Bay View High School Citizenship Blog: President Unit

About this blog.

This blog is for the 2014-2015 freshmen citizenship class at Bay View High School in Mr. Dunbeck's sections. Here you will find updates on home work assignments, copies of homework assignments, practice tests, links to videos shown in class, hints for tests and occasional extra credit assignments. Be sure to check this site regularly in order to make sure you are up-to-date on all assignments for this class, especially if you are absent.

While checking this site is optional, though highly recommended, you are REQUIRED to have a copy of the Citizenship textbook. It is also important that you regularly attend class to keep up with lectures, notes, discussion, videos, etc. Find out why you are here.

Wednesday, December 10, 2014

President Unit

This week we began our unit on the President of the United States or POTUS. In this unit we will be exploring questions such as

What are the qualifications for becoming President?
What role does the President play in our system?
What is the federal bureaucracy and how does it work?
What is the real power of the presidency and why are so many people upset with the President?
What is foreign policy and what are America's foreign policy goals?
What are drones and does our use of them meet the goals of US foreign policy as laid out by our textbook?

The review sheet for this unit is built into our group work packet that is to be completed in class with your partners. However, the review sheet can be found individually here, or on the right side of your screen under the "Unit Review Sheets" section.

The practice test for the unit can be found here, or under the "Homework" section of the blog to the right as well.

The group work packet must remain in the classroom and you should have your ambassador check the group's answers after each page to ensure you have the correct answers. We will be completing approximately one page of the packet a day with only one or two exceptions. The final two pages of the packet are review and must be completed on your own either on our review day or at home once the packets are released at the end of the unit.

The packet is worth roughly as much as the test for this unit so it is in your best interest to do well on every page of the packet and work closely with your group to ensure you get every answer correct. The packet is due the day of the test and WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED LATE. The test for this unit will be held on Thursday, December 18th for period 2 and Wednesday, December 17th for all other sections.

Packets must remain in the classroom, but a digital copy of the packet will be uploaded tomorrow in case you want to work on it at home or need to print up another copy. You will need Chapter 7 of the textbook to complete most pages of this packet.

In the meantime, enjoy these videos that were shown in class this week to introduce the topics we were discussing.

How the President and Congress are selected.