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: "Sometimes You Can't Make it On Your Own" by U2. Selected for today because we are nearing the end of the school year and I am hoping to give you support to finish the year strong!
AGENDA 5/23/17:
News Brief – Kendall
12 Angry Men/Class Feedback
State and Local Government
Final Project
Homework: Read the blog. Next news brief: Nate.
News Brief: We started off class by talking about this story (Kendall was not in class, so I filled in): BBC.com - Manchester bomber named by police. We talked about this horrific story, which is obviously still developing as of the writing of this post. We talked about the response of the United States government, as well. Nate was selected to do the next news brief.
12 Angry Men/Class Feedback/Judicial Branch: We finished 12 Angry Men in class and had a quick discussion about it, before I asked the class to provide me with some feedback on how class is going, in terms of what is positive and what we can improve on. Here were the questions I asked students to answer:
What do you like about this class? What do you think you as students are good at?
What does this class (you, as students) need to improve at?
What do you like about Mr. Fritz as a teacher? What is Mr. Fritz good at as a teacher?
What does Mr. Fritz need to improve at as a teacher?
I appreciate your responses and will put together a PowerPoint with your anonymous feedback for next class. We also reviewed the answers to the Judicial Branch test.
Next class, we will start the final project of the year, on state and local government! See you then!
12 Angry Men/Class Feedback/Judicial Branch: We finished 12 Angry Men in class and had a quick discussion about it, before I asked the class to provide me with some feedback on how class is going, in terms of what is positive and what we can improve on. Here were the questions I asked students to answer:
What do you like about this class? What do you think you as students are good at?
What does this class (you, as students) need to improve at?
What do you like about Mr. Fritz as a teacher? What is Mr. Fritz good at as a teacher?
What does Mr. Fritz need to improve at as a teacher?
I appreciate your responses and will put together a PowerPoint with your anonymous feedback for next class. We also reviewed the answers to the Judicial Branch test.
State and Local Government: For the next 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 (also on Google Classroom):
We went through the most of the answers during class - keep this, as it will be helpful for understanding what is going on in our last unit of the year.
Next class, we will start the final project of the year, on state and local government! See you then!
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