John Tyler’s Overall Grade As President:After you have evaluated the president in each category, you will be asked to assign an overall grade. In the feedback for this category, you will need to justify which qualities and categories you found to be the defining aspect or aspects of the presidency. This is not an exercise to just average out the total grades from the other categories; instead, you need to provide greater weight to categories that helped define that particular person’s presidency. While this is a subjective exercise, you do need to give answers that are justifiable, both in the grade that you assign and in terms of what you prioritize for the overall grade. Make sure to provide lots of evidence to support your decision.

Grade James Monroe’s Non-Presidential Life:Many times, a president makes as much, if not more, of an impact outside of the White House than inside. In other cases, presidents have unremarkable public lives outside of the Oval Office. In this category, your job is to evaluate how much of an impact on America (positive, negative, or neutral) a president had both prior to and after assuming the presidency. Be sure to describe the president’s background, career, and accomplishments when evaluating their non-presidential contributions.

George Washington’s Overall Grade As President:After you have evaluated the president in each category, you will be asked to assign an overall grade. In the feedback for this category, you will need to justify which qualities and categories you found to be the defining aspect or aspects of the presidency. This is not an exercise to just average out the total grades from the other categories; instead, you need to provide greater weight to categories that helped define that particular person’s presidency. While this is a subjective exercise, you do need to give answers that are justifiable, both in the grade that you assign and in terms of what you prioritize for the overall grade. Make sure to provide lots of evidence to support your decision.

William Henry Harrison’s Foreign Policy:Foreign policies include all legislation, political agendas, attitudes, and activities relating to the United States’ relations with other countries and international organizations. This area includes issues relating to diplomacy, statecraft, military and warfare, foreign trade and agreements, alliances with foreign powers, and activities relating to international organizations. Like domestic policies, this is a sweeping category and one that should be given considerable attention while grading your presidential report card

The ______________  ___________ (two words) holds that our solar system formed from the gravitational collapse of a great cloud of gas and dust. 

Astronomy and astrology were often practiced together in ancient cultures, and astrology played an important role in the historical development of astronomy.

A situation in which one object’s orbital period is a simple ratio of another object’s period, such as 1/2, 1/4, or 5/3 is called __________________    _________________   (two words).

Earth is the only terrestrial planet to have experienced tectonic stresses and volcanic activity.

The _______________    ______________ (two words) is the illusion that the stars surrounding the earth are all the same distance away from the earth.  This occurs because of lack of depth perception when looking into space.

What are the two key properties of a telescope, and why is each important? Also distinguish between refracting and reflecting telescopes.