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1. Topic-
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2. Content-
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| Textbook sections 13.1 and 13.4: The President's Job Description
and Nominations |
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3. Goals: Aims/Outcomes-
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| Students are going to take notes in KWL style. |
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4. Objectives-
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1. Students will be able to identify the President's roles.
2. Students will be able to understand the qualifications.
3. Students will be able to discuss term-length issues.
4. Students will be able to describe the President's pay and benefits.
5. Students will be able to describe the role of conventions in presidential
nomination.
6. Students will be able to evaluate the importance of Presidential
primaries.
7. Students will be able to define 'caucus' and its role. |
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5. Materials and Aids-
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Magruder's 354-8, 368-375
White board |
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6. Procedures/Methods-
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A. Introduction-
1. Ask the students who among them would want to be the President
of the United States, one of the most powerful officers in the history
of the world. Discuss that, then tell the students they are going
to be starting their KWL notes on the President today.
2. Possibly have a volunteer available to write on the board. Start
the KWL chart and solicit what the students already know for the K
column. |
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B. Development-
| Continue discussing and writing what the students say. Fill out
the question columns, trying to get the objectives into the discussion.
This lesson has a number of objectives, so it may be convenient to
inform the students of that fact. |
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C. Practice-
| The students should be taking their notes and participating in the
discussion. Calling random people to give their input in the case
the class holds up is advised to keep everyone on his toes. |
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D. Independent Practice-
| The students should write what they learned in the appropriate column. |
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Checking for understanding-
| Some students, whom I do not know now off the top of my head, had
finished early on Tuesday and had begun their notes already in the
style of their choice. If they already have something like that, it
is all right if they continue taking the notes in that style. |
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Closure-
| Remind the students that there are certain qualifications to be
President, but they are not actually terribly hard to meet. Tell them
further that getting nominated is certainly the most difficult part. |
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