Blog Response Question #1

Please answer the following questions in the form of a comment on the government blog.

1. What is school spirit?
2. What does it mean to have school spirit?
3. What are some of the benefits of a school having good school spirit?
4. What could you do to help improve school spirit?

Test Review For Wed-Thurs

Here are the items you need to study for the 20 question, multiple choice exam in Class on Wed (Red) and Thurs (Gold).

Study hard!

Difference between presidential and parliamentary government.
Difference between unitary and federal government.
What is America (in terms of the above)? What is the United Kingdom (Great Britain)?
What is the difference between an autocracy and an oligarchy?
If you have majority rule, what must you also have?
What is propaganda?
What style of economy does the USA use?
Know the four ways in which governments are believed to have formed?
What did John Locke say about why people form governments?
What are the four requirements a state needs to have in order to be considered a real state?
Who has supreme authority in a democracy? In a dictatorship?
What kind of solution was the democratic process strive to come to?
Differences between a direct and indirect democracy (and an example of each)
What does equality of opportunity mean?
What does equality before the law mean?
What is a constitution, and what is its primary purpose?
How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

Best of luck to you all.

Columbus Government Class

Monday: Red Day: Finish C1 S3 Notes. Discuss 9/11 Essay. RED TWO: Discuss typed essay.
Handout Presidential assignment. Assign first 15 presidents for memorization.

MOVIE NIGHT IS TONIGHT AT 6 PM! "UNITED 93!"

Tuesday Gold Day: Finish C1S3 Notes. C1 Review assignment. Handout Presidential Assignments. Assign first 15 presidents for memorization.

Wednesday: RED DAY : C1 Test. Work on Presidential Memorization.

Thursday: Gold Day: C1 Test. Set up blogs. Blog essays. Find Political Blogs.

Friday: REd Day: Set up blogs. Blog essays. Find Political Blogs. Current Events.

NOTE: ALL CHAPTER 23 INDIVIDUAL PRESENTATIONS HAVE BEEN PUSHED BACK TO NEXT WEEK BECAUSE OF THE SUDDEN AVAILABILITY OF THE MOBILE COMPUTER LAB. Red Days will be Wed and Friday Oct4 and Oct. 6. Gold Days will be Tuesday Oct. 3 and Thursday Oct. 5.

Go Titans!

This week

Here is what is on tap for this week:

Monday, Gold Day: Finish C1 S2 Notes. For G1: QUIZZZ!!!


Tuesday-Wednesday: C1S3 Notes. Purpose of a Democracy.

Thursday-Friday: Student presentations of Communism, Socialism, and Capitalism.