Thanksgiving Break 🦃

Clintondale High School is closed for Thanksgiving Break. Classes will resume on Monday, December 2, 2024, at 7:35 A.M.

Have a happy and relaxing Thanksgiving Break, Dragons!

Catch-Up Day 🥫

⏰ What We Did

• Due to extremely low student census, used today's class to catch up on any previous Q2 work or notes

Interest Groups and Their Influence on Policy-Making 💬

🎯 Learning Targets

• Explain the benefits and potential problems of interest-group influence on elections and policy making
• Explain how variation in types and resources of interest groups affects their ability to influence elections and policy making

⏰ What We Did

• Examine the role interest groups play in influencing public policy
• Compare interest groups with Madison's factions in Federalist No. 10

⚙️ Resources

• 5 Interest Groups and Their Influence on Policy-Making

How and Why Political Parties Change and Adapt 🕰Third Party Politics 3️⃣

🎯 Learning Targets

• Explain why and how political parties change and adapt
• Explain how various political actors influence public policy outcomes
• Explain why and how political parties change and adapt
• Explain how structural barriers impact third-party and independent-candidate success

⏰ What We Did

• Analyze the social changes brought by political parties, how they influence public policy, and the effect third-parties have on government policy

⚙️ Resources

• 4 How and Why Political Parties Change and Adapt; Third Party Politics

Political Parties 🐘🐎

🎯 Learning Targets

• Describe linkage institutions
• Explain the function and impact of political parties on the electorate and government

⏰ What We Did

• Define and identify linkage institutions
• Explain the function political parties play in voter participation

⚙️ Resources

• 3 Political Parties

Town Hall Meeting 🏫

⏰ What We Did

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

Data Analysis: How Voting Demographics Changed Between 2020 and 2024 Presidential Elections 🔎

🎯 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

• How Voting Demographics Changed Between 2020 and 2024 Presidential Elections

Voter Turnout 🗳

🎯 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

• 2 Voter Turnout

Voter Participation in National Elections 🗳

🎯 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"

Voter Participation in National Elections 🗳

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

• Voter Participation in National Elections

Voting Rights and Voting Behavior 🗳

Late Start Day 🕣

🎯 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

• 1 Voting Rights and Voting Behavior

Ideology and Social Policy 👥

🎯 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

• 10 Ideology and Social Policy

Ideology and Economic Policy 💰

Today is Veterans Day 🇺🇸

🎯 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

• 9 Ideology and Economic Policy

End of the First Quarter 🌛

⏰ What We Did

• Used today's class to complete and turn in any Q1 assignments

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

• 8 Ideologies of Political Parties and Changes Over Time

Election 2024 Post-Analysis 🗳

🎯 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

• Election 2024 Post-Analysis

Election Day — No School 🇺🇸

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

Catch-Up Day 🥫

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

Public Opinion: Impact of Polling 📉

🎯 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

• 7 Public Opinion: Impact of Polling