MAKE UP WORK FOR TUESDAY, JANUARY 20, 2015:
AP GOVERNMENT:
1. STUDENTS WERE GIVEN OUT SEVERAL THINGS – Your copies are in the
make up folder:
A. AN EXTRA SHEET THAT BELONGS WITH YOUR CONSTITUTION
PACKET THAT WAS ACCIDENTALLY LEFT OUT (#17-23)
B. A PERSONAL COPY OF THE CONSTITUTION (THANKS TO
CLINTON’S LOCAL CHAPTER OF THE DAR)
C. A PERSONAL COPY OF YOUR CLASS CONSTITUTION (1st period
only)
D. 2nd period only – Received a bell work sheet & their first bell work
assignment – see classmate
2. STUDENTS CONTINUED RESEARCHING HOW THE CONSTITUTION TRIED TO
FIX THE WEAKNESSES OF THE ARTICLES. THEN STUDENTS WERE
ASSIGNED TO READ ABOUT AND WATCH THE VIDEOS IN UNIT 1 VIDEOS
ABOUT THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION, THE PLANS PROPOSED, THE
COMPROMISES REACHED, AND ABOUT THE FEDERALISTS & ANTIFEDERALISTS. TOMORROW STUDENTS WILL BE ASKED TO PREPARE &
PRESENT THE PERSPECTIVE ON ONE OF THESE TOPICS.
4B:
1. STUDENTS WERE GIVEN A COPY OF THE CLASS CONSTITUTION. YOUR’S IS
IN THE MAKE UP FOLDER.
2. STUDENTS TURNED IN THEIR SUPERHERO ACTIVITY IF THEY HAVEN’T
DONE SO ALREADY. PLACE YOUR’S IN THE IN BASKET ON THE FRONT
TABLE.
3. STUDENTS WERE INFORMED THAT THEIR FIRST TEST IS MONDAY, 1/26
ON UNIT 1.
4. WE DISCUSSED THE WORKSHEET “THE STATE AND ITS ORIGINS” TO
REVIEW THE 4 THEORIES OF THE ORIGIN OF THE STATE.
5. WE TOOK NOTES USING THE CLASSIFYING FORMATION CHART IN THE
NOTES PACKET. YOU CAN USE CHAPTER 1, SECTION2 AS WELL AS TWO
VIDEOS IN CANVAS: POWER DISTRIBUTION & PARLIAMENTARY V
PRESIDENTIAL TO HELP YOU WITH THIS INFORMATION.
6. STUDENTS WERE ASKED TO LOOK UP THE TOTAL POPULATION, SIZE OF
TERRITORY, FORMS OF GOVERNMENT & LEADER OF RANDOM COUNTRIES
OF THE WORLD. WE WILL COMPARE INFORMATION ON THURSDAY, 1/22,
WHEN WE RECONVENE.
6TH:
1. STUDENTS COMPLETED THE “FORMS OF GOVERNMENT”#1-15 IN THEIR
NOTES PACKET & WE WENT OVER IT AS A CLASS.
2. WE WENT OVER THE 5 BASIC CONCEPTS OF DEMOCRACY AND FILLED IN
THE BUBBLE MAP ON THE LAST PAGE OF THE NOTES PACKET. READ CH. 1,
SEC. 3 AND REFER TO THE BASIC CONCEPTS OF DEMOCRACY POWERPOINT
LOCATED IN THE UNIT 1 MODULE IN CANVAS TO UNDERSTAND WHAT
THESE CONCEPTS MEAN.