Lessons

Tuesday 11/08/2005

1.  Warm up#1: "It (Party System) serves to distract the Public Councils, and enfeeble the Public Administration....agitates the Community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms; kindles the animosity of one....against another....it opens the door to foreign influence and corruption...thus the policy and the will of one country are subjected to the policy and will of another."

Read the quote.  What is George Washington warning against?  What are his reasons? Take a position on the quote and defend it.

2. Watch video on political parties

Wed. 11/09/2005

1.      Discuss Unit Outline They worked on

2.      Complete Warm Up #1. 

3.      Check vocabulary terms A

4.      students randomly read a statement given to them and move to the part of the room that best fits that opinion   conservative    liberal

5.      read last quote.  Where should it go, it’s tough on a two dimensional spectrum.

6.      what is independent  what is a moderate.  Independents are separated from political party affiliation, moderates don’t commit to extreme opinions within a party or on the spectrum

7.      Overhead of differences between Democrats and Republicans

8.      Cookie Sale at Stanford then CU.  What point were the students making?  Affirmative Action overhead, Explain Affirmative Action.

11/10/2005

1.       “From each according to his ability, to each according to his need”  Discuss this phrase

2.      Go to computer lab and complete the political preference survey

3.      Come back to class and discuss our results and begin rounds for political parties.

11/14/2005

1.      Discuss their position on the spectrum

2.      Warm up: 4 vocab. Terms

3.      Check vocab while students complete warm up

4.      Choose from the list of values on the overhead as your top 4 values

5.      Complete 1- 3 rounds of creating a party

11/15/2005

1.      Warm up terms: electorate, independent, P.A.C.

2.    Complete rounds 3-5

3.    Elect Platform Committee Chair

      4.   Compare Republican and Democratic platforms

5.   Hand out the platform packets

11/16/2005

1.      Warm up:

2.      Political Party platform examples

3.      Work on planks

                                                  11/17/2005

      1. Complete discussion on differences between the Republican  and Democratic Platforms

      2. Notes on differences between the two platforms

      3. Platform committees meet and create sub committees that will begin writing platform planks

                                                      11/18/2005

      1. Goto Lab 264 to research and begin writing 3 paragraph planks

      2. Planks are due, typed, Monday 11/21 

11/21/2005

1.      Warm up # 4:  People who are eligible to vote are called___________.

      A person who only votes for the candidates in one party is voting__________

2.      Turn in planks to your chair.  Chair reads, organizes, and grades each plank with corrections to be made by each plank committee for tomorrow.

3.      Take notes

4.      Prepare speech for tomorrow.

11/22/2005

1.      Speeches and questions of parties and their platforms

2.      begin notes over political parties

11/28/05

1.      Revisit our political parties and discuss their ideological make up

2.      Discuss current events dealing with political parties.

3.      Warm Up using Reggie Rivers editorial from the Post Sunday on Checks and balances and political parities

4.      Section two of notes for Wed. Test on Unit 3

                                              11/29/05

1. Warm up on Hamilton and Party politics in the 1800 election

2. Complete notes

3. Review for test