Due Date

Your Blog Semester Project is due:

Friday June 5

Last chance

Remember your spring break posts need to be completed by this wednesday or your second marking period grade will automatically dropped a full letter grade.

To those of you who have completed your initial posts. Congratulations. Mazel Tov! Keep it up. Remember you still have more work to do.

By the first week of June You must have completed
at least:
6 Summarize and Comment
5 Link and Comment
4 Opinion

( You are about halfway there)

You should also be commenting on each others blogs as well. In order to respond to a comment posted on your wall, you can write a new post or you can comment on your own wall in response.

Feel free to leave shout outs to people who you think are doing a good job with this project. Maybe it will encourage more followers.



Keep it up folks.

check out NYTIMES for current articles

http://www.nytimes.com/

Right to Vote Quiz

Please answer this prompt in at least three paragraphs then post it as a comment
Should convicted felons be allowed to vote? What about those in jail, on parole or probation? What is the purpose of felony disenfranchisement, and does it actually serve that purpose?

Vocab
Disenfranchisement: the deprivation of some a legal right or
privilege, particularly the right to vote.

Felony: a serious crime punishable by a prison sentence of more than one year
(or death).

Probation: an alternative sentence to jail for a convicted offender, giving him
or her freedom contingent on good/lawful behavior, and under close supervision
by a probation officer.

Parole the conditional release of a convicted offender, upon good behavior and
rehabilitation in prison. The offender’s parole can be revoked and he or she can
be sent back to prison for poor/unlawful behavior committed during this release.

some things to think about....
Restriction of voting rights is estimated to disenfranchise about 13 percent of
black men nationwide, a proportion about twice that of the general population.

Teresa Williams has five felony drug possession convictions. She is in a job
training and drug abuse recovery program.
"I would like to be involved in voting for my children's future," said Miss
Williams, who has two children, ages 7 and 9. "I have to pay taxes, why can't
I vote?

"There are 50,000 kids whose fathers and mothers are in [Maryland]
institutions if any of those guys come out, you'd want them to assume
responsibilities for their lives and their kids. Voting is part of that
responsibility," Mr. Currie said.”


FEEL FREE TO SEARCH THE INTERNET FOR RESEARCH TO BACK UP YOUR OPINION BUT DO NOT PLAGIARIZE. COPY AND PASTE THE LINK, or else...