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.
In changing its treatment of suspected terrorists, President Obama released Justice Department memos regarding the authority sought by President Bush.
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Erie Insights - Blog It
Three weeks ago, our FHS Current Events classes were assigned to find a local issue or topic. Each of you created a problem statement, defining your issue and stating the problem as you understood it.
Your task now is to take your problem statement and begin a student blog. A blog, or web-log, is a journal of your writing and research. As a Current Events class, we will create blogs as a way to further our understanding of the Erie Insights Project, and as a way to exhibit our understanding, analysis, and use of events in the news at the local, state, national, and international levels.
Some of you may have a blog through another class. If this is the case, use it. If you have never created a student blog before, we can do so very easily through edublogs.org or through google. Once your blog is created, use your problem statement as your first blog post. You may want to update your problem statement with current information and further research.
I recommend that you enter hypertext so that we can see further information. Check our President Obama’s release of public documents.
Your task now is to take your problem statement and begin a student blog. A blog, or web-log, is a journal of your writing and research. As a Current Events class, we will create blogs as a way to further our understanding of the Erie Insights Project, and as a way to exhibit our understanding, analysis, and use of events in the news at the local, state, national, and international levels.
Some of you may have a blog through another class. If this is the case, use it. If you have never created a student blog before, we can do so very easily through edublogs.org or through google. Once your blog is created, use your problem statement as your first blog post. You may want to update your problem statement with current information and further research.
I recommend that you enter hypertext so that we can see further information. Check our President Obama’s release of public documents.
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