The beach at Puerto Vallarta, on Christmas Eve, 2015.
Hello everyone,
We started our last major unit of the year today, on state and local government! Here's what happened in class today:
Learning Targets Addressed:
Knowledge LT 2: I can demonstrate an understanding of the role of governments in current issues.
Knowledge LT 6: I can demonstrate an understanding of the principles, structures, and functions of different levels of U.S. government.
Knowledge LT 6: I can demonstrate an understanding of the principles, structures, and functions of different levels of U.S. government.
Soundtrack: "The End" by The Doors. Selected for today because we are nearing the end of the school year!
AGENDA 5/16/16:
News Brief – Steven
Review Feedback/12 Angry Men
State and Local Government
Election Night!
Homework: Read the blog. Turn in any missing/incomplete/retakes/revisions by next Thursday. Next news brief: Donovan.
News Brief: We started off class with Steven talking about this article: BostonGlobe.com - Anti-Trump forces in GOP ramp up their efforts. We discussed the current state of the Republican and Democratic primaries for President, as well as why it would certainly be in Trump's interest if Sanders ran as an independent third party candidate (instead of another Republican running, as the article says). We also checked in about the weekend and what people were up to, before moving on.
Donovan was selected to do the next news brief.
Review Feedback/12 Angry Men: Last class, I asked students to provide me with some feedback about how class is going - what is going well, and what can be improved, both for the class, and for me as a teacher. Here are the (very interesting!) results that we went through:
We also reviewed the 12 Angry Men film assignment (I will likely use this as a behavior target grade, just for paying attention), and the answers to the Judicial Branch test.
State and Local Government: For the last part of class, I passed out a reading with questions about our last major unit of the year, on state and local forms of government. Due to the feedback asking that I give more time for assignments, the rest of class was devoted to filling this out:
We will go through the answers together next class.
Election Night! This was earlier in class, but because I asked students to follow the election results in Oregon as homework, I am posting about it here. We talked about following the results from the entire state of Oregon, which can be found here (starting at 8:00 PM tomorrow night):
Here is the link for Multnomah County election results, if you would like to join my family in rapidly refreshing the page tomorrow at 8 PM to see if my mom, Amanda Fritz, has won re-election to her job as Portland City Commissioner:
In the primary for local positions (like my mom's), a candidate needs over 50% of the vote in order to be declared the overall winner (no further election needed). If no candidate gets to 50%, then the top two candidates face off in the general election in November.
It's definitely a cool time to be a government teacher! Thanks for your focus and effort today, everyone! See you next class, when we get to talk about the election results!
Donovan was selected to do the next news brief.
Review Feedback/12 Angry Men: Last class, I asked students to provide me with some feedback about how class is going - what is going well, and what can be improved, both for the class, and for me as a teacher. Here are the (very interesting!) results that we went through:
State and Local Government: For the last part of class, I passed out a reading with questions about our last major unit of the year, on state and local forms of government. Due to the feedback asking that I give more time for assignments, the rest of class was devoted to filling this out:
We will go through the answers together next class.
Election Night! This was earlier in class, but because I asked students to follow the election results in Oregon as homework, I am posting about it here. We talked about following the results from the entire state of Oregon, which can be found here (starting at 8:00 PM tomorrow night):
Here is the link for Multnomah County election results, if you would like to join my family in rapidly refreshing the page tomorrow at 8 PM to see if my mom, Amanda Fritz, has won re-election to her job as Portland City Commissioner:
In the primary for local positions (like my mom's), a candidate needs over 50% of the vote in order to be declared the overall winner (no further election needed). If no candidate gets to 50%, then the top two candidates face off in the general election in November.
It's definitely a cool time to be a government teacher! Thanks for your focus and effort today, everyone! See you next class, when we get to talk about the election results!
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