The flag of the United States, before the Holiday Bowl football game in 2008, which the Oregon Ducks won over the Oklahoma State Cowboys. Today, we had an interesting mock trial on saying the Pledge of Allegiance in class.
Hi everyone,
I really enjoyed the discussions and debates the the mock trials brought up today, and I had the sense that most students did, too. 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: "Duel of the Fates" from Star Wars. Selected for today because it was May the 4th! Star Wars Day!
AGENDA 5/4/16:
News Brief – Daniel/Konner/Jonny
Mock Trials
The National Judiciary
Work Time
Homework: Read the blog. Get any late work in ASAP to improve your grade. Next news brief (no write up needed, just talk about it): Jasmine.
News Brief: Jonny had the news brief today and talked about John Kasich dropping out of the race for the Republican nomination for president. We had an extended check in at the start of class about Ted Cruz dropping out of the race for the nomination, as well. This means that Donald Trump will almost certainly be the Republican nominee for President of the United States, so we had a long question and answer session about that, where I talked about how both Clinton (to a lesser extent) and Trump are quite unpopular overall. What a strange and interesting time in analyzing what is going on with our government! Thanks for the discussion!
Jasmine was assigned to do the next news brief.
Mock Trials: We had a really excellent discussion on the issues: school segregation, drug searches at school, and saying the Pledge of Allegiance in class. Please complete the rest of your mock trial packet, if you did not in class! Here are the actual results of the cases, with audio of the arguments, if you are interested:
The National Judiciary/Work Time: I passed out this handout, so students could read and review them to prepare for the upcoming test. I will see how it goes next class with going through these, but the test will be on this reading, as well as the Supreme Court cases that we have been studying.
Jasmine was assigned to do the next news brief.
Mock Trials: We had a really excellent discussion on the issues: school segregation, drug searches at school, and saying the Pledge of Allegiance in class. Please complete the rest of your mock trial packet, if you did not in class! Here are the actual results of the cases, with audio of the arguments, if you are interested:
We finished all the cases within the class! Thank you for participating in this - I thought it was a pretty cool activity and I was glad to see students engaged in trying to answer these important legal questions.
The National Judiciary/Work Time: I passed out this handout, so students could read and review them to prepare for the upcoming test. I will see how it goes next class with going through these, but the test will be on this reading, as well as the Supreme Court cases that we have been studying.
Please keep working on this! Sound good? Let me know if you have any questions I can answer! Thanks again for an enjoyable class this morning! :-)
Oklahoma State is the Cowboys, University of Oklahoma is the Sooners!
ReplyDeleteGah, I JUST posted this, too! Thanks for the needed correction! Of course, Oregon has had wins over both Oklahoma and Oklahoma State. :-)
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