Raise your hand if you save Unit Three for the end and now are wondering what to do since the test will only cover Units 1-3? Not going to lie. I went for a LONG walk and stewed. During the walk, though, I realized that this is all new for everyone and I had a […]
Things are hard lately, but I’ve seen so much light. I pulled an Affirmator card today ( I read it in my stories on Instagram @teachingapgovernment!) and realized that I need to keep the flow going. Others may be doing this, but I need to keep it going. I love to write, and as an […]
We are in unprecedented times. It’s uncertain. And many are wondering what we are going to do for the AP test. As someone who has a chronic illness, I think about MY extended absences a lot, and have safeguards built-in for days I need to be gone. We have one more week of our scheduled […]
Week 9, Days 38-42 What was covered this week: Day 38: Lecture on political socialization. Day 39: We took a multiple-choice AP practice exam as a marker for our more than halfway point. I used the exams on Albert.io, but there are a plethora of tests out there. Day 40/41: Students really needed to […]
It is close to the end of the third quarter for us. Kids are exhausted. We just finished up our Participatory Budgeting project, which was amazing. We got 84% of our school to vote on the initiatives and the margin was only 20 votes. This is something our district is sponsoring. It took a whole […]
This is a little later than usual, but it’s been a crazy week! Unit Four the bane of my existence, mostly because I don’t have a lot of resources and I’m usually burnt out at this point. Week 8, Days 33-37 What was covered this week: Day 33: We took a political ideology test, put […]
Week 7, Days 29-32 What was covered this week: Literally, I just kept Federalist 78, the Judiciary, and an argumentative essay without the argumentative essay because my students killed the seminar and brought in ALL the Fed Papers, and all the evidence. I’m not going to lie, this is hard. I’m juggling too much. Outside the […]
