Homework+Assignments

For Thursday: Be prepared to tell us who you are and why you signed up for this class. Which elections do you want to focus on?

For Friday: Select aspects of the election that you want to learn about and report back to the class about.

A good thing for everyone to do: //review [|how the electoral college works]

Read the article exploring the question:// [|Who will be Obama's choice as running-mate?] from the Washington Post.
 * For Thursday, Aug 21** we will discuss Vice Presidential Choices:

Also, follow a//ny decisions that get made about vice-presidential candidates (Obama may decide on Weds).

Finally, please read this article about [|Obama's recent visit to Raleigh].


 * For Friday, Aug 22:** Write a page about what you have learned so far in this class and what aspect of the web page you think you would like to focus on -- you might cover a candidate or a battleground state or even an issue such as Energy Policy or the Environment or the economy. We'll talk more about the second part of this assignment in class on Thursday.


 * For Monday, Aug 25:** Do some work (30 min) on the aspect of the wiki you agreed to work on in class.

For Tuesday after Labor Day, write a one-page update. Write more if your first one was short(ish).


 * For class on Friday, Sept 12:** Write a paragraph about the electoral college.


 * For class on Monday, Sept. 15:** Write 3/4 of a page about what you have learned since your last paper. This will grow into a 2-page paper that will be due on Friday, Sept. 19.


 * For class on Tuesday, Sept. 23:** Read a handout (TBA) from Professor Haynie to prepare for his visit on Thursday.

For class on Thursday, Sept. 25: Write up at least two pages about your state (include sources to indicate where you're getting your information from), and email it to the group by 9 p.m. Weds so we can talk about your states in class on Thursday. HW for Thursday's class is also to read over other people's state write-ups.

For class on Friday, Sept 26: Work on introducing your state to the school -- we'll be posting to the web page during class.

For class on Monday, Sept 29 -- Write and send email by 5 p.m. Sunday one paragraph on what happened to everyone (not applicable to Rose and Chase).

Sonja and Andrew will write up their analysis of the first presidential debate and email it to the group by 8 p.m. Sunday night. We'll read it over before class and discuss it on Monday and then be ready to post it to the web site.

For Tuesday night, Sept 30 -- Mary and Rose will write up a preview of the VP debate and email it to the group by 9 p.m. We'll provide feedback Wednesday and get the info posted to the website early on Thursday, so it's accessible before the VP debate Thursday night.

Also, Sonja and Andrew will get "web-ready" their analysis of the first debate so we can post that in class Thursday or perhaps earlier via email.//


 * Everyone for Weds 8 p.m. will have at least 6 small punchy well-written paragraphs analyzing your state. This does not include the graphs showing last two electoral results to explain why yours is a BG state.

Thursday Oct 2 -- discuss where we are and what the issues are in each of our states.

No school on Friday Oct 3 (parent-teacher conferences)

for 8 p.m. Weds night, have your state "ready to go" proofread; punchy opening para; chart easy to read; analysis (visits and ads/other data); latest poll updates

For Monday, Oct 27: Your state should be done -- see email for details on what elements your state should contain. We will launch the website on Monday.

For Tuesday, Oct 28: Email out at least 2-3 paragraphs about your topic (money in politics, senate race, gov race, 3rd party candidates, etc) to the group by 8 p.m. Monday night so we can discuss in class Tuesday.

For Thursday, Oct. 30: Rewrite your "what I learned" paper and hand in the revised copy along with the copy that has my comments on it.