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President Obama ineffectively use his legislative skills? This will be an open discussion and will allow
the students who are in AP Government and Politics class to exercise their debate skills. It reviews the
previous days reading on Presidential leadership in Congress. They have to pull examples from a present
day, real life example to answer these questions and that will help the students make deeper
connections to the material. The purpose of this bell ringer is just to get the students thinking about the
content they are about to review and what they will be doing in the main class activity, the Prezi
presentation.
The picture URL is sited below.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8d/President_Barack_Obama.jpg
Hook: (3 minutes) : I will state the following; What attributes/characteristics/qualities make a good
President?, Which United States President do you think was the most influential legislatively and
why?, and lastly, What power of the President is the most powerful and why? I will pause in
between each of these questions to allow for multiple students to answers and to build off their own
comments as the discussion progresses. This question can be described as a self-expressive strategy.
Self-expressive Strategies highlight students abilities to imagine and create (Silver, Strong, Perini:
2007). By having the students answer these questions; it will allow them to form their own opinions and
ideas based on real world examples. They will create their own ideas of what makes a good President,
which President was the most influential and which power is most influential.
Bridge/Learning Target: ( 1 minutes)
I will state, After our lesson on the Presidential powers and our in class activity, you as a
student will be able to say that, I can analyze the six powers of the President on the past and
present United States. By stating the learning target in class, they will know the purpose of
the lesson and what they are required to know about Presidential leadership.
Link to previous knowledge
I will state, In our activities today you will begin to see how influential the President is in the
Executive Branch, but as well as the Legislative Branch. You will begin to see how intertwined
our Federal government is. By letting the students know that what they have learned on
previous days connects to what they are learning today will help them realize how intertwined
our branches of government really are. They work more as a team, rather than separate entities.
Strategy/Activity #1 (15 minutes)
United Streaming Video: I will state, Youll be receiving a video question guide, where you
will follow along with the segments that describe the six inherent powers of the President,
You will answer the questions based on the information in the video. I will have one of the
students pass out the video question guide as I prepare the video on United Streaming. The
questions on the guide will contain critical vocabulary highlighted in purple font. They will need
to define those as they watch the video, for they will need to know those terms for the AP test.
The video is supposed to act as a review for the primary activity we will be doing in class. The
questions are challenging and will make them think as they watch the video, but it will help
prepare them with information for the activity after the video. Once the video is over they will
be asked to keep the questions to use as a study tool for the test.
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Task Instructions
Learning Target: I can analyze the impact of the six powers of the President on the past and
present United States.
Task Summary #1:
Task #1: As you watch the United Streaming video, answer the following questions. NOTE:
Make sure you define the words highlighted in purple; these are critical vocabulary words
you will need to know.
Directions for Task #1:
1. As you watch the video, answer the following guiding questions as a review of the
Presidential Powers.
a. What kinds of appointments does the President make? What are some recent
appoints made by President Obama?
b. What does the power to convene Congress mean? What would be an
appropriate time to convene Congress?
c. What is the State of the Union Address? What does the President usually
include in their speech?
d. What is an executive agreement?
e. When constructing a treaty, the president has to have 2/3 approval of the
Senate. How does this relate to checks and balances between the branches of
government?
f. What would be a reason as to why the President would veto a bill?
g. What is a qualified negative?
h. Name all the branches of the military that the President is commander of.
i. What is a pardon?
j. What is a reason for why the president would pardon someone?
Task Summary #2:
1. Divide yourselves into six equal groups.
2. Log onto your group laptop to http://prezi.com/ and follow the directions on the
website to create a free educational account.
3. You will be assigned one of the six presidential powers and answer the following
questions.
4. You must site two sources for each question below and you must include three
other types of media (picture, video, etc) besides words on your presentation.
5. You will present your Prezi at the end of class.
Rubric/Scoring Criteria:
____ All questions are answered have at least two credible sited resources
____ At least three types of different media is used (pictures, videos, etc)
____ Answers are insightful and argumentative with information to back them up
____ Prezi is colorful and creative