American Government

Week #1

1/27 to 1/29

Wednesday 1/27

• Rules/procedures

• Current Events

• President Obama’s State of the Union Speech

• Wiki review/Assignment

Texting/ Cell Bill #2070

• Agree/ Disagree

• Senate as well, Governor-law

• Criminal offense/primary offense/police can stop you

• Summary offense ( least serious crime)

• Stats (120) injuries, deaths, special interests

• Balancing interests?individual v society

• Who is our state Rep? Mike Turzai

• Senate-Jane Orie

• U. S. Rep- Jason Altmeyer

Homework Assignment• President Obama/ State of the Union Speech at 9:00• A. 1/27 Assignment: Watch President Obama's State of the

Union speech and identify three main points that he makes during the speech.Compose one question that you would pose to the President on Youtube.

• B. 1/28 Create a chart to answer the following questions: What were the main themes covered in the President Obama's State of the Union speech last night? What did the President Obama say should be done.

Thursday 1/28

• SOTU Review

• What is?

• Constitutional citation

• What happened?

• Response?

• SOTU assignment collected

• Terms:partisan,bipartisan,filabuster,cloture

wordle

• Main words (Top10)

• What do the words suggest about the speech?

• If you watched the speech, is this wordle accurate?

• What is your opinion about the speech?

Friday

• Take a laptop from the cart for today’s lesson.

• SOTU Video overview

• Work on Lesson 1/review of online resources

• HW for Monday: Unit 1/Chapter 1

What is your view State of the Union?

• Pair or triad

• Create 1 question for each of the key themes from the SOTU speech.

• Conduct interviews/record results

SOTU Survey

• Pair• C-3 people• B-7• A-10

• Triad• C-5 people• B-9• A-15