AGBU Vatche & Tamar Manoukian High School
Two Week Schedule (TWS)
Subject:
AP Government and Politics
Date:
1/9-1/16
Instructor: Wiebe
Date
1/9
Objectives
-Introduce the Presidency
-Identify presidential vocabulary.
-Debate limits on presidential
power.
1/12
-Explain organization of the
executive office.
-Discuss duties of the president
-Evaluate the role of the White
House Staff and Cabinet
-Identify Federal agencies.
1/13
1/14
Identify and discuss the evolution
of presidential power.
1/15
-Discuss the role media and the
presidency
Activity / Classwork
-Warm-up: What makes an ideal
president. Introduce vocabulary:
Bully Pulpit, Veto, Informal Power
-Video clip: Inside the White
House.
-Article: What Makes a Great
President?
-Discuss/Debate: Vocab
-“All in a Day’s Work” activity
-Students discuss the various
responsibilities of the president.
-Presidential Quiz
-Warm-up: How does the
President exercise power through
the federal bureaucracy?
-Video Clip: Inside the
Whitehouse, press secretary.
-Identify different roles of White
House staffers.
-Identify and discuss roles of
federal bureaucracy.
Homework
-Textbook pg 400-408
Chart: How did FDR, Roosevelt
and Lincoln increase presidential
powers?
-Discussion: The rise of the
imperial presidency. How do
presidents today compare with
early presidencies.
Vocab: Executive order, privilege
and pardons.
Video Clip: Inside the
Whitehouse: press secretary.
-How has the use of media
impacted the presidency? How
can this be a detriment and boon
to the president? Nixon, Clinton
vs. FDR and Obama
-State of the Union Analysis.
Email to Wiebe
Textbook 427-430
-Textbook408-414
-Article: Is Obama an Imperial
President?
-Textbook 422-426 plus Obama
Drone War article on
nowcomment.com
1/16
-Review key terms and
vocabulary
-Discuss Obama’s foreign policy.
1/16
-Review key terms and
vocabulary
-Discuss Obama’s foreign policy.
-Article: “When Presidents lie”
-Article: Obama and the drone
wars. Does this violate the War
Powers Act?
-Article: Obama and the drone
wars. Does this violate the War
Powers Act?
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-Prepare for presidential
fishbowl.
-Prepare for presidential
fishbowl.