Read pp. 160-190
Check the following links:
Encyclopedia Americana: Congress of the United States
United States House of Representatives, 108th Congress, go to this link and locate your Representative's home page.
U.S. Senate check the links for Arkansas's senators, the link for the committee organization
Know the following terms: Calendar; cloture vote, conference committees; filibuster; gerrymandering; implied powers, override; oversight ;select committees; seniority system; standing committees; whips, House majority leader; Senate majority leader; Speaker of the House; President Pro Tempore: joint committees
The materials in this chapter will be part of Test Two to be taken Oct. 27- Nov. 2
FORMAT OF RESPONSE QUESTIONS:
1. Select one of the following questions.
2. Your answer should be at least 200 words.
3. Choose a simple font (arial, courier),
font size 10 or 12.
4. Be sure to save your work.
5. Your work should be a Word document or saved
as a Rich text file,Microsoft
Office 2007 – If you are using this new version of Word you may need to
save your documents as Microsoft Office 2003 documents with the .doc rather than
the .docx extension.
If you are using Microsoft Works or WordPerfect word processing program,
save your file and change the “save file as” to Rich Text Format. This will
allow your document to be opened by your instructor using any word processing
program.
6. Send this question and the others from
Chapters 8,9 and 10 as a single document using the WebCT Assignment button.
7. There is a five ( 5) point penalty for
late work. Work will not be accepted two ( 2) days after the date due..
GRADING RESPONSE QUESTION:
1. on the content of the response.
2. the mechanics of the answer.
(the Edited English standard will be used see below).
3. 20 points for the question.
Select one of the following Response Questions: Due Oct. 17 ( Fri.12:00 noon).
1. The Congress organizes itself according to seniority and committees, explain seniority and committee systems, do you think this is the best way for the Congress to organize itself. Why/why not? Suggest another way of organizing the Congress.
2. Representatives are elected to watch over the interests of their districts and Senators are elected to watch over the interests of their states, can the Congress truly watch over the best interests of the nation? Remember Congress is elected locally but the Congress makes decisions for the nation.
3. If term limits were imposed upon member of Congress, what would be the effect on the committee system, seniority system, the overall power of the Congress vis-ŕ-vis the President, the Supreme Court?
4. NTU Foundation - Policy Paper 131 - Table of Contents this link is critical of Congress and its perks PUREPOLITICS.COM - Pure Perks "Have Fun" lists perks of Congress . After looking at these two sites, should Congress keep all or some or none of its perks? why/why not? Can Congress really understand the problems of the average American citizen? why/why not?
Grading Standard Edited American English is the form of English which is used in newspapers and magazines, in textbooks and fiction works, and in memos and letters.
Type I: Gross Errors (-10 pts. each)
A. fragment (ex. Because I had a flat tire.)
B. lack of subject/verb agreement (ex. The man were having a nervous breakdown.)
C. fused/run-on sentence (ex. I had no choice I had to take the test.)
D. incorrect tense or verb form (ex. The boy gone to the store for his father.)
Type II: Major Errors (-5 pts. each)
A. comma between subject and verb(comma fault) (ex. The mother,gave her son the apple.)
B. comma splice (ex. We went to the store,we got some bread and milk.)
C. failure to show possession (ex. My husband pants are dirty.)
D. no indentation at beginning of paragraph and incorrect paragraph form.
Type III: Minor Errors ( -2 pts. each)
A. misspelled words or incorrect capitalization
B. misused homonyms or words used incorrectly
C. commas added unnecessarily or commas lacking
D. punctuation missing or incorrect
E. incorrect pronoun agreement
F. misleading pronoun reference
G. unnecessary shift of tense or person
H. words left out/dangling or misplaced modifiers.