Friday, January 17, 2025

Units 4 and 5 Review ♻️

🎯 Learning Targets
  • Review key concepts raised in Units 4 and 5
⏰ What We Did
  • Continued preparing for next week's semester exam

Thursday, January 16, 2025

Units 4 and 5 Review ♻️

🎯 Learning Targets
  • Review key concepts raised in Units 4 and 5
⏰ What We Did
  • Individually prepared for next week's semester exam, covering Units 4 and 5, using an online study guide
⚙️ Resources

Wednesday, January 15, 2025

FRQ 3: SCOTUS Comparison 3️⃣

🎯 Learning Targets
  • Prepare for next week's semester exam, covering Units 4 and 5
⏰ What We Did
  • Explained the rubric for answering FRQ 3 and engaged in a practice free-response Supreme Court comparison question
⚙️ Resources

Tuesday, January 14, 2025

FRQ 2: Quantitative Analysis 2️⃣

🎯 Learning Targets
  • Prepare for next week's semester exam, covering Units 4 and 5
⏰ What We Did
  • Explained the rubric for answering FRQ 2 and engaged in a practice free-response concept application question
⚙️ Resources

Monday, January 13, 2025

FRQ 1: Concept Application 1️⃣

🎯 Learning Targets
  • Prepare for next week's semester exam, covering Units 4 and 5
⏰ What We Did
  • Explained the rubric for answering FRQ 1 and engaged in a practice free-response concept application question
⚙️ Resources

Friday, January 10, 2025

The Changing Media and Politics πŸ“±

🎯 Learning Targets
  • Explain how increasingly diverse choices of media and communication outlets influence political institutions and behavior
⏰ What We Did
  • Identified the means by which the media influences political participation, the biases that different media organizations use to present the same information, how the media may affect American democracy, and the ways to consume media responsibly
⚙️ Resources

Thursday, January 9, 2025

The Media and Politics πŸ“°

🎯 Learning Targets
  • Explain the media's role as a linkage institution
⏰ What We Did
  • Examined what information the media presents and the means by which media is shared in the modern world
  • Weighed the pros and cons of the media's use of polls to create "horse races" in political campaigns
⚙️ Resources

Wednesday, January 8, 2025

Campaign Finance πŸ’°

Late Start Day πŸ•£
🎯 Learning Targets
  • Explain how the organization, finance, and strategies of national political campaigns affect the election process
⏰ What We Did
  • Briefly introduced the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 (a.k.a., McCain-Feingold Act)
  • Added Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (2010) to Supreme Court graphic organizer
  • Weighed the effectiveness of campaign finance when compared with the loopholes the legislation created
⚙️ Resources

Tuesday, January 7, 2025

Campaign Finance πŸ’°
Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (2010) πŸ›

Late Start Day πŸ•£
🎯 Learning Targets
  • Explain how the organization, finance, and strategies of national political campaigns affect the election process
⏰ What We Did
  • Brief overview of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 (McCain-Feingold)
  • Added Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (2010) to the GoPo Landmark Supreme Court cases graphic organizer
  • Weighed the effectiveness of campaign finance when compared with the loopholes the legislation created
⚙️ Resources

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), Day 3 🎞

🎯 Learning Targets
  • Explain how the structures, powers, and functions of both houses of Congress affect the policy-making process
⏰ What We Did
  • Completed a viewing guide while watching Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)

Monday, January 6, 2025

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), Day 2 🎞

🎯 Learning Targets
  • Explain how the structures, powers, and functions of both houses of Congress affect the policy-making process
⏰ What We Did
  • Continued a viewing guide while watching Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)