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S.S. Review
The Executive branch has the power
to:
CIRCLE 2

Science Review
An object that is pulled with the least amount of
force will

a. veto laws
b. appoint senators and
representatives
c. appoint supreme court justices
d. rule laws unconstitutional
The Legislative branch has the power
to: CIRCLE 2
a. create laws
b. appoint supreme court justices
c. approve the presidents
appointments of supreme court
justices
d. Say no to a presidents veto
The Judicial branch has the power to:
a.
b.
c.
d.

declare laws unconstitutional

appoint the president
make the laws
sign executive orders

A.

move the fastest.

B.

move the slowest.

C.
D.

not move at all.

move the furthest.

The picture below shows a tadpole, which is a young

frog.

What body
parts help tadpoles, such as the one in the picture,
survive in water?
A.

Legs allow the tadpole to hop, and ears help the

tadpole to hear.

B.

Gills help a tadpole get oxygen, and a tail helps

the tadpole swim.

C.

Skin helps camouflage the tadpole, and lungs

allow the tadpole to breathe.

D.

Lungs allow the tadpole to breath, and legs

allow the tadpole to hop.

Prompt: Name one branch of government and tell how it can be checked by another branch
of government.

CFS: ___Restate question ___one example ____complete sentences

FLUENCY

1. ____ The branch made up of Congress, which

makes the laws, controls all of the money, and has
the power to declare war.
2. ____ Has 9 justices who are responsible for
explaining and interpreting the Constitution.
3. ____ The branch of the Supreme Court, judges the
laws, judges when a law is unconstitutional, and
makes arrangements for prisoners.

A checks and
balances
B executive branch
C legislative branch
D judicial branch
E President

4. ____ The person who executes/enforces laws,

treaties, and court rulings, prepares the national
budget, and appoints the cabinet and Supreme Court. F Congress
He also approves or vetoes acts of Congress and
G Supreme Court
grants pardons.
5. ____ A system used to keep the government from
getting too powerful in one branch.
6. ____ The people who meet at the United States
Capitol in Washington, D.C. to make the laws that all
Americans follow.
7. ____ This branch includes the President and Vice
President who enforce the laws of the United States,
spend money as allowed by Congress, declare states
of emergency, appoint Judges to the Supreme Court,
and grant pardons for crimes.

OBJECTIVE: KWBAT understand that governments

have different _____________ to help them govern a
nation __________________.
QUESTION: What do the 3 branches of government
do in the United States?

Document 1: President Obama swearing in Supreme Court Justice Sonia

Sotomayor

Photo of
President
Barack

Obama

swearing
Supreme Court

in

Justice Sonia Sotomayor. Supreme Court Justices are

appointed (chosen) by the Executive Branch and must
approved by the legislative branch.
1. What does the document say?
______________________________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________________________
2. How does the document connect to the question?
______________________________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________________________
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Document 2: Article: Judicial Branch Uses Checks and Balances

The document signed by Judge Donnelly to

Protestors at JFK airport in New

York City on Saturday night. They were
protesting the deportations of the
people who were trying to get back into
the United States.

stop the deportations Donald Trump called for.

Donald Trumps latest executive order calls for citizens from seven Muslim
countries to be banned from traveling to the United States, even if they live here
and their families are here. However, a federal judge in New York blocked the
deportations across the country of those that were held while trying to enter into
the United States late Saturday night. Donald Trumps order is unconstitutional (it
goes against the constitution) and the judicial branch was not going to let that
happen.

Judge Ann Donnelly of the U.S. District Court in Brooklyn granted a request from
the American Civil Liberties Union to stop the deportations after ruling that if we
were to send the people being held back to their home countries, there was a high
risk that they would be hurt or killed.
1. What does the document say?
______________________________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________________________

2. How does the document connect to the question?

______________________________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________________________

Document 3: Checks and Balances Diagram

The White House

(Executive)

The Capitol
(Legislative)

1. What does the document show?

The Supreme
Court
(Judicial)

______________________________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________________________
2. How does the document connect to the question?
______________________________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________________________
Document 4: Checks and Balances Balance Cartoon

1. What does the document show?

______________________________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________________________
2. How does the document connect to the question?
______________________________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________________________
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EXIT TICKET
1. How can the executive branch check the power of the Judicial Branch?
a.
b.

The president
The president
constitutional
c.
The president
d.
The president

can fire a member of congress

can force the judicial branch to declare laws
appoints/chooses the supreme court justices
can refuse to pay the judges on the Supreme Court

2. How can the judicial branch check the power of the legislative branch?
a.
b.
c.
d.

by
by
by
by

impeaching the president

refusing to pay the legislators
declaring a law passed by congress as unconstitutional
shutting down the executive branch

3. How is the executive branch checked by the other branches of government?

CIRCLE 2
a. the legislative branch can refuse to approve judges for the supreme court
b. the supreme court can declare executive orders unconstitutional
c. the judicial branch can shut down the executive branch
d. the legislative branch can refuse to pay the president
4. What is the name of the system that ensures that no one branch of
government can become too powerful?
a.
b.
c.
d.

judicial system
checks and balances
manifest destiny
executive orders

5. Which branch of government interprets the laws and can rule laws
unconstitutional?

a.
b.
c.
d.

executive
legislative
congressional
judicial

Prompt: Why is a scale used to represent the separation of power

among the three branches of government? What does a scale
symbolize?