2010 State of the Union Address

You can watch President Obama's first State of the Union address online. The site also includes summaries of the President's position on the issues he discussed in the speech. A transcript of the speech is also available. You may also access text archives of State of the Union addresses of the most recent presidents.

The State of the Union Address is required of the President by the US Constitution.

He shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient;

US Constitution, Article II, section 3.

It is received by a joint session of Congress and is also attended by the members of the President's cabinet, the Supreme Court Justices, and other invited guests. For security and emergency purposes, one member of the President's cabinet does not attend and will watched from an undisclosed location, outside of Washington, D.C. Recently, it has been added that a few members of Congress be withheld from attending, also for security purposes.

Traditionally, the President begins his speech with "... the State of the Union is..." and then he will describe what he perceives to be the current condition. He gives a summary of his accomplishments of the past year and then the President will follow up by describing what he believes can be done to make things better. He gives a general direction in the form of goals and objectives for the upcoming year and uses this platform to help guide Congress in its upcoming term to craft legislation to support his goals.

Week of 25 January 2010

Welcome to the Second Semester. I hope you are coming off a successful First Semester. I am looking forward to much success here! This week we will be going over the class expectations, syllabus, scope and sequence of the course and jumping right in with the first. Below is a wish list of supplies that we could use in the classroom:

1) Glass cleaner (for the dry erase board)
2) Tissues
3) Hand sanitizer

This website is currently a work in progress. In addition to being brand new, I am still learning the new code as well as all the tricks to make this site useful and user friendly. Please bear with me.

Updates here can be followed as an RSS feed and can be accessed by either clicking on the title of this announcement or by clicking on the Feedburner link below this announcement. On the blog page, on the right click "Subscribe in a Reader".

Are we all set, then? Let's get started....

This week we are covering Unit 1A: Citizenship. Use the link on the left to navigate to that unit's page. Keep in mind, the site is still in development.