A statue of our first President, George Washington (I hope you knew that on the Citizenship test today), outside Federal Hall in New York City. Photo taken in 2009.
Hi everyone,
Welcome to your first weekend of the semester! I am definitely looking forward to resting up a bit after a frenetic start this week - even four days was a lot. Here's what we did today in class:
Learning Targets Addressed:
SS.HS.KN.ALT.04: I can explain how different ideological movements and philosophies shape politics.
SS.HS.CO.ALT.05: I can communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing.Soundtrack: "Talk" by Coldplay. Selected for today because we did a lot of talking about the basics of the government today in class. Lyrics here.
AGENDA 1/29/15:
News Brief - Julia
Citizenship
Government Overview
Philosophy
Homework: Read the blog and post a comment (if you have not already). Ashton has the next news brief. Have a great weekend!
Citizenship: To get into looking at our government, I played this video of high school students trying to answer questions about social studies:
We laughed at some of the responses, then I flipped the script and had the class try and citizenship test!
Here was the pre-test that I passed out in class. All sorts of good questions about how the U.S. government is structured and works.
I believe Zoey and Evita were our high scorers, with 25 correct out of 30. We definitely have work to do!
Government Overview: Next up, I had the class do another another pre-assessment. The questions were:
1. What is the purpose of government?
2. What does a government do?
3. What role should the government play in people’s lives?
4. What do you know about the structure of the United States government? Draw a web!
We had a good discussion about all of this (we will get into specific details and cases here soon). Thanks!
Philosophy: I wanted to start looking at some of the philosophers of government during the Enlightenment period. Here's the PowerPoint we went through (we only did slides 6-9 today, and I won't go over the entire presentation, so just focus on those for now):
All in all, a pretty packed day! Thanks for hanging in there and for reading the blog. Have a great weekend - see you next week!
Hi Mr Fritz,
ReplyDeleteAs you may have noticed I was sick do to my health problems acting up. I was just wondering what homework we may have had.
Thank you
-Sophia Burch
Hi Sophia! Thanks for checking in. Could you please look at the PowerPoint I linked to in the post - specifically slides 6-8, and take notes on the philosophers (there will eventually be a test on them). See you on Monday!
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