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=Welcome to WCC Government!=

Government is a quarter-long course. You will earn one credit for a passing grade of C- or better at the end of the quarter, with completion of all assigned work. In this class, you will learn the history of American government and how it has changed through time. You will become informed about the day to day happenings of our present government. You will also learn the importance of your rights, what is means to be American, and what you can do to affect the government.

We will be using this Wikispace and Google to complete most of the activities. You will each create your own government blog where you will be reflecting on what you learned in class. These blogs are public for anyone to see and I will be sharing them with my friends and colleagues to help answer your questions. Each unit of government begins with a simple, but essential question. This question is what will guide your work through the unit of study. After you complete all the activities in the unit, you will go back to the essential question and answer it in a new blog post. Units are found on the right hand side of this page. Please follow each unit in order from top to bottom and complete the work in each unit from top to bottom. This will help keep both of us organized. Each assignment will be graded on a completion basis. If any section is left incomplete the assignment will be returned to the student to complete fully. Once the assignment has been fully completed students will be graded on how thoroughly they completed the activity, using this rubric.

Adaptations can be made to the curriculum based on the student’s needs. If changes need to be made, I expect the students to tell me and I will be happy to make accommodations. Carrie

**In America, anybody can be president. That’s one of the risks you take. Adlai Stevenson **

Creating your blog:
Go to @http://www.blogger.com. You will be asked to retype your password (Google just wants to make sure it is you). You will first title your blog. This can be whatever you want it to be..."So & So's US History Blog" or "My Teacher Made Me Do This.." I don't care what the title is as long as it is school appropriate. Next you have to pick your blog's address or URL. This has to be unique to you, so you may need to try a couple times until you find one that works, again, I don't care what it is as long as it is school appropriate. Finally, pick a design template for the overall look of your blog and then click "Create blog!" The next page you will see is your blogger dashboard. Click on the orange button with a white pencil on to create your first blog post. It will open to an editor page, similar to Word. Here you can edit your words, change fonts, colors, add pictures, and videos. For your first post, title it, "About Me." Then type a couple paragraphs about yourself. What are your interests and hobbies? What do you like to do outside of school? Any favorites you would like to share? This post is to give you time playing with Blogger. Change the font, colors, add your favorite YouTube video (again...school appropriate), pictures, and hyperlinks. When you have finished your post, publish it and then view your blog. Highlight and copy the URL. By this time you should be an approved member of the wiki, refresh the wiki page, and click Edit at the top of the page. An editing page will open up, scroll down to the table and type your first name last initial and paste the URL to your blog in the second column. You must paste a hyperlink to your blog in this table to receive credit for the class.
 * Student Name, first name, last initial || Hyperlink to Blog ||
 * Shannon F || [] ||
 * Seth H || [] ||
 * Gabe M || [] ||
 * Avery L || [] ||
 * Malorie C || [] ||
 * JacobE || [|http://filthymitten.blogspot.com] ||
 * CrisM || http://420raiseitmaggot.blogspot.com ||
 * Al S || [|http://ihatemakingthese.blogspot.com] ||
 * Rae M. || http://tgotus.blogspot.com/ ||
 * Kelsey C || [|http://kelseypaige26.blogspot.com] ||