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Tuesday, 11/29: Model Senate Prep

11/28/2016

 
Class Biz
1. Senior POLs Guidelines (make a copy of this, and add it to your Drive)
  • Feel free to look over this if you want and do some more research over Thanksgiving but we will have Monday-Friday of the second week after Thanksgiving to work on these in Humanities.  Your POLs will take place the last week of the semester before winter break.  You will be required to participate in a critique panel for a number of students during that week.
  • This document is also linked on the Senior Project page of my DP.  Please MAKE A COPY of it before you start editing it!
2. Final Speeches are due MIDNIGHT on FRIDAY!!! Email me your FINAL, REFINED Speech, but best to just email me your speech the DAY you give your speech.  
3. Reminder on Exhibition dress: Look Senatorial!  Get into character.
4. Let's review the MODEL SENATE SCHEDULE!
  • Tuesday:  Normal Classes
  • Wednesday:  Seniors go to their normal electives 1st and 2nd period.  Model Senate from 10-12.  After lunch, there is work time and space in Lori's, Ashley's, and Kyle's rooms for speech revisions, political strategizing, and any other work you may want to be doing.  Seniors go to normal 7th period class.
  • Thursday:  Seniors go to their normal electives 1st and 2nd period.  Model Senate from 10:30-12 and 1:00-2:15.  Seniors go to normal 7th period class.
  • Friday:  Classes as normal, but on the Wednesday schedule (only cores, no electives).  Model Senate at Noble Hall on Fort Lewis Campus from 5:00-8:00 pm.

​TODAY'S AGENDA

Speech Work Time:
Take 20 minutes to work on your speech.  Tighten up the language, add an introduction or a strong conclusion, add evidence/research, etc.  Think you're done?  Come talk to Ashley.

Speech Practice/Critique:
I will pair you up.  Stand up and give your speech to your partner while they time you.  When you are done, they should verbally give you feedback on the following:
  1. How could they improve the performance aspect of this speech (body language, volume, pacing, etc.)?  Remember, we will NOT have microphones on Wednesday or Thursday!
  2. If their speech was TOO LONG:  What do you think they should cut?
  3. If their speech was TOO SHORT:  What could they add?  What was missing?
  4. What was the strongest part of their speech?  Why?
  5. What most needs to be improved in terms of the content of their speech?  How could they improve this?

EXHIBITION PREP:  Follow the Checklist! ​
See checklist for what you need to accomplish individually and as a class for Exhibition.  ALL of this needs to be done by the end of class.

HOMEWORK:
  • Bring Exhibition dress with you (or just wear it)
  • Make sure you are ready to go for tomorrow!

Friday, 11/18: Speech Critiques + Placards

11/18/2016

 
By the end of class....
  • Email me the draft of your speech
  • Turn in your completed placard

Senior POLs Guidelines 
  • Feel free to look over this if you want and do some more research over Thanksgiving but we will have Monday-Friday of the second week after Thanksgiving to work on these in Humanities.  Your POLs will take place the last week of the semester before winter break.

Agenda
1. 15 minute caucus to propose amendments to your bills in parties led by Geoffrey for democratic party and Serena for Republican party

2. Peer Critique
  • When you are done, if you feel your speech needs a lot of work, sign up for a conference with me . If you think your speech is in good shape, carry on with your revisions and placard design.
  • Lobbyists/Experts, same critique guidelines apply to your speech, just substitute "industry's perspective" for "Senator's perspective".

3. Make your placard!  See the Mack Daddy packet for guidelines and rubric.

4. Refine your bill!


Exhibition Logistics, Speaker's List, and Speeches

11/17/2016

 
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
  • Schedule: Don't forget, regular schedule today!
  • Exhibition Dress:  Remember, for Exhibition, you must dress senatorially.  Suits if possible!  This applies to all three days of Exhibition.

Parly Pro Starter
In which you will receive vast amounts of information about Exhibition logistics.
  • Vivien and Anne run it!

Speaker's List
Sign up for a particular day that you would like to give your speech.  See Lori to sign up for your day.

Speeches
  • Finish drafting your speeches.  
  • If you finish early, come show it to Ashley for feedback!

Senate Sport Cards
Get your card laminated and on a lanyard for use during exhibition.

Specialty Role Meetings
Lori meets with all specialty roles to check in about Mocket feedback and their upcoming deadlines.

HOMEWORK:
Come to class tomorrow with a full draft of your speech ready for peer critique and practice (does not need to be printed).

Tuesday, 11/15: Speech Writing

11/15/2016

 
Class Biz!
  • Review mocket schedule 
  • Give mock bills (y'all should read these in class today. They're a hoot!)
  1. Mock Bill #1: "The Removal of Middle Schoolers from Facebook"
  2. Mock Bill #2:
  3. Mock Bill #3:

Speech Writing!
  1. General Speech Guidelines and Rubric
  2. Lobbyist and Expert Speech Writing Guidelines

TIP: 
Look at videos of your senator speaking to get a sense of their style/rhetoric, etc....
​
DEADLINES: 
  • Draft of speech due by the end of class on Friday--  Show to Ashley in class that day!
  • Final draft- midnight, Friday, Dec. 2nd

Who Does NOT  have to write a speech?
  • Maj/Min leaders
  • Chairs and Ranking Members
  • Secretaries

Monday, 11/14: Bill Study!

11/14/2016

 
Specialty Roles Biz'
  • ​Scheduling task for executive, maj/min and chair/ranking members
  • Voting Procedure for Whips
  • Mock bills due at the end of class for experts and lobbyists

Senate Sport Cards
The laminator is broken (yell at Starbuck for letting her students use it!).  We have ordered a new one, and it should be here by the middle of this week.  Regardless, your sports cards are still due TODAY.  Hard copies give to me- I will put them in a file for safekeeping.  Digital copies send to me, correctly sized, and I will print them in color for you.

Work Division on Bills
I would like each student to send me an individual email telling me exactly which sections you worked on in your bill, and what you accomplished.  If you feel your partnership was uneven in the workload division, now is the time to let me know.  If you want me to consider this, I need to have this email in my inbox by the end of class.


Bill Study
  • I will give you the selection of bills that was chosen for each committee.  Our goal today is to get a broad understanding of what is proposed in each of the chosen bills that we will be debating, and a very specific and comprehensive understanding of what is proposed in the bill for your committee.  All bills and instructions for the bill study are linked on the Docs page of my DP.
  • Complete Step 1 in groups of 4 for all three bills
  • Complete Step 2 individually
  • We'll come together the last 20 minutes of class to do a Q and A with the authors of the bills

HOMEWORK
Finish Bill Study if you didn't finish in class.

Intro to Parly Pro, Day 2 + Senator Sports Cards Due today!

11/11/2016

 
Starter: Parly Pro practice, round 2, with Claire and Jonathon presiding

Today's Guest: Monika Glenn

Today's Objectives
All Students:
Print Senator Sports Card and laminate them by the end of class today. If you don't have time to print today, email me the file to prove you finished it and then print/laminate it on Monday.

Specialized Roles: Begin reading your bills today!  See the guidelines I gave you in class yesterday for how to make your bill selections. Don't forget we are meeting on Monday, 1st period to review your selections and come to consensus on the bills that will go to committee.


Intro to Parly Pro and Bill Refinements

11/10/2016

 
Starter:  Parly Pro Practice 

Guest Speakers: Mr. Shifflet is back today! Monika Glenn will be with us tomorrow.

Today's Objectives
  1. Refine your bill
  2. Begin your Senate sports card if you have time (see mack daddy packet for instructions and the rubric)
  3. Send Ashley an email by 8:30 am tomorrow morning with the following:
  • Your final bill
  • What specific parts of the bill you authored or ACTIVELY contributed to

Specialized Roles!
  1. Check in with the bill writing groups and make sure your research adequately addresses their bill provisions
  2. Finish your research today
  3. Make your senate sports cards today so you can begin reading the bills tomorrow


Bill Writing Day 5 + Guest Expert, Danny Quinlan

11/8/2016

 
Guest Expert Today: Danny Quinlan from Los Companeros

Objectives:  By the end of class today, you should…
  1. Have the preamble done.  You will add to it as you keep revising, but the core of it should be complete, with ample evidence and facts.
  2. Have your bill completely drafted.  Remember, a good bill has 5-8 sections, and at least two of those sections have sub-sections that go into greater detail.
  3. Consult with our guest expert, Danny Quinlan from Los Companeros.
  4. Email me your bill by tomorrow at the beginning of class.  You could do this tomorrow, but chances are you'll forget, and you'll turn it in after class has begun, and I'll count it as late.

Remember to use the BILL TEMPLATE on my DP once you start actually writing your bill!

HOMEWORK:

Share your bill with me digitally before class starts tomorrow!

Bill Writing Day 4! 

11/7/2016

 
This Week's Experts
Tuesday- Danny Quinlan with Los Companeros
Wednesday- Mr. Shifflet with ICE
Friday- Monika Glenn, immigrant

Today's Objectives (by the end of class)
  1. Review your daily objectives and your role's deadlines for the week in the mack daddy packet!  Discuss these with your partner.
  2. Have the preamble mostly dialed
  3. Have 4-5 sections of your bill outlined
  4. Write down questions for our guest experts

Bill Writing, Day 3

11/4/2016

 
Objectives:  By the end of class today, you should…
  1. Have a clear topic chosen for your legislation (write it on the board!).
  2. Have a list of questions written for the experts coming in for your committee.  These could be general questions about the topic, questions about what their party/industry would support, or questions about your specific legislation you’d like them to address.
  3. Have the preamble outlined.  This means that you know what needs to go in it, and that you have a running list of facts, statistics, and evidence that you want to use.
  4. Have a list of things you want to include in your bill.
  5. Have bill sections divided between partners.
  6. Have started writing your section of the bill.  You have two more full days to write on Monday and Tuesday before your rough draft is due on Wednesday!

Remember to use the BILL TEMPLATE on my and Lori's DP once you start actually writing your bill!

HOMEWORK:

Research for your bill, finish at least one section of your bill.

Legislative Writing Day 2

11/3/2016

 
Period 5: Senator Ellen Roberts, Republican is here!

Period 6
Objectives:  By the end of class today, you should…
  1. Review the deadlines for your role as outlined either on page 5 or 6 of the mack daddy packet
  2. Review the bill writing rubric  in your mack daddy packets. Make sure you clearly understand!  Remember, the more specific and researched your bill is, the better it will be.  
  3. Review page 11- "Writing a Bill, Part 2". SEE BELOW on this blog post  for what to pay attention to. 
  4. Have a clear topic chosen for your legislation (write it on the board!).
  5. Have a list of questions written for the experts from each perspective.  These could be general questions about the topic, questions about what their party/industry would support, or questions about your specific legislation you’d like them to address. Please write those on the board too. 
  6. Have the preamble outlined.
  7. Have a bill sections divided between partners.  Who is writing what?

Specialized Roles??  RESEARCH!  RESEARCH!  RESEARCH!
 
Recommended Reading
  1. "Getting to Maybe: Inside the Gang of 8's Immigration Deal"
  2. "Key Provisions in Gang of 8's Senate Proposal"
  3. "Immigrants are Keeping America Young and the Economy Growing"

Writing a Bill, Part 2
Review the different sections of the bill.  Look at example bills.  Notice…
  1. Preamble is one LONG sentence!
  2. HOW will you pay for the stuff in your bill?  So if you are cutting revenue, where will you cut spending?  If you are increasing spending on anything, what will pay for that?  If you are in climate change, where will any increased revenue go?  If you want increased research, monitoring, or regulation, where will you get money to pay for it?  If you are in immigration, how do you pay for increased enforcement on the border?  If you are in college debt, and want to expand government assistance for students, where does that money come from?
 
HOMEWORK:
Have all of the above things accomplished when you walk into class tomorrow (expert questions, preamble outlined, sections divided.  In addition, you should have the stuff done from yesterday).  If you don’t have this done, you are behind!

Legislative Writing Part 1

11/2/2016

 
SCHEDULE SHIFT STARTS TODAY!
Make sure you understand where you are supposed to be, at what time!  This will be in effect from Weds. November 2 through Weds. Nov. 16.  This is only two weeks, so please bear small inconveniences cheerfully!
  1. Immigration:  3rd- Math, 5th and 6th- Humanities (Ashley).  WEDS:  1- Math, 2- Free, 3 and 4- Humanities.
  2. Climate: 4th- Math, 5th and 6th- Humanities (Lori).  WEDS: 1- Free, 2- Math, 3 and 4-Humanities.
  3. College Debt: 3rd and 4th- Humanities (Lori), 6th- Math.  WEDS: 1 and 2- Humanities, 3- Free, 4- Math.
  4. Executive and Whips:  Follow the schedule for Climate Change (see above).  You will be able to jump back and forth between rooms as you see fit during this time once you check in with Lori.
 
Objectives:  By the end of class today, you should…
  1. Have a clear idea of what your assignments are and when they’re due
  2. Have chosen a co-author for your legislation, and told Lori who it is
  3. Have read carefully through all the resources in the packet I gave you
  4. Have at least 5 ideas brainstormed with your partner for your legislation, and brief explanations of what each idea would fix
  5. Have a list of research questions you and your partner need to answer to successfully write your bill.
  6. Have two questions written for Senator Ellen Roberts (she'll be here tomorrow)
 
Authoring a Bill
Follow the steps in part 1.  I suggest that you take a look at the examples in the back of the packet I gave you before you start writing.
 
You will need to do additional research to successfully author a bill.  Now is the time to do that research, and figure out what, EXACTLY, you want in your bill.
 
USE THE RESOURCES in your packet!  They are there for you!  Please read them!
 
HOMEWORK:
Finish the daily objectives, if you didn't finish them in class.

Tuesday, 11/1: College Debt Party Caucus

11/1/2016

 
​SCHEDULE SHIFT ON WEDNESDAY!
Make sure you understand where you are supposed to be, at what time!  This will be in effect from Weds. November 2 through Weds. Nov. 16.  This is only two weeks, so please bear small inconveniences cheerfully!
  1. Immigration:  3rd- Math, 5th and 6th- Humanities (Ashley).  WEDS:  1- Math, 2- Free, 3 and 4- Humanities.
  2. Climate: 4th- Math, 5th and 6th- Humanities (Lori).  WEDS: 1- Free, 2- Math, 3 and 4-Humanities.
  3. College Debt: 3rd and 4th- Humanities (Lori), 6th- Math.  WEDS: 1 and 2- Humanities, 3- Free, 4- Math.
  4. Executive and Whips:  Follow the schedule for Climate Change (see above).  You will be able to jump back and forth between rooms as you see fit during this time once you check in with Lori.

Guest Speaker 3rd Period:  In the Commons 
We have a guest speaker coming in for 3rd period. He is an activist and campaign manager whose focus is teaching young people how to work the legislative system and bring about actual change.  Topical, no?  All seniors should attend.  It will be in the Commons.

College Debt Caucus
Complete your final issue caucus.  Get your caucus notes to me!

If time...
Review calendar for Model Senate, deadlines, roles, tasks, etc.  If we don't have time today, we'll do this tomorrow.
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