Jan.9-13
Mon.- went over class expectations
got into our groups
Talked about weekly blogs
Tues.- No School
Wed.- Watched trumps conference
Watched farewell speech of Obama
Went over Western Europe
Thu. - Went over West Europe
Continued watching Obama Speech
Fri. - Finished Obama's Speech
Jan. 16-20
Mon. - No school
Tues.- No school
Wed.- Talked about politics
finished going over western Europe
Thu.- Talked about politics
Practiced West Europe
Fri.- Talked about politics
Watched the inauguration
Jan. 23-27
Mon.-Talked about politics
Went over map
Tue.- Started projects
Wed.- Took class quiz over western Europe
worked on our presentations
Thu.- Worked on presentations
Learned northwest map
Fri.- Went over north western map
Started to present
Comments
Feb. 6-11
Mon- Went over our map
were reminded to study
Went over news
Tue- Went over extra credit opportunities
Learned about the bell of hope
Watched News
Education secretary nominee vote is 50-50 tie.
Talked about how trump is all over the news.
talked about military operation Yemen.
Tonight Bernie sanders and ted cruze have a debate
Wed-
Thu-
Fri-
JAN 30- Feb-3
Mon-Went over forum posts
Class quiz
2-20 to 2-24
Mon. we took the political spectrum test
Tue. We continued to go over the political presentation and took the central america class quiz
went over official process of election
wed. we talked a lot about current events and read the new symbols of hate
Thursday-finished reading articals
discussed current events
Fri- No school
Talked about president Trump
Tue- Talked about Trump Then went over the news and went over our map
Wed- went over our map
talked about trump
Had more presentations.
Thu- Learned about all Forums of government
Oligarchy- Two or more rulers
Democracy (direct)- Everyone votes- (Representation)-Vote on a representative.
Monarchy- king or queen ruler.
Anarchy- no government
Dictatorship- One ruler with absolute power usually gained by force
communism- a group rules and the government has ownership of everything.
Mixed economy- U.S.A.- Government will provide what is needed.
socialism- can lead to work ethic no longer being present.
Fri- Watched documented
Week feb. 27- mar. 3
Mon.Went over politics power point
The congress is the number of electors also
Electives can lose popular vote but win electoral vote and win
George bush lost to Al gore but Won electoral collage election came down to Florida
Donald trump lost popular vote by 2.3 million votes but won the electoral collage
Republicans do well in rural areas and far west/ south. Democrats do well around great lakes cities and highly populated areas.
Nixon started an organization that helped him win Using the “dirty tricks campaign” Thus name calling, gay stuff, child problems used effectively eventually pitting democrats against each other thus causing democrats to drop out because of bad press.
The east/ west were split during the election of 1976
since 1988 California has gone democratic.
2004- was a republican victory starring Bush
Tues.Went over map
Went over power point
Conservative- Cut where spending isn't needed
Trump likes
Conservatives favor status quo.
Wants to cut taxes on Business.
Belive in Rugged individualism
Liberal
Belive in change
Want higher taxes for Business
Favor an active government role in society
Willing to increase tax programs
Each party doesn't exactly have to follow all of these beliefs
Wed.Took the south american quiz
talked about key points of trumps speech
continued with the power point
talked about U.S. naturalization test
Immigration
top birth ancor babies
Mexico
India
Philippians
Dominican Republic
China
Thu. took the South american test. Received maps
Fri. Went over abortion
Talked about choices
talked about political points on abortion
looked at Loss rates/pregnancy/abortion rates Graph
2/13-2/17
Mon. We watched the film documented
Tue. Talked about electoral collage and had a class quiz over the map. Talked about how Jewish people are having a hard time. We also finished the movie documented
Wed. Went over some power point key points then went over the latin america map
Thu. NO SCHOOL
Fr. NO SCHOOL
2/6-2/10
Mon. Talked about how a judge blocked the travel ban
Talked about political parties- DEMOCRAT------ REPUBLICAN
ALT LEFT ALT Right
Parties need to get in the middle in order to win the election
Tue. Had a class quiz over Europe Talked about president trump/ then talked a bit more about politics
Wed. watched some more of undocumented
Thu.- Europe map test
Fri- Went over Latin america
watched even more of undocumented.