1. Friday 3/6
RAP
If you do great on this test, should you come retake it?
If no, why not?
If you do poorly on this test, should you come retake it?
If yes, when?
Today
TEST on Unit 3
Title Unit 3 Test
Name
Form A or B
All capital letters please
Get Notes in order
Anticipation guide for Ch. 13 on board.

2. Monday 3/9
RAP
Do you have a job (outside of school)? Write down the title of your job (i.e.: server, host or hostess) and then write down ALL of the responsibilities that you have when performing that job.
IF you DO NOT have a job outside of school, write down what one of your parents/guardians do for a living; their title and their responsibilities. OR write down the different responsibilities that you have at home.
Today:
CNN student news
begin Ch. 13.1—The President’s Job Description

3. Chapter 13 Anticipation guide
Read each statement carefully. Write agree if you agree with the statement.
Write disagree if you do not believe it to be true.
1. The President has only one role to fill and that is as commander in chief of our armed forces.
Agree Disagree
Page #
2. All of our Presidents have been born in America.
3. A President can only serve a maximum of 8 years or two terms.
Agree Disagree
4. The President’s salary is $400,000 a year.
After you have answered all of the statements, get a textbook and go through chapter 13 to either
confirm your answer or to find the proof as to why your answer is incorrect.
Write the page # that the information is on,
and the exact words written in the text to support your answer or show why it was incorrect.
Thank you.

4. Ch. 13: The Presidency Please open your text book to page 354.
Answer the questions on the handout for Ch and 13.2.
DUE Tuesday. 

5. Tuesday 3/10
RAP
How old do you have to be to run for President of the US?
Is this old enough? Too old?
Today:
Constitutional powers of the President notes.
The World’s Toughest job --- reading and questions.
Video on Presidency.

6. Executive Branch Formal Qualifications: Informal Qualifications?:
Natural born citizen
35 years old
Lived in the US for at least 14 years
Informal Qualifications?:
Term length: 4 years
Annual salary: $400,000 a year
Annual expenses: $50,000 a year

7. The President’s Constitutional Powers
Powers granted in the Constitution (Article II) 
Commander in Chief
Appoints heads of executive departments
Grants pardons and Reprieves
Makes treaties
Appoints ambassadors, judges, Supreme Court Justices
Gives the State of the Union Address
Calls Congress into special session
Veto power
Meets with heads of state
Commissions military officers
Ensures that the laws of Congress are faithfully executed

8. Wednesday 3/11
RAP
What are the formal qualifications of the POTUS?
Does POTUS have just one job?
Explain.
Today: CE
Complete The World’s Toughest Job
Review jobs PPT
Read and answer questions for Ch and 13.5

9. Complete 15 minutes. Read “The World’s toughest Job”
Answer the questions at the end in your notes.
Review toughest job reading.

10. Executive Branch
The primary function of the executive branch is to execute laws. It consists of the President, Vice President, the Cabinet, and the Federal Bureaucracy.

11. President’s Roles Chief administrator:
Makes appointments and runs the Federal bureaucracy.

12. President’s Roles
Chief Citizen
The representative of all the people

13. President’s Roles Chief Diplomat Main architect of foreign policy
Makes treaties
Executive agreements
Recognizes other nations

14. President’s Roles Chief executive Carry out and enforce laws
Executive orders
Reprieves (postpone)
Pardons (release)
Commutation (reduce)
Amnesty

15. President’s Roles Chief legislator Main architect of public policy
Recommends legislation
Signs bill into law
Vetoes bills
Calls special sessions of Congress

16. President’s Roles Chief of party Leader of his/her political party
Party platform
Party goals
Selects party chair person
Attends fundraising events

17. President’s Roles Chief of State Ceremonial head of U.S.
Lights national Christmas tree,
Gives awards or medals, throws out
First pitch.
Hosts dignitaries

18. President’s Roles Commander in chief
Direct and immediate control of armed forces
Keep the peace
Call national guard to federal service

19. President’s Roles Economic Chief Annual economic report to Congress
Council of Economic Advisor helps the
President study the economy and prepare report
Must prepare the federal budget every year.

20. Thursday 3/12
RAP
If you had a choice of a POTUS to research, which would you choose? Why?
Today:
Research a president of the US.
DUE the 24th of March. 

21. President Project Pick your groups of 2 or 3.
Pick your president –random
Review requirements
Rubric will be online
Lab 3 on Thursday
Lab 3 on Friday—the only days to work on PPT

22. Monday 3/23 RAP How was your spring break?
Watch the video on the electoral college.
In your opinion, based on what you know:
Do you agree with using the electoral college to choose the President of the U.S.
Explain.
You will be reading about the electoral college in Ch. 13 
Today:
“Let Bartlet be Bartlet”
PPT on Ch The Framers’ Plan
Read Ch and 13.5– complete notes for Ch. 13 – DUE Wednesday

23. West wing: Let Bartlet Be Bartlet

24. Tuesday 3/24
RAP
How many examples do you need for each job the president does while in office?
Do you need an intro slide and a conclusion slide?
Would it be a good idea to have a quiz at the end? Explain.
Today:
Work on PPT for president
Review Ch. 13.3

25. Wednesday 3/25
RAP
What was the biggest challenge in completing your President Project?
Why?
When is your project due?
Today:
Check Ch. 13
Review the rest of Ch. 13: turn in Ch and 13.5 for grade. 
Work on Ch. 14 reading and notes.
DUE Thursday for check and grade

26. Ch. 13.3 Presidential Selection: The Framers’ Plan
In formal terms, the President is chosen according to the provisions of the Constitution.
In practice, however, the President is elected through a process which is a combination of constitutional provisions, State and federal laws, and a number of practices born of the nation’s political parties.
Original Provisions:
Popular vote or Congress
Most legislatures came to believe as Alexander Hamilton that if Congress selected it would give them too much power.
After debate:
Framers put forward a plan by Hamilton: President and VP would be chosen by a special body of presidential electors.
Electors would cast two votes.
Candidate with the most votes would become President, second most votes would become VP.

27. Hamilton’s Plan Most votes President Second most votes VP
Look at the chart on page 366.
Electors were intended to be the most enlightened and respectable citizens from each state.
Rise of Political Parties:
Electoral college, is a group of people chosen from each State and the District of Columbia to formally select the President and VP
This worked only twice. During Washington’s presidency
With the rise of political parties in 1796, flaws began to appear.
Federalists – John Adams v. Democratic Republicans – Thomas Jefferson
Jefferson lost by three votes and became Adams VP

28. Election of 1800 Again Federalists v. Democratic Republicans
Each party nominated Presidential and VP candidates.
They also nominated presidential electors, who would then pick their party’s presidential and vp nominees.
73 Democratic Republicans, who won posts as electors cast their vote for Democratic Republicans-Jefferson and Burr
This resulted in a tie for the presidency: Jefferson and Aaron Burr.
The Constitution gave each elector two votes, each to be cast for a different person, but each to be cast for someone as president.
Finally Jefferson was chosen by the House, and this marked changes to the process of electing the President.

29. Election of 1800 three new elements
Party nominations for the presidency and VP
The nomination of candidates for presidential electors pledged to vote for their party’s presidential ticket
The automatic casting of the electoral votes in line with those pledges

30. 12th Amendment Election of 1800 also resulted in the 12th amendment.
Added in 1804
To make sure there would never be another such fiasco.
Separated the presidential and VP elections
“The Electors…shall name in their ballots the person voted for as President, and in distinct ballots the person voted for as VP.”
So no repeat of a tie like in 1800, and president and VP will almost certainly guaranteed to be of the same party.
Look at the timeline of the 12th amendment on page 366.
Answer the question below.
Look at the map on page 367, answer the question below.

31. Turn in Ch. 13.4 and 13.5 handout Just rip it off and turn it in. 
Make sure your name is on it.

32. Open your textbook to Ch. 14: page 388
Please read and complete your handout Please read quietly.
You may listen to music; one ear bud in and one out.

33. Wednesday 10/29
RAP
What is the best way for a Presidential candidate to get his platform out to the people?
Give 3 examples.
Today:
CE presentations
Check 13.4
Present Hoover, FDR, Eisenhower, and JFK

34. President notes Name Bio First lady Scandals Chief Executive
Education, etc.
First lady
Scandals
Chief Executive
Chief of state
Chief legislator
Party chief
Commander in Chief
Chief diplomat
Economic chief