Hello Constitution Day! Now, in teaching AP Government or APUSH or really any other social studies class, this isn’t the only day you talk about the Constitution. For me, it was always a fun day to celebrate this document, look at what it has accomplished, and what still needs to be accomplished. The document itself…
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Breaking Down Foundational Documents To Make Them More Manageable in an Online World
The AP Government curriculum has nine foundational documents, all of which I’ve written about at some point. Federalist No. 10 Brutus No. 1 The Declaration of Independence The Articles of Confederation The Constitution of the United States (Including the Bill of Rights and following Amendments) Federalist 51 Letter from Birmingham Jail Federalist No. 70 Federalist…
Teaching AP Government in a Shortened Semester- Week Six The Bureaucracy
Posting a bit early this week, but we have block day and a three day weekend coming! Week 6, Days 24-28 I always think of the scene from Zootopia when I teach the bureaucracy. What was covered this week: Day 24- Lecture on the bureaucracy (Very simple. I was more focused on having them work…
Teaching AP Government in a Shortened Semester: Week Four, Impeachment, and an absence
Week 4, Days 14-18 What was covered this week: Day 14- Quantitative Analysis FRQ review as a class as a warm-up (My students struggled and we will be looking at this more) As an activity, students made flow charts or cartoons about how the legislative process using the Library of Congress as their resource. Days…
Teaching AP Government in a Shortened Semester- Unit Two Resources on Congress
I’ve divided this unit into three pieces, starting with Congress during the same week the impeachment trial is occurring which means I will take time each day to discuss where we are at in the trial as it relates to the curriculum. This one has been a challenge for me because I used to spend…
Teaching AP Government in a Shortened Semester- Week Two and I need some more coffee
Week 2 Days 5-9 (2 block days) What was covered this week: Day 5: Signed up in MyAP (Not very user-friendly) and talked about the issues and compromises of the Constitutional Convention. (1.5) Day 6: Federalist 51 from MyAP and we listened to High Crimes and Misdemeanors (We did not do Clinton v. New York,…
