{"id":98,"date":"2012-09-03T19:36:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-03T23:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi320\/?p=98"},"modified":"2016-06-23T09:31:21","modified_gmt":"2016-06-23T13:31:21","slug":"course-intro-fall12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi320\/course-intro-fall12\/","title":{"rendered":"Course Intro: Citizenship and You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For our next class on MONDAY 9\/10: 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\/08\/RP1Bellamy.DiscQs.Fa12.pdf\">these critical thinking questions<\/a>; <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>bring the book and be prepared to discuss it in class. If you don&#8217;t have the book or the bookstore is sold out, it&#8217;s on 2-hour (free!) course reserve at the library circulation desk, or the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Citizenship-Very-Short-Introduction-ebook\/dp\/B001NLL3NS\" target=\"_blank\">Kindle app edition<\/a> is only $5.24 for online\/mobile reading.<\/p>\n<p>Are You Smarter Than a Jay Leno Guest?<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"nbc-video-widget\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nbc.com\/assets\/video\/widget\/widget.html?vid=1355026\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Citizenship Test: Choose &#8220;Quiz 2&#8221; for the full test<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>Massachusetts Election Division (Secretary of State)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sec.state.ma.us\/ele\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.sec.state.ma.us\/ele\/<\/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>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\/pathfinder.html\">http:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Voter ID Laws Map<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncsl.org\/legislatures-elections\/elections\/voter-id.aspx\">http:\/\/www.ncsl.org\/legislatures-elections\/elections\/voter-id.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>538.org<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com\/\">http:\/\/fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Happening Right Now: DNC in Charlotte, NC<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/charlottein2012.com\/splash\/2011_11_1\/index.pl\">http:\/\/charlottein2012.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For our next class on MONDAY 9\/10: read Richard Bellamy, Citizenship: A Very Short Introduction and write a 2-3 page response paper considering some of these critical thinking questions;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class-sessions","category-fall12","tag-fall12"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi320\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","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=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi320\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi320\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi320\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi320\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}