Constitution Day 2011

Constitution Day commemorates the formation and signing of the U.S. Constitution by thirty-nine brave men on September 17, 1787, recognizing all who, are born in the U.S.or by naturalization, have become citizens!

Do you know that many US citizens have never read any part of our Constitution.

So, let's start small: Here is the preamble to our Constitution. Read it!

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

What are YOU doing?

• Today, you are going to encourage the students and staff @ Hanover to READ and be familiar with some aspect of our US Constitution.



• You must have an part of an excerpt and a cool fact from the Constitution included on your visual.
  

What type of visual you choose and how you will do this will be up to you. We will display them throughout the campus.

Be creative! Due Monday 9/19.

Don't feel limited to web 2.0 tools, but here are some that I dig!

http://bighugelabs.com/ Make motivational posters, magazine covers and more....

http://www.wordle.net/ Fun with word clouds...

Awesome article, I suggest you check it out! http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2079445,00.html

Thanksgiving Response

Comment on the excerpt from Lies My Teacher Told Me from class today 9/15. Responses can range from your thoughts, opinions, theories on why many history books fail to mention some of this information. Must be at least 2 paragraphs. A paragraph is between 3-5 sentences.

Honors Civics: 2nd block 9/13

Here are your questions from the article today 9/13.

Please answer all questions and all parts of questions on a separate sheet or log in with a google account and comment on the blog. Repsonses due by Thursday 9/15 @10pm.

1. Define: Molotov cocktail, counterterrorism
2. “Because of the widespread distribution, and because of past controversies like a 2009 report on right-wing extremism that irked Congress and veterans, the reports are typically stripped of sensitive detail.” This refers to a Homeland Security memo arguing that returning veterans, and people angry with government in difficult economic times, might take up terrorism. Would this have been more useful to law enforcement than the other examples in the article?
3. Why do local officials find the information that Homeland Security sends to be useless? What kind of information would be useful to stopping terrorists?
4. What reason would a Homeland Security agent have for sending a useless memo? What would be the potential consequences, to the agent or the Department, of not sending the memo?
5. What reason would a Homeland Security agent have for not sending a useless memo? What are the potential consequences, to the agent, if he sends the memo?
6. How could the Homeland Security Department know what information will be useful to local governments and what information will be useless?
7. Is it possible for one agency to know, ahead of time, what information another agency will need to prevent an attack? Why or why not?
8. Before a terrorist attack happens, how well do you think an agency will know what information may prove crucial to preventing the attack? How well do we know this after the attack happens?