Day 06 Agenda (Friday 01/29/16)

Mr. C's SMART Lunch Availability This Week
Lunch	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
A	CLOSED	By Appointment	CLOSED	By Appointment	Open TUTORIAL
B	CLOSED	Open TUTORIAL	CLOSED	By Appointment	By Appointment
Motivation for the Week: "Our way is to practice one step at a time, one breath at a time, with no gaining idea." - Shunryu Suzuki

Agenda
All Classes
1) Bell Ringer

2) Determining Bias
Using images from of the Boston Massacre we investigate how bias can be portrayed in visual media.

3) Declaration of Independence
After watching "A Powerful Performance" we looked at the Declaration for evidence of Enlightenment ideas and violations of the Social Contract.


Homework
All Classes
Read the summary of the Articles of Confederation and answer #1 & 2.

Announcements
All Classes
TEST WEDNESDAY: (UNIT 1) FOUNDATIONS OF AMERICAN GOVERNMENT

Day 05 Agenda (Thursday 01/28/16)

Mr. C's SMART Lunch Availability This Week
Lunch	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
A	CLOSED	By Appointment	CLOSED	By Appointment	Open TUTORIAL
B	CLOSED	Open TUTORIAL	CLOSED	By Appointment	By Appointment
Motivation for the Week: "Our way is to practice one step at a time, one breath at a time, with no gaining idea." - Shunryu Suzuki

Agenda
All Classes
1) QUIZ
Unit 1 Vocabulary

2) Bell Ringer

3) Was It "Common Sense?"
Goal: Were the colonists justified to want to be independent based on the principles of the Social Contract?
Using the TB, the students reviewed events from American History I and then answered the question in the goal.

• Stamp Act
• Townshend Acts
• Tea Act
• Intolerable Acts
• Lexington & Concord

Homework
All Classes
Using the PowerPoint, Complete the "Systems of Government" page (front & back) in the packet.

Announcements
All Classes
TEST TUESDAY: (UNIT 1) FOUNDATIONS OF AMERCIAN GOVERNMENT

Day 04 Agenda (Wednesday 01/27/16)

Mr. C's SMART Lunch Availability This Week
Lunch	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
A	CLOSED	By Appointment	CLOSED	By Appointment	Open TUTORIAL
B	CLOSED	Open TUTORIAL	CLOSED	By Appointment	By Appointment
Motivation for the Week: "Our way is to practice one step at a time, one breath at a time, with no gaining idea." - Shunryu Suzuki

Agenda
All Classes
1) Voter Registration
To ensure that everyone eligible to vote in the upcoming primaries in March, we completed voter registration forms in class - as long as the student will be 18 by November 8 they can vote in the primary, March 15.

2) Origins of Constitutional Principles and Rights
Today we broke out of yesterday's groups and met in groups that included at least one person from each "document." In this way each person is instructed on all the documents.

3) The Enlightenment
We discussed the homework from last night emphasizing the importance of the Social Contract and the vigilance of the citizenry to ensure that government upholds its end of the deal.

4) English Heritage
While assigning textbooks, the students worked on the page in their packet "English Heritage" using said textbooks.

Homework
All Classes
1) Voter Registration
If you did not have all the information for the form, please bring in your registration form tomorrow!

2) English Heritage
Complete the page from #4 above

Announcements
All Classes
QUIZ TOMORROW - UNIT 1 VOCABULARY

Day 03 Agenda (Tuesday 01/26/16)

Mr. C's SMART Lunch Availability This Week
Lunch	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
A	CLOSED	By Appointment	CLOSED	By Appointment	Open TUTORIAL
B	CLOSED	Open TUTORIAL	CLOSED	By Appointment	By Appointment
Motivation for the Week: "Our way is to practice one step at a time, one breath at a time, with no gaining idea." - Shunryu Suzuki

After a 3-hour delay...
Agenda
All Classes
1) Origins of Constitutional Principles and Rights
Today we grouped together with other students that analyzed the same document. The discussion within each group centered on the principles and rights of the Constitutions that are in earlier primary source.

Homework
All Classes
Using the PowerPoint, complete the "Enlightenment Thinkers" page in the packet.

Announcements
All Classes
QUIZ THURSDAY - UNIT 1 VOCABULARY

Day 02 Agenda (Thursday 01/21/16)

Mr. C's SMART Lunch Availability This Week
Lunch	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
A	CLOSED	By Appointment	CLOSED	By Appointment	Open TUTORIAL
B	CLOSED	Open TUTORIAL	CLOSED	By Appointment	By Appointment
Motivation for the Week: "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." - Winston Churchill

Agenda
All Classes
1) Why Student Government & Politics?


2) Determining Bias
Together we analyzed the articles from last night's homework determining the bias and discussed the danger of bias being passed for news or fact.

3) Structure of American Government
Board notes summary to review and look ahead to government as we will study it this semester.

Homework
All Classes
Origins of Constitutional Principles and Rights

• Students will analyze their assigned document to look for where rights and principles in the Constitution came from and complete their column on the chart.

Day 01 Agenda (Wednesday 01/20/16)

Mr. C's SMART Lunch Availability This Week
Lunch	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
A	CLOSED	By Appointment	CLOSED	By Appointment	Open TUTORIAL
B	CLOSED	Open TUTORIAL	CLOSED	By Appointment	By Appointment
Motivation for the Week: "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." - Winston Churchill

Agenda
All Classes
1) Formalities, General Information
Students completed a basic information sheet. We discussed some of the rules and guidelines for class, as provided on their Class Rules and Expectations.
Period 1 Rules and Expectations
Period 3 Rules and Expectations
Period 4 Rules and Expectations

Homework
All Classes

• Return you Rules and Expectations signed
• Read you assigned article regarding last week's prisoner swap with Iran. Identify the bias in the article by underlining, circling, or highlighting the words or phrases that demonstrate bias.
• Article 1
• Article 2

Day 81 Agenda (Wednesday 01/06/16)

Mr. C's SMART Lunch Availability THIS Week
Lunch	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
A	CLOSED	By Appointment	CLOSED	By Appointment	CLOSED
B	CLOSED	Open TUTORIAL	CLOSED	By Appointment	CLOSED
Motivation for the Week: "It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed" - Theodore Roosevelt

Check out Mr. C's Economics Handbook! Everything you need to know for Economics in C&E!
Agenda
All Classes
1) Awards Day Balloting

2) Supreme Court Cases
We reviewed the Supreme Court Cases for tomorrow's quiz using the Scenarios worksheet from yesterday.

Announcements
All Classes
QUIZ THURSDAY: SUPREME COURT CASES

• Return your textbook any time! If you are done with it let me take it off your hands. Remember, any books or outstanding fines will prevent you from receiving your diploma in June, so you may as well get it taken care of!
• Remember to turn in your permission form to leave campus early on exam days next week during finals to your 3rd period teacher! Even if you are exempt from exams, this semester's form will be used for second semester, so get it turned in just in case.

Day 80 Agenda (Tuesday 01/05/16)

Mr. C's SMART Lunch Availability THIS Week
Lunch	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
A	CLOSED	By Appointment	CLOSED	By Appointment	CLOSED
B	CLOSED	Open TUTORIAL	CLOSED	By Appointment	CLOSED
Motivation for the Week: "It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed" - Theodore Roosevelt

Check out Mr. C's Economics Handbook! Everything you need to know for Economics in C&E!
Agenda
Periods 1&3
1) GDP
We looked at current GDP Data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis website.

2) Unemployment
Using Activity 16: Types of Unemployment, we learned about the different types of unemployment as well as the "Natural Rate of Unemployment." We also looked at the actual Unemployment Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics website and the Historic Natural Rate of Unemployment from the Federal Reserve website.

3) Labor-Management Relations
Labor is a factor of production so businesses sometimes treat their workers as just another commodity. How does this pan out in the movie? What does this movie show about labor unions?



Period 4
1) Supreme Court Cases
Work on cutting and pasting your charts in preparation for the Quiz on Thursday. Remember, if all your charts are completely cut and pasted you can use them on the quiz. If any of them are not completely cut and pasted, you will not be allowed to use any of them.

2) GDP
We looked at current GDP Data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis website.

Homework
All Classes
To prepare for Thursday's Quiz, Work on this set of Supreme Court Case Scenarios. This will not be collected, but we will go over them in class tomorrow so it will definitely be helpful if you had this prepared. Last thing you want is this quiz to bump you out of eligibility for Exam Exemptions!

Announcements
All Classes
QUIZ THURSDAY: SUPREME COURT CASES

• Return your textbook any time! If you are done with it let me take it off your hands. Remember, any books or outstanding fines will prevent you from receiving your diploma in June, so you may as well get it taken care of!
• Remember to turn in your permission form to leave campus early on exam days next week during finals to your 3rd period teacher! Even if you are exempt from exams, this semester's form will be used for second semester, so get it turned in just in case.

Day 79 Agenda (Monday 01/04/16)

Mr. C's SMART Lunch Availability THIS Week
Lunch	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
A	CLOSED	By Appointment	CLOSED	By Appointment	CLOSED
B	CLOSED	Open TUTORIAL	CLOSED	By Appointment	CLOSED
Motivation for the Week: "It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed" - Theodore Roosevelt

Check out Mr. C's Economics Handbook! Everything you need to know for Economics in C&E!
Agenda
All Classes
1) GDP

• What is it?
• Activity 17: The Business Cycle
• What gets counted in GDP
• Components of GDP

Announcements

All Classes
1) QUIZ THURSDAY: SUPREME COURT CASES
2) Last Day to make up missing tests or quizzes is TOMORROW - Tuesday 01/05/16

Period 3
Remember to return your signed permission to leave after exams form. The school will use this semester's form for next semester, you will not need to submit a new one in the Spring.