Inside the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C. Photo taken in 2010.
Dear class,
Is it just me, or has this week felt incredibly long? Tiring end to a four day week of classes for many of us - thank you for your effort today! We continued looking at the Bill of Rights together, and diving into what the main ones mean.
Here's what happened:
Is it just me, or has this week felt incredibly long? Tiring end to a four day week of classes for many of us - thank you for your effort today! We continued looking at the Bill of Rights together, and diving into what the main ones mean.
Here's what happened:
Learning Targets Addressed:
Knowledge LT 2: I can demonstrate an understanding of the role of governments in current issues.Knowledge LT 5: I can demonstrate an understanding of the principles, structures, and functions of different branches of U.S. government.
AGENDA 10/8/15:
News Brief - Ellimay
Finish Gun Nation
Review Constitution Test
Rights of the Accused
Homework: Read the blog! Next news brief: Ellimay.
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News Brief: Ellimay had the news brief today and selected this story to talk about with the class: CNN.com - Obama apologizes to Doctors Without Borders after deadly Afghanistan airstrike. This prompted me to move into Global Studies teacher mode and I mentioned that our family elected to have people give money to Doctors Without Borders instead of flowers and other condolences after my dad was killed last year, because my dad was a doctor and cared a lot about people. So, this is a really awful story, and important to figure out what happened.
We also talked a bit about the upcoming weekend, before moving on.
Natalie S. volunteered for the next news brief.
I also went over the Political Compass test again, and showed my score compared to Lindsay's on the board.
Finish Gun Nation: This was the "Gun Nation" episode of the "30 Days" documentary series. I asked students to note Pro and Con arguments for gun rights. I think this episode does a really good job of looking at both sides of the debate, and is pretty powerful. I enjoyed our conversation afterwards. Thanks for your participation with this, everyone!
Review Constitution Test: This was from last class, and we also had students who missed last class complete this while the documentary was ongoing. I passed back the scantrons, which had the grades marked on the side, and we went through the whole test together. If this test went poorly, never fear, because there will be a retake in a few classes on the Bill of Rights and the branches of government. Please make sure to review the material!
Rights of the Accused: To end class, we looked at the (clean version) lyrics from 99 Problems by Jay Z to see how the song is related to knowing our rights, especially those from the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution. I then passed out this packet, which was about various different cases regarding privacy and rights:
Before the end of class, we went through the 8 cases listed in the handout, then read over the case on the last page (we didn't get to the questions at the end). We ended there for the week, and will pick back up next time there. Thanks, everyone. :-)
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