Frosty the Snowman:
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Tuesday, December 23, 2014
Thursday, December 11, 2014
Things to review for the summative test for this Monday!
This to study for the Test on Monday:
-Some information about the Framers and the role they played
in writing the constitution
-Parts of the constitution:
-Preamble, etc
-The 3 branches:
-Executive, Legislative, and Judicial
-The roles they all play in the process of making a law
-How they all work and the parts that make them work
(Ex: legislative branch is made up of congress
that has 2 parts the house and the senate)
-The Cabinet
-Supreme Court and the role it plays
-How a bill becomes a law
Federalism: Balance
of power between the states and the federal government
Separation of Powers:
-Federal
Powers
-State
Powers
-Expressed
powers
-Implied
powers
-reserved
powers
-Denied
Powers
Checks and balances of the Branches
Bill of Rights
The 3/5 compromise (See notes we took in class)
The Great Compromise/Connecticut compromise (See notes we took in class)
Bill of Rights
The 3/5 compromise (See notes we took in class)
The Great Compromise/Connecticut compromise (See notes we took in class)
The Presidency of George Washington and the Precedents that
he set
Presidencies of Adams and Jefferson: See the Reading Rotation sheets
The presidencies of George Washington to Thomas Jefferson
For what will be on the summative test this coming Monday this video has information about the presidencies of George Washington, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson. Watch from the beginning to 28:16, which is the end of Jefferson. the information about the Louisiana Purchase and Lewis and Clark WILL NOT be on this test, but the other information about Jefferson's Presidency will be. Especially the election stuff we did in the rapid fire reading activity.
Monday, December 8, 2014
George Washington
Here is a brief summary of the life of George Washington to accompany the information we learned about him being president. It covers his whole life, but has good information to review that will show up on the final.
Thursday, December 4, 2014
Wednesday, December 3, 2014
The Great Compromise/Connecticut Compromise
Here is Mr Hughes again on the great compromise.
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