Read pp. 192-224

Check the following links:

Welcome to the White House  browse this site

The Presidents of the United States brief biographies of Presidents

Internet Public Library: POTUS   good site to gain information for such topics as, electoral vote, cabinet members, education, religion of each President

Encyclopedia Americana: Cabinet of the United States

Know the following terms: executive agreement,  line item veto,  veto, pocket veto, impeachment

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 7,9 and 10 as a single document using the WebCT Assignment link.
      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.  List and discuss the roles of the President.

 2. List and discuss the limits on the President's power and authority.

 3.  Define and discuss the differences among a line item veto, a pocket veto and a veto.

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.