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Michaels Weekly Lesson Plans
Date : 1/4/16
Standards/Objectives:
Activities: Cover Syllabus and classroom
rules
Assignments/HW: Syllabus Signature
Lesson: 1
Materials: Syllabus
Assessments: none
Date : 1/5/16
Lesson: 2
Standards/Objectives: Strand 3: Concept 1: PO1: Examine the foundations of
democratic representative government
Define government and the basic powers governments hold.
Describe the characteristics of the state.
Understand the purpose of government.
Activities: Bell Work and Discussion
Materials: Power Point Presentation
Assignments/HW: Handout 1.1
Assessments: informal
Date: 1/6/16
Lesson: 3
Define systems of Government based on who can participate.
Identify different ways that power can be distributed within a state.
Describe a government by how power is distributed between the executive
and legislative branches.
Activities: Poster Assignment
Assignments/HW: Handout 1.2, Poster
Assignment
Date: 1/7/16
Lesson: 4
Understand the foundations of democracy.
Analyze the connections between democracy and the free enterprise
system.
Activities: Bell work and exit ticket
Date: 1/8/16
Standards/Objectives: Chapter 1 test
Activities: Chapter 1 test
Assignments/HW: Chapter 1 test
Lesson: 5
Materials: Chapter 1 test
Assessments: Chapter 1 test
Date: 1/11/16
Lesson: 6
Standards/Objectives: Strand 3: Concept 1: PO2: Trace the English roots of
American Democracy
Identify the three basic concepts of government that influenced
government in the English colonies.
Activities: Moon Colony assignment
Date: 1/12/16
Lesson: 7
American Democracy
Analyze the ideas in the declaration of Independence.
Describe the drafting of the first state constitutions.
Activities: discussion
Date: 1/13/16
Lesson: 8
American Democracy
Explain the structure of the government set up under the articles of
Confederation.
Describe how the need for a stronger national government led to the
constitutional convention.
Activities: Group discussions
Date: 1/14/16
Lesson: 9
American Democracy
Summarize the compromises that the framers of the constitution agreed to
make at the Philadelphia convention.
Describe the delegates reactions to the constitution as they completed it.
Activities: Bell work, founders assignment
(in-class)
Date: 1/15/16
Lesson: 10
American Democracy
Describe the major arguments for and against the constitution.
Describe the inauguration of the new government of the United States of
America.
Activities: Peer to peer teaching, class
discussion

Date: 1/19/16
Standards/Objectives: Chapter 2 Test
Activities: Chapter 2 Test
Assignments/HW: Chapter 2 Test
Lesson: 11
Materials: Chapter 2 Test
Assessments: Chapter 2 Test
Date: 1/20/16
Lesson: 12
Activities: Present Posters
Materials: none
Assessments: Presentations and
Assignments/HW: Poster Assignment
posters
Date: 1/21/16
Lesson: 13
Activities: Present Posters
Materials: none
Assessments: Presentations and
Assignments/HW: Poster Assignment
posters
Date: 1/22/16
Lesson: 14
Standards/Objectives: Strand 3: Concept 1: PO2:
List the six basic principles of the Constitution.
Activities: In-class group project
Date: 1/25/16
Lesson: 15
Describe four ways to formally amend the constitution.
Understand the history of the 27 amendments to the constitution including
the bill of rights.
Date: 1/26/16
Lesson: 16

Identify how basic legislation has changed the Constitution over time.
Explain the powers of the executive branch and the courts to interpret the
Constitution.
Analyze the role of party practices and custom in shaping the federal
government.
Date: 1/27/16
Lesson: 17
Date: 1/28/16
Lesson: 18
Analyze the structure, powers, and roles of the judicial branch of the
United States government, including landmark United States Supreme
Court decisions
Activities: Supreme Court Cases
Assignments/HW: Handout Supreme Court
Cases
Date: 1/29/16 2/1/16
Lesson: 19 & 20
Activities: Democracy in America Video
Materials: DIA Video
Assignments/HW: Handout DIA packet 1
Assessments: none
Date: 2/2/16
Lesson: 21
Define federalism and explain why the framers chose this system of
government.
Identify powers delegated to and denied to the national government, and
powers reserved for and denied to the states.
Examine how the constitution functions as the supreme law of the land.
Date: 2/3/16
Lesson: 22
Summarize the obligations that the constitution places on the nation for
the welfare of the states.
Examine the many and growing areas of cooperative federalism.

Date: 2/4/16
Lesson: 23
Explain why states make interstate compacts.
Understand the purposes of the full faith and credit clause and the
privileges and immunities clause.
Activities: In class research project
Date: 2/5/16
Lesson: 24
Date: 2/8/16
Lesson: 25
Analyze the structure, powers, and roles of the judicial branch of the
United States government, including landmark United States Supreme
Court decisions
Activities: Supreme Court Cases
Assignments/HW: Handout Supreme Court
Cases
Date: 2/9/16
Lesson: 26
Define a political party.
Describe the major functions of political parties.
Date: 2/10/16
Lesson: 27
Identify the reasons why the united states has a two-party system
Understand multi-party and one-party systems and how they affect the
functioning of government.
Activities: discussion and in class research
project
Date: 2/11/16
Lesson: 28
Understand the origins of political parties in the United States
Describe the three major periods of single-party domination and the
current era of divided government.
Date: 2/12/16
Lesson: 29
Identify the types of minor parties that have been active in American
politics
Understand why minor parties are important even though they seldom
elect national candidates.
Activities: discussion and research project
Date: 2/16/16
Lesson: 30
Understand why the major parties have a decentralized structure.
Describe the national party machinery and how parties are organized at
the state and local levels.
Activities: Organization Chart of one
political party
Materials:
Date: 2/17/16
Date: 2/18/16
Activities: Student presentations on Political
Parties
Assignments/HW: Student presentations on
Political Parties
Date: 2/19/16
Parties
Political Parties
Lesson: 31
Lesson: 32
Materials: Student presentations
on Political Parties
Assessments: Student
presentations on Political Parties
Lesson: 33
Date: 2/22/16
Parties
Political Parties
Lesson: 34
Date: 2/23/16
Lesson: 35
Assignments/HW: Handout DIA packet
Assessments: none
Date: 2/24/16
Lesson: 36
Assignments/HW: Handout DIA packet
Assessments: none
Date: 2/25/16
Lesson: 37
Standards/Objectives: Strand 3: Concept 2: PO7: Analyze the structure, powers,
and roles of the judicial branch of the United States government, including
landmark United States Supreme Court decisions
Activities: Discuss Gibbons v Ogden
Assignments/HW: Handout Gibbons v Ogden Assessments: informal
Date: 2/26/16
Lesson: 38
Summarize the history of voting rights in the United States.
Explain constitutional restrictions on the states power to set voting
qualifications.
Activities: Supreme Court Decision
discussion
Date: 2/29/16
Lesson: 39
Identify the universal requirements for voting in the United States
Activities: In class research project
Date: 3/1/16
Lesson: 40
Describe the 15th Amendment and the tactics used to circumvent it in an
effort to deny African Americans the Vote
Analyze the Significance of the early civil rights legislation passed in 1957,
1960, 1964 and the effects of Voting Rights Act of 1965
Activities: Discussion

Date: 3/2/16
Lesson: 41
Examine voting behavior of voters and nonvoters
Understand the sociological and psychological factors that affect voter
behavior
Date: 3/3/16
Lesson: 42
Date: 3/4/16
Lesson: 43
Assessments: none
Date: 3/14/16
Lesson: 44
Assessments: none
Date: 3/15/16
Lesson: 45
and roles of the legislative branch of the United States government
Explain why the Constitution divides power between the two houses of
congress.
Describe a term of congress.
Summarize how sessions of congress have changed over time.
Assessments: none
Date: 3/16/16
Lesson: 46
Describe the size and terms of the House of Representatives.
Describe typical congressional elections and districts.
Analyze the formal and informal qualifications for serving in the house.
Assessments: none
Date: 3/17/16
Lesson: 47
Compare the size of the senate to that of the house of representatives
Describe how states have elected senators in the past and present
Identify the qualifications for serving in the senate
Assessments: none
Date: 3/18/16
Lesson: 48
Compare and contrast the duties of the job of serving in congress
Describe the compensation and privileges given to members of congress
Assessments: none
Date: 3/21/16
Lesson: 49
Chapter 10 Test
Date: 3/22/16
Lesson: 50
Assignments/HW: Supreme Court Handout
Assessments: none
Date: 3/23/16
Lesson: 51
Assessments: none
Date: 3/24/16
Lesson: 52
Assessments: none
Date: 3/25/16
Lesson: 53
Identify the three types of congressional power
Compare strict construction of the US Constitution on the subject of
congressional power to liberal construction
Assessments: none
Date: 3/28/16
Lesson: 54
Describe how congress uses its power to tax and to borrow money
Analyze the importance of congresss commerce power
Identify the reasons that the framers gave congress the power to issue
currency
Assessments: none
Date: 3/30/16
Lesson: 55
Identify the key sources of congresss foreign relations power
Describe the power sharing arrangement between congress and the
president on the issues of war and national defense
Assessments: none
Date: 4/5/16
Lesson: 56
Explain how the necessary and proper clause gives congress flexibility in
lawmaking
Summarize the key developments in the battle over the implied powers of
congress
Assessments: none
Date: 4/7/16
Lesson: 57
Describe congresss role in amending the constitution and in deciding
elections
Describe congresss power to impeach
Identify congresss executive and investigatory powers
Assessments: none
Date: 4/11/16
Lesson: 58
Assessments: none
Date: 4/13/16
Lesson: 59
Describe how and when congress convenes
Compare the roles of the presiding officers in the senate and the house
Describe how committee chairmen are chosen and explain their role in the
legislative process
Explain how the standing, joint, and conference committees function
Describe the duties and responsibilities of the house rules committee
Assignments/HW: Handout 12.1 12.2
Assessments: none
Date: 4/15/16
Lesson: 60
List the first steps in introducing a new bill to the house
Describe what happens to a bill once it enters a committee
Explain what happens to a bill on the house floor and identify the final step
in passing a bill in the house

Explain how a bill is introduced in the senate
Compare the senates rules for debate with those in the house
Evaluate the actions the president can take after both houses have passed
a bill
Assignments/HW: Handout 12.3 12.4
Assessments: none
Date: 4/18/16
Lesson: 61
Identify the presidents many roles
Understand the formal qualifications necessary to become president
Discuss issues involving the length of the presidents term
Activities: none
Assessments: quiz
Date: 4/19/16
Lesson: 62
Explain how the constitution provides for presidential succession
Understand the constitutional provisions for presidential disability
Escribe the role of the vice president
Activities: none
Assessments: quiz
Date: 4/20/16
Lesson: 63
Explain the framers original provisions for choosing the president
Outline how the rise of political parties changed the original provisions set
out in the constitution
Activities: none
Assessments: quiz
Date: 4/21/16
Lesson: 64
Describe the role of conventions, primaries and caucus-conventions in the
presidential nominating process
Outline the events that take place during a national convention
Examine the characteristics that determine who is nominated as a

presidential candidate
Activities: none
Assessments: quiz
Date: 4/25/16
Lesson: 65
Understand the function of the electoral college today
Describe the flaws in the electoral college
Outline the advantages and disadvantages of proposed reforms to the
electoral college
Activities: none
Assessments: quiz

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Standards/Objectives: Strand 3: Concept 1: PO2:

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