The United States Supreme Court building, in Washington, D.C. Photo taken in 2010.
Hi everyone,
Thanks for your effort on the test and with the in class work today! Here's what happened today in class:
Learning Targets Addressed:
Knowledge LT 5: I can demonstrate an understanding of the principles, structures, and functions of different levels of U.S. government.
Soundtrack: "Paris, Tokyo" by Lupe Fiasco. Selected for today because of the horrific terrorist attacks in Paris last week. Lyrics here.
AGENDA 11/17/15:
News Brief – Natalie B.
Executive Branch Test
Judicial Branch Overview
Cases Every Teen Should Know
Homework: Read the blog. Turn in any missing work ASAP! Next news brief: Jesus.
News Brief: Natalie B. had the news brief today and selected this article to talk about: NBCNews.com - Lawmakers, Activists Underwhelmed by SeaWorld Plan to End Orca Show. We talked about how the government might have a role in protecting animals, and the declining profits at SeaWorld after the Blackfish documentary came out.
We also talked about this story: CNN.com - More than half the nation's governors say Syrian refugees not welcome. We went into detail about the Paris attacks and what happened there. I talked a bit about my own experience in Paris (as my girlfriend is from there), and showed a map of where the attacks happened. This was in an attempt to provide some context for what happened and why. It is important that we continue learning about what is going on in the world, as it relates to our government!
Jesus was selected to do the next news brief.
Executive Branch Test: I hope that you studied and did well on this! I will try to have the grades entered in later today. Thirty questions, multiple choice. Not too bad, I hope! Thanks, as always for your effort on this! It seemed like most students felt okay about how it went.
Judicial Branch: To start, I led students through a fill in the blank overview of the judicial branch. Here it is again, if you want to go over it to study for the test later on in the unit (probably after Thanksgiving):
10 Supreme Court Cases: After going over the introduction to the unit, I passed out this reading (which was copied incorrectly, so we were only able to do a few of the cases - I will pass out the full reading next class):
2) Describe the judge’s decision and explain their reasons why.
3) Do you agree or disagree with the judge’s decision? Explain your reasons why or why not.
We also talked about this story: CNN.com - More than half the nation's governors say Syrian refugees not welcome. We went into detail about the Paris attacks and what happened there. I talked a bit about my own experience in Paris (as my girlfriend is from there), and showed a map of where the attacks happened. This was in an attempt to provide some context for what happened and why. It is important that we continue learning about what is going on in the world, as it relates to our government!
Jesus was selected to do the next news brief.
Executive Branch Test: I hope that you studied and did well on this! I will try to have the grades entered in later today. Thirty questions, multiple choice. Not too bad, I hope! Thanks, as always for your effort on this! It seemed like most students felt okay about how it went.
Judicial Branch: To start, I led students through a fill in the blank overview of the judicial branch. Here it is again, if you want to go over it to study for the test later on in the unit (probably after Thanksgiving):
10 Supreme Court Cases: After going over the introduction to the unit, I passed out this reading (which was copied incorrectly, so we were only able to do a few of the cases - I will pass out the full reading next class):
The rest of class was devoted to reading the cases, and following these directions: On a separate sheet of paper, read and write the answers to the following questions for a minimum of five out of the ten cases.
1) What was the issue?2) Describe the judge’s decision and explain their reasons why.
3) Do you agree or disagree with the judge’s decision? Explain your reasons why or why not.
Next class, we will finish this, discuss, then move on to some more case studies.
Thanks! See you next time! :-)
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