Nov 18 - 22

Monday:

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

Tuesday:

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

Wednesday:

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

Thursday:

1. Journal - Which of the President’s roles is most important?  Why?
2. Vocab Quiz
3. Mr. Smith Goes To Washington

Friday:

1. Journal - Which of the President’s roles is most important?  Why?
2. Mr. Smith Goes To Washington

November 11-15

Monday:

1. Review for Test
2. Finish Work

Tuesday:

1. Test on Unit 2
2. Notebooks Due

Wednesday:

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

Thursday:

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 Bill to a Law WS
6. DIGI Questions

Friday:

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

Nov 4-8

Monday:

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

Tuesday:

NO CLASS

Wednesday:

8. Journal - What benefit is there to officially joining a political party?
9. DIGI Review
10. Notes – Elections
11. Election Commercials
12. Voting and Elections WS
13. DIGI Questions

Thursday:

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

Friday:

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. Vocab Double Cross/Cartoon
6. DIGI Questions