{"id":275,"date":"2018-09-06T12:11:03","date_gmt":"2018-09-06T16:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi320\/?p=275"},"modified":"2019-07-17T14:54:35","modified_gmt":"2019-07-17T18:54:35","slug":"day-1-info-sept-6-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi320\/day-1-info-sept-6-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 1 Info &#8211; Sept 6, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>For next Tues:<\/strong> Read and prepare to bring \/ discuss Richard Bellamy, <em>Citizenship: A Very Short Introduction<\/em> and submit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi320\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Bellamy-DiscQs.Fall18.docx\">Response Paper #1<\/a> (editable Word doc). If you don&#8217;t yet own a copy, the book is available on 2-hour reserve at the Library Circulation desk (you will need your WSU ID to check it ou<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/nation\/watch-live-day-3-of-brett-kavanaugh-supreme-court-confirmation-hearings\">t<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Civics-Related Community Service Opportunity NEXT FRIDAY, Sept 14 for Constitution Day<\/strong>. We are looking for students who can spend the day at the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the Study of the Senate in Boston helping high school students with a mock debate about the pros and cons of Ranked Choice Voting (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wJDYxCMKiJ4&#038;app=desktop\">see here<\/a> for more about this issue). The university will provide bus transportation to and from the event. See Dr. Hangen if you&#8217;re interested! <\/p>\n<p><u>Some handy information to increase your citizen \/ civics knowledge<\/u><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.test-guide.com\/free-citizenship-practice-tests.html\">Practice<\/a> for the Citizenship Test<\/p>\n<p>Do you know who represents you in Congress? <a href=\"https:\/\/whoismyrepresentative.com\">Search by zip code<\/a> to find out<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.informedvoterma.org\/\">InformedVoterMA<\/a> &#8211; a resource created by the nonpartisan League of Women Voters. Put in your address, see what your November midterm ballot will look like.<\/p>\n<p>Current <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sec.state.ma.us\/ele\/eledist\/distidx.htm\">Massachusetts Districts<\/a> (Federal and various State ones) &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/malegislature.gov\/Redistricting\/HistoricDistricts\">See all the old ones here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sec.state.ma.us\/VoterRegistrationSearch\/MyVoterRegStatus.aspx\">Check your Voter Registration (MA) Status<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sec.state.ma.us\/ele\/elepdf\/2018-Short-Form-Absentee-Ballot-Application.pdf\">Apply for an Absentee Ballot<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sec.state.ma.us\/OVR\/\">Online Voter Registration<\/a> (MA)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.archives.gov\/news\/articles\/national-archives-aims-to-enhance-civic-literacy\">National Archives<\/a> resources to enhance Civics teaching and learning <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For next Tues: Read and prepare to bring \/ discuss Richard Bellamy, Citizenship: A Very Short Introduction and submit Response Paper #1 (editable Word doc). If you don&#8217;t yet own a copy, the book is available on 2-hour reserve at the Library Circulation desk (you will need your WSU ID to check it out). Civics-Related [&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":[14],"class_list":["post-275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class-sessions","tag-fall18"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi320\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275","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=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi320\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi320\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi320\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi320\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}