Executive Branch Unit Intro

• Unit focus
  

  EQ: :How does the President of the United States impact a person’s everyday life?

  • Executive Branch Unit Notes
    
  • Executive News Portfolio

  Enduring Understanding: The U.S. President has a Constitutional role that impact the individual citizen.

• Strand 3 - Concept 2 - POs 3, 6 and 8
• Unit evaluation:
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  • Unit MC exam
  • Watergate meaning 50 point journal
  • Watergate journal
  • Watergate article review
  • In Class Watergate Essay
• Discussion
  • President Obama
    
  • Article II US Constitution
  • Article V AZ Constitution
  • Governor
  • Checks and balances and separation of powers
  • The Checks and Balances System:
    A Worksheet
  • Article Review in class
  • Watergate

• Article V
  The f ive major executive officers and their roles (i.e., Governor, Secretary of State, Treasurer, Attorney General, Superintendent of Public Instruction)
• Article II
• Read text chapter on the executive roles
• Roles of the President: An Interactive Worksheet
  

• Presidents in US history
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• Article II of US and Article V of AZ Constitutions
• Article Review of President and Governor
• Watergate e journal assignment
• Executive Video

• Presidential vs Parliamentary
• Review the electoral College
• Amendments and the executive
• Historical Docs Show it works
  

• Roles of the President and Governor
• Powers of the President

All the President's Men - Watergate

• Watergate Interview e journal
  Interview someone about what they remember about Watergate, what they remember about the scandal, what it means or explain why someone who lived in the United States in the mid 1970's doesn't remember Watergate.
  Due 1/1

Evan Mecham

• The Presidency - Unenumerated Executive Powers-Executive Privilege
• Executive Privilege and the Constitution
  

• Watergate Interview eJournal Presentations
• Executive Portfolio Instructions and Work

All the President's Men

• Watch the movie
  
• Watergate article review
• Watergate source review
  • WATERGATE: A CHRONOLOGY
  • Watergate cast - from NPR
  • Watergate Article and audio collection
  • Watergate Article Collection
• Watergate Meaning eJournal
  EQ: How does the Watergate scandal demonstrate the application of the principles of the Constitution to limit governmental leaders gone bad?

For this eJounral, worth 50 points, (10 each) the grade is based on :

1. What happened in the Watergate scandal?
2. Why was it a constitutional crisis?
   How did...
3. The First Amendment save the country?
4. How did checks and balances save the country
5. How was individual liberty threatened?
   Due 1/18/09

• In Class Watergate Essay Study this link before the in-class essay
  EQ: How does the Watergate scandal demonstrate the application of the principles of the Construction to limit governmental leaders gone bad?
• Portfolio Due

  On-line - Multiple choice Exam on Executive - Due by 12/1/09

• President of the United States - Wikipeidia
• The Roles of the President - PowerPoint Web

Strand 3:Civics/Government

Concept 2:  Structure of Government

PO 3.  Examine the United States federal system of government:

• powers of the national government
• powers of the state governments
• powers of the people

PO 6.  Analyze the structure, powers, and roles of the executive branch of the United States government:

• specific powers delegated in Article II of the Constitution
• roles and duties of the president
• development and function of the executive branch, including the cabinet and federal bureaucracy
• election of the president through the nomination process, national conventions, and electoral college

PO 8.  Analyze the structure, power, and organization of Arizona’s government as expressed in the Arizona Constitution:

• direct democracy by initiative, referendum, and recall processes
• election process such as redistricting, (e.g., gerrymandering, clean elections), voter registration, and primaries
• the structure and processes of Arizona’s legislature
• the roles of the Governor, Secretary of State,  Treasurer, Attorney General, and Superintendent of Public Instruction
• appointment and continuing election of judges.