Finish: Congress & the People Notes

• Link on yesterday's blog post

Structure of Congress:

Presentation & Activity.

•Get a partner.

•Collect information about the leadership positions in each chamber

oPosition

oWhat that position does

oMember currently holding that position

oAwesome Picture

oBREIF description of HOW that job is filled.

•You may split up the work, but you should have the entire thing on your own OneNote.  

Senate	House
President of the Senate	Speaker of the House
President Pro-Tempore	Majority Leader
Majority Leader	Minority Leader
Minority Leader	Majority Whip
Majority Whip	Minority Whip
Minority Whip

Congress & the People

Turned in Chapter 5 Core

Complete/work on: 

1. Gerrymandering Game (answers on OneNote)
2. Constitution Search (worksheet)

I'll be checking these Tuesday

Legislative Branch: Congress & the People Notes

• Took these notes

Lanahan Readings (Copy and paste these and answer them on your OneNote)--Discussion Tuesday

#24 – Sarah Binder – Stalemate  

Despite having control of both houses during the first two years of his term President Obama has had a very difficult time advancing his agenda.  Compromise between the Democrats and Republicans seems almost impossible at times and when a person of one party wishes to compromise with the opposition it is often political suicide. 

   

Q: Are the days of compromise and government that actually gets something done over?  Elaborate with current examples 

  

  

  

#26 – Michele Swers – The Difference Women Make  

In the United States today women are the majority gender.  This has translated to more women holding elected posts than any other time in history.   

  

Q: Speculate how having so many women in government today may change the policy making direction of the federal government in prioritizing issues of national concern. 

  

  

  

  

#27 – Katherine Tate – Black Faces in the Mirror  

Within Congress there are numerous caucus from the Congressional Black Caucus to the Blue Dog Democrats. 

  

Q: Is it appropriate that members of congress align themselves with a specific group to push a set of policies and agenda?  Does the proliferation of caucuses help or hurt unity in the U.S. Congress?

Legislative Branch

Gerrymandering Game

1.        Complete each puzzle (6 Total)
2.       At the completion of each puzzle, on your OneNote 
1.  A) provide two pieces of interesting information about each state as it relates to gerrymandering and
2.  B) cite the Democrat v. Republican breakdown for at least four legislative districts in each state.
3.            When you have completed the entire activity answer the following: In your mind, which state is the most gerrymandered? The least? Explain.

Example OneNote Link

CHapter 5 Core level 4 options: 

1. Incumbency Advantage
2. Gerrymandering
3. Lack of Term Limits
4. Pork Barrel Legislation

Interesting video from last night

"Cold Day"...

This is crazy!

If I were you I'd work on the chapter 5 core.

Exam

Took exam

See Mr M to schedule a time to take it

Core Assignment for Next week: Chapter 5 (NOT Chapter 4!!)

Unit Review

Link to review presentation

Federalism Activity

Finished: Federalism Notes

• Video to come

Schedule: 

Tomorrow is the Big List Quiz

Friday is the Unit I exam and OneNote Check

IF there is a delay tomorrow: 

Tomorrow is a review day only (BL Quiz will be Monday)

Friday is the Unit I Exam and OneNote Check

IF there is no school tomorrow (which I highly doubt):

Review information will be posted here on blog by 9AM

Exam & OneNote Check is still Friday

Big List Quiz Monday

Went to library: 

              1. For each of the following events, create a OneNote to share with your group and Mr M that:

•Describes which part of the constitution is used to define rules about this event

•Analyzes the long term success of the event

•Evaluates how this event impacted Federalism in the US

•Has examples of competing partisan opinion about the law

2.When each member of your group is finished, share the OneNote with the others.

•Link the group OneNote on your own One Note (Create a "Federalism Activity" tab above the current events one)

•Compare/Contrast each in terms of its impact on the Federalist system of the United States on your OneNote


3rd Block: 

1.Dred Scott Case
2. 1873 Slaughterhouse Cases

3. Voting Rights Act of 1965

4.Defense of Marriage Act of 1996

5.Temporary Assistance of Needy Families Act of 1997

6.No Child Left Behind Act of 2001

7.Affordable Care Act of 2010

2nd Block:

1.1873 Slaughterhouse Cases

2. Voting Rights Act of 1965

3.Defense of Marriage Act of 1996

4.Temporary Assistance of Needy Families Act of 1997

5.No Child Left Behind Act of 2001

6.Affordable Care Act of 2010

Federalism Notes

Returned Chapter 2 Core

• Remember two things: 
• All OneNote items needed to be in for me to grade your Core Assignment
• You may revise this, but please write your revisions in a different color writing utensil so it is easy to re-score.  

Introduced Current events assignments.  

• The link to this is on my sites main page
• Each unit we will have a current events assignment due the day after the exam
• It needs to be completed on your OneNote

Began Federalism Notes

• We began the Federalism Notes.. Video to come
• We got to Slide 10 (we Dual Federalism)
• We will finish tomorrow. 

The Constitution

Chapter 2 Core Assignment Due

• You need to have the following things completed for me to grade your homework:
1. Pre-Survey Taken (One 2nd Blog post)
2. One Note Created & shared with Mr McDonald through this link
3. Pre-Assignment Completed and on your OneNote (on 1st Blog Post)
4. Articles Political Cartoon finished

Weekend Assignments: 

1. Read Madison's Federalist #51 from Lanahan..Write a 2-3 sentence summary of it on your OneNote--Due Tuesday
2. Read these two Supreme Court Cases and answer the questions found for each of them on your OneNote--Due Tuesday
3. Chapter 3 Core due Wed. 

Constitution: Notes

• I printed out these notes
• Please add 3 pieces of information on them from this video 
• We will finish these Tuesday when you return to class. 

Constitutional Convention

Finish Notes: Constitutional Convention

• Completed Constitutional Convention Notes
• Take notes from the file above.  Please See Mr McDonald with any questions
• Completed one more script activity: if you were gone, please make sure you have read both scripts that we completed yesterday and today:
• Large vs Small States
• National vs State Power

Ratification Mark Up

• Follow the instructions on the Ratification Mark Up sheet
• We completed this in class

Homework: Federalist 10 (49-55 in Lanahan)

• Read pages 49-55 in your Lanahan Book
• Do the Mark up activity, but on a separate piece of paper.
• We will have a discussion tomorrow...this must be completed.

Constitutional Convention Notes

Articles of Confederation 

• Yesterday we completed:
• Notes
• Questions
• Today we are:
• Spending 10 mins on cartoon
• Sharing with small groups

Constitutional Convention Notes

• Began Constitutional Convention notes
• Took a break to read Constitutional Convention Script
• We will finish this tomorrow.

Note: Chapter 2 Core Homework assignment is now due Friday

Finish Articles

Review Articles of Confederation Packet questions

• Questions found on slide 6 of this presentation

Began work on Political cartoon

• Details found on slide 5 of the same presentation

FYI:

Democrats won't budge on $10.10 as a new minimum wage http://t.co/QVoWriQ6d3
— HuffPost Politics (@HuffPostPol) January 14, 2014

Bryce, Articles & Convention Notes

Technology Stuff

• Remind about Blog
• Remind about: 
• Completing Pre-Assignment
• Linking your OneNote through Survey on website
• Timeline website
• Twitter @mrmcdonald135

Discussion: James Bryce...Equality in America

• Class notes OneNote

Run-up: Articles of Confederation

• Notes and Assignment
• Watch this video for information
• Read this packet and answer the questions on the same sheet of paper as the notes for tomorrow!

Finish Run Up Assign Chapt 2 core

To the library: Finish Run Up to the Constitution

• Finish Your page from yesterday
• Fill out Chart provided by Mr M
• Comment on each page

Hand out: Chapter 2 Core Assignment

• Read Chapter 2 of Lowi
• Chapter 2 Core is due Wednesday
• Some things about the Core: 
• If you do not get Level 2 correct, you get no points for Level 3 questions (until you revise)
• If you do not turn the homework in on time and give a good faith effort at Level 3, you cannot revise you core assignment.  Otherwise you may revise as much as you'd like

3rd Block: Review Lowi's Principles (chapt. 1)

Make sure the following is completed by Monday (email me if you are unable to complete them for technical reasons)

Fridays are typically slow news days, except for burried press releases that Politicians don't want people to see much of.  This is not a story per say but definitely a good example of the continued debate about Obamacare (aka ACA) from Speaker of the House John Boehner

POTUS doesn't want anyone to see what's taking place w/ #Obamacare, but Americans have a right to know. VIDEO: http://t.co/Z77M3MiqIj

— Speaker John Boehner (@SpeakerBoehner) January 10, 2014

Unit I A: Run up to the Constitution

Principles of Politics Big List Quiz

• This is not actually a Big List Quiz but rather a practice
• This will also serve as our review of Lowi's Principles of Politics and the Pre-Assignment

Discussion: James Bryce (Lanahan p. 7-10)

• This is a short discussion over the reading from Lanahan assigned in the Pre-Assignment
• I'll take notes and post them here after class

Run up to the Constitution

• I gave this VERY short presentation introducing this activity
• Visiting the Library, we partnered up to tackle each of the events listed on the timeline.  The instructions for creating your portion of our class webpage are posted on the first page of the corresponding links below.
• Goal for today: Complete YOUR page
• Tomorrow: Begin "touring" the websites.  

You'll need to log into your Google Account to complete this activity.  I suggest using Chrome. 

2nd Block
3rd Block

Current Event Picture: Chris Christie Bridge Scandal. 

BTW--please complete this survey if you are having trouble with your SkyDrive Access

Day 1

Discussion of Class Basics

Pre-Test

• This is only a pre-test... it is not figured into your grade
• This is a requirement for the course, so if you missed this you must make this up.  

To the library to fix technology woes: 

• Your Goals today: 
1. Log on to your email account
2. Open SkyDrive
3. Create a OneNote document
4. Make your own OneNote document to look like mine from my previous blog post 
5. Copy assignment from Google Doc (if that is how you completed it for now)
6. Complete Pre-Survey if you have not already
7. Complete DAY ONE survey to share the OneNote with me…This allows all me to have all your OneNote links in an easy to access place
8. Complete Pre-Assignment for tomorrow if you have not already.