State of the Union - My Thoughts

As I watched the President’s State of the Union Address on CNN, I was logged into Facebook for the live rolling commentary. Each person who watched and commented included thoughts both deep and shallow.

For my Current Events classes at Fairview High School, on February 25th we will watch the speech in it’s entirety. The speech was closely followed by the Republican response led by Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal. The class assignment is to create a blog post with both your deep and shallow thoughts of both speeches. What connected with you in the speech? Was there a message you liked? You may want to refer to your Open Letter to President Obama from the weekly discussion of week one. Was there a message in the President’s speech you didn’t like? What did you think about the President’s tie or Nancy Pelosi’s dress? I did say both deep and shallow thoughts.

Post your thoughts on your blog. Give it the title of “State of the Union” My Thoughts. This response is due by Friday, February 27th.


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