• Get to know your classmates...go to the link below. You will be able to chat with all students in the class.  The assignment is for you, WITHOUT TALKING, to learn as many of your classmates names as possible. The person who learns the most names will get some sweet candy! :-)
• Everybody must post something using their real name. Assignment is worth 10 points.The password is the number 1.  Hit ADD COMMENT to chat...    Click here.
• Locke and Hobbes, the Origin of Government. Watch the video, then answer these questions, worth 10 points:

FORMS of GOVERNMENT.  Do some internet searching and find as many forms of government as you can.  List at least five of them...(worth 5 points)

Also due tomorrow (10 points):

Make a chart in which you compare the 2 Democratic candidates for Governor on the following positions:

1. Abortion (Roe v. Wade)
2. Video gambling
3. State pensions

Your chart will look something like this:

Positions of the Dem Candidates for Gov

Election-next week!

• Refer to these stories and then answer the questions below (worth 10 points, due by tomorrow):

TCI SITE: Two codes you will need 

• There is an activation code in your textbook.  You will need it.
• Secondly there is a class code for the specific class you are in:
  • 1st per: DY9O0E  
  • 4th per: 6J9UZ2  
  • 5th per.: 0P742R
• Here is the URL link: http://www.learntci.com
• Click on the picture of our textbook, Government Alive!

Chapter 1 - Power!

• Check your grade!
• Get registered on the TCI website! PICK A USERNAME THAT HAS YOUR NAME IN IT SO I RECOGNIZE YOU! Once you register, you will be able to access your textbook online... Mr. Pahl will explain this to you...
• Take the test on Chapter 1.  You may work with a partner (be sure to put both names on the test.  No loud talking and sharing answers with other groups...
• Chapter 1 is about power.  What is high quality power?  Read about it here, then answer the questions below:

TCI SITE: Two codes you will need 

• There is an activation code in your textbook.  You will need it.
• Secondly there is a class code for the specific class you are in:
  • 1st per: DY9O0E  
  • 3rd per:
    W2C62E
  • 4th per: 6J9UZ2  
  • 5th per.: 0P742R
• Here is the URL link: http://www.learntci.com
• Click on the picture of our textbook, Government Alive!

Nucountry

• Register on the TCI site (see the left panel...)...let Mr. Pahl know if you have any trouble..
• Do the Matrix of Knowledge in Chapter 2 of the online TCI...have it finished by Monday (finish it at home or in the library, etc. if you do not finish it today...)

1. Tomorrow in class we will have a constitutional convention to create a government and economic system for a new country that has just achieved independence, Nucountry. 
2. Sign up to be in one of the Nucountry interest groups. No more than 4 students in any one interest group. Everyone must join a group. (might be worth 5 points).
3. Read about Nucountry on page 11 of the booklet and from the maps on the back of the booklet.
4. Learn about your interest group from the booklet.
5. Get together with your interest group in the lab.
6. Discuss the characteristics of your group and its interests. Then, on your group's page in the booklet, list the characteristics of your group, and your group's main concerns that affect Nucountry.
7. Have someone from the group design a sign for your group, with your name, to use tomorrow in class for the constitutional convention.
8. You may want to talk to some of the other groups to see if they will ally with you.  You should pick groups that would be your natural friends, who have at least some similar interests.
9. Have three people from your group plan for three 30 second speeches tomorrow:  These three 20-30 second speeches should be written out and turned in tomorrow after they are delivered orally. (10 points - group score.) Here are what each short speech is to be on...(divide up these speeches in your group...)
   1. What form of government Nucountry should have (monarchy, dictator, theocracy, single party state, direct democracy, parliamentary democracy, presidential democracy)
   2. What system of government Nucountry should have (Unitary, Federal, Confederal)
   3. What economic system Nucountry should have (traditional, market, command)
10. BONUS POINTS if your group's picks are voted in!

 

    VA PLAN     NJ PLAN

       COMPROMISE?

ROOTS of AMERICAN DEMOCRACY

• Go to your TCI book site and login: http://www.learntci.com
• Do the Crack the Code game there, worth 20 points to complete it, due Friday.
• OK, next, Lil Wayne wants you to go to Edmodo and chat about Freedom!  You have to set up an account there and then you can weigh in on the question about Freedom...
• You will be dialoguing with all of Mr. Pahl's Civics classes...You will need to click the Edmodo link below and the class code to get set up:
• Edmodo CivicsBHS class code: dly491   You will be graded on your participation in this FreedomFest!
• FINAL Assignment: Answer these questions from section 3.3 and 3.4. (You can access these sections in your online TCI book)

• Extra credit. Read through this fascinating article and do a 1 page report

• Projects Mr P's Ciivcs classes did last semester

• Other ideas...

• Take the quiz on Chapter 7.2-3 terms.
• To do notebook assignment #7 you will have to take these self-assessments online:
• Tests. There are a number of tests on this page. Make sure you take at least 3 of them and write your results in notebook assignment #7, along with a paragraph in which you assess these results (with what you know about your own views) and come to a determination of whether you are liberal or conservative.
• Weigh in on Edmodo (Edmodo CivicsBHS class code: dly491) about what you want as your active citizenship class project.  Either Aid to Haiti, or something else you choose, or should everybody just do their own 50-point projects?

• CHECK YOUR GRADE

TENTS FOR HAITI!

• Take this test to see if you understand the difference between liberal and conservative

• Remember, your notebook is due on Friday.  Check to be sure you have all the notebook assignments, #1-8 done.

• 10 point assignment, due tomorrow: What is your plan to help get tents for Haiti?  How are you going to get the word out to the Bartlett community?  Check out this link with some ideas of things to do...

• What can you do for TENTS for HAITI?  

• Take some flyers to pass out

• Invite people to Nicodino's next Tuesday, Mar. 16 from 5-8pm. Live DJ, music, good food, tent drop off.

Public Opinion

• http://www.learntci.com  Chapter 9 about Public Opinion is on the TCI site. Read sections 9.2 (especially "What is Public Opinion and How Is It Shaped?") and 9.4 about mass media. Then answer these questions:

• Moodle. Get your name and password from Mr. Pahl and weigh in on the U-46 sign campaign...10 points
• Check out the BUDDY Program...do you want to present the BUDDY program to U-46 eighth graders?  Then go here...

• Watch how Mr. Pahl made the news!

• Check your grade ; get in any incompletes today!

Elections and Targets

	Current tent count: (Friday is deadline...) Period 1 Period 4 Period 5 10 42 25
	Here is a study guide for the test you will have on Chapter 10, Elections, on Friday.... Here is a study guide for your Target Test for tomorrow...

TARGET TEST

• 4th - 5th Period Target Test
• Study for tomorrow's Chap 10 TEST...
• Here's a volunteer opportunity over break, working at Hanover Park's Open Gym program...

• Have a great spring break! :-)

Chapter 10 Elections

• Take the test...

Tent count:

• Check your grade...

Rights and Liberties

• Take the test on 5.2.  You may work with a partner, and use the online book (not the hard cover book!!)
• Link to chapter 5, online at TCI
•  Click here to take the Hawk Eye survey
• In the online textbook, read the first part of 5.3 which talks about the Establishment Clause and the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment. Answer these questions:

The Constitution Test is May 12

• Check your grade...

Rights and Liberties

• Catch up with your notebook assignments.
• You have done some reading and assignments in Chapter 5, sections 1-3.  There will be a test on Friday on Chapter 5.
• Here is the link to the TCI online textbook where you can study Chapter 5, sections 4, 5 and 6..  Here is a study guide as to what will be on the test on Friday.
  • Chapter 5.3 takes you through the First Amendment rights
  • Chapter 5. 4-6 takes you through Amendments 2-10, the rest of the Bill of Rights
  • Mr. Pahl Podcast on Incorporation
• PLEASE NOTE: You can use your Civics notebook on the Friday test on Chapter 5.

• Check your grade...

Hey, that ain't right!

• Read this article from the NY Times about Haiti.
• Answer the questions below.  Due by Friday, 10 points.

STATE. Write Governor Quinn... (worth 5 points)

• Here is the link to send Gov. Quinn your suggestions for what to do to fix the state budget crisis and school funding...

Send Mr. :Pahl a copy of what you sent Quinn:

Here is a link to the bill teachers are going to Springfield to lobby about. (HB 174) (This bill will bring more $ to Illinois schools.) 25 points extra credit if you find your state rep in the IL General Assembly, or IL state senate, and give Mr. Pahl a copy of a letter you sent to them about passing HB174.

Reaching your legislator...

U.S. The assignment today (10 points) is for you to do some research on two US bills (below), and 1 Illinois bill (to the left...).

Write a note to your Congressman about your feelings/thoughts about these two bills before Congress right now:

• The DREAM Act. Wikipedia.  More on the DREAM Act. Basically a bill to help children of illegal aliens get a temporary visa to be able to legally go to college or the military and, if successful, to gain some form of residency.
• (HR 2478). LRA Disarmament and Northern Uganda Recovery Act. Basically a bill to stop Joseph Kony from kidnapping and killing people and to bring relief where he has brought disaster.
   
• Click here to find out who your US representative is.
• You will need to know your zip +4.  You can lookup your +4 by following the link and inputting your address.
• Most of you have Peter Roskam as your US Representative to Congress. Here is a link to contact him...

Before you send your letter to your Congressman, COPY it and paste it in here for Mr. Pahl to see what you wrote:

• Be sure to fill out the college questionnaire for the HawkEye!
• Check your grade...

...

Congratulations on passing the Constitution Test!

Weigh in with your opinion on the Moodle:  Obama's Supreme Court Justice Choice and the Highland Park High School's girls basketball team decision to not go to Arizona.

• Read this article to help you answer about Elena Kagan
• Read this article to help you answer the Highland Park question.

Also, get this done today in the lab:

• What is left pretty much in Civics, before you graduate, is the final Target test, and the Final Exam for those of you who have to take it.
• Here is a study guide for the Target Test.  Look it over and then take the quiz below:

TARGET TEST PREP

• I will keep your Constitution notebooks to use to help your grade if you are close the next grade.  If you want your Constitution notebook back you have to tell me by filling out this form:

• Here is a study guide for the Target Test.  Look it over to study for the test on Friday.
• For those of you taking the final next week, here is the study guide for the final...
• Take this test.   Not for points, but to see how well you know the vocabulary that will be on the final.
• Questions to answer at the end of your high school career (!! :-): Gosh I am starting to miss you as I write this! :-)