Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Introduction to Federalism: Tuesday, October 20th

Essays on the Great Compromise were due today at the start of class. Students completed a self evaluation.

Students who need additional resources to complete this paper should conference with Mr. Zartler. Also the first 8 minutes of this video are a useful review: The Constitution, the Articles, and Federalism: Crash Course US History #8.


The next unit is titled "Federalism." In this unit we will study the structure of the United States Federal Government and it's relationship to the states (this relationship is called Federalism which admittedly is a bit confusing).  This unit will be assessed by a summative project (The Federalism Project) and a summative test. The test will be Friday, November 20th. The project will be due the next class: Tuesday November 24th, the last class day before Thanksgiving break.

The topics of the test and project are:
A) Federalism
B) Examples of the various levels of government (students wishing to exceed will include information about relevant elected officials at each level)
C) Delegated Powers; Concurrent Powers; and Reserved Powers (students wishing to exceed will include Expressed Powers; Implied Powers; Inherent Powers)
D) The Supremacy Clause

E) The Role of the Supreme Court in maintaining Federalism and the Constitution


Students were asked to use Cornell notes for the following lectures and instructional videos.

Mr. Zartler introduce the 7 Articles of the Constitution.

Next the class began focusing on the concept of Federalism with this "Crash Course: Government and Politics #4."

The class then viewed two different videos: the last 5 minutes of The Constitution, the Articles, and Federalism: Crash Course US History #8 and Article VI for Dummies by Keith Hughs.



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