22) October 22, 2018

1. Welcome
2. Create a new blog post.
3. Name it 22) October 22, 2018
4. Showcase--Election Guide
1. Tomorrow, 4:00-8:00
5. Quarter Ended
1. Check your grade.
2. Does anything need to be fixed?
6. Daily Write--1st Quarter Survey
7. Election Guide/Showcase Project
1. KQED
2. Ballotpedia
8. FINISH Propositions
1. See Thursday's Blog
9. Offices?
1. Daily Write--Offices
1. What are the top three offices that are the most important to you and why are they important?
1. Federal Offices
1. Senator--Zac and Preston
2. Representative--Justin and Logan Sm
2. State Offices
1. Governor--Josiah and Bryce
2. California Secretary of State
3. Attorney General--Clayton and Jordan
4. Treasurer--Ashton, Bobby, and Maisy
5. Controller
6. Lieutenant Governor
7. Superintendent of Public Instruction
8. Commissioner of Insurance
9. State Senate District 8
10. State Assembly District 5
11. Board of Equalization District 1
3. Local Office
1. Madera County District Attorney--Alex and Carolina
10. Build Election Guide
1. Daily Write--Offices
1. What is the Title?
2. Who are the candidates?
3. Incumbent
1. Party
2. Career
3. Money Supporters
4. Endorsements
5. Ads
4. Challenger
1. Party
2. Career
3. Money Supporters
4. Endorsements
5. Ads
2. Webpage Template--Offices
1. Create a Google Site.
2. Share it with me.
3. Link it to today's blog.
4. Add an image for Header Background.
5. Fill in the information for the webpage.
6. Publish it.
11. Finish Daily Write--Was Dr. Seuss a Racist?
12. Daily Closing
1. What did you learn?
2. How did you learn it? (What did we do and what got you to understand it?)
3. How does it or will it affect you?
4. How can you use it?
13. Pro Points--Shooting An Elephant
1. Who was George Orwell?  Why is that important?
2. What was his job?  Why is that important?
3. What was up with the elephant?
4. How did Orwell react why?
5. What does this story say about the role of government?

21) October 18, 2018

1. Welcome
2. Create a new blog post.
3. Name it 21) October 18, 2018
4. End of Quarter--Tomorrow
5. Showcase--Election Guide
1. Tuesday, October 23, 4:00-8:00
6. Tuesday's Daily Closing
1. What did you learn?
2. How did you learn it? (What did we do and what got you to understand it?)
3. How does it or will it affect you?
4. How can you use it?
7. Election Guide/Showcase Project
1. Propositions
1. KQED
2. Ballotpedia
2. Propositions
1. Group
2. Aidan, Anthony
3. Preston, Zac
4. Kaylie, Logan Sch
5. Anija, Sydney
6. Clayton, Jordan
7. Josiah, Bryce
8. Group
9. NO PROP
10. Logan Sm, Justin
11. Bobby, Maisy, Ashton
12. Alex, Carolina
3. Build Election Guide
1. Daily Write--Proposition
1. What is the Number and Title?
2. What is the issue?
3. Who supports it?  Why?
4. Who is against it?  Why?
5. What endorses it?  Why?
6. Can you find TV/multimedia ads?
2. Webpage Template
1. Create a Google Site.
2. Link it to today's blog.
3. Add an image for Header Background.
4. Fill in the information for the webpage.
5. Publish it.
8. Offices?
1. Daily Write--Offices
1. What are the top three offices that are the most important to you and why are they important?
1. Federal Offices
1. Senator--Zac and Preston
2. Representative--Justin and Logan Sm
2. State Offices
1. Governor--Josiah and Bryce
2. California Secretary of State
3. Attorney General--Clayton and Jordan
4. Treasurer
5. Controller
6. Lieutenant Governor
7. Superintendent of Public Instruction
8. Commissioner of Insurance
9. State Senate District 8
10. State Assembly District 5
11. Board of Equalization District 1
3. Local Office
1. Madera County District Attorney--Alex and Carolina
9. Build Election Guide
1. Daily Write--Offices
1. What is the Title?
2. Who are the candidates?
3. Incumbent
1. Party
2. Career
3. Money Supporters
4. Endorsements
5. Ads
4. Challenger
1. Party
2. Career
3. Money Supporters
4. Endorsements
5. Ads
2. Webpage Template--Offices
1. Create a Google Site.
2. Share it with me.
3. Link it to today's blog.
4. Add an image for Header Background.
5. Fill in the information for the webpage.
6. Publish it.
10. Finish Daily Write--Was Dr. Seuss a Racist?
11. Daily Closing
1. What did you learn?
2. How did you learn it? (What did we do and what got you to understand it?)
3. How does it or will it affect you?
4. How can you use it?
12. Pro Points--Shooting An Elephant
1. Who was George Orwell?  Why is that important?
2. What was his job?  Why is that important?
3. What was up with the elephant?
4. How did Orwell react why?
5. What does this story say about the role of government?

20) October 16, 2018

1. Welcome
2. Create a new blog post.
3. Name it 20) October 16, 2018
4. End of Quarter--Friday
5. Showcase--Election Guide
1. Tuesday, October 23, 4:00-8:00
6. Check your grades!
1. Open Powerschool
2. Get Starbursts!
7. Thursday's Daily Closing
1. What did you learn?
2. How did you learn it? (What did we do and what got you to understand it?)
3. How does it or will it affect you?
4. How can you use it?
8. Election Guide/Showcase Project
1. Daily Write--Propositions
1. Choose three that you feel are the most important.
2. Why are they the most important to you?
1. KQED
2. Ballotpedia
2. Propositions
1. Group
2. Aidan, Anthony
3. Preston, Zac
4. Kaylie, Logan Sch
5. Anija, Sydney
6. Clayton, Jordan
7. Josiah, Bryce
8. Group
9. NO PROP
10. Logan Sm, Justin
11. Bobby, Maisy, Ashton
12. Alex, Carolina
3. Build Election Guide
1. Daily Write--Proposition
1. What is the Number and Title?
2. What is the issue?
3. Who supports it?  Why?
4. Who is against it?  Why?
5. What endorses it?  Why?
6. Can you find TV/multimedia ads?
2. Webpage Template
1. Create a Google Site.
2. Link it to today's blog.
3. Add an image for Header Background.
4. Fill in the information for the webpage.
5. Publish it.
9. Finish Daily Write--Was Dr. Seuss a Racist?
10. Daily Closing
1. What did you learn?
2. How did you learn it? (What did we do and what got you to understand it?)
3. How does it or will it affect you?
4. How can you use it?
11. Pro Points--Shooting An Elephant
1. Who was George Orwell?  Why is that important?
2. What was his job?  Why is that important?
3. What was up with the elephant?
4. How did Orwell react why?
5. What does this story say about the role of government?

19) October 11, 2018

1. Welcome
2. Create a new blog post.
3. Name it 19) October 11, 2018
4. End of Quarter--October 19
5. Showcase--Election Guide
1. Tuesday, October 23, 4:00-8:00
6. Check your grades!
1. Open Powerschool
2. Get Starbursts!
7. Daily Write--Register to Vote
1. See Tuesday's Blog
8. Daily Write--Pew Center for the People and the Press Political Typology Survey
1. Where do you fit?
2. How accurate is your label?  Why?
3. How did you like the questions in general?  How could they have been better?
4. Were there any answers you would like to change?  If so, why?  If not, why not?
5. Were there any particular questions that were hard to answer with the choices they gave?  Which ones were they?  Why were they hard?
9. Daily Write--I Side With 
1. Who do you side with?  Why?
2. Do you agree or disagree with the survey?  Why?
3. How did this survey compare to the other survey?
4. Did you like these questions better or worse than the other survey?  Why?
5. How did these issues compare to the major issues we have covered so far?
6. How did you end up on your ideology?  Why?
7. Do you agree or disagree with your ideology?  Why?
8. How did you rate on the themes?  Why?
9. Did the themes make sense?  If so, do they help?  If not, why not?
10. Daily Write--Was Dr. Seuss a Racist?
1. What was the title of this blog?
2. Who were the kids and why did they bring a flyer to school?
3. How could Dr. Seuss' images be seen as offensive?
4. How and why did their teachers react?
5. How did their dad like Dr. Seuss?
6. What had happened to their great grandparents?
7. How had Dr. Seuss (Theodore Geisel) affected them?
8. How did their dad feel about the teachers and the situation they had been put in?
9. What did their dad say about Dr. Seuss at the end of the email?
10. After reading this blog post and letter, was Dr. Seuss a racist?
11. Daily Closing
1. What did you learn?
2. How did you learn it? (What did we do and what got you to understand it?)
3. How does it or will it affect you?
4. How can you use it?
12. Pro Points--History of the American Dream Parts 9 and 10 
1. Part 9: The Housing Boom
1. Why are homes good investments?
2. How did the Clinton Administration help homes become a better investment?
3. What is leverage and how and why did Americans treat their homes as wealth and what did that allow them to do?
4. Why did Wall Street get involved?
13. 1. Part 10: A New American Dream?
    1. How has the Great Recession of 2008 compared to the Great Depression of the 1930's?
    2. How has President Obama tried to reassure and rally Americans?
    3. Why do Americans have faith in individualism, progress, and the American Dream?
14. Pro Points--Shooting An Elephant
1. Who was George Orwell?  Why is that important?
2. What was his job?  Why is that important?
3. What was up with the elephant?
4. How did Orwell react why?
5. What does this story say about the role of government?

18) October 9, 2018

1. Welcome
2. Create a new blog post.
3. Name it 18) October 9, 2018
4. End of the Quarter--October 19
5. Showcase--Election Guide
1. Tuesday, October 23, 4:00-8:00
6. FAFSA Workshop
1. Wednesday, October 10 from 6:30 to 8:30 in Room 303
7. Daily Write--Register to Vote
1. Register to vote or pre-register to vote if you're not 18.
2. Please screenshot your approval screen and insert into today's blog post.
3. If you're already registered, take a picture of the card you got last week and insert it into today's blog post or use this link to check your registration.
8. Thursday's Daily Closing
1. What did you learn?
2. How did you learn it? (What did we do and what got you to understand it?)
3. How does it or will it affect you?
4. How can you use it?
9. FINISH Daily Write--History of the American Dream Parts 6, 7, and 8 
1. Part 6: Rising Debt
1. In the 1970's why did Americans rack up "good" debt?
2. What did President Reagan ask Americans to do?  Why?
3. How did Americans react?
2. Part 7: Wall Street Comes to Main Street
1. Why did Americans turn to the stock market?
2. What are money market funds and how did they help Americans enter the stock market?
3. What is a 401(k) and why did companies turn to them?
3. Part 8: Rising Inequality
1. Why did more money begin to go to the top 20%?
2. How did more and more people pay for their desire for the stereotypical American Dream?
10. Daily Write--Was Dr. Seuss a Racist?
1. What was the title of this blog?
2. Who were the kids and why did they bring a flyer to school?
3. How could Dr. Seuss' images be seen as offensive?
4. How and why did their teachers react?
5. How did their dad like Dr. Seuss?
6. What had happened to their great grandparents?
7. How had Dr. Seuss (Theodore Geisel) affected them?
8. How did their dad feel about the teachers and the situation they had been put in?
9. What did their dad say about Dr. Seuss at the end of the email?
10. After reading this blog post and letter, was Dr. Seuss a racist?
11. Daily Closing
1. What did you learn?
2. How did you learn it? (What did we do and what got you to understand it?)
3. How does it or will it affect you?
4. How can you use it?
12. Pro Points--History of the American Dream Parts 9 and 10 
1. Part 9: The Housing Boom
1. Why are homes good investments?
2. How did the Clinton Administration help homes become a better investment?
3. What is leverage and how and why did Americans treat their homes as wealth and what did that allow them to do?
4. Why did Wall Street get involved?
13. 1. Part 10: A New American Dream?
    1. How has the Great Recession of 2008 compared to the Great Depression of the 1930's?
    2. How has President Obama tried to reassure and rally Americans?
    3. Why do Americans have faith in individualism, progress, and the American Dream?
    Pro Points--Shooting An Elephant
1. Who was George Orwell?  Why is that important?
2. What was his job?  Why is that important?
3. What was up with the elephant?
4. How did Orwell react why?
5. What does this story say about the role of government?

17) October 4, 2018

1. Welcome
2. Create a new blog post.
3. Name it 17) October 4, 2018
4. Showcase--Election Guide
1. Tuesday, October 23, 4:00-8:00
5. FAFSA Workshop
1. Wednesday, October 10 from 6:30 to 8:30 in Room 303
6. Check your grades!
1. Open Powerschool
2. Get Starbursts!
7. Tuesday's Daily Closing
1. What did you learn?
2. How did you learn it? (What did we do and what got you to understand it?)
3. How does it or will it affect you?
4. How can you use it?
8. FINISH Daily Write--Counties Work
9. Daily Write--Evaluating Websites and Discovering Fake News
1. What is currency and how do you find it?
2. What is relevancy and how do you judge it?
3. What is authority and how do you determine it?
4. What is quality and how do you judge it?
5. How do these different standards add up to credibility?
6. Was the first website credible?  Why or why not?
7. How about the second website, how was it better than the first site?
10. Daily Write--History of the American Dream Parts 6, 7, and 8 
1. Part 6: Rising Debt
1. In the 1970's why did Americans rack up "good" debt?
2. What did President Reagan ask Americans to do?  Why?
3. How did Americans react?
2. Part 7: Wall Street Comes to Main Street
1. Why did Americans turn to the stock market?
2. What are money market funds and how did they help Americans enter the stock market?
3. What is a 401(k) and why did companies turn to them?
3. Part 8: Rising Inequality
1. Why did more money begin to go to the top 20%?
2. How did more and more people pay for their desire for the stereotypical American Dream?
11. Daily Closing
1. What did you learn?
2. How did you learn it? (What did we do and what got you to understand it?)
3. How does it or will it affect you?
4. How can you use it?
12. Pro Points--Shooting An Elephant
1. Who was George Orwell?  Why is that important?
2. What was his job?  Why is that important?
3. What was up with the elephant?
4. How did Orwell react why?
5. What does this story say about the role of government?
13. Pro Points--Was Dr. Seuss a Racist?
1. What was the title of this blog?
2. Who were the kids and why did they bring a flyer to school?
3. How could Dr. Seuss' images be seen as offensive?
4. How and why did their teachers react?
5. How did their dad like Dr. Seuss?
6. What had happened to their great grandparents?
7. How had Dr. Seuss (Theodore Geisel) affected them?
8. How did their dad feel about the teachers and the situation they had been put in?
9. What did their dad say about Dr. Seuss at the end of the email?
10. After reading this blog post and letter, was Dr. Seuss a racist?

16) October 2, 2018

1. Welcome!
2. SEATING CHART!?!
3. Create a new blog post.
4. Name it 16) October 2, 2018
5. Showcase--Election Guide
1. Tuesday, October 23, 4:00-8:00
6. FAFSA Workshop
1. Wednesday, October 10 from 6:30 to 8:30 in Room 303
7. Daily Write--Counties Work
1. Play the game three times and choose different policies or goals each time.
2. Did you get reelected every time?  If so, why?  If not, why not?  Use examples of your policies and goals to explain.
3. How did you decide to accept or reject the different requests or proposals?
4. How did you know where to take the different requests and proposals?
5. Did you adjust the taxes?  If so, why?  If not, why not?
6. How was this game helpful to you in understanding government?
7. Please insert the screenshots of your certificate.
8. How did you like this game?  Why?
8. Daily Write--Evaluating Websites and Discovering Fake News
1. What is currency and how do you find it?
2. What is relevancy and how do you judge it?
3. What is authority and how do you determine it?
4. What is quality and how do you judge it?
5. How do these different standards add up to credibility?
6. Was the first website credible?  Why or why not?
7. How about the second website, how was it better than the first site?
9. Daily Write--History of the American Dream Parts 6, 7, and 8 
1. Part 6: Rising Debt
1. In the 1970's why did Americans rack up "good" debt?
2. What did President Reagan ask Americans to do?  Why?
3. How did Americans react?
2. Part 7: Wall Street Comes to Main Street
1. Why did Americans turn to the stock market?
2. What are money market funds and how did they help Americans enter the stock market?
3. What is a 401(k) and why did companies turn to them?
3. Part 8: Rising Inequality
1. Why did more money begin to go to the top 20%?
2. How did more and more people pay for their desire for the stereotypical American Dream?
10. Daily Closing
1. What did you learn?
2. How did you learn it? (What did we do and what got you to understand it?)
3. How does it or will it affect you?
4. How can you use it?
11. Pro Points--Shooting An Elephant
1. Who was George Orwell?  Why is that important?
2. What was his job?  Why is that important?
3. What was up with the elephant?
4. How did Orwell react why?
5. What does this story say about the role of government?
12. Pro Points--Was Dr. Seuss a Racist?
1. What was the title of this blog?
2. Who were the kids and why did they bring a flyer to school?
3. How could Dr. Seuss' images be seen as offensive?
4. How and why did their teachers react?
5. How did their dad like Dr. Seuss?
6. What had happened to their great grandparents?
7. How had Dr. Seuss (Theodore Geisel) affected them?
8. How did their dad feel about the teachers and the situation they had been put in?
9. What did their dad say about Dr. Seuss at the end of the email?
10. After reading this blog post and letter, was Dr. Seuss a racist?