Last day of Government

Final Study Guide Here

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Study guide update

A few adjustments have been made to the study guide to better match the test. It is still available here. Previously absent material is marked in bold print.

Last non-final exam of the semester is tomorrow. Study well.

Georgia State Goverenment

Notes

Again, we have been booted from the computer lab tomorrow, so if you need a computer to work on your presentation, you should bring your own!

The budget

Fix the budget activity

Budget notes

EOC milestone scores posted

Public Policy Presentation

Instructions and Rubric

Test Grades Posted; Next Unit - Civil Liberties, Civil Rights, and Policy Decisions

Test Grades are up

Study Guide for Next Test

Notes for Next Test

Slight changes to study guide

Note, I have made some slight changes to the study guide (rearranging a bit, clarifying a few points, and adding some specifics that were in the worksheets but not on the study guide).

Everything for Tomorrow

Instructions

Also, remember to complete today's classwork tonight and your infographic by the end of tomorrow.

Tomorrow's Notes

A legislative review sheet for your use

Updated Project Instructions

Study Guide for Final Exam

As requested, here is the study guide for the final exam. Edits will continue to be made between now and a few days before the final, so check back every once and a while if you're studying early. 

Judicial System

Notes

Powers of the President and his Advisors

Notes

The Presidency

Presidency Notes

Providing Proof of the Roles of President Homework

Legislative Process

If you were out today, you were to create an infographic covering how a bill becomes a law using canva.com. You must go to the subcommittee level at minimum. Make it visually appealing and easy to remember, as the process will be tested.

Don't forget our news quiz tomorrow.

Congressional Committees and Oversight

11 hours of Benghazi hearings (you can glance at a few minutes here and there to see the use of oversight power and the partisan nature of hearings - if you start around the 7.5 hour mark, you can see the committee/Clinton interaction):


A video from the 40s on what would happen if Congress no long had powers.

Completing your interest group project

Interest group project part 2

This weekend and the week ahead

First, take this quiz and share your results with me at this address.





We'll work on our interest groups more on Monday, and learn about committees and the legislative process.

Institutions of Government

Study Guide for test on 12/2

Legislative Branch Notes

Legislative Process Notes

Executive Branch Notes

Legislative Branch Quiz Monday


First Period Only:

For tomorrow, you are to write a one-page paper on how a single presidential candidate can become president. This should demonstrate knowledge of the electoral process, the candidate, the candidate's platform and appeal, and the electorate. You are not expected to be a political scientist, but you are expected to be able to give a layman's view of what a candidate must do to win. See the New York Times article posted a few days ago for assistance. 

Redistricting

Play the redistricting game

Win mission 2 advanced.Print your winning screen for each.

Note: originally you were asked to complete both mission 2 and mission 4. However, due to time constraints, I have removed the mission 4 requirement. 

A few resources

You should know who is currently in the presidential field. We will have a quiz over this late next week, so you may as well start looking them over now.

Political Parties Work

Think Tac Toe Activity

The Week Ahead

Have your presentations ready for Monday!

Monday's notes

Tuesday's notes

Wednesday's notes

Study guide - polling added, interest groups reformatted slightly

Lobbying

Watch this interview with Jack Abramoff .

Quiz tomorrow - Interest Groups, Ch 18, and the video.

Ideology interview due tomorrow. 

Interest Groups

The correct set of notes - sorry for posting the wrong ones yesterday.

Create your own interest group part 1 - Due Monday, but we will work on this in class tomorrow.

Read Ch. 18 in your textbook before Friday.

Don't forget to have your interviews completed and recorded before Friday as well.





Our next set of notes - Elections

Ideology and Public Opinion

News and Ideology Quiz tomorrow!

Interest Group Notes

Political Ideology Homework

Interview Assignment

The Week Ahead

Electoral Process

Study Guide for Electoral Process Test on November 11th

Political Ideology Notes

Federalism, Test Tomorrow

If you didn't watch this video before, make sure you do today

A quick constitutional history review from John Green

Don't forget to have read through ch. 4 and go through the study guide that was posted last week. 

Federalism Research

Court Case Assignment

Homework

Tonight you should review major ideas from the constitution and read the Federalist #10 - you should know a good bit about the federalist from your chapter and US history, but if you do not, please review. As you read the federalist #10 consider what arguments it considers from the anti-federalist position and mark up the paper.

A few questions for you to answer after reading

You will have a short quiz on the constitution and Ch. 3 tomorrow

Declaration of Independence and The Constitution

Be sure to have Chapter 3 read by tomorrow!

Constitution Notes

Federalism Notes

The week ahead

Note: test Friday! Don't forget to be starting on your gov project.

Political Philosophy

Don't worry about Hobbes tonight. We'll read a section of the Leviathan tomorrow in class.

For tonight:

Finish your history of government homework assignment
Be sure you have the five questions from Crito answered

Of course, if you need assistance, there are plenty of websites and videos that delve into Crito.

Required reading:

By Monday have read Ch1 and Ch2 in your textbook.

Bring your Economics Text Books Tomorrow!

Bring your economics text books tomorrow so that you may return them as you check out your government books. If you have any other books that need to be turned in, you may bring those as well.

Introduction to Government

Syllabus

Syllabus signature form

Contact form (if you didn't complete it in Economics)

Fundamentals of Government

Philisophical Foundations of the State

Unit 1 Study Guide

The Government Project

Homework due on Friday: Reading   Questions to Answer

Review Guides

Late but here

1st Pd

2nd Pd

Oops... Put the wrong post on here.

I posted the wrong thing to this blog. My apologies. I don't have the review we did in class here, so I can't upload it. We'll deal with that tomorrow. We can review the snot out of the class before the test if that helps.

Preparation for the review test

Be sure to have watched MJMfoodie's economics lessons on youtube. You can watch from scarcity to exchange rates and everything in between.

If you came to recover a test grade this morning, I will try to have those done as soon as possible. I know how many of you are counting on them. The projects are almost all graded. You should check synergy to see how your grades have been affected.

Remember that your homework is due tomorrow!

The week ahead

Don't forget to have your business presentations ready on Monday. Remember, apply economics, don't define economics.

We have a lot of review planned for the week. Before Tuesday, I expect that every student will have read the EOC study guide published by the state pages 11-59.

Review Presentations

Presentations Begin on Monday - Instructions

Video Homework and Study Guide

Watch this video:


We will discuss trade imbalances in class tomorrow before the test.

International Study Guide 1

International Study Guide 2 (ignore the investment parts. You've already taken a test on that)

International Diagram

Sample Questions

Taking a trip activity

Read these notes, then complete this activity with your table-mate.

The week ahead (lifesim due!)

Useful sites for the lifesim project

Bankrate.com
Moneychimp.Com

Absolute and Comparative Advantage

Notes on Comparative Advantage

Macro Test Tomorrow

Study Chart (as used in class)

Study Guide

Practice Questions

Practice Questions Key

The week ahead

Inflation

GDP and Fiscal Policy

GDP Quiz Tomorrow

Fiscal Policy Notes

GDP

Notes

Student of the Month

Congratulations to the economics student of the month, Marie Zimmerman! An outstanding student all-around, Marie is particularly strong at interpersonal communication and critical thinking. She is a wonderful example of a self-driven student.

Financial Planning basics

Some notes (in progress).

Don't forget that we will test on personal finance economics on Tuesday. 

Producer and Consumer Presentations

Instructions

Sign Up

Presentations occur tomorrow! 

Functions of Money, Tipping Point Quiz Tomorrow

Sparknotes site on money if you missed today

Money has three main functions:
1: it is a medium of exchange
2: it is a store of value
3: it is a measure of value or unit of account

Good money is portable, durable, and divisible. Its value must be recognized. In our economy, we use fiat money, meaning it has no inherent value, but instead is functional due to its perceived value alone.

Don't forget the chapter 3 tipping point quiz tomorrow. 

Next Week's Calendar

LifeSim Project

Lifesim Project Guidelines

Applying for a job

Today, we attended senior advisement for the first half of the period. Afterwords, we finished our test review and I introduced the first part of the LifeSim Project.

Tonight, in addition to preparing for tomorrow's test, you are to apply for a job.

Study Guide for Test

Study Guide Available Here.

Please see the links page for useful study materials

Test Thursday, next Tipping Point Quiz Tuesday

Our next tipping point quiz will be on chapter 3 and will be on Tuesday. We'll finish up our study of market failures tomorrow and then review for our Thursday test.

Market Failure Notes

Next Week's Calendar

Catch up days

We're doing a bit of catchup as I was out sick yesterday. Hopefully, you now know all about market structures. Notes are available here.

Your market structure homework is to research a musicians rise to prominence and type it up.

We will most likely test on Thursday, but will try to get it done on Tuesday if you have no questions about the material Monday.

Market homework

Today, we covered shifts in demand and supply and took a short quiz on those shifts. We also introduced elasticity of demand.

Tonight, students are to complete this bit of homework that is related to our classwork on the market.

The market

Today we discussed the market and its effects on so many parts of life including prices, wages, dating, and currency. We completed a worksheet on market equilibrium and shifts in demand in suppply then the students turned in their market analysis homework and took instruction on the next part of the project (supply analysis).

Expect two quizzes tomorrow! You may use handwritten notes on the tipping point quiz but no notes at all on the demand and supply quiz. 

Supply

Today, we learned the basics of supply and producer surplus. The students also had a short quiz on demand. Several of the students showed evidence of confusion between demand and production possibilities curves on these graphs, so we will be reviewing the basics of each tomorrow.

Students should read the introduction and first chapter of the tipping point before the quiz on Monday. 

Our lifesim project will be introduced on Monday as well. This is the major project of the quarter.

Demand

Today we worked on the difference between quantity demanded and a change in demand. We also learned how to calculate consumer surplus and gave examples of ways in which businesses practice price discrimination.

We also introduced the first part of our market analysis project to be completed by Monday.

Also, note that we will have our first quiz on the summer reading on Monday.  It will cover the

Demand

Today we learned the basics of demand. Power point notes are available here.

Tomorrow we will work on our market analysis and practice demand problems. We will most likely have a demand quiz tomorrow.

Test today

We took our first test of the quarter today. Grading is in progress. Tomorrow, we will go over the test as a class and the students will have a chance to challenge any questions they believe to be unfair or incorrect. If I have made a significant enough mistake, questions will be thrown out. Parents should expect an email regarding the test after the free response section has been graded.

Tomorrow begins our unit on Microeconomics. We will be discussing demand and creating a product on which to perform a demand analysis.

Next week's agenda

Monday: Economic Fundamentals Test
Tuesday: Review Test and Introduce Demand
Wednesday: Elasticity of Demand introduction and news discussion with a probable quiz
Thursday: Introduce Supply and news discussion
Friday: Market behavior and market activity with a probable quiz

Test Monday

Review

A graphic organizer (helpful for some people)

Notes on PPCs (helpful for some people)

Notes on the Circular Flow (helpful for some people)

Introduction to Economics Notes (helpful for those same people)

Youtube review (helpful for most people)

AC/DC economics



mjmfoodie economics



Crash Course Economics (in progress)

Test moved to Monday

In an attempt to have time for our economic system simulations, I have moved our first test to Monday. It will cover:
Scarcity
Tradeoffs
Opportunity Cost
Factors of Production
Economic Systems
The Circular Flow of Economic Activity
Marginal Analysis

Economic Systems, the Circular Flow, and PPC Quiz

Today, we learned about economic systems and the circular flow of economic activity. We then took our first quiz on production possibilities curves. 2nd period ran short on time and will take a quiz tomorrow at the beginning of class.

Tomorrow, after a short activity covering the problems and benefits of both command and market economies, we will complete some practice on the circular flow and markets. Finally, if time allows, we will introduce marginal analysis. The students should expect a marginal analysis quiz on Thursday and a test on Friday.

Production Possibilities and Economic Systems

Today we covered the production possibilities curve, how it represents opportunity cost, and how it relates to marginal analysis. We also looked at how development, disease, and disasters can affect the curve.

We also had a short activity in which students pretended that they were stranded on the Alaskan coast and had to survive. Tomorrow, we will debrief this activity and use it to learn the basics of economic systems.

Welcome to Economics

I hope that each of you finds this class informative and entertaining

First day requirements:
Syllabus
Contact Form
Parent Signature Page
Class Calendar Feed

The week of August 3rd

This week we will be introducing economic thought. Primary ideas include scarcity, opportunity cost, and economic systems. We will be graphically representing opportunity cost and scarcity on Production Possibilities Charts and comparing the benefits and costs of each type of economic system while discussing the role of the government in the economy. Students are parents  should expect a quiz midweek and our first test on Friday or Monday.