Day 3 Lesson Plan The many Hats of the President: The Jobs of the United States President Seventh

Grade Civics Goal: Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding the governmental system of the United States. Objectives: Working individually and in small groups, students will be able to describe and categorize the powers granted to the President of the United States by reading Article II of the Constitution and correlate various situations with the Powers of the President by listening to scenarios of the President exerting his power. Required Materials: Computer/Projector and Handout/Article II of the Constitution Detailed Lesson: Warm up Activity: Students will be divided into small groups of about three or four students each and asked to share the flash prompts they wrote during the previous classs wrap up activity. Each student will be required to answer at least three prompt questions written by their peers. After a little more than five minutes of working in their respected groups, the instructor will ask the groups to share two prompts written by group members. The prompts that will be shared by one person elected to speak for the group and the prompts that will be shared by the designated speaker will be determined by a group decision. This activity is estimated to take about ten minutes to complete. Activity f or the Day: Students will be kept in their small groups for the remainder of the period. The majority of the lesson will be given orally rather than through a PowerPoint. The instructor will write the following terms on the board that the students will be required to write definitions for: The Commander-in-Chief, Head of State, Chief Executive Director of Foreign Policy, Political Party Leader and Legislative Leader. After the instructor lectures on the various hats of the President, sections 2, 3 and 4 of Article II of the constitution will be projected from the SMRT board. Selected students will be called upon to read a few sentences, and once students have read the articles, groups will be assigned a presidential hat and instructed to find where their hat is mentioned in Article II of the constitution. At the end of the lecture and reading of sections 2, 3 and 4 of Article II of the Constitution, the students will be given an oral exercise incorporating scenarios regarding the various jobs or hats of the President. One chart listing the responsibilities of the President will be given to each group and one person, other than the student who spoke for the group during the warm up, will be given the job of speaking for the

group as well. The lecture for this class period begins on the third page of this document, and the material required for the oral exercise is listed on the fourth. Wrap up Activity: Students will be instructed to create two of their own prompts, akin to the ones incorporated into the listening exercise illustrating their knowledge of the various responsibilities of the President. Homework: The President Wears Seven Hats worksheet and Weekly Review Challenge: Test the Knowledge of Your Classmates, worksheet. (see page five of this document)

Link to the Homework worksheet: http://teacher.scholastic.com/scholasticnews/indepth/democracy_plaza/reproducibles/images/info rmed_7_4.pdf

Day 3 Lecture: The jobs or hats of the President: Relating the Presidents responsibilities or hats to the students everyday life. The Instructors responsibilities: Teacher, Wife, Husband, Care Taker The responsibilities of the Students: Ask them what kind of Hats they wear. Commander-in-chief of the armed forces: The head of the Armed forces: The president can authorize the use of troops overseas without declaring war Sending the military to fight in a foreign country: FDR sending troops to Japan during WWII/Lyndon B. Johnson sending troops to Vietnam. Head of State: Ceremonious symbol representing the United States: The Face of the Nation Annual wreath laying at the Tomb of the unknown soldier/Pardoning a Turkey around Thanksgiving time Speaking to the Nation on Topics of interest Chief Executive: Acts as the administrative Head of the Government: meeting with the cabinet, signing bills, and appointing heads of departments Declares States of Emergency/ Executive Orders/Appoints people to positions on the Supreme Court and Federal Departments with the approval of the Senate/Has the power to grant pardons Director of Foreign Policy: Negotiates on behalf of the United States with foreign governments Appointing ambassadors. Signs treaties with foreign Nations/Truman signing the Paris Peace Treaties ending WII Political Party Leader: Head of his or her Political Party Raises money for political party and supports party members running for office.

Chief Legislator Executes the instructions of Congress/ Recommends legislation to congress Has the power to veto bills passed by Congress

Link to the group worksheet for the oral exercises: http://learningtogive.org/lessons/unit108/lesson1_attachments/1.html The following scenarios will be given to students orally: Barack Obama, being a President and a Democrat, attends a fundraising party for a Democratic candidate running for governor of New York State. The President vetoes legislation passed by congress calling for an increase in taxes to improve federal highways. The President sending troops to Israel to help in the foreign nations defense against Pakistani forces. The President appointing a new Secretary of Defense into his cabinet The President signs a treaty with Venezuela calling for an increase in gasoline sales to the United States. The President attends the funeral of a foreign leader.

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Weekly Review Challenge: Test the Knowledge of Your Classmates!

To prepare for Fridays quiz, part of tomorrows class will be spent playing a review game of all the materials weve learned this past week. Rather than the teacher chose what questions to ask students, it is up to you to create questions that will be asked during Fridays review game! Each student should prepare three questions that will be collected before the start of the game. The question can be of any kind! It can ask for the definition of a vocabulary term, it can provide a scenario making students figure out if a person meets all the requirements to become Presidentthe sky the limit! Use the following space bellow to write your three questions and the three answers to your questions. If you decide to create questions that can be answered with a simple yes or no, in your answer, you must explain why the answer is yes or no.
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