Crater Lake, which is Oregon's only National Park. Maybe a symbol of your new nation? Photo taken in August 2014.
Hi wonderful students,
Great to see you all again today! It was a quiz and work day in class. Here's what happened today:
Learning Targets:
Knowledge LT 2: I can demonstrate an understanding of the role of governments in current issues.
Knowledge LT 4: I can explain how different ideological movements and philosophies shape politics.
Soundtrack: "If I Ruled the World" by Nas and Lauryn Hill. Selected for today because you were creating your own countries today in class!
AGENDA 2/17/16:
News Brief – Kate
Philosophy Quiz/Read Letters
Articles of Confederation
Creation of a Nation
Homework: Read the blog. Be ready to finish the Creation of a Nation activity next class. Next news brief: Mo.
News Brief: Kate had the news brief today and selected an article about this story to talk about: CNN.com - Barack Obama: I don't think Donald Trump will be President. We discussed this article, as well as the upcoming primary in South Carolina this weekend.
We also talked about Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia passing away over the weekend. This is a HUGE story for the United States government. We talked for a while in class about why Scalia's death is important for the Supreme Court, the presidential nomination race, and a host of issues that might end 4-4 now, instead of 5-4 on one side or the other.
Mo was selected for the next news brief.
Philosophy Quiz/Read Letters: Because I'm a nice guy, I gave the class about five minutes to study for this (even though it was homework to do so). I haven't read the responses yet, but basically, if you knew the four philosophers from the first reading, and knew the basics of the European influences reading, you should have been fine. If you need to take this, please come find me before or after school. I will grade these and get them back to you as soon as I can.
After the quiz, we heard some of the "break up letters" that students wrote looking at the Declaration of Independence. These were pretty funny - thanks for participating in this.
Articles of Confederation: Next up, we had a brief lecture in class about the early foundations of the United States government and some of the forms of government in the world. The Articles of Confederation was the first way that the country was organized, and we looked at how it was not good enough to really keep the states together in any coherent way. Here's the reading notes that I showed in class:
Please know the basics here for future use!
Creation of a Nation: The last activity we did today in class was to start thinking about creating your own nation, which is a break away of some of the western states from the United States. In groups of 2 or 3, this is the assignment, which we will finish working on next class and present. Again, I want every group to make a flag for their new country, because flags are awesome. Please see the document for specifics as to what each group member should do.
Next class, we will continue with this and then move on to studying the Constitution. Thanks! See you next class!
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