October 3: Crash Course Video: Bicameral Legislature.  Citizenship Handbook Part 4: Legislative Branch.  Create flashcards over the section reading.

October 4: Constitution Hall Pass: Legislative Branch Video.  Finish flashcards and Constitution Vocab.

October 5: Start Legislative Branch Study Guide: How the Government Works.  Watch: 60 Minutes Video over the Capitol building.  Study flashcards with a partner.

October 6: Finish Legislative Branch Study Guide.  Review Study Guide.  Discuss how a bill becomes a law (Lecture Notes).  I'm just a bill video-School House Rock. 

October 7: Speed Studying: Flash Cards Activity (Legislative Branch Review).  PBS Field Day.

October 10: Junior Scholastic Article (Saira Blair West Virginia) From High School to the State House.  Video clips from the Junior Scholastic Article.  Article Questions.  Review How a Bill becomes Law Review Activity.

October 11: How a bill becomes a law project with Mr. Goeller's and Mr. Parks' Social Studies classes.

October 12: Review for Legislative Branch Test

October 13: Legislative Branch Test

October 14: End of 1st Quarter; Legislative Branch Test Corrections Day (Everyone)

October 17: Introduction to Principles of Democracy.  Read pages 256-257.  Copy the Separation of Powers and Checks and Balances Charts.  Start Principles of Democracy Questions.

October 18: Finish and Discuss the Principles of Democracy Questions.  Start the Principles of Democracy Scenario Worksheet.

October 19: Review/Recall Assessment of the Legislative Branch.  Continue Principles of Democracy Scenario Worksheet.

October 20: Crash Course Video on Federalism, Separation of Powers, Checks and Balances.  Parent-Teacher Conferences in the evening.

October 21: Parent-Teacher Conferences in the morning.  No School.

October 24: Study Guide Notes on Executive Branch, and Constitution Hall Pass Video on Executive Branch.

October 25: TED Talk video on Electoral College, Khan Academy Video on Electoral College, Junior Scholastic Article on 2016 Presidential Election/Electoral College.  Answer questions from JS Article.

October 26: Presidential Cabinet Article and questions.  Presidential Roles Article and questions.  Crash course Video on Presidential Roles and Powers

October 27: Kahoot Review Game for Executive Branch Test

October 28: Complete Executive Packet Assignments

October 31: Day 1 of Executive Branch Research/Debate Project (Isidewith.com)

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Archive 2015-2016

October 1: Finish Legislative Branch Study Guide.  Review Study Guide.  Discuss how a bill becomes a law (Lecture Notes).  I'm just a bill video.  Discuss the: how a bill becomes law project with other Social Studies classes.

October 2:

Finish Legislative Branch Study Guide.  Review Study Guide.  Discuss how a bill becomes a law (Lecture Notes).  I'm just a bill video.  Discuss the: how a bill becomes law project with other Social Studies classes.

October 2: How a bill becomes a law project with Mr. Goeller's and Mr. Parks' Social Studies classes.

October 5: Legislative Branch Review Quiz.  Review for Test.

October 6: Legislative Branch Test

October 7: Legislative Branch Test Corrections Day (Everyone).  Executive Branch Pre-Test

October 8: Introduction of Executive Branch and democratic principles of the Constitution.

October 9: Re-Test Legislative Branch Exam in REC (students with less than 70% on assessment).  Complete the Principles of the Constitution Vocabulary.  Partner activity: Principles of the Constitution Scenarios 

October 12: Bell Ringer Review of the legislative branch. 

October 13: Start Principles of the Constitution Worksheet.  Video introduction of the executive branch.

October 14: Complete Principles of the Constitution Worksheet.  Start executive branch projector questions.

October 15: Finish executive branch projector questions.  Start executive branch study guide notes.

October 16: Finish executive branch study guide notes.  Video on executive branch.

October 19: CBS News: Electoral College video, Junior Scholastic Article on the Electoral College, Electoral College explained video

October 20: Roles and powers of the President, and Presidential Cabinet members defined worksheet.  Students will create study questions for "Speed Studying".

October 21: Review for the Executive Branch Test. 

October 22: Executive Branch Test

October 23: No School for Parent Teacher Conferences

October 26: Introduction to Article III (Judicial Branch).  Crash Course video on laws/legal system

October 27: Start Judicial Branch Projector Questions.  Complete video fact from Article III Clip

October 28: Finish Judicial Branch Projector Questions and Biography on Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor

October 29: Junior Scholastic Article Reviews over educational based SCOTUS case decisions

October 30: Notes and clip on Landmark Supreme Court decisions: Marbury v. Madison, Miranda v. AZ, Plessy v. Ferguson, Brown v. Board of Education, Baker v. Carr.