February assignments and due dates.
Feb. 1 & 2
Watch: CNN News
Discuss: Iowa Caucus (Show Videos about caucus’)
Assignment: Write a paragraph explaining the differences between the Democratic and Republican caucuses in Iowa. Answer the following questions; 1. Which caucuses do you prefer and why? 2. Which do you prefer the primary election process like we have in Va or the caucus process like they have in Iowa?
Homework: Chapter 7 vocabulary, all 17 words need to be defined. Due next class, Feb 3 & 4.
Feb. 3 & 4
Collect: Chapter 7 Vocabulary
Watch: CNN News
Assignment: Watch video How a bill becomes a law and answer the questions that accompany the video.
Participation: How a Bill becomes a law shuffle.
Assignment: Bill Process Board Game, due Feb. 11 & 12.
Homework: Study for Chapter 7 vocabulary test to be given on Feb 5 & 8.
Feb. 5(report card day) & 8
Assessment: Chapter 7 Vocabulary Test.
Watch: CNN News
Assignment: Complete work on Board game.
Feb. 9 & 10
Watch: CNN News.
Complete: Work on Board Games, due at the beginning of our next class.
Feb. 11 & 12
Collect: Board games.
Discuss: Board Games
Watch: CNN News.
Assignment: Define Chapter 8 Vocabulary, due today. (9 words)
Assignment: Chapter 8 Sections 1 & 2 Questions, due Feb. 16 & 17.
Feb. 16 & 17
Collect: Chapter 8 sections 1 & 2 questions.
Watch: CNN News.
Assignment: Chapter 8 sections 3 & 4 questions, due Feb. 18 & 19.
Homework: Study for Chapter 8 vocabulary test on Feb. 18 & 19.
USVA Chapter 8 Questions
Section 1
1. What is a modern president’s responsibility as Commander-in-Chief?
2. What group has to approve presidential appointments to executive offices, federal courts, etc.?
3. What group has to approve treaties negotiated by the president?
4. According to the ____nd Amendment, what is the longest amount of time one can serve as president today?
5. What is the president’s annual salary?
6. What is the maximum number of times Congress can change the president’s salary during his term?
7. What is the name of the president’s 132-room mansion?
8. Upon retirement, what is the president’s lifetime pension?
9. What are the three Constitutional requirements to serve as president?
10. Who was the most recent president without previous political experience?
11. Who was the first Roman Catholic president?
12. Who was the first woman to be nominated Vice President by a major political party?
13. Which Constitutional Amendment clarifies the presidential succession order?
14. In the 1970s, there was a period where neither the president nor vice president had been elected to those offices. Who were the president and vice president at that time?
15. What are the three Constitutional requirements to serve as vice president?
16. What are the two Constitutional duties of the vice president?
17. Who determines the role of modern vice presidents?
Section 2
1. What Founding Father proposed the Electoral College?
2. Where is the Electoral College first mentioned in the Constitution?
3. If none of the presidential candidates receives a majority in the Electoral College, how is the president determined?
4. What two candidates were tied after the Electoral College vote in 1800?
5. How long did it take to resolve this tie?
6. After the election of 1800, what Amendment was added to the Constitution to clarify the rules of the Electoral College and the tie-breaking process?
7. When is Election Day?
8. How do we determine the number of electors today?
9. What states do not have a winner take all system for the Electoral College?
10. On what date does Congress formally declare the presidential winner?
11. What is the potential Electoral College problem with a strong third party candidate?
12. What are the three problems with the House of Representatives deciding a presidential election?
13. Explain the three ideas for Electoral College reform mentioned in your textbook.
14. What day is Inauguration Day today?
15. What Constitutional Amendment set this day?
16. Who said, “Ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country?
Section 3
1. What is the Cabinet?
2. Who appoints Cabinet members?
3. What body has to approve these appointments?
4. Lyndon Johnson appointed the first African-American department secretary in 1966. Who was this appointment and what department did he head?
5. Franklin Roosevelt appointed the first female department secretary in 1933. Who was this appointment and what department did she head?
6. What is the salary of a Cabinet secretary?
7. What is a leak?
8. How do president-elects use leaks?
9. Who were the members of George Washington’s cabinet?
10. What was the “kitchen cabinet”?
11. What was the “brain trust”?
12. What is the “inner cabinet”?
13. What are two factors that reduce the usefulness of the Cabinet today?
Section 4
1. What is the Executive Office of the President (EOP)?
2. What caused Congress to pass the Reorganization Act of 1939?
3. Who do members of the EOP report to?
4. What are the three reasons the EOP has grown rapidly?
5. What is the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)?
6. What is central clearance
7. What is the National Security Council (NSC)?
8. What prompted President Bush to create the Office of Homeland Security?
9. What is the role of the press secretary?
Feb. 18 & 19
Collect: Chapter 8 sections 3 & 4 questions and answers.
Watch: CNN News.
Assessment: Chapter 8 vocabulary test.
Discuss: Chapter 8 section 1 notes.
Assignment: Survey https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1kxqq4NG1VSxwfQIOhZGHlXpSjsFVJiCS5thPrXixoqs/viewform?usp=send_form
Feb. 22 & 23
Watch: CNN News.
Discuss: Chapter 8 sections 2 & 3 notes.
Feb. 24 & 25
Collect:
Watch: CNN News.
Discuss: Chapter 8 section 4.
Feb. 26 & 29
Watch: CNN News.
Assignment: Define the Chapter 8 terms.
1. Jesse Jackson
2. Council of Economic Advisers
3. Rock the Vote
4. The person who gives the Presidential oath of office
5. Lauro Cavazos
6. State of the Union Address
Watch: Air Force One video and answer the questions that go with the video.
Write answers only to the following questions on your own paper, the questions will come in order.
1. What is Air Force One a legendary symbol of?
2. What is Air Force One also called?
3. What did Jimmy Carter forget on his way to his inauguration?
4. Where are Presidential flights planned?
5. Who was the first President to travel by air?
6. Besides a plane, what else is Air Force One?
7. What is airlifting Air Force One like?
8.What did the 707 plane add?
9. What did Bush never see on Air Force One?
10. What type of safety record does Air Force One have?
11. What is the "football"?
12. When does the plane become Air Force One?
13. What was Carter's most memorable flight?
14. How many telephones are on Air Force One?
15. Who is the only President not to return on Air Force One?
16. What is a bodyguard's worst nightmare?
17. What does Air Force One give a President?
18. What is Air Force One an instrument of?
19. What happens at the end of every President's term?
20. How long has Air Force One been a part of U.S. history?
21. What is Air Force One a symbol of?
March Syllabus
March 1 & 2
Assessment: Chapter 8 test
Assignment: Define Chapter 9 vocabulary words, 12 words in all. Complete the Reviewing Key Terms activity on page 272 of the textbook.
March 3 & 4
Collect: Chapter 9 vocabulary words and key terms activity from page 272.
Watch: CNN Student News.
Assignment: Copy and answer chapter 9 questions, due next class.
March 7 & 8
Collect: Chapter 9 questions and answers.
Watch: CNN Student News.
Assignment: Copy and answer chapter 10 questions, due next class.
Homework: Study Chapter 9 Vocabulary for the test next class.
March 9(Green day)
Collect: Chapter 10 questions and answers.
Assessment: Chapter 9 Vocabulary Test.
Watch: CNN Student News.
Discuss: Chapter 9 questions and answers.
March 10(White Day)
Hampton History Tours Field Trip for white day classes only.
Students not attending the field trip will have an assignment, TBA.
March 11 (Green Day)
Watch: Cnn Student News
Discuss: Chapter 9 questions and answers.
Assignment: The following assignment is due today.
Answer the following questions in complete sentences:
Page 250 #1,3,4,5
Page 259 #1, 3,4,5
Page 267 #1,3,4,5
March 14(White Day)
Watch: Cnn Student News
Discuss: Chapter 9 questions and answers.
Assignment: The following assignment is due today.
Answer the following questions in complete sentences:
Page 250 #1,3,4,5
Page 259 #1, 3,4,5
Page 267 #1,3,4,5
March 15(Green Day)
Hampton History Tours Field Trip for white day classes only./wa
Students not attending the field trip will have an assignment, TBA.
March 16(White Day)
Collect: Chapter 10 questions and answers.
Assessment: Chapter 9 Vocabulary Test.
Watch: CNN Student News.
Discuss: Chapter 9 questions and answers.
March 17
Collect: Chapter 9 book work, pages 250, 259, and 267 #1, 3-5.
Watch: CNN Student News.
Discuss: Chapter 10 questions and answers.
Homework due Thursday:
Define chapter 10 Vocabulary words (11 words) and write answers only to Reviewing Key Terms on page 300.
Assignment: Define Chapter 10 Vocabulary(11 words) and write answers only to Reviewing Key Terms on page 300.
March 18 & 21
Collect: Chapter Vocabulary and page 300.
Assessment: Chapter 10 Vocabulary Test.
Watch: CNN News Report.
Watch: Primary Colors
Homework: Study for Chapter 9 & 10 Test next class.
March 22 & 23
Assessment: Chapter 9 and 10 test.
Watch: CNN News Report.
Activity: Define Chapter 11 vocabulary ( 12 words)
Homework:
March 24 & 25
Watch: CNN Student News.
Watch: 13 Days
March 28 & 29
Watch: CNN Student News.
Assignment: Copy and Answer the Chapter 11 questions.
March 30 & 31
Collect: Chapter 11 questions and answers
Watch: CNN News Report
Assignment: Define chapter 12 vocabulary, 13 words
Watch: 13 Days
March April 1
Watch: CNN Student News
Assignment: Make up Day