Dec 3-7

Monday:

1. Journal – How important is the cabinet to the President?  Why?
2. DIGI Review
3. Notes – Presidential Powers
4. Stossel Video on the President Running the Country
5. Worksheet – Presidential Roles/Vocab Review
6. DIGI Questions

Tuesday:

1. Journal - Which of the President’s roles is most important?  Why?
2. DIGI Review
3. Notes – Judicial Branch
4. Amendment Test Review
5. Worksheet - Whose Jurisdiction/Federal Court System
6. DIGI

Wednesday:

1. Journal - Which of the President’s roles is most important?  Why?
2. Test on Amendments 

Thursday:

1. Journal – Does the appeals process in our judicial system allow too many chances to win a case?
2. Vocab Quiz
3. DIGI Review
4. Notes – Supreme Court
5. Worksheet – SoP & C&B/Chap Review
6. DIGI Questions

Friday:

1. Test on Unit 4
2. Notebooks Due

Nov 26 - 30

Monday:

1. Journal – Which branch of Congress is better? Why?
2. DIGI Review
3. Notes on Congressional Powers
4. Cartoon/Congressional Review Worksheet

Tuesday:

1. Vocab Quiz
2. Redistricting Game

Wednesday:

1. Test on Unit 3
2. Notebooks Due

Thursday:

1. Journal – Do the benefits of being President make it worthwhile?
2. Opener – Name the Presidents
3. Notes – The President
4. What if the Electoral College is Tied? (CGP Grey)
5. Worksheet – The Presidency
6. DIGI Questions

Friday:

1. Journal - Are the Constitutional requirements for being President strict enough?  Why or why not?
2. DIGI Review
3. Notes – The Cabinet
4. Worksheet – Cabinet Departments/The President's Cabinet
5. DIGI Questions

November 12-16

Monday:

1. Journal - How will you decide who to vote for?
2. DIGI Review
3. Notes on Interest Groups
4. CGP Grey videos on Electoral College
5. Vocab and Ideologies WS
6. DIGI Questions

Tuesday:

1. Journal - What interest group(s) would you be a member of? Why?
2. Vocab Quiz
3. DIGI Review
4. Notes on Mass Media and the Government
5. Chapter 19 Guided Reading
6. Review Crossword
7. DIGI Questions

Wednesday:

1. Test on Unit 2
2. Notebooks Due

Thursday:

1. Journal – What qualities do you want in a Congressman?
2. Notes – Congress
3. Gerrymandering Explained (CGP Grey)
4. Congressional Membership Worksheet
5. DIGI Questions

Friday:

1. Journal – Are the qualifications for being a member of Congress tough enough?
2. DIGI Review
3. Notes – House and Senate
4. I’m Just a Bill
5. Organization of Congress/From a Bill to a Law Worksheets
6. DIGI Questions

November 5-9

Monday:
First Amendment Station Activity

Tuesday:
Election Day - No School

Wednesday:

1. Journal – How far do you think “Freedom of Speech” should go?  Should we be allowed to say anything?
2. DIGI
3. Notes – Citizenship and Equal Justice
4. Live Free or Die (Stossel 2012)
5. Immigration (Stossel 2012)
6. Aliens and Rights WS
7. DIGI

Thursday:

1. Journal – Does the Government make it too easy to become an American citizen?  Why or why not?
2. Project Instructions
3. DIGI Review
4. Notes – Political Parties
5. Primary Elections Explained (CGP Grey)
6. Stossel Video on “Vote or Die” (Stossel 2010)
7. Political Parties/Cartoon Worksheet
8. DIGI Questions

Friday:

8. Journal - What benefit is there to officially joining a political party?
9. Voting Literacy Test
10. DIGI Review
11. Notes – Elections
12. How the Electoral College Works (CGP Grey)
13. Trouble With the Electoral College (CGP Grey)
14. Stossel Video on “Campaign Finance” (Stossel 2010)
15. Election Commercials
16. Voting and Elections WS
17. DIGI Questions