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On the roof of the Bundestag building in Berlin, Germany. This is where the government of Germany meets. Photo taken in 2013.
Hi everyone,
Welcome to a shortened week, with Veterans Day on Friday and a staff development day on Thursday! I really enjoyed the discussion and festive atmosphere in class. I'm sure it was a nice change from all of the writing students have had to do in the last few days for the class! Here's what happened in class:
Learning Targets:
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 branches of U.S. government.
Soundtrack: "The Final Countdown" by Europe. Selected for today because it is the final countdown (of hours!) until the end of the 2016 Presidential Election! Lyrics here.
AGENDA 11/8/16:
News Brief – Marco
The Election
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Cabinet Project
Homework: Read the blog. Watch the election night coverage tonight! Next news brief: Elizabeth.
News Brief: Marco had the news brief today and selected an article about this story: NYTimes.com - What Time Will the Polls Close? (And When Will We Know Who Won?). This was a great transition to talking about what is going on today!
Elizabeth was selected to do the next news brief.
I also asked about the weekend and what people were up to.
The Election: Because today is the presidential election, I made sure to go through what is happening and when to expect results. We went through a few websites for this:
1) The FiveThirtyEight.com election forecast. I have been showing this all semester in class, and it appears that the polls have recently tightened a bit, though Hillary Clinton is still favored to win a majority of the time. As a reminder: it is not who wins the most votes in the country, it is who wins the amount of states that add up to at least 270 electoral votes that wins.
2) A map of poll closing times for each state, when results begin to be announced. Yay for geography and maps! I pointed out some keys in the early states to look for in terms of who might be ahead. Virginia and Georgia at 4:00 PM are two examples of important indicators. At 8:00 PM on the West Coast, polls close, and it is likely that within the next couple of hours after that, we will know who will be the next President of the United States.
3) A map of how long it took to determine who won each state in 2012. Helpful to know how long things might take!
Along with this, I had students go to 270towin.com and try to construct the Electoral College map they thought would happen tonight, then screenshot it and send it to me on Google Classroom. So cool! Thanks, everyone!
The Election: Because today is the presidential election, I made sure to go through what is happening and when to expect results. We went through a few websites for this:
1) The FiveThirtyEight.com election forecast. I have been showing this all semester in class, and it appears that the polls have recently tightened a bit, though Hillary Clinton is still favored to win a majority of the time. As a reminder: it is not who wins the most votes in the country, it is who wins the amount of states that add up to at least 270 electoral votes that wins.
2) A map of poll closing times for each state, when results begin to be announced. Yay for geography and maps! I pointed out some keys in the early states to look for in terms of who might be ahead. Virginia and Georgia at 4:00 PM are two examples of important indicators. At 8:00 PM on the West Coast, polls close, and it is likely that within the next couple of hours after that, we will know who will be the next President of the United States.
3) A map of how long it took to determine who won each state in 2012. Helpful to know how long things might take!
Along with this, I had students go to 270towin.com and try to construct the Electoral College map they thought would happen tonight, then screenshot it and send it to me on Google Classroom. So cool! Thanks, everyone!
Advertisements: This was another Google Classroom assignment, in analyzing campaign mail that I have been sent over the past few weeks. Hopefully you found this interesting, as well!
Cabinet Project: We will start this next class!
See you on next Monday, when we will surely have lots to talk about! :-)
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