Unit 1 Assessment 💯

🎯 Learning Targets

• Assess comprehension of Unit 1 content from Lessons 1, 2, and 3

⏰ What We Did

• Completed a 40 multiple choice question assessment for Unit 1: An Introduction to Civics

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💻 Homework

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Unit 1 Assessment 💯

🎯 Learning Targets

• Assess comprehension of Unit 1 content from Lessons 1, 2, and 3

⏰ What We Did

• Completed a 40 multiple choice question assessment for Unit 1: An Introduction to Civics
• The Unit 1 Assessment was postponed to R 16 Oct 2025, due to a print shop delay

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💻 Homework

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Unit 1 Review Game 🚨

🎯 Learning Targets

• Review main ideas of Unit 1: An Introduction to Civics

⏰ What We Did

• Reviewed content from Lessons 1, 2, and 3 by answering sample test questions

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💻 Homework

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Lesson 3 Review 3️⃣

Today is Columbus Day (Observed) 🇺🇸

🎯 Learning Targets

• Review the key concepts of Lesson 3

⏰ What We Did

• Took — and then discussed the answers to — a quiz on Lesson 3, Part X: X
• Began work on Lesson 3 Lesson Review

⚙️ Resources

• LR3 - Civics ✮ Lesson 3 Lesson Review

💻 Homework

• Complete Lesson 3 Lesson Review before class on T 14 Oct 2025, if necessary

3.4 The Electoral College 🇺🇸

🎯 Learning Targets

• Summarize the role of the Electoral College in presidential elections

⏰ What We Did

• Distributed and discussed "The Electoral College: How the President Gets Elected" handout
• Used notes from Lesson 3, Part 4 to individually complete "The Electoral College: Myth and Reality"
• Used a Kahoot! to discuss the answer to "The Electoral College: Myth and Reality"

⚙️ Resources

• H2 - The Electoral College: How the President is Elected
• A7 - The Electoral College: Myth and Reality

💻 Homework

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3.3 Campaigning for Office 👔

Today is a Half Day 🏫

🎯 Learning Targets

• Explore how campaigns are planned and managed
• Describe how campaigns are financed
• Identify factors that help people win elections

⏰ What We Did

• Using a primary source of a candidate for public office, identified the strengths and weaknesses of campaigns
• Weighed the pros and cons of becoming a candidate when deciding whether to run for office

⚙️ Resources

• A6 - Running for Office; Making Decisions

💻 Homework

• Watch and take notes on Lesson 3, Part 4: The Electoral College, before class tomorrow

3.2 How Candidates & Groups Try to Influence Your Vote 🧠

Today is a Late Arrival day 🏫

🎯 Learning Targets

• Describe ways that candidates get their messages to voters
• Analyze the role of interest groups in the election process
• Explain how candidates and interest groups try to influence the way people vote
• Explore the importance of the media in election campaigns

⏰ What We Did

• Continue creating election propaganda begun on Monday

⚙️ Resources

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💻 Homework

• Finish election propaganda before class on R 9 Oct 2025, if necessary
• Watch and take notes on Lesson 3, Part 3: Campaigning for Office, before class tomorrow

Catch-Up Day 🥫

Today's class was led by a guest teacher.

🎯 Learning Targets

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⏰ What We Did

• Completed and submitted any missing work from P1

⚙️ Resources

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📖 Corresponding Reading

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💻 Homework

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3.2 How Candidates & Groups Try to Influence Your Vote 🧠

🎯 Learning Targets

• Describe ways that candidates get their messages to voters
• Analyze the role of interest groups in the election process
• Explain how candidates and interest groups try to influence the way people vote
• Explore the importance of the media in election campaigns

⏰ What We Did

• Began creating election propaganda for the upcoming mock election between Congressman Santos and Senator Vinick

⚙️ Resources

• S2 - Election Poster Rubric
• S2 - Election Radio Advertisement Rubric
• S2 - Election Television Commercial Rubric

💻 Homework

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Election 2025 🗳️

HOMECOMING 2025: TODAY IS BLUE AND GOLD DAY 🐲

Today is on an Assembly Schedule ⏰

🎯 Learning Targets

• Describe ways that candidates get their messages to voters
• Analyze the role of interest groups in the election process
• Explain how candidates and interest groups try to influence the way people vote
• Explore the importance of the media in election campaigns

⏰ What We Did

• Discussed the answers to yesterday's candidate biographical assignment

⚙️ Resources

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💻 Homework

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Election 2025 🗳️

Today's class was led by a guest teacher.

HOMECOMING 2025: TODAY IS PAJAMA DAY 💤

🎯 Learning Targets

• Describe ways that candidates get their messages to voters
• Analyze the role of interest groups in the election process
• Explain how candidates and interest groups try to influence the way people vote
• Explore the importance of the media in election campaigns

⏰ What We Did

• Exhibited familiarity with the backgrounds and paths to the respective political nominations of Congressman Santos and Senator Vinick

⚙️ Resources

• S1 - Election Booklet

💻 Homework

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3.2 How Candidates & Groups Try to Influence Your Vote 🧠

HOMECOMING 2025: TODAY IS DECADE DAY 😃

🎯 Learning Targets

• Describe ways that candidates get their messages to voters
• Analyze the role of interest groups in the election process
• Explain how candidates and interest groups try to influence the way people vote
• Explore the importance of the media in election campaigns

⏰ What We Did

• Identified forms of propaganda techniques used in historic presidential campaign commercials

⚙️ Resources

• "I Like Ike" (Eisenhower, 1952)
• "Kennedy For Me" (Kennedy, 1960)
• "Daisy" (Johnson, 1964)
• "Laughing" (Humphrey, 1968)
• "Nixon Now" (Nixon, 1972)
• "Ted" (Kennedy, 1980)
• "Morning in America" (Reagan, 1984)
• "Bear" (Reagan, 1984)
• "Tank" (Bush, 1988)
• "Read My Lips" (Clinton, 1992)
• "Rats" (RNC, 2000)
• "Windsurfing" (Bush, 2004)

💻 Homework

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3.2 How Candidates & Groups Try to Influence Your Vote 🧠

HOMECOMING 2025: TODAY IS CRAZY HAT DAY 👒

🎯 Learning Targets

• Describe ways that candidates get their messages to voters
• Analyze the role of interest groups in the election process
• Explain how candidates and interest groups try to influence the way people vote
• Explore the importance of the media in election campaigns

⏰ What We Did

• Examined the forms of propaganda used in a political speech

⚙️ Resources

• A5 - Identifying Propaganda Techniques

💻 Homework

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3.2 How Candidates & Groups Try to Influence Your Vote 🧠

HOMECOMING 2025: TODAY IS TOMATO DAY 🍅

🎯 Learning Targets

• Describe ways that candidates get their messages to voters
• Analyze the role of interest groups in the election process
• Explain how candidates and interest groups try to influence the way people vote
• Explore the importance of the media in election campaigns

⏰ What We Did

• Used notes from Lesson 3, Part 2: How Candidates and Groups Try to Influence Your Vote, to answer the following questions in complete sentences:

1. Define direct mail, media, propaganda, and bias.
   
2. List four methods candidates use to get their messages to voters.
3. What are the goals of interest groups?
4. List the major propaganda techniques that might be used in campaign messages.
5. How might opinion polls affect the outcome of an election?
6. Evaluate Abraham Lincoln was one of our greatest presidents. He was also awkward and tired-eyed. Do you think that Lincoln could become president in today? Explain your answer.

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💻 Homework

• Finish Lesson 3, Part 2 review questions by T 30 Sep, if necessary

3.1 Being a Voter 🗳️

🎯 Learning Targets

• Explain the purpose of general elections
• Describe how and when elections are held and who may vote in them
• Explore the importance of becoming an informed voter

⏰ What We Did

• Examined why the voting age was lowered to 18 and analyzed the meaning of an editorial cartoon on the relationship between voters and the media

⚙️ Resources

• A4 - 18-Year-Olds and the Vote; Voting and Elections

💻 Homework

• Finish "18-Year-Olds and the Vote; Voting and Elections" before M 29 Sep, if necessary
• Watch and take notes on Lesson 3, Part 2: How Candidates and Groups Try to Influence Your Vote, before M 29 Sep 2025

3.1 Being a Voter 🗳️

🎯 Learning Targets

• Explain the purpose of general elections
• Describe how and when elections are held and who may vote in them
• Explore the importance of becoming an informed voter

⏰ What We Did

• Took notes on Lesson 3, Part 1, Being a Voter
• Examined voter turnout in previous national elections

⚙️ Resources

• Civics ✮ Lesson 3 Instructional Notes
• Lesson 3, Part 1: Being a Voter
• A3 - Voter Participation in National Elections

💻 Homework

• Finish Voter Participation in National Elections before F 26 Sep, if necessary

Lesson 2 Review 2️⃣

Today is a Late Arrival day 🏫

🎯 Learning Targets

• Review the key concepts of Lesson 2

⏰ What We Did

• Took — and then discussed the answers to — a quiz on Lesson 1, Part X: X
• Began work on Lesson 2 Lesson Review

⚙️ Resources

• LR2 - Civics ✮ Lesson 2 Lesson Review

💻 Homework

• Complete Lesson 2 Lesson Review before class on R 25 Sep 2025, if necessary

2.3 Choosing Candidates 🗳️

🎯 Learning Targets

• Explain the process of nominating candidates
• Describe how political parties choose presidential candidates

⏰ What We Did

• Using the provided "Election 2025" packet, reviewed an overview of the two presidential candidates who will appear on the ballot for a mock trial
• Completed "Meet the Candidates" worksheet

⚙️ Resources

• S1 - Election Booklet
• A2 - Meet the Candidates

💻 Homework

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2.2 Our Two-Party System 💭

🎯 Learning Targets

• Summarize the history of political parties in the United States
• Describe the role of third parties in our democracy
• Compare the organization and basic beliefs of the two major parties
• Explore how people choose which political party to support
• Explain how party strength has changed

⏰ What We Did

• Discovered personal ideologies by focusing on 14 current issues

⚙️ Resources

• A1 - Finding Your Political Ideology
• 1s vs. 4s on the Issues

💻 Homework

• Watch and take notes on Lesson 2, Part 3: Choosing Candidates, before T 23 Sep 2025

2.1 The Role of Political Parties 🗳️

🎯 Learning Targets

• Explain how political parties help government function
• Describe the ways that political parties link citizens to their government

⏰ What We Did

• Took notes on Lesson 2, Part 1, The Role of Political Parties
• Used notes to answer the following questions in complete sentences:

1. Define political party, nominate, platform, planks, and canvass.
2. List four ways in which political parties help government.
3. What are the ways in which political parties help citizens get involved in government?
4. Analyze How can political parties be seen as the oil that makes the machinery of American democracy work?

⚙️ Resources

• Civics ✮ Lesson 2 Instructional Notes
• Lesson 2, Part 1: The Role of Political Parties

💻 Homework

• Finish Lesson 2, Part 1 review questions before M 22 Sep, if necessary
• Watch and take notes on Lesson 2, Part 2: Our Two-Party System, before M 22 Sep 2025

Lesson 1 Quiz 💯

🎯 Learning Targets

• Review the key concepts of Lesson 1

⏰ What We Did

• Took — and then discussed the answers to — a quiz on Lesson 1

⚙️ Resources

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💻 Homework

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