Saturday, September 11, 2010
Thursday, September 9, 2010
U1.LP3: Direct and Representative Democracies
Podcast: Pair this with the Direct and Representative Governments Podcast!
Objective: Student will describe the advantages and disadvantages of direct and representative democracies in order to analyze text.
Homework: Write a 5 sentence paragraph about the advantages and disadvantages of using direct democracy through initiatives or propositions.
You can start your paragraph with...
Initiatives should be used in the U.S. because...
OR
Initiatives should not be used in the U.S. because...
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Friday, September 3, 2010
U1.LP2: Government Power Systems
Objective: Students will be able to compare confederate, unitary, and federal forms of government and how each exercises power in order to analyze real-world government scenarios.
Homework: Homework for the 1B Mod is "Write a 5 sentence paragraph about how you are impacted by United States’ Federalism. That is, what impacts does the national government, Maryland state government and Prince George’s County local government have on your life?"
For all other mods, it is to COMPLETE THE SCENARIOS WORKSHEET that we worked on in class.
Government Power Systems
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