Government/Economics

ANNOUNCEMENT!

I will be uploading midterm grades after school on Monday.  That is the ABSOLUTE deadline to turn in any late work for credit.  I’ve been incredibly lenient on this and some of you desperately need points.  Please don’t hesitate to email me if you have any questions about what you’re missing.

Summary: Today you went to the computer lab to prepare your arguments for each of the bills that made it out of committee.  We will continue conducting research on Monday as well.

Handouts: floor-debate-research

Summary: Today you were broken up into your respective committees.  In your committee, you debated and critiqued each other’s bills.  Finally, you took votes on the bills and decided which bills to kill and which to pass on to the floor debate.

Handouts:  standing-committee-instructions//committee-debate-checklist

See Tuesday’s post for what we did in class today.  If you have ANY questions about anything you are supposed to do regarding your bill, please do not hesitate to contact me!

E-mail me at samspurlin@gmail.com or instant message me at spurliss.

EDIT- Just kidding, I forgot that Carla and Mindy from Fifth-Third Bank were coming in to talk about financial literacy today.  This will just push everything back a day.

Summary: Today I allowed you time to work on drafting your bill in class.  Remember, in addition to writing a bill, you must turn in a document with 10 facts pertaining to your bill and the source from which you obtained them.  Also, you must draft a “Purpose Statement” of 1-2 paragraphs explaining why your bill is important.

Homework:

1. Bill (print 2 copies!)
2. 10 Facts & Sources
3. Purpose Statement

Handouts: [[bill_template]]