12/16/14

Today's Agenda
-BR: What did you learn from the presentation of the police officer?
-Show questions for final
-Complete course survey

12/15/14

Today's Agenda
-BR: What is the 4th amendment?
-Police officer guest speaker

12/12/14

Today's Agenda
-BR: Summarize a case you heard the day before
-Case study assessment

12/11/14

Today's Agenda
-BR: Summarize a case you heard the day before
-Finish student presentations

12/10/14

Today's Agenda
-BR: Summarize a case you heard the previous day
-Students presentations

12/9/14

Today's Agenda
-BR: List rules we should obey during the student-led presentations
-Student Presentations

12/8/14

Today's Agenda
-BR: Based on your rubric, students have to create three questions to ask another group during their presentations. I want you to brainstorm what type of questions you should be asking during the student-led presentation
-Finish visual component-today is the last day to prep
-If I haven't received an email by now you need to  make the apporpriate amount of copies for the classs. You need 30 copies
-We are presenting in the order thats on the handout (with the rubric on the back) I passed out earlier
-Email me your presentation. One email per group.

12/10/14

Today's Agenda
-BR: Suumarize one case you heard the previous day
-Student presentations

12/5/14

Today's Agenda
-BR: What's the significance of the case?
-Finish case brief
-Create visual

12/4/14

Today's Agenda
-BR: Summarize your case
-Finish reading case and write case brief

12/3/14

Today's Agenda
-BR: Describe an amendment
-Go Over prompt, rubric, assign cases
-HW: Read over case

12/2/14

Today's Agenda
-BR: What's the difference between civil rights and civil liberties
-Finish bill of rights activity
-Analysis sheet
-Video

12/1/14

Today's Agenda
-BR: What are the bill of rights?
-Civil Rights vs. Civil Liberties
-Bill of Rights activity

11/21/14

BR: What do you do after a socratic seminar?
-Inner circle round 2
-Reflection

11/20/14

Today's Agenda
-BR: Review the rules and procedures for a socratic seminar
-Two rounds socratic seminar

11/19/14

Today's Agenda
-Sub day
-Bell ringer: how do you prepare for a socratic seminar? What are your responsibilities during a socratic seminar
-Finish text annotations and evidence handout
-Create questions

11/18/14

Today's Agenda
-BR: Complete # 7 and #8 under reflection on the video guide
-Finish movie?
-PPT: what to do before socratic seminars and during socratic seminars
-Pass out socratic seminar rubric
-Annotate article, complete evidence handout

11/17/14

Today's Agenda
-BR: Cite 2 pieces of evidence from the film that supports your stance towards to gun control
-Finish movie
-HW: Research and find an outside article that supports your stance towards gun control

11/14/14

Today's Agenda
-BR: What interest group did you find that supports your view towards gun control?
-Continue watching Bowling for Columbine

11/13/14

Today's agenda
-BR: Summarize your stance on gun control. Take two minutes.
-Begin Bowling for Columbine

11/12/14

Today's Agenda
-Lab H215

11/10/14

Today's Agenda
-LAB H215

11/7/14

Today's Agenda
-BR: What is the Purpose of an interest group. What is an example of an interest group?
 
-Remember to get in your groups and answer the following questions. You will only have five minutes and will share out with the rest of the class.
 

§Once you're in your group, form an interest group on your topic

§1) What are the goals for your interest goal? What do you want?

§2) How will you attain that goal? Who will support your policy issue?

§3) How will you influence theses people?

-Background on gun debate-video
-Begin background on gun reading
-HW: Finish reading

11/6/14

Today's Agenda
-BR: How do we measure public opinion?
-PPT: Interest Groups & Lobbying with guided notes
-Interest group activity

11/5/14

Today's Agenda
-BR: Any surprises? Reflect on your race that you were assigned to watch
-Report out races
-Watch post-election videos-complete the then and now organizer. Fill out the "now" portion

11/4/14

ELECTION DAY!

Today's Agenda
-BR: Why do we have a 2 party system?
-Vote! Outside of A117 and A118
-Assign Races to watch
-Watch Election Prediction Videos and complete "then" of the then and now graphic organizer

11/3/14

Today's Agenda
-BR: What are political parties? Provide three examples
-Diagnostic assessment (unit 3)
-PPT: Political Parties with guided notes
-Policy Activity

10/31/14

Today's Agenda
-BR: How does the electoral college impact campaigns
-Finish Assignment

10/30/14

Today's Agenda
-BR: Explain the importance of swing states
-Electoral college assignment

10/29/14

Today's Agenda
-BR: Why is the electoral college controversial?
-Finish Reciprocal Reading Strategy
-Finish PPT

10/28/14

Today's Agenda
-BR: Review a question & evidence generated response-Who is involved in the electoral college?
-PPT: Overview of electoral college: video and maps
-Begin reciprocal reading activity: pro vs. con electoral college

10/27/14

Today's Agenda
-BR: Graffiti Activity. Pick up a marker or use a pen and answer two questions out of the five to answer. You will have four minutes to complete this activity. Pay attention to the clock.
-Intro electoral college reading and Show overview video
-Finish Graffiti activity

10/24/14

Today's Agenda
-Lab H215

10/23/14

Today's Agenda
-Lab H215

10/22/14

Today's Agenda
-Lab H217

10/21/14

Today's Agenda
-BR: Why write a letter to an elected official?
-Go over helpful/reliable research websites/tips
-Go over prompt and rubric
-Lab schedule: Wednesday-H217, Thursday & Friday-H215

10/20/14

Today's Agenda
-BR: Brainstorm major issues brought up by students during the Dold vs, Schneider debate
-Collect polls/analysis
-PPT: How to write a letter (email) to an elected official
-Exit ticket/response: think about an issue you want to address to a public official. Think of 3 and explain why.

10/17/14

Today's Agenda
-BR: What are the three main influences on how people vote?
-Finish Analysis
-HW: Finish Analysis will turn in on Monday with rubric!

10/16/14

Today's Agenda
-BR: Describe three ways people can influence their government? Most popular? Least popular?
-Finish Political Participation PPT

-Take out surveys. Create a data chart (bar graph) of surveys.  One data analysis per question (5 total) If you already completed a data chart begin your analysis
-Begin analysis of polling project

10/15/14

Today's Agenda
-BR: Validity vs. Reliability
-PPT: Political Participation
-Finish surveys
-HW: You must walk into class tomorrow with all of your surveys completed!!!! When you submit your summative project I will collect your data sheet

10/10/14

Today's Agenda
-BR: Consensus vs. Polarization
-Go over project
-Share and edit practice questions
-Begin to hand out surveys. Complete by Thursday.

10/9/14

Today's Agenda
-BR: How are polls used?
-PPT: Polling project
-Practice polling questions

10/8/14

Today's Agenda
-BR: What is Public Policy?
-PPT: What to do about Polls? Impact of polling data
-Preview Project: brainstorm a topic you want to poll students on 

10/7/14

Today's Agenda
-BR: Describe one of the following important concepts (salience, latency, intensity, margin of error, or random sample)
-PPT: Public opinion and policy
-Complete Polling sheet

10/6/14

Today's Agenda
-BR: Complete Peer edit
-Make corrections based on peer edit
-PPT: Public opinion important concepts
-HW: Final draft due tomorrow with rubric attached!

10/3/14

Today's Agenda
-BR: Questions/Concerns of the writing assignment
-Continue writing the summative assessment
-Change Seats
-HW: Finish writing assignment?

10/2/14

Today's Agenda
-Sub today
>Begin writing assignment.
>Read the directions regarding the prompt, structure, and rubric of the assignment
>Will continue with the assignment tomorrow

10/1/14

Today's Agenda
-BR: Feedback on Brad Schneider: What did you like? What did you dislike about the candidate?
-Venn diagram: Comparing the candidates
-HW: Formulate a stance on who makes the better candidate for the 10th district

9/30/14

Today's Agenda
-BR: Describe a typical democrat platform
-Background info: Website/Campaign videos: Youtube Brad schneier
-Carousel activity Brad Schneider
-Pass out Passes: 1st and 2nd hour tomorrow!

9/29/14

Today's Agenda
-BR: What were major themes Bob Dold consistently brought up during the Q & A
-PPT: What is Public Opinion and Polling of class
-Public Opinion Reading + Graphic organizer
-HW: Finish reading/organizer

9/26/14

Today's Agenda
-BR: Carousal Activity
-Discussion on Bob Dold's political platform
-Finish Summative Assessment

-HW: Finish Summative Assessment

9/25/14

Today's Agenda
-BR: Political identification sheet
-Republican vs. Democrats
-Bob Dold's political platform

9/24/14

Today's Agenda
-BR: What are the three levels of political awareness
-Finish summative assessment
-Create questions for Bob Dold

-HW: None

9/23/14

Today's Agenda
-BR: Are political views stable or do they change throughout your life. Explain
-Perform skits
-Begin summative assessment

9/22/14

Today's Agenda
-BR: Besides the four main agents of socialization what are other influences?
-PPT: Stability an change & Awareness and Interest
-Prep skits

-HW: None

9/19/14

Today's Agenda
-BR: What are the agents of socialization?

-PPT on Agents with vocab organizer



-HW: Finish Agents of socialization article

9/18/14

Today's Agenda
-BR: Define Political Socialization

-PPT: Finish Agents of Socialization

-Present Political Cartoons

-HW: None

9/17/14

Today's Agenda
-BR: What are you political beliefs, values, and attitudes?

-PPT: Political socialization and agents of it

-Create political cartoons based on a specific agent in groups of three

9/16/14

Today's Agenda
-BR: What is Separation of Powers? How would you argue this prompt?

-Go over the exam and Test corrections

9/15/14

Today's Agenda
-BR: None

-Multiple Choice Exam

9/12/14

Today's Agenda
-Unit 1 Exam Writing
-HW: Study multiple choice on Monday

9/11/14

Today's Agenda
-BR: Describe a flag code
-Formative on Illinois vs. U.S. government and the Flag
-Review
-HW: Study

9/10/14

Today's Agenda
-BR: Create a venn diagram comparing the Illinois vs. U.S. government
& based on formative identify which branch the following belongs to: Cabinet, Chief Justice, Senate
-Finish PPT: flag
-Flag reading (finish hw)

9/9/14

Today's Agenda
-BR: 3 levels of Judaical System
-Formative on three branches & grade in class
-PPT: Comparing U.S. vs. Illinois government

9/8/14

Today's Agenda
-BR: Compare the House of Representatives vs. Senate
-Complete Writing Assignment on Three branches
-3 levels of Judicial System video

9/5/14

Today's Agenda
-BR: Name a Power in each branch of government

-Reading on Powers of the three branches

9/4/14

Today's Agenda
-BR: Review one of the principles based on formative assessment

-Corrective activity on the structure and functions of the constitution

-Venn diagram activity on the three branches of government

9/3/14

Today's Agenda
-BR: Why do we re-do work?

-Formative Assessment on the Six principles & Correct in class

-Corrective on Supremacy Clause

9/2/14

Today's Agenda
-BR: What is a primary source document?

-Primary source activity on the six principles of the U.S.

8/29

Today's Agenda
-BR: Describe Federalism and provide an example or a way that helps you remember the term
-Finish applying the six principles activity

8/28

Today's agenda
-BR: Describe Limited Government. Provide an example or a way that you remember the term
-Finish going over the six principle ppt
-Begin applying the six principles

8/27

Today's Agenda
-BR: Describe Popular Sovereignty and provide an example or a way that helps you remember the term
-Finish Vocab Graphic Organizer on Six Principles
-PPT: Go over as a class

8/26

BR: Based on the diagnostic assessment students were familiar with separation of powers and checks and balances. Define one of the principles.
-Formative assessment
-Intro Six Principles Video
-Begin Vocab Graphic Organizer

8/25

Today's Agenda
-BR: What is the Supremacy Claus (review last week's notes)
-Supremacy Claus Reading and MEEE-Con Chart

8/22

Today's Agenda
-BR: Describe the 3 main parts of the constitution
Supremacy Clause Reading with "marking the text" strategy
-Supremacy Clause MEEE-Con

8/21

Today's Agenda
-BR: What is the purpose of government?
-On an island activity

8/20

Today's Agenda
-BR: What is government
-Diagnostic Assessment
-Principles of the US Government
-Gov Intro Questions

8/19

Today's Agenda
-Welcome!

-PBIS
-Syllabus
-Icebreaker
-HW: Read Syllabus