me a screenshot of your results = thangen@worcester.edu<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sec.state.ma.us\/ovr\/\">Voter Registration<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/whoismyrepresentative.com\/\">Find Your US Senator \/ Representative<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/malegislature.gov\/People\/Search\">Find your MA Senator \/ Representative<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncsl.org\/research\/elections-and-campaigns\/voter-id.aspx\">Voter ID Laws, State by State<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/malegislature.gov\/District\">Massachusetts Redistricting Info<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.archives.gov\/federal-register\/electoral-college\/faq.html\">FAQs about the Electoral College<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalpopularvote.com\/\">National Popular Vote Campaign<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Reminder:<\/strong> Sept 8, a 2-3 page response paper is due on the Bellamy <em>Citizenship<\/em> book. Bring the paper to class as a printed paper (staples and everything!), don&#8217;t email it to me. We will discuss the entire book in class, please read it using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi320\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Bellamy-DiscQs.Fall16.pdf\">the discussion questions<\/a> I handed out as a guide, and bring the book to class ready for a lively discussion. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Sept 6 in class: Leno&#8217;s Citizenship Test (pre-2009) Myths about migration to US (On The Media, July 2016) Somalis in Maine (August 2016) The Electoral College (New York Times, 2012) How Much do Americans Know About Immigration? (Washington Post, Sept 2016) Links &#038; resources to explore before Thurs Sept 8 class: Take the 100-question [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class-sessions","tag-fall16"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi320\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216","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=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi320\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi320\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi320\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi320\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}