Today’s Agenda
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Let’s Begin Today’s Lesson…..
Our Standards Today
Today's State Standard
Standard 6.0: Individuals Groups & Interactions
6.6 understand the role of individual leaders who have affected
policies, case laws, and legislation.
Our objectives today
Identify the President's many roles.
Understand
the
formal
qualifications
necessary to become President.
Discuss issues involving the length of the
President's term.
Describe the President's pay and benefits.
POTUS
President
Of
The
United
States
whitehouse.gov
http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/barackobama
Did You Know
A video about presidential facts.
Did you know????
Our objectives today
Identify
roles.
the
President's
many
Understand
the
formal
qualifications
necessary to become President.
Discuss issues involving the length of the
President's term.
Describe the President's pay and benefits.
The President's Many Roles
1) Chief of State (Page 354 in textbook)
2) Chief Executive
3) Chief Administrator
4) Chief Diplomat
5) Commander in Chief
6) Chief Legislator
7) Chief of Party
8) Chief Citizen
President as Chief of State
Chief Executive
Chief Administrator
Chief Diplomat
Commander in Chief
Chief Legislator
Chief of Party
Chief Citizen
The George Bush Library at
Texas A&M
The George Bush Library at Texas A&M describes each role:
http://bushlibrary.tamu.edu/education/lesson_plans/roles_of_the_president/Roles
_of_Pres.pdf
Our objectives today
Identify
roles.
the
President's
many
Understand
the
formal
qualifications
necessary to become President.
Discuss issues involving the length of the
President's term.
Describe the President's pay and benefits.
Our objectives today
Identify the President's many roles.
Understand
the
formal
qualifications
necessary
to
become President.
Discuss issues involving the length of the
President's term.
Describe the President's pay and benefits.
Formal Qualifications to be President
1) Be a natural born U.S. Citizen (Page 356)
2) Be at least 35 years of age
3) Been a resident of the United States for at
least 14 years
Our objectives today
Identify the President's many roles.
Understand
the
formal
qualifications
necessary
to
become President.
Discuss issues involving the length of the
President's term.
Describe the President's pay and benefits.
Why was it enacted? (Page 357)
Our objectives today
Identify the President's many roles.
Understand
the
formal
qualifications
necessary to become President.
Discuss issues involving the
length of the President's term.
Describe the President's pay and benefits.
POTUS Salary (Page 358)
Effective January 1, 2001, the annual salary of the President
of the United States was increased to $400,000 per year,
including a $50,000 expense allowance.
The president's salary is set by Congress, and under Article
II, Section 1 of the United States Constitution, may not be
increased or reduced during his or her current term of
office.
The increase was approved as part of the Treasury and
General Government Appropriations Act (Public Law 10658), passed in the closing days of the 106th Congress.
POTUS Benefits
http://money.howstuffworks.com/5presidential-perks.htm#page=0
Our objectives today
Identify the President's many roles.
Understand
the
formal
qualifications
necessary to become President.
Discuss issues involving the length of the
President's term.
Describe the President's pay
and benefits.
Group Time! :-)
I am going to place you into groups now.
Activity today: Identify the various
responsibilities of Mr. Nolan and compare them
with the duties of President Obama. List each
office's job descriptions and allocate the amount
of time each duty should require of their daily,
weekly, monthly and yearly schedule. Write a
weekly day-planner for each. Compare that dayplanner with each member of the group's own
schedule of the week.
Vacation Days?
How many vacation days does the President
get?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/postpolitics/wp/2013/08/09/watch-which-u-spresident-took-the-most-vacation-time/
Retirement Perks
After leaving office?
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?
storyId=89551850http://www.npr.org/templa
tes/story/story.php?storyId=89551850
http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/27/politics/paysto-be-president/
Wealth of Presidents
What was the wealth of our Presidents?
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2
010/05/the-net-worth-of-the-us-presidentsfrom-washington-to-obama/57020/
Our Standards Today
Today's State Standard
Standard 6.0: Individuals Groups & Interactions
6.6 understand the role of individual leaders who have affected
policies, case laws, and legislation.
Our objectives today
Identify the President's many roles.
Understand
the
formal
qualifications
necessary to become President.
Discuss issues involving the length of the
President's term.
Describe the President's pay and benefits.
What Did We Learn Today?
On a separate sheet of paper, answer these questions for
me to take up and review.
Assessment Questions
Explain the President's Roles as Chief of State.
What are the formal qualifications to become
President?
What was the purpose of the 22nd Amendment?
What is the salary of our President?