Monday:
- Journal
- How will you decide who to vote for?
- DIGI
Review
- Notes
on Interest Groups
- Trade
Restrictions and Crony Capitalism (Stossel – Making Econ Come Alive)
- CGP
Grey videos on Electoral College
- Worksheets
on Chapter 18
- Semester
Project Instructions
- DIGI Questions
Tuesday:
- Journal
- What interest group(s) would you be a member of? Why?
- DIGI
Review
- Vocab
Quiz
- Notes
on Mass Media and the Government
- Chapter
19 Guided Reading
- Review
Crossword
- DIGI Questions
Wednesday:
- Review for Test
- Finish Work
Thursday:
- Test on Unit 2
- Notebooks Due
Friday:
Reivew for EOC
Monday:
1. Unit 1 Test
2. Notebooks Due
Tuesday:
- Journal
– Are your freedoms restricted too much by the government? Why or why not?
- DIGI
- Notes
– Citizenship and Equal Justice
- Live
Free or Die (Stossel 2012)
- Immigration
(Stossel 2012)
- Guided
Reading 14-1/14-3
- Guided
reading 14-4/14-5
- DIGI
Wednesday:
- Journal
– Does the Government make it too easy to become an American citizen? Why or why not?
- Notes
– Constitutional Freedoms
- Free
Speech (Stossel 2012)+
- Cartoon/Guided
Reading 13-1/13-3
- Did I Get It Questions
Thursday:
- Journal
– How far do you think “Freedom of Speech” should go? Should we be allowed to say anything?
- DIGI
Review
- Notes
– Political Parties
- Primary
Elections Explained (CGP Grey)
- Stossel
Video on “Vote or Die” (Stossel 2010)
- Political
Parties Work
- DIGI
Questions
Friday:
- Journal
- What benefit is there to officially joining a political party?
- Voting
Literacy Test
- DIGI
Review
- Notes
– Elections
- How
the Electoral College Works (CGP Grey)
- Trouble
With the Electoral College (CGP Grey)
- Stossel
Video on “Campaign Finance” (Stossel 2010)
- Election
Commercials
- Worksheet
on Elections and Voting
- DIGI Questions
Monday:
- Play
Finish Strong Video
- Journal
– Why do you think there are Governments?
- Discussion
on how government is different/same as Economics
- Notes
on Government Basics
- Worksheet
on Chapter 1
- Vocabulary
Worksheet
- DIGI Questions
Tuesday:
- Journal
– Some people say the United
States is a “country made up of 50
countries”. Why would they say
that?
- Important
Documents Timeline Project
- Origins
of the American Government
- Chap 2 Work
Wednesday:
- Journal
– How did England’s
“Constitution” affect our own?
- DIGI
Review
- Notes
on the Constitution
- Video
Schoolhouse Rock – We The People
- Constitution
Scavenger Hunt
- Chap
3-2/Cartoon
- DIGI Questions
Thursday:
- Journal
– What changes do you think need to be made to the Constitution?
- Vocab
Quiz
- DIGI
Questions
- Amending
the Constitution
- Chap
3-3/3-4
- Chap
4-3/4-4
- DIGI Questions
Friday:
- Test
- Notebooks Due
