Read Chapter Two, pp. 21-44
Go the following Web Pages and read the materials.
English Constitutional Documents Check the links on this page, read through the documents noting those items that would appear in the United States Constitution of 1787.
Articles of Confederation Check the links on this page, read through the documents.
Be sure you know the following terms: Bill of Rights; federalism; popular sovereignty; Shays's Rebellion; state sovereignty; checks and balances, Electoral College; Second Continental Congress; Petition of Right; national supremacy;
The materials in this chapter will be part of Test One to be taken Sept. 29- Oct. 5
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
1 and 3 as a single document in the WebCT Assignment link.
7. There is 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 Sept. 12 ( Fri.12:00 noon).
1. What were the main features of the Articles of Confederation, its major weaknesses and the its successes?
2. Describe the Virginia, New Jersey Plans and the Connecticut Compromise.
3. Who were the Federalists, Anti-Federalists, what were their political views concerning the role of the central government, the role of the states, who were more democratic?
4. List and discuss the main principles of the United States Constitution.
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.