No Starter

Finish Remember the Titans
De-segregation, Civil Rights, Societal Impacts

Grade Check & Make-up, Late, Absent Work

Check in Textbooks ASAP

Extra Credit Current Event Any Day This Week
Due Friday 5/25

Final Grade Cutoff Friday May 25th

No Starter

Start Remember the Titans
De-segregation, Civil Rights, Societal Impacts

Grade Check & Make-up, Late, Absent Work

Check in Textbooks ASAP

Extra Credit Current Event Any Day This Week
Due Friday 5/25

Final Grade Cutoff Friday May 25th

No Starter

Video: The Judiciary Branch
& Video Study Guide

Grade Check & Make-up, Late, Absent Work

Check in Textbooks ASAP

Extra Credit Current Event Any Day This Week
Due Friday 5/25

Final Grade Cutoff Friday May 25th

No Starter

Video: The Judiciary Branch
& Video Study Guide

Pass Back Papers

Check in Textbooks ASAP

Extra Credit Current Event Any Day This Week
Due Friday 5/25

Final Grade Cutoff Friday May 25th

No Starter

Discuss Ch 14, Due

Pass Back Papers

Ch 13 & 14 Test

Starters Due (You should have 6 Starters from this unit)

Current Events Due, Discus (If there is time)

Check-In Textbooks ASAP

Final Grade Cutoff Friday May 25th

Starter #6
P. 459
1. What is the largest source of revenue for the federal government
2. WHat is the second largest?
3. What is the smallest?

Starters Due Thursday 5/17

Finish: Dave

Ch 14 Sec 1-4, Due Discuss (If there is time)

Ch 13 & 14 Test Thursday 5/17

Current Event Due Thursday 5/17 (Required)

Final Grade Cutoff Friday May 25th

Starter #5
P. 436-437
1. Name the four oldest departments of the national government.
2. What is the newest department of the national government?
3. Why was this new department created?

Current Event Due, Discuss

Video on the Presidency: Dave
No assigment

Read Ch 14 Sec 1-4, Do Vocabulary Assignment, Due Tues 5/15

Ch 13 & 14 Test Thursday 5/17

Current Event Due Thursday 5/17 (Required)

Final Grade Cutoff Friday May 25th

Starter #4
P. 419
1. How many vetoes did Ford have?
2. How many vetoes did Bush have?
3. Do you think the veto gives too much power to the president?

Ch 13 Sec 3, 4 & 5 Vocabulary Assignment Due, Discuss

Read Ch 14 Sec 1-4, Do Vocabulary Assignment, Due Tues 5/15

Current Event Due Fri 5/11

Starter #3
P. 393
1. What is the cartoon's criticism of the electoral college?
2. Why do you think Ohio is considered a "Battleground" state as opposed to California or Texas?

Read Ch 13 Sec 3, 4 & 5 & Do Vocabulary Assignment

Video: Two Bad Neighbors

Current Event Due Fri 5/11

Starter #2 P. 391
What percentage of the popular vote did McCain receive?
What percentage of the popular vote did Obama receive?
What percentage of the electoral vote did McCain receive?
What percentage of the electoral vote did Obama receive?

Ch 13 Sec 1 & 2 Due 22/22 Points possible

Video: Secret Access- Air Force One

Current Events Due

Mr. Andrus is BACK teaching the US Government & Citizenship Classes

Starter #1
P. 371
List, in order, the first FOUR people in the line of presidential succession.

Ch 13 Sec 1 & 2 Assginment (Individual work in class)

Video: The Executive Branch
& Study Guide

Current Event Thursday 5/3 (Required)

Final Grade Cut-off Friday 5/25

Pass Back Papers

Chapter 1 & 2 Test

Chapter 1 & 2 Starters Due, 6 Starters X 5 Points Each = 30/30 (Self-Grade)

Chapter 2 Section 3, 4 & 5 Assignment Due 28/29 (Self-Grade)

Student Teacher, Mr. Taber takes over until late April...

My blog (this blog) will be inactive until Mr. Taber is done student teaching (late April)

Please refer to Mr. Taber's blog for assignments, starters, etc.

Here is his BLOG!!!
www.tabergov.blogspot.com

Here is his email!!!
Taber.066@yahoo.com

Starter #6
Look at the Chart on P. 53
1. Who had commanded the Continental Army?
2. Who was a writer, inventor, diplomat, legislator & printer?
3. Who was the author of the Virginia Declaration of Rights?
(And an advocate for a "Bill of Rights" in the US Constitution)

Finish Ch Sec 3, 4 & 5 assignment (40 minutes or so)
Discuss Assignment in class, but it will be collected Mon 2/13

Current Event Due, Discuss w/ Mr. Taber

Unit 1 (Ch 1 & 2) Test Mon 2/13

Mr. Taber (student teacher) will be taking over the class Mon /2/13

Starter #5
Look at the Chart on P. 42
List the five common features of the new state constitutions.

Finish Video: John Adams- Independence

Read Ch Sec 3, 4 & 5 & Do assignment Due Thur 2/9

Check out textbooks (to those absent Fri 2/3)

Current Event Thur 2/9

Unit 1 (Ch 1 & 2) Test Mon 2/13

Starter #4
Chart P. 32
1. In what year was the Magna Charta signed?
2. What rights are protected by the English Bill of Rights?
3. What rights are protected in the 1776 Virginia Bill of Rights and the 1791 US Bill of rights?

Discuss Ch 2 Sec 1 & 2

Current Event Due, Discuss

Video: John Adams- Independence
& VIdeo Study Guide

Check out textbooks

Unit 1 (Ch 1 & 2) Test Mon 2/13

Starter #3 P. 15
1. What form of government does the USA have?
2. United Kingdom?
3. China?
4. Myanmar?

Finish: John Adams- Join or Die

Read Ch 2 Sec 1 & 2 and do assignment, Due Fri 2/2

Current Event Friday 2/2

Starter #2 P. 6 & P. 8
1. What are the four characteristics of a "state"?
2. Name the four theories on the origins of government.

Discuss Ch 1 Sec 2 & 3, Assignment Due 29/29

Begin Video: John Adams- Join or Die
& Video Study Guide

Current Event Fri 2/3

Starter #1
What is the purpose of government?

Discuss Ch 1 Sec 1 (Assignent Due Mon 1/30)

Discuss Current Events, Due

Collect Disclosures (Final Due Date Mon 1/30)

Video: Founding Fathers- Rebels with a Cause
& Notes or Video Study Guide

Assignments:
Ch 1 Assignment Due Mon 1/30
Class Disclosure Due Mon 1/30

Welcome
Seating Chart
Class Disclosure Statement, Due Mon 1/30
Current Event Assigned, Due Thurs 1/26
1st Book Assignment Ch 1

Assignments:
Current Event Due Thur 1/26
Ch 1 Assignment Due Mon 1/30
Class Disclosure Due Mon 1/30

Remember the Titans
(Social impacts of the Civil Rights Movement & court decisions)

All make-up & late work due Thursday 1/19 by 2:45 PM

Pass Back Papers

Ch 13 & 14 Test

Ch 14 Assignment Due

Remember the Titans
(Social impacts of the Civil Rights Movement & court decisions)

All make-up & late work due Thursday 1/19 by 2:45 PM

Starter #4 (Last Starter of the Unit & Class!)
P. 419
1. How many bills did Ford veto?
2. How many bills did Bush veto?
3. How many of Ford's vetoes were overridden by Congress?
4. How many of Bush's vetoes were overridden by Congress?

Ch 14 Assignment (Last Assignment) Due Tues 1/17

Extra Credit Current Event Due, Discuss

Test Tues 1/17 & Starters Due Tues 1/17

All make-up & late work due Thursday 1/19 by 2:45 PM

Starter #3
P. 393
1. How is the cartoon critical of the Electoral College?
2. What major "battleground" state from the 2008 election is mentioned?

Executive Branch Video & Study Guide

School House Rock Electoral College Video

Discuss Ch 13 Sec 3, 5 & 5- Due

Current Event Next Time

Starter #2 P. 391
What percentage of the popular vote did McCain receive?
What percentage of the popular vote did Obama receive?
What percentage of the electoral vote did McCain receive?
What percentage of the electoral vote did Obama receive?

Finish Air Force One Documentary

Current Events Due, DIscuss

Discuss Ch 13 Sec 1 & 2 Assignment Due, Discuss

New Starter #1
P. 371
List the first four people in the line of succession.

Ch 13 Sec 3, 4 & 5 Assignment

Video: Secret Access- Air Force One
(No Assignment)

Current Event Friday