Friday, February 17, 2012

Blog Assignment #2:  Please find an article from a quality source, and read it.  Post the URL and provide the title at the beginning of your post.  Then summarize the story in one paragraph, and react to it in a second paragraph.  In your reaction you can share how it makes you feel, what it makes you wonder, you can try to make connections to other things you know about the subject, or speculate about other connections.  The article should be about United States' foreign policy.  I would like this post to be done before Tuesday's class.  Then skim through several other current article summaries, and comment on at least 2 other peoples'.

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Wiki on the modern day "Great Recession"

I know I discourage use of Wikipedia as a bibliographic source, but remember how I have stated, it is a good place to start.  So...  see the source above, lots of charts, short explanations of what is generally believed to be the closest our country has come to the Great Depression we are now studying.  Your assignment is to comment on this post, and by Monday post an article you have found that compares the two economic time periods.  You should paste the URL, and have not less than a 1 paragraph summary of your article in your post.  By Wednesday (the day after the test), I also want you to have reacted to one other person's post.