The Parliament of Barbados, in the Caribbean. Photo taken in 2011.
Hi everyone,
We went into more detail as to what government is and looks like in various systems around the world. Lots of content to check out! Here's what happened in class:
Learning Targets:
Knowledge LT 17: I can explain how and why world societies organize themselves and how power is established and maintained.
Communication LT 1: I can use language and style that is appropriate to the content area.
Soundtrack: "Paris, Tokyo" by Lupe Fiasco. Selected for today because of the horrific attacks in Paris on Friday. Also, just an excellent song about traveling around the world. Lyrics here.
AGENDA 11/16/15:
News Brief – Josh
Debrief Forced Choice
Forms of Government
Group Activity
Homework: Read the blog. Turn in any missing work ASAP! Next news brief: Andrew.
News Brief: Josh had the news brief today and selected an article about this story to talk about: NYTimes.com - Beirut, Also the Site of Deadly Attacks, Feels Forgotten. This was a good reminder that there are multiple areas that have experienced recent tragedies around the world. We talked about this, the bombing in Baghdad, and of course, went into detail about the Paris attacks and what happened there. I talked a bit about my own experience in Paris (as my girlfriend is from there), and showed a map of where the attacks happened. This was in an attempt to provide some context for what happened and why. It is important that we continue learning about what is going on in the world! Thanks, Josh.
Andrew was selected to do the next news brief.
We also watched the one minute BBC World News update. Here's the link to see the latest one minute update, at any time of day (it will probably be different from what we watched in class):
BBCNews.com - One-minute World News
I also asked about the weekend and what people were up to, before moving on.
Debrief Forced Choice: This was when we talked about how the activity went and the answers to these questions (a one page written reflection was due to be completed in class today): What was the most difficult or controversial question for you? Why? How do these sorts of questions relate to the study of government?
I really like the debate format in forced choice (obviously, or I wouldn't spend the majority of two days on it), so thank you for your participation and reflection!
Forms of Government: This was a PowerPoint presentation that went over various basic forms of government. Students took Cornell Notes (if they wanted that form - otherwise, it was on a regular sheet of paper) on the lecture. Here's the file for review (there will be an upcoming quiz on forms of government):
As with most presentations I create, the pictures are almost entirely mine! :-)
Group Activity: After the content instruction, I split up the class into seven groups. The rest of class was devoted to going over one of the following forms of government with the group (if you missed class, just pick one to do and bring next class) - both reading the front side and completing the back, along with thinking of a short skit idea for how to demonstrate the form of government to the class next time.
Just look at the readings from A-G, because you do not need to know the economic structures that are later in the packet, yet.
Next class, we will do the skits, then talk about each form of government. See you then!
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