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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