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 your Bill of Rights Quiz scores! 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: "Abc" by The Jackson 5. Selected for today because counting 1-2-3 of the Amendments in the Bill of Rights would have helped last class on the quiz! Lyrics here.

AGENDA 10/19/16:
News Brief – Maddy
Review Quiz
Oregon Reps in Congress
Work Time

Homework: Read the blog. Continue working on the Oregon representatives handout (we will have a bit of time next class to finish/review). Watch the last Presidential debate tonight at 6 PM. Next news brief: Shayne.

News Brief: Maddy had the news brief today and selected this article to talk about: NPR.org - Refugee Resettlement Evokes Fear, Debate In Montana. We talked about this article and the issue of refugees in the United States, as well as the reaction from different areas of our government when President Obama said we would take in more Syrian refugees. An important story to highlight! Thanks, Maddy.

We also checked in about the debate tonight and I showed the updated Election Forecast from FiveThirtyEight.com in discussing what the possible impacts of the debate tonight could be.

Shayne was randomly selected for the next news brief.

Review Quiz: After the news, we talked about the Bill of Rights test from last class. We went through the answers together. If you need to retake this (or any other quiz/test), let's figure out a time outside of class to do this. Updated grades are posted online on StudentVUE.

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/was on Google Classroom for students to edit using Kami:

Google Drive - Oregon Representatives in Congress Handout

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!

Work Time: For the rest of the class, we were working with the Chromebooks in class on the Oregon representatives handout.

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