April 29 - May 3

Monday:

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

Tuesday:

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. Presidential Roles/Crossword
6. DIGI Questions

Wednesday:

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

Thursday:

1. Journal – Does the appeals process in our judicial system allow too many chances to win a case?
2. DIGI Review
3. Notes – Supreme Court
4. Executive and Judicial Questions WS
5. DIGI Questions

Friday:

1. Test on Unit 4
2. Notebooks Due

April 22 - 26

Monday:

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 Worksheet
6. DIGI Questions

Tuesday:

1. Vocab Quiz
2. Redistricting Game

Wednesday:

1. Journal – Which branch of Congress is better? Why?
2. DIGI Review
3. Notes on Congressional Powers
4. Chap 5 Cartoon/Congressional Review WS

Thursday:

1. Test on Unit 3
2. Notebooks Due

Friday:

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

April 15 - 19

Monday:

1. Journal - What benefit is there to officially joining a political party?
2. DIGI Review
3. Notes – Elections
4. How the Electoral College Works (CGP Grey)
5. Trouble With the Electoral College (CGP Grey)
6. Stossel Video on “Campaign Finance” (Stossel 2010)

8. Election Commercials
9. Voting and Elections WS
10. DIGI Questions

Tuesday:

1. Journal - How will you decide who to vote for?
2. Vocab Quiz
3. DIGI Review
4. Notes on Interest Groups
5. Trade Restrictions and Crony Capitalism (Stossel – Making Econ Come Alive)
6. CGP Grey videos on Electoral College
7. Vocab Double Cross/Political Ideologies WS
8. DIGI Questions

Wednesday:

1. Journal - What interest group(s) would you be a member of? Why?
2. DIGI Review
3. Notes on Mass Media and the Government
4. Unit Review WS
5. NB Check Sheet
6. DIGI Questions

Thursday:

1. Test on Unit 2
2. Journals and Notebooks Due

Friday:

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