Legislative Branch, Day 2 - Class Recap

This image of the US Capitol Building is actually the background for this blog! Photo taken in 2010.

Dear class,

Today, we talked more about the continuing Presidential Nomination process and the weekend. We also started up with looking at the Oregon congressional delegation. Here's the recap for today:

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 levels of U.S. government.

Soundtrack: "Marry The Night" by Lady Gaga. Selected for today because it was so dark out this morning, due to the loss of an hour over the weekend, for Daylight Savings Time. Lyrics here.

AGENDA 3/15/16:
News Brief – Jay
Nomination Update
Oregon Reps in Congress
Computer Lab N210

Homework: Read the blog. Finish the Oregon representatives handout. Next news brief: Ivan.

News Brief: Jay had the news brief today and selected this article to talk about: OregonLive.com - Oregon City man firing dozens of gunshots sends neighbors ducking for cover inside home. We talked about the mental health aspects of this story, along with the enforcement of laws here.

Thanks, Jay!

Ivan was randomly selected for the next news brief.

Nomination Update: We continued to talk about who the Republicans and Democrats will nominate to be president. Today, Florida (the home state of Republican Senator Marco Rubio), Ohio (the home state of Republican Governor John Kasich), Illinois, North Carolina, and Missouri vote to nominate candidates. I showed this website and talked about the state of the race to get the delegates needed: NYTimes.com - 2016 Primary Results and Calendar.

Oregon Representatives: Next, it was time to learn more about who serves Oregon as representatives in Congress at the federal level. Here is the handout that I passed out in class:

Google Drive - Oregon Representatives in Congress Handout

Note that opencongress.org doesn't exist any more (use the one that replaced it), and you don't have to find the "partisanship" score on the far right. The main point here is to know who our representatives are and what they believe. It is important that we know who represents us in Congress, and what their ideas are!

Computer Lab N210: For the rest of the class, we were in the computer lab, working on the Oregon representatives handout.

Thanks for your work on this! See you next class, when we will be creating legislation of our own!