End+of+Term+Info

As we wrap up the term, you need to do the following to finish up the CongressWiki project:
1) Make sure your committee page accurately and completely reflects the work you've done in committees this term. I will be looking at those pages to assess your grade for the Congress part of the course, along with my notes that I took on Congress Days. The Committee Wiki page is your official record of your activity on Congress Days, so make it count.

**Remember!** ** - This is a GROUP grade, everyone on the committee receives the same grade. **

 * Your group is responsible for dividing up the work fairly. **

2) Write a 4-page paper describing, summarizing, and considering your committee’s work, and also reflecting on how the project worked as a way to learn about recent US history. You could also use this paper to discuss what happened with your legislation. Please refer to the Congress Days pages and the Votes page to review what happened during our Congress sessions. Your papers are **due at the final exam, on May 10 (Section 01) at 8:30 am, or May 12 (Section 06) at 8:30 am**. If you are not taking the final exam, I need your paper in my hands before the exam begins, either in paper version or electronically delivered, by the exam's start time.

It seems to me that the Congress piece of this course gained momentum as the term went on. We added an extra day, for example, to consider the high volume of legislation and the energetic debates on policy and legislation. Anticipation, enthusiasm and attendance were higher on Congress Days, noticeably so. In the first half of the course, we considered historically accurate legislation and Congressional issues. In the last half, you have applied that knowledge to craft your own legislative agendas and to debate/vote on those agendas. What have these experiences taught you about the political process? What have they taught you about American history since 1945?