Test Day

April 1st, 2015

Test Day

Review Day

March 31st, 2015

No Warm Up Today

Today we will be reviewing for the test by playing Zondle review games for Dun-Bucks.  The better you score in your games the more Dun-Bucks you earn.


CHROME BOOK LOG IN
email: your s#@milwaukee.k12.wi.us
password: your date of birth

Go to www.zondle.com

Play questions for either

Voting

Voting Take 2

Announcements

Take packets home today at end of class

Packets due Wednesday

Test on Wednesday

Youth Empowered in the Struggle tomorrow and Wednesday after school!

Filling out ballots

March 30th, 2015

Warm Up

Define: polling place, electorate, apathy

Learning Objective: Students will understand the mechanics of voting.

Success Criteria: Students can properly fill out a ballot.


















Today we're going to make sure we know how to fill out a ballot properly. If you can't fill out a ballot properly, your vote won't count even if you show up on election day.

Voter Apathy

March 27th, 2015

Warm Up

1. Why did different groups of people fight so hard, for so long for the right to vote?

Learning Objective:  Students will understand the importance of voting.

Success Criteria: Students can explain some of the reasons behind voter apathy.

What is apathy?

Why don't people vote?

Complete as many pages as you can through page 11.

Voting Requirements Part II

March 26th, 2015

Warm Up 

1. What are the 4 ways you can register to vote?
2. What do you ALWAYS need when registering to vote?

Learning Objective: Students will understand the requirements for voting.

Success Criteria: Students can explain the importance of voting and how to vote if they're ever homeless or convicted of a crime.

Why vote?  

It's about who get's to make the laws we all live by.  A king? Just wealthy, white men?  Just men?  Anyone who has to live under those laws?

Do we all write them together or do we pick people to write the laws for us?

Representative v. Direct Democracy

Representative Democracy: we vote for politicians to make the laws for us?

Direct Democracy: everyone writes the laws together and votes on them together (all 300+ million of us)

Everyone didn't always have a say in our laws.

So, why vote?

What happens if we show apathy and stop paying attention, stop voting, and let others pick our representatives to government?

Only by paying attention, becoming critical thinkers who are active in our government can we keep a democracy and our say in what the laws will and will not be.

In your groups complete pages 8 & 9 of your packets to learn about voting as a convicted criminal and voting while homeless.  You do not need your books today.

Youth Empowered in the Struggle Meets Today!

Tonight after school meet with the Youth Organizer from YES to discuss how you can help us change the future of our city, state, and country!