Monday 8.17.15

Today students were given the course syllabus and tackled the question of whether America was the greatest nation in the world. Course expectations

and discussion ensued. 

 

Tuesday 8.18.15 and Wednesday 8.19.15

 In today's class students were confronted with a game with no rules. We established as a class that games need rules to be fun/competitive. 

So goes society. Without rules, put forth by our governments we would experience chaos. We then took notes on the basics of government. Students 

then applied their knowledge of local, state, and federal governments to produce a political cartoon depicting their relationships with one another. After 

sharing our cartoons students were instructed to create a list of an individuals needs/problems/issues. We then discusses as to whether or not the

government should be responsible for resolving these concerns on behalf of the individual. If time allotted the class then watched Crash Course Government

and Politics introductory video. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thursday 8.20.15 and Friday 8.21.15

 Today students examined the views of Enlightenment Philosophers through the reading of "Why Government". Students were then divided into smaller groups and created various Philosophers body maps and did mini-presentations for the class. Class concluded with students examining the views of Thomas Hobbes and John Locke.  

 

 

 

 

 

Monday 8.24.15 and Tuesday 8.25.15

Durring the lesson today students were introduced to CNN Student News, a curent event news program. We discussed the events that were brought up in the boradcast. We then went on to take notes entitled Who Rules? After learning about the different types of govenments students were asked to crate and preform skits depicting them for the class. The class had to guess as to which government was depicted in the brief skits. The clas also watched Vice on North Korea. 

 

 

 

 

 

     

 

          http://www.cnn.com/studentnews

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wednesday 8.26.15 and Thursday 8.27.15

We stared todays class by reviewing where Democracy and compared the democracies of Ancient Athens and Rome. Stends then discussed their responses with the class and hypothisized when different forms of democracy should be used to make decisions. The class then looked at the Sovereign State.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Monday 8.31.15 and Tuesday 9.1.15

The class started out today by looking at the four characteristics of a state (population, territory, soverignty, and a government). We then looked a brief documentary on the Kurds in the middle east and debated if Kurdistan was a State. We then attempted to create our own states and shared our creations with our classmates. Finally we did a  bit of review by looking at Chapter 1 Section 1 in our textbook and answere some questions.