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American Studies 2009-2010

A collection of blogs examining the people of the United States of America and the issues that continue to shape them - created by the students of 7th and 8th period American Studies at Deerfield High School in Deerfield, IL

Friday, March 12, 2010

Helpful blogs for letter assignment

http://www.usa.gov/Topics/Reference_Shelf/News/Blog/defense.shtml
http://www.politico.com/
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
http://realclearpolitics.com/
New York Times topic pages - great for overviews
The Washington Post
The Wall Street Journal
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Wordle: Untitled Go to Wordle.net/create and paste your website/blog URL, click submit and in few seconds the Wordle Label Cloud widget will appear. Then just press the Save to public gallery button and a dialog box will appear asking for Title and Username but nevermind, you can leave it as Anonymous by pressing OK and finally you will have your code. Login to your blog account, go to Page Elements then Add a Gadget, choose HTML, then paste the code and click Save. You are done.

Minimum required elements of your research project

  • Works cited list
  • Final presentation
  • second round of comments
  • 1 analytic entry about current events
  • 4 journal entries responding to current events, including 2 opposing viewpoints and 2 news items
  • 1 analytic entry about literary connection
  • 1 journal response to literary connection
  • first round of commenting on other blogs
  • 1 analytic entry about research
  • 1 journal response to primary document
  • 4 journal responses to research
  • Initial response to topic
  • Response to State of the Union Address

Hurricane Katrina

Sample Key Terms

  • John Lewis
  • SNCC

American Studies resources

  • Class website
  • DHS library
  • Short Story search

Blog resources

  • Google's Blog Support
  • Creating a New Blog
  • Blogged Search Engine
  • Google's Blog Search Engine

My Blog List

  • Cool New Shtuff
    Saints Row the third Review
    13 years ago
  • Colleen's Thoughts
    Miranda Rights for Kids
    14 years ago
  • Weekly Ramblings
    Creating New Fossil Fuels
    14 years ago
  • Bloging with Jon
    Rethink Afghanistan
    14 years ago
  • Temporary
    First Philosophy Questions
    14 years ago
  • Thoughts of Kolis
    Mock Trial Recap and Response
    14 years ago
  • Inside the Mind of the Not-So Common Teenager
    Egypt: Well Roses Really Smell Like Egypt...
    14 years ago
  • American Studies Blog
    3rd Response to Blog
    15 years ago
  • Thoughts on yesterday
    Second Response to Blog
    15 years ago
  • Danielle's Blog
    Gabriela's Final Presentation
    15 years ago
  • Kathleen's Blog
    Response to Danielles Final Presentation
    15 years ago
  • Ivonne's Blog
    AS Blog
    15 years ago
  • A Charming View
    Reflections and Feedback
    15 years ago
  • Kimmy's Thoughts
    A. Sherman Way of Life: Theatre and Film
    15 years ago
  • Gabriela's Blog
    Music in America
    15 years ago
  • Jill's Blog
    Stewarts Presentation response
    15 years ago
  • Favorites of Today
    Reflections and feedback on Blogs
    15 years ago
  • cheese logs.
    Blog 3
    15 years ago
  • American Studies Blog
    Current Events Analytic Response
    15 years ago
  • Chris' AS blog
    Random choice- The Life and Views of Theatre Film
    15 years ago
  • A. Sherman Way of Life
    NEW DIRECTION
    15 years ago
  • Aliza's Blog
    Jill's Final Presentation
    15 years ago
  • allie's american studies blog
    Kimmy's Thoughts
    15 years ago
  • Hannah's Blog
    A Charming View's Final Presentation
    15 years ago
  • Cohns Conecption
    response to Jills blog
    15 years ago
  • Getting to Paradise
    Response to Carl's Final Project
    15 years ago
  • Matt's Thoughts
    Response to Hannah's Blog
    15 years ago
  • The Marvelous Misadventures of Lana
    Works Cited
    15 years ago
  • Matan's Blog
    Review on Colleen's Post
    15 years ago
  • shay says
    Response to Danielles Blog
    15 years ago
  • Purdys Blog
    Review on Unemployment in the US
    15 years ago
  • Chronicles of The Chosen One
    Colleen's Blog
    15 years ago
  • Blog it!
    "Hannah's Blog" Repsonse
    15 years ago
  • britt's blog
    Response to Jill's blog
    15 years ago
  • sarah says
    gabriela's blog responce
    15 years ago
  • Andrew's blog
    Response to Tony's blog
    15 years ago
  • What Am I Doing Blogging?
    sharing day... numero dos.
    15 years ago
  • My Blog Log
    Environment 9- Rachel Carson's- Silent Spring- chapter one
    15 years ago
  • Clare's Blog
    Journal Literaure Analytic
    15 years ago
  • I wanna write about sports....
    Primary Document
    15 years ago
  • American Studies Blog
    Current Events Analytical
    15 years ago
  • Anything I'd Like?
    Urbanization Analytical
    15 years ago
  • The Reasonable Man
    RIP Howard Zinn
    15 years ago
  • Jenna's Blog

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