USVA
Second Quarter: 9 week plan
*All dates are for A Days
Quarter 2
Date
Unit of Study
Week 1
11/4
Election Review & Political Socialization Essay
 Candidate Chart
 Socialization Essay
Week 2
11/9
Federalism
 Federalism: National, State, and Local Powers, Ch 6
 Icivics Federal Systems
Week 3
11/16
Week 4
11/23
Federalism
 Virginia Local Government
 Icivics County Works
 Loudoun County Guest Speakers
Local Politics and Oral Histories, “All Government is Local”
 Story Corps at the Library of Congress
Week 5
11/30
Linkage Institutions
 Parties, Interest Groups, and Public Policy, Ch 8
Week 6
12/7
Linkage Institutions
 Parties, Interest Groups, and Public Policy, Ch 8
Week 7
12/14
Campaigns and Elections
 Political Campaigns and Elections, Ch 10
Week 8
¼
Campaigns and Elections
 Political Campaigns and Elections, Ch 10
Relator, 2014-2015
Key dates and assignments
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Current Events Assignment
Political Socialization Essay, type in class
Veteran’s Day 11/11
 Political Socialization Essay due 11/9
 Veteran’s Project at the National Archives & Story
Corps
 Quiz Federalism
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Virginia Constitution
Test Federalism 11/19
**Thanksgiving Week
 “A Perfect Union”, and other oral histories from
the Library of Congress
 Story Corps #TheGreatListen project
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Political party Platform Website
** Interims
 Party and Interest Group Meet & Greet
 Test Linkage Institutions 12/10
 Town Hall Meetings
 Current Event Debate Research due
 ++Debates for prepared students only
**Happy New Year 2015!
 Primary Election & Electoral College Election
Week 9
1/11
Week 10
1/19
Week 11
1/25
Relator, 2014-2015
Campaigns and Elections
 Political Campaigns and Elections, Ch 10
Executive Branch
 Chief Executives and Bureaucracies, Ch 13
Executive Branch
 Chief Executives and Bureaucracies, Ch 13
End of Quarter 1: Friday, January 29th
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Virginia State of the Commonwealth Address by
the Governor & Opening of the VA General
Assembly
Current Events Assignment
Test Campaigns and Elections
Icivics Executive Command
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State of the Union 11/26 (in class 1/27 & 1/28)
Quiz Presidency