Wednesday, November 20, 2024

Town Hall Meeting 🏫

⏰ What We Did
  • The majority of the class was called down to the CHS Auditorium for a 12th Grade Town Hall

Tuesday, November 19, 2024

Data Analysis: How Voting Demographics Changed Between 2020 and 2024 Presidential Elections πŸ”Ž

🎯 Learning Targets
  • Explain the roles that individual choice and state laws play in voter turnout in elections
⏰ What We Did
  • Read a provided article on exit polling data from the 2024 presidential election
  • Examined the voter turnout data
⚙️ Resources

Monday, November 18, 2024

Voter Turnout πŸ—³

🎯 Learning Targets
  • Explain the roles that individual choice and state laws play in voter turnout in elections
⏰ What We Did
  • Identify the turnout trends of voters in past elections and compare it to the turnout data for the 2024 presidential election
⚙️ Resources

Friday, November 15, 2024

Voter Participation in National Elections πŸ—³

🎯 Learning Targets
  • Explain the roles that individual choice and state laws play in voter turnout in elections
⏰ What We Did
  • Discussed the answers to yesterday's assignment, "Voter Participation in National Elections"

Thursday, November 14, 2024

Voter Participation in National Elections πŸ—³

Today's class was led by a guest teacher 🏫
🎯 Learning Targets
  • Explain the roles that individual choice and state laws play in voter turnout in elections
⏰ What We Did
  • Identify the turnout trends of voters in past presidential and congressional elections
⚙️ Resources

Wednesday, November 13, 2024

Voting Rights and Voting Behavior πŸ—³

Late Start Day πŸ•£
🎯 Learning Targets
  • Describe the voting rights protections in the Constitution and in legislation
  • Describe different models of voting behavior
⏰ What We Did
  • Examined an overview and the Big Ideas of Unit 5
  • Explained the constitutional amendments that have expanded suffrage to increasing segments of the population and differentiate the four models of voter behavior
⚙️ Resources

Tuesday, November 12, 2024

Ideology and Social Policy πŸ‘₯

🎯 Learning Targets
  • Explain how political ideologies vary on the role of the government in addressing social issues
  • Explain how different ideologies impact policy on social issues
⏰ What We Did
  • Assess policy trends concerning the level of government involvement in social issues reflect the success of conservative or liberal perspectives in political parties
⚙️ Resources

Monday, November 11, 2024

Ideology and Economic Policy πŸ’°

Today is Veterans Day πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ
🎯 Learning Targets
  • Describe different political ideologies regarding the role of government in regulating the marketplace
  • Explain how political ideologies vary on the government’s role in regulating the marketplace
⏰ What We Did
  • Compare the demand-side (Keynes) and supply-side (Hayek) economic ideologies that determine the government's monetary policies
⚙️ Resources

Friday, November 8, 2024

End of the First Quarter πŸŒ›

⏰ What We Did
  • Used today's class to complete and turn in any Q1 assignments

Thursday, November 7, 2024

Ideologies of Political Parties and Changes Over Time ⏰

🎯 Learning Targets
  • Explain how ideologies of the two major political parties shape policy debates
  • Explain how U.S. political culture influences the formation, goals, and implementation of public policy over time
⏰ What We Did
  • Differentiate how the ideologies of the two major parties have evolved to shape contemporary policy since the 1930s
⚙️ Resources

Wednesday, November 6, 2024

Election 2024 Post-Analysis πŸ—³

🎯 Learning Targets
  • Analyze the results of the 2024 federal elections
⏰ What We Did
  • Using reputable media websites, compare the current makeup of the federal governemnt with the incoming government following the results of the 2024 elections
⚙️ Resources

Tuesday, November 5, 2024

Election Day — No School πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ

Clintondale High School is closed for Election Day. Classes will resume on Wednesday, November 6, 2024, at 7:35 A.M.

Monday, November 4, 2024

Catch-Up Day πŸ₯«

Today's class was led by a guest teacher 🏫
⏰ What We Did
  • Used today's class to catch up on any previous Q1 work or notes

Friday, November 1, 2024

Public Opinion: Impact of Polling πŸ“‰

🎯 Learning Targets
  • Explain the quality and credibility of claims based on public opinion data
⏰ What We Did
  • Examined the advantages and drawbacks polling can have on an election or policy debates
⚙️ Resources

Thursday, October 31, 2024

Public Opinion and Demographic Statistics πŸ“Š

Today is Halloween πŸŽƒ
🎯 Learning Targets
  • Describe the elements of a scientific poll
  • Explain the quality and credibility of claims based on public opinion data
⏰ What We Did
  • Determined what public opinion polling can reveal about societal characteristics
⚙️ Resources

Wednesday, October 30, 2024

Public Opinion: Measuring Data πŸ“ˆ

🎯 Learning Targets
  • Describe the elements of a scientific poll
⏰ What We Did
  • Summarized the basic elements of scientifc polling and how they developed
⚙️ Resources

Tuesday, October 29, 2024

Socratic Seminar πŸ—£

🎯 Learning Targets
  • Explain how cultural factors influence political attitudes and socialization
⏰ What We Did
  • Conducted a Socratic seminar on the article Trump Has Changed How Teens View the News (Lorenz, T., The Atlantic, 29 August 2018.)

Monday, October 28, 2024

Changes in Ideology and the Influence of Political Events 🧠

🎯 Learning Targets
  • Explain how cultural factors influence political attitudes and socialization
⏰ What We Did
  • Examined how the political ideologies of past generations have been impacted by historic events from the 1930s to today
⚙️ Resources
πŸ“– Homework

Friday, October 25, 2024

Political Socialization πŸ€”

🎯 Learning Targets
  • Explain how cultural factors influence political attitudes and socialization
⏰ What We Did
  • Examined how individuals in several demographic groups typically develop their sense of politically socialization
⚙️ Resources

Thursday, October 24, 2024

Where Do You Fall on the Political Spectrum? πŸ’»

🎯 Learning Targets
  • Explain the relationship between core beliefs of U.S. citizens and attitudes about the role of government
⏰ What We Did
  • Briefly examined the general stances of the two major political parties on contemporary issues
  • Completed two brief personal political inventories
⚙️ Resources

Wednesday, October 23, 2024

American Attitudes About Government and Politics πŸ’­

Late Start Day πŸ•£
🎯 Learning Targets
  • Explain the relationship between core beliefs of U.S. citizens and attitudes about the role of government
⏰ What We Did
  • Introduced the Essential Questions and Enduring Understandings of Unit 4: American Political Ideologies and Beliefs
  • Began the focus on political beliefs by presenting a generalized overview of the platforms of the two major American political parties
⚙️ Resources