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Unit 3, Lesson 2 How does the Legislative Branch work?

Unit 3, Lesson 2 How does the Legislative Branch work? . Essential Questions: How do our Federal, state, and local governments work? Learning Target: IWBAT analyze the structure, function, and process of the Legislative Branch.

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Unit 3, Lesson 2 How does the Legislative Branch work?

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  1. Unit 3, Lesson 2How does the Legislative Branch work? • Essential Questions: How do our Federal, state, and local governments work? • Learning Target: IWBAT analyze the structure, function, and process of the Legislative Branch. • IWBAT illustrate the law making process at the local, state, and federal levels. • Formative Assessment(s):What are the benefits to the American people that the bill takes such a long process to become a law? Homework: Vocabulary • Daily Rubric: 4 – I fully understand the learning target and I am ready to move on • 3 – I feel like I have a good understanding of the learning target but I need to cover it a little more • 2 – I feel kind of lost on the learning target and I need a lot of review before I can move on • 1 – I am completely lost and feel like I need to completely cover this learning target over

  2. Preview How do state governments differ from the federal government?

  3. Vocabulary • Bicameral legislature: • Senate: • House of Representatives: • Apportioned: • Gerrymandering: • Caucuses: • President Pro Tempore: • Speaker of the House: • Whip: • implied powers: • elastic clause: • filibuster:

  4. Vocabulary • Bicameral legislature: lawmaking body that consists of two houses • Senate: House of Congress based on equal representation per state. Each state has 2 senators, for a total of 100 senators in the Senate. • House of Representatives: House of Congress based on population of each state. Each state is guaranteed at least one representative. There are 435 representatives all together. • Apportioned: to be distributed, as in the seats in the House of Representative • Gerrymandering: the process of drawing congressional district lines to favor a political party • Caucuses: meetings of party leaders to determine party policy or to choose the party’s candidates for public office

  5. Vocabulary • President Pro Tempore: the official who presides over the Senate in the vice president’s absence • Speaker of the House: presiding officer of the House of Representatives • Whip: official in a political party whose primary purpose is to ensure party discipline in a legislature • implied powers: powers not specifically given to Congress by the Constitution that are suggested to be necessary to carry out powers delegated to Congress under the Constitution (necessary and proper clause) • elastic clause: “necessary and proper clause” that allows Congress to extend its delegated powers • filibuster: method of delaying action on a bill in the Senate by making long speeches

  6. Activity • Learn how a bill becomes a law: • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFroMQlKiag • Page 151: find a new and creative way to draw a diagram on page 151.

  7. Formative Assessment What are the benefits to the American people that the bill takes such a long process to become a law?

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