Presidential Hall of Fame and Hall of Shame

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1 Presidential Hall of Fame and Hall of Shame Description: In this assignment you will be researching a president and then give a persuasive speech convincing your audience that this president should belong in the Presidential Hall of Fame or Hall of Shame. There will be an extra credit opportunity for this project. *Part 1: Pick a former president Due: Each student will pick a former president. No student can pick the same president within a class. We will draw to decide the order for choosing the president. To help speed this process up, you must make a list of your 1 st 20 choices. 1. George Washington 2. John Adams 3. Thomas Jefferson 4. James Madison 5. James Monroe 6. John Quincy Adams 7. Andrew Jackson 8. Martin Van Buren 9. William Henry Harrison 10. John Tyler 11. James Knox Polk 12. Zachary Taylor 13. Millard Fillmore 14. Franklin Pierce 15. James Buchanan 16. Abraham Lincoln 17. Andrew Johnson 18. Ulysses Simpson Grant 19. Rutherford Birchard Hayes 20. James Abram Garfield 21. Chester Alan Arthur 22. Grover Cleveland (and 24) 1 st 2 nd 3 rd 4 th 5 th 6 th 7 th 8 th 9 th 10 th 23. Benjamin Harrison 24. Grover Cleveland 25. William McKinley 26. Theodore Roosevelt 27. William Howard Taft 28. Woodrow Wilson 29. Warren Gamaliel Harding 30. Calvin Coolidge 31. Herbert Clark Hoover 32. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 33. Harry S. Truman 34. Dwight David Eisenhower 35. John Fitzgerald Kennedy 36. Lyndon Baines Johnson 37. Richard Milhous Nixon 38. Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. 39. James Earl Carter 40. Ronald Wilson Reagan 41. George Herbert Walker Bush 42. William Jefferson Clinton 43. George W. Bush 11 th 12 th 13 st 14 th 15 th 16 th 17 th 18 th 19 th 20 th My president is.

2 *Part 2: Research Due: Research your president both during class time and outside of class. To show your research, you must turn in 10 facts about your president. You must get these 10 facts from at least 3 different sources. When you turn in your facts, you must also turn in the correct citations for your 3 sources (MLA Format). I must be able to tell which fact came from which source. (We will discuss in class the different ways to so this.) Part 3: Persuasive Speech Due: Write a persuasive speech on your president. In this speech you are trying to convince your class that you president was the best US president ever or that your president is the worst US president ever. You should have an introduction, conclusions, as well as at least 3 reasons why your president belongs in the hall of fame/shame. When you give your speech you can t read your paper but you may use note cards. (Remember the difference between informative and persuasive writing. You are writing a persuasive speech.) *EXTRA CREDIT: After all the speeches, the class will vote on the best and worst US presidents. If your president is voted into the Hall of Fame or the Hall of Shame in your class you get extra credit.

3 A Guide to MLA Works Cited Pages and Parenthetical Citations Adapted from: This is one of the best MLA formatting websites. If you don t want to remember the web address, just go to and type in MLA Format. Books Author(s). Title of Book. Place of Publication: Publisher, Year of Publication. Book with one author Henley, Patricia. The Hummingbird House. Denver: MacMurray, Book with more than one author Gillespie, Paula, and Neal Lerner. The Allyn and Bacon Guide to Peer Tutoring. Boston: Allyn, If there are more than three authors, you may list only the first author followed by the phrase et al. (the abbreviation for the Latin phrase "and others") in place of the other authors' names, or you may list all the authors in the order in which their names appear on the title page. Encyclopedia/Almanac Author. Title of Article. Title of Work. Edition. McGeveran, William A. Jr. "World War II." The World Almanac ed. A Website If no author is given for a web page or electronic source, start with and alphabetize by the title of the piece and use a shortened version of the title for parenthetical citations. Author(s). Name of Page. Date of Posting/Revision. Name of institution/organization affiliated with the site. Date of Access <electronic address>. Website examples Felluga, Dino. Undergraduate Guide to Literary Theory. 17 Dec Purdue University. 15 Nov < Purdue Online Writing Lab Purdue University. 10 Feb <

4 An article on a website Author(s)."Article Title." Name of web site. Date of posting/revision. Name of institution/organization affiliated with site. Date of access <electronic address>. Article on a website Poland, Dave. "The Hot Button." Roughcut. 26 Oct Turner Network Television. 28 Oct < "Using Modern Language Association (MLA) Format." Purdue Online Writing Lab Purdue University. 6 Feb < Magazine or newspaper article Poniewozik, James. "TV Makes a Too-Close Call." Time 20 Nov. 2000: Trembacki, Paul. "Brees Hopes to Win Heisman for Team." Purdue Exponent 5 Dec. 2000: 20. Parenthetical Citations MLA format follows the author-page method of citation. This means that the author's last name and the page number(s) from which the quotation is taken must appear in the text, and a complete reference should appear in your works cited list (see Your Works Cited Page, below). The author's name may appear either in the sentence itself or in parentheses following the quotation or paraphrase, but the page number(s) should always appear in the parentheses, not in the text of your sentence. For example: Romantic poetry is characterized by the "spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings" (Wordsworth 263). Wordsworth stated that Romantic poetry was marked by a "spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings" (263). This is a great website that will help you with citations. Click on MLA on the left hand side of the screen. Next, click on the type of source you are citing. Enter in the information that is needed and the website will generate the citation for you.

5 President Speech Grading Rubric Research 10 Facts and facts linked to source 3 MLA Citations Speech /15 Speaks Clearly/ Volume Prepared Eye Contact Content 1 Often mumbles or can not be understood or mispronounces multiple words. Volume is often to soft to be heard by all. 1-2 Student does not seem at all prepared to present 1 Does not look at audience during presentation. 0-6 Severely lacked information and arguments or speech contained incorrect fact. 2 Speaks clearly and distinctly most of the time. Mispronounced no more than one word. Volume was loud enough to be heard by all some of the time but not all of the time. 3-4 Student is somewhat prepared but might have needed a couple more rehearsals. 2 Briefly looked at audience throughout presentation Made some good points but needed to strengthen argument. 3 Speaks clearly and distinctly all the time. Mispronounces no words. Volume is loud enough to be heard by all members of the audience throughout all the presentation. 5-6 Student is completely prepared and has obviously rehearsed. 3 Established eye contact with audience throughout the presentation Well researched content with excellent arguments. Total/ Comments /30 Use of Class Time (and turn in rubric) /5 Total /50

Final Results For Historical Auction 52H

Final Results For Historical Auction 52H 811 ADAMS, JOHN QUINCY. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ADAMS, JOHN. AUTOGRAPH DOCUMENT SIGNED ( JOHN ADAMS ) AS VICE $11,000 ADAMS, JOHN. LETTER SIGNED ( JOHN ADAMS ) AS $9,000 104 ANTHONY, SUSAN BROWNELL. TYPED