It is Finals Day!

Well, the blessed day is here for you Gold Day peeps!

First, let me comment on the Movie Night last night. Excellent turnout. Nearly everyone followed the rules and left no mess behind.

ALMOST everyone.

To a certain group of people (and you know who you are), I hope you get a lump of coal in your stocking at Christmas. Leaving behind crushed pretzels and spit sunflower seeds for your classmates to clean up is bad form. Hardly befitting the Christmas Spirit.

Special Thanks to Chris, Brock, Ashton, Whitney, Lauren and Heather for helping me clean up the mess. I hope each of you gets a billion dollars in your stockings this year. (Forgive me if I left a name off the list there. I wasn't paying much attention- fuming, seething rage will shrink a person's observational skills.)

Please study for your finals. Good luck to all, and to all a good night!

Final Review Study Guide

THE FINAL is going to be on Wednesday for Gold Day and Friday for Red Day.

Here is what is going to be on the test:

Presidents 1-43. You will have to put them in order AND name their primary achievements and failures.

You will have to write down the entire Preamble to the Constitution of the United States.

You will need to know the Declaration of Independence Vocabulary (we will pass back out your prior quizzes).

There will be questions about the following items:

UNITARY GOVERNMENT
EQUALITY OF ALL MEN ACCORDING TO THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
TYPES OF DICTATORSHIPS: (Totalitarian, Authoritarian)
DIFFERENCES BETWEEN OLIGARCHY, MONARCHY, and DEMOCRACY
WHAT A CONSTITUTION DOES
FEDERAL GOVERNMENTS
JOHN LOCKE'S BELIEFS ABOUT WHY PEOPLE FORM GOVERNMENTS
PROPAGANDA
PRESIDENTIAL GOVERNMENTS VERSUS PARLIAMENTARY GOVERNMENTS

Also, there is a GREAT chance of me throwing in a few questions about:
Communism
Socialism
Capitalism


:)

I hope everyone studies very hard. I will make my IA all next week a boot camp for passing the class. Anyone who needs it has an open pass to come to my room during IA next week. On Monday we will focus on PResidents 31-43, but after that it is a no-holds-barred attempt to teach ya up real good!

Best wishes to everyone, please work hard!

Final Review Study Guide

THE FINAL is going to be on Wednesday for Gold Day and Friday for Red Day.

Here is what is going to be on the test:

Presidents 1-43. You will have to put them in order AND name their primary achievements and failures.

You will have to write down the entire Preamble to the Constitution of the United States.

You will need to know the Declaration of Independence Vocabulary (we will pass back out your prior quizzes).

There will be questions about the following items:

UNITARY GOVERNMENT
EQUALITY OF ALL MEN ACCORDING TO THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
TYPES OF DICTATORSHIPS: (Totalitarian, Authoritarian)
DIFFERENCES BETWEEN OLIGARCHY, MONARCHY, and DEMOCRACY
WHAT A CONSTITUTION DOES
FEDERAL GOVERNMENTS
JOHN LOCKE'S BELIEFS ABOUT WHY PEOPLE FORM GOVERNMENTS
PROPAGANDA
PRESIDENTIAL GOVERNMENTS VERSUS PARLIAMENTARY GOVERNMENTS

Also, there is a GREAT chance of me throwing in a few questions about:
Communism
Socialism
Capitalism


:)

I hope everyone studies very hard. I will make my IA all next week a boot camp for passing the class. Anyone who needs it has an open pass to come to my room during IA next week. On Monday we will focus on PResidents 31-43, but after that it is a no-holds-barred attempt to teach ya up real good!

Best wishes to everyone, please work hard!

The Penultimate Week!

Here is what is on tap for this week.

MOnday and Tuesday- President presentations 31-35. PRESIDENTS QUIZ 21-30. MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON QUIZ. (NOTE: Wow, am I disappointed with how Red Day did on both quizzes. Gold Day, you must do better.- Chad)

Wednesday and Thursday - President Presentations 36-43. Presentations by appointed people on Gold day. Red Day (Wednesday) will have someone assigned.

Please note that I'm moving the date of presidents 41-43 up a day. No griping, please, you got a free 6 days with the snow, PLUS the delay when I pushed all the presentations back another 2 days.

Friday - RED DAY - PRESIDENTS QUIZ 31-43

Monday, Dec 18- Final Review. (Gold Day) Bonus quiz time!

Tuesday, Dec 19 - Final Review (Red Day) Bonus quiz time!

Wednesday, Dec 20 - Gold Day Finals.

Thursday, Dec 21 - Red Day Finals.

This should be how things go through the end of next week.

REMINDER: Movie Night "Million Dollar Baby." Next Tuesday night, 6 p.m. SHARP.

PLEASE DO SOMETHING NICE FOR SOMEONE THIS WEEK!

This Week

Well......wow. Three whole snow days! I didn't think I'd ever see it again!

I started writing this about twenty minutes ago....and I just got a call saying school is cancelled again for MOnday! Holy cow!

This was a nice break, but now we have to get back to business. Our schedule for the Presidents Presentation has been messed with quite a bit. Since I'm writing this from home, it is kinda tough to remember which class is on what day, and some class STILL haven't finished the Mr. Smith Goes To Washington Movie. I'm about to have to mortgage my house again to pay the late fees at Hasting's.....heh heh. I ought to just buy the stinking videotape. Oh well.

This week, apart from presidents, you can look forward to

1. A quiz over the presidents
2. A quiz over Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
3. Turning in the Filibuster Worksheets and class discussion
4. 2 random people from each class being assigned to do an independent research project on Terri Schiavo, Nancy Cruzan, and a couple other items.

5. A group art project (heh heh) over the first amendment that will lead in to our semester final AND the beginning of the Spring semester.


THE NEXT MOVIE NIGHT IS TUESDAY, DECEMBER 19 at 6 pm. The movie will be "MILLION DOLLAR BABY."

I was going to do Starship Troopers, but seeing countless alien bugs having their entrails splattered all across the movie screen doesn't quite fit in with the Holiday spirit. So instead I'm going with a movie about a redneck hick girl learning to box. Clint Eastwood is a miracle of cinematic genius. So if you're asking what in the world this movie has to do with the United States government....it has NOTHING to do with the upcoming release of Rocky Balboa, in which 140 year old Sylvester Stallone boxes someone 1/7 his age. Instead, it has to do with a certain Dr. Kevorkian......and the moral/ethical issues it raises. I'm excited about the discussions will can have with this hot-button issue in class!

I hope you all are careful and remain cautious, primarily those of you who live on the back country roads where the ice is still treacherous.

See you Tuesday!

By the way....YOU BETTER HAVE YOUR HOMEWORK DONE NOW! NO EXCUSES!