TCI Government Alive! Textbook online
login...You will need the unique code from the 2nd page
of your textbook and also the class code for your period to
register on the TCI site...
Due at the end of the period next week in the
lab: Crack the Code...in Chapter 1 of the online TCI
textbook.--------------------------------------------------------
Wed Jan 26
POWER
There's a lot to do today so use your time well...
Take the Chapter 1 test
with a partner. You can NOT use your hard copy book,
but you CAN use the online book...
Log into Moodle.
(Username is your ID number and password is your
8-digit birthday). There are two questions to respond
to in the forum for Unit 1. Each question is worth 5
points. One deals with how you were feeling during
the games and the other deals with what you can learn about
power from these games.
Take this quiz on
Chapter 2. You can work with a partner...you can use
notes but not the textbook...
Textbook online
login. Be sure to have the Matrix of Knowledge,
from chapter 2, done by Friday, Feb. 11.
(Crack the Code from Chapter 3 is due next Wed.)
Find an article that deals with a nation other
than the United States...from one
of the links to the right...find something in the article
that gives insight into the legitimacy of the foreign
government in the article...and tell Mr. Pahl about it (10
points, due by the end of the period....If you finish
it later, you must print this out and turn into Mr. Pahl):
Wed Feb 16
This video
review from last semester will help you... advance
to the chapter 3 part...
Take this quiz on
chapter 3, section 2 (3.2). You can do this with a
partner. You can use the online book...not
your textbook...
Answer the following questions from section 3.3 and 3.4.
(Again, you can use the online textbook...) (These
questions may appear in some form on the test on Chap. 3
this Friday...) 10 points for these,
due at end of the period...
(these must be printed out and handed to Mr. Pahl if done
after today...)
TCI online text.
Use the online textbook, in chapter 7, section 4, to
describe liberalism, conservatism, libertarianism,
environmentalism
and socialism: (10 points, due by the end of the
period. (0 points if you cut and paste any
part of it...) If you are doing this assignment
after Feb. 23 it must be turned in printed out to
Mr. Pahl)
On page A16 of the New York Times
(username and password 200295079)
are three articles that deal with budget crises, one
about the U.S., one about Wisconsin, and one about Ohio.
Describe below what the main issue is in each one of these
stories, and then explain what the liberal and conservative
position is on that issue (worth 15 points, due at end
of period, if done after 3/2/11 must be printed out and handed
to Mr. Pahl):
Then go to the
Moodle forum on Political Beliefs and weigh in on what
you think about the state budget crises...(5 points...)
LIBERAL/CONSERVATIVE. Read the article on page
A18 of the NYT.
From this article find an issue over which there is
disagreement of contention. What is the liberal side of
this? What is the conservative side of this issue? If
you do not want to use this article, you can choose one of the
sources to the right to find an article, column, or letter to
the editor in which there is a conflict (issue) that
has two sides, a liberal and conservative
side. Get Mr. Pahl's permission for an alternative article. In many columns or articles one of the sides will be
more clearly explained, but usually the other side can be
deduced or drawn out from what is in the story. Tell
me which source you used, the name of the article,
and then describe the issue involved and the
liberal and conservative side on the issue... (15
points, due by tomorrow, March 10. Must be printed out if
turned in after March 10.):
Did you listen to Mr. Pahl yesterday talking about the
first part of chapter 10 (when most students were
snoring...)?
Check and see how well you listened...and this will
help you study for the Chapter 10 test on Friday...
(Don't forget the worksheet with voter turnout graphs
is due tomorrow, 15 points, you can do partners...)
In the online textbook, chapter 10, do the
Primary
Source Investigation. (20 points, due by Friday, Mar.
18)
You can submit your proposal here, or turn it in on a
piece of paper to Mr. Pahl (by Friday, 5 points.) Be sure to
indicate if you are going to want to do any fundraising...
Wed Apr 6
Check
your grade(remember your grade reflects an 0/50 on
the Active Citizenship Project...)
Use lab time to make progress on arranging your
Active Citizenship Project...
Do the Primary Source Investigation from the TCI textbook site,
for chapter 4 about the Constitution. Worth 20
points, due by Sunday, April 10.
Make a Voki like that above for (possibly!) some
P-Daddy bucks. Go to
www.voki.com, and login using the email address
civics@hawkclub.com and the password "civics". Name
the Voki you create with your name (how else you gonna get
the P-DAddy bucks?).(You get the P-Daddy bucks if I actually
use your Voki :-)
BUDDY people...go out to this
Writeboard (password: 1) and put in your name and
everyone else in the group you are planning on doing the
BUDDY program with... List the period you are in for each
member...If you don't have a group, but want to do the BUDDY
program, let me know and I will put you in a group!
Let me know if your thinking about doing the
Invisible Children 25 event for your Active Citizenship
Project:
Don't forget, you can make a Voki, for P Daddy
Bucks...:
Go to
www.voki.com, and login using the email address
civics@hawkclub.com and the password "civics". Name
the Voki you create with your name
Wed Apr 13
Invisible Children 25 people...last week you told me
if you were thinking about doing it... This week you need to
tell me if you are doing it FOR ACTIVE CITIZENSHIP CREDIT!:
Congress and Stuff
Things to do in the lab today
TCI online. Crack the Code, Chapter 11, Lawmakers and
Legislatures
20 points, must be done before the end of the month
TCI online. Matrix of Knowledge, Chapter 12, Lawmaking
20 points, must be done before the end of the month
Don't forget about
Notebook Assignments numbers 17-20, due NEXT WEEK!
100 points hanging in the balance...Don't be a slacker...
:-)
Weigh in on Moodle
with your reaction to the LINK presentation about
North Korean refugees...5 points, due today... (It's under
Structure of Government...LINK)
Work on your Active Citizenship Project!
(Invisible Children 25 people look to the left!)
BUDDY People (check out theBUDDYwebsite...see
what principals and teachers say about this program... ):
Go through the BUDDY
PowerPoint (this is a few years old, some of the
stuff has been updated, but much is still the same...also
the actual PowerPoint is more animated than this one...but
still it gives you an idea of what you will be teaching the
5th and 6th graders...)
Here is the tentative BUDDY
schedule for Wed., April 20 GET YOUR PERMISSION
SLIPS IN OR YOU CAN'T GO...
Each BUDDY group pick a leader...that leader
needs to be sure to have::
Memory stick for the BUDDY program (hopefully
you have one...Mr. Pahl has some extras if you don't)
Enough activity sheets for the kids in your
classes... about 25 kids in most elementary
classes...get these from Mr. Pahl
Directions to your school....info about elementary
schools is on
this page...
Personalize the PowerPoint with your names, and
be sure to practice the presentation with your group!
Tell your kid brother and sister about theEurope trip
(Paris, London, Rome!) in June 2012!
If you haven't finished the notebook assignments,get going!
CONSTITUTION!
GetReady for the Constitution Test!
Study these items
from the Constitution, and then answer the questions below:
Work on your active citizenship project!
Learn to make a short Animoto video to
announce to Mr. Pahl the finishing of your project! (The
LITE plan is free!)
Fri., April 28
As we head toward the Constitution Test, I will populate
the STUDY GUIDE
with notes and videos so you can use that as a resource for
studying for the test...along with the Constitution Notes
you are taking in class...(due May 10, the day of the
test...)
Take these tests to see if you know the Constitution
stuff that is on the Study Guide...
P-Dad and graduate son Orion parting ways last
night as I dropped him off in Chicago where he's leaving for
California and other places for the summer ...
Just like I am soon to say goodbye to you...
That's a $1500 camera his friends got him as a
graduation gift...
BHS
Civics, Mr. Pahl NOTEBOOK
ASSIGNMENTS 
CONSTITUTION!
