Week of Nov 14

Wednesday -

- Anticipation Guide
- Reading on Mandatory Voting - talking with text


Tuesday -
Half- Day

Monday
Reading from textbook on Elections.

Election Day / Week

Friday

Electoral College Map

11/9/16 - Electoral Map, 7 key items to watch,  Election Results live, use Citation Summary Sheet

Thursday

insert trump / headlines nypost..

Weds 

Can You Believe it ? NYTimes Headlines , Washington Post  - speech in 3 min , 

Full Results -  Electoral College  and Popular Vote 

So the final numbers for #ElectionDay are:
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231,556,622 eligible voters

46.9% didn't vote
25.6% voted Clinton
25.5% voted Trump

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Obama got 65.9m votes in '12, Romney 60.9m. Clinton has 59.3m, Trump 59.1m. R vote didn't go up; Dem vote went down. 6.6m missing votes.  (at this time Nov 9, lets see after everything is counted.).

Tuesday


Monday. - 11/ 7. 

11 /7      3 (documents)   1)  - Clinton Endorsement    2)  Trump Endorsment        3)    - Endorsement Analysis Worksheet

 270 to Win - what does this mean? click here

41 Elections - Review of Front Pages of Election Years

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How to Use Noodle Tools

You will be using Noodletools.com to create your bibliography for your research paper. A bibliography is a list of ALL the sources you read when doing your research even if you did not use them for a citation. A works cited page lists only those sources you have cited in your paper. A citation tells the reader of your paper exactly where an idea, concept, information or quotes comes from. You might cite 4 or 5 sources but include 15 resources in your bibliography.

(If you already have a Noodletools account, after opening the website, login and skip to step 2.)

1.      Go to Noodletools.com and register for an account

a.       Click Log In

b.      Click Register

c.       Create a Personal ID (use your SCSD network login information!!!)

d.      Leave the choice as I am a Student

e.       Use the pull down menu to choose Fowler High School—click on Register

2.      Click on New Project

a.       Enter a title (whatever your paper will be about)

b.      For Citation style….select MLA

c.       For Citation level….select Advanced

d.      Click Submit

e.       Click Share with a Project Inbox – type PIG Voting

f.       Click Done

TIP: Each time you find a source for your project create a citation immediately!

1.      Click on the Sources Tab

2.      Click Create Citation

3.      Select citation type (what type of source are you adding to your bibliography? Where is it coming from? Is it a book, a website, a database?)

4.      Enter all the red starred required information then click Submit

5.      If you have a complete citation to Copy & Paste, after selecting the citation type click on Quick Cite: Copy & Paste a Citation

6.      When you are finished creating your Works Cited or Bibliography you will click Print/Export to add it to your paper.

Government Class Recap - Week of Oct 31 to Nov 4

Friday , Nov 4
- Students should make final edits to  political survey
-  Review Editorial Endorsements
-  Assignment Electoral College reading and map
- Gore vs. Bush 2000 Election Summary 
-   2000 Election State results
- ED Puzzle - Electoral College   Another ED Puzzle Electoral College
TED- ED Electoral College Explained

Thursday,
 - no class

Weds , Nov 2
Final Revisions - Teacher/ School Political Survey
Final Revisions for Personal Survey
Electoral College Map 
NBC News Video Clip on Election


Tues, Nov. 1
- Assigned Summarize, Textcode and Cite article on Community Service
- Reviewed methods of textcoding , and big ideas of article
- Revised Selected Political Survey questions (highest totals) then formulated , structured or rating type answers for each chosen question

Mon. Oct 31.
Class was in Library
Took  Political Gov Survey on Possible Questions to ask Teachers/ Bldg as

Survey - Best Questions to Use
Block 1 Responses - 
Block 2 Responses - best questions to use
Block 4 Responses 
Block 5 Responses 

Rubric / Checklist for Survey Questions

Rubric / Grading Checklist for 15 Questions.

- 10 to 15 Questions
- Have the following types of Questions

 1)  at least  2 Structured or Fixed Response Questions
 2)   at least 2 Rating Questions (agree, disagree, satisfied , not satisified, )
 3)   at least 1 Ranking Questions
 4)  No more than 3 open ended questions.

Classify your questions into the following categories, make sure you have at least 2 for each category.

 1)  Who Are They (the person taking the survey)
 2)  Government Satisfaction
 3) Voting (habits, past history, will they?
 4)  Presidential Qualifications
 5)  Personal Thoughts on Current Events and other issues

Optional Additional  Category -
 6) Power in their Life (do they feel like voting matters, do they have voice, control over their lives)

Survey - Best Questions to Use
Block 1 Responses - 
Block 2 Responses - best questions to use
Block 4 Responses 
Block 5 Responses 

Voting Survey Creating Questions Assignment

Directions: create a 15 question survey to interview people about the elections.  The class will vote on the 5 required questions, and then each person can choose the other 10 to 15 questions.

1)      Proposed Written Questions must be submitted by _______________.

2)      Survey of 3 to 5 people must be completed by:______________.

Question types that need to be included

1)      Structured or Fixed response  -(  at least 2 )

a.       Example  1)    Are you going to vote in Nov 2016?  Yes / No

b.      Example  2)   How many hours do you watch/ read / listen to news

                     __ 0 ___  .5 hr ___  1hr ____  1.5 hr. ___2hrs ___  more than 2hrs

                               

2)      Rating Questions – at least 2

Example 1) :   How satisfied are you with the Federal National Government?

____ Unsatisfied      _____ Somewhat Satisfied    _____Satisfied    _____Very Satisfied   _______Extremely Satisfied 

              

Example 2)    How satisfied are you with your local police?  (or city government)? Or???

 ____ Unsatisfied      _____ Somewhat Satisfied    _____Satisfied    _____Very Satisfied   _______Extremely Satisfied 

3)      Ranking questions – at least 1

Example: Rank the issues in terms of importance (1 to 8) :

a.       ___    Terrorism

b.      ___    Police/Safety

c.       ___   Climate Change

d.      ___   Jobs /Economy 

e.      ___   Health Care

f.        ___   Abortion 

g.        ___   Gun control

h.      ___  Illegal Immigration

4)      Open Ended Questions (not multiple choices, or possible answers given)

                Example 1 : How do you think President Obama has done as President?

 Example 2: What are some important issues that will help you decide who to vote for:

Week of Oct 25 to the 28th - Power, Surveys, and OCC

Monday - Oct 25 


Tuesday 
Types of Survey Questions

Weds - Oct 26th 
- OCC was here in class (library), completed OCC application, on paper and online. Reminders about Questions for Survey due on Friday.

Thurs 
no class

Friday Oct 28th 
Onondaga Lake Survey
Analysis of the Onondaga Lake Survey
10- 15 Political Survey  Questions due
 Community Service Proposal  is due. 

Week of Sept 26th

Monday

- > Link to Register online to vote. 

-> on the Issues - Presidential Candidates 

->  Vote on the Debate - who won

Week of Sept 19 24

Wedneday -  Sept 21, 2016

1)  Read the hand out circle three choices then  go to this link - Questions for Clinton and Trump - you choose

2)   Go to Noodletools 

     If need to create an account use , the same  user id / password as your Fowler Computer login. 

    If you have already logged in look for the following project :_________

3)  Civil Disobedience , Voting, and Political Activism 

Kareem Abdul Jabbar - interview  - click on the link to listen

Professor’s response to Kareem  - click on link to listen

in Noodle tools create citation on both these articles,  they could be incorporated into your mini-research paper. 

Tuesday
-textbook reading page 1 and 2, questions 1-5 on handout.

Monday 
Questions to Consider
Should Americans be required to Vote? Should you vote if you are unaware of issues? Who do you know is registered to vote ? Have they voted? Will they this year? belong to Political Party, Liberal ? Conservative

Should Americans be required to vote, packet 333 and 335 completed citation sheet. short version.

In US presidential election -  Never above 65%, !


Discussion of Current Events 

Terrorism in the United States 
3 Events  - Terrorism - Washington Post. 

Bombs in New York City  - Saturday night (Sept 17/18)

ISIS claims responsibility in Minnesota Attack 

Presidential Elections 

For Democrats, a fresh chance to remind voters of Trump's one in "birtherism" - Washington post

Clinton - Hispanic Vote problem

National News - Health

Did the Sugar Industry downplay effects

Sept 12 to Sept 16th Class Summaries

Weds Sept 14

Tuesday Sept 13

Reviewed key vocabulary words

Practiced citing book from library, copy quote from text. 

tomorrow: share on books, current events summary sheet share, online speech? possible. noodle tools. 

music played....was

Monday,  Sept 12 

Muslim Holiday 
Eid al-Adha is Islam's holiest festival and is celebrated annually as an official holiday in many countries.
     1)    Images from Around the World
     2)   List of Muslim Holidays    or this list 

Research Paper , What is Evidence, Types of Sources , How do you conduct research,
Sign out a book from a library, using a public library vs. a school library.

Sign up on Remind ! see links -

Video Clip - Video on importance of “Citing” - Its called “Keeping your sources in sight”





Sept 13

Sept 1st Week

Sept 11, Remembrance video by Fowler ROTC

The Man who knew

9/11 INSIDE THE PENTAGON | Full Episode | PBS

5 good movies about 9/11