1. Get your folder, sit in your assigned seat
Executive Agencies
Get your folder, sit in your assigned seat

2. Read the handout “A Very Big Branch”

3. A Very Big Branch
The President’s job is too big for just one person, so the President gets lots of help!
The Executive Branch has many departments, divisions of government that deal with a specific area or subject
There are also many agencies, organizations created to provide a particular service

4. A Very Big Branch
Each department or agency is lead by a secretary, a person who advises the president and leads a specific department or agency
The cabinet is a group of advisors (secretaries) to the president that includes the heads of 15 top-level executive departments

5. A Very Big Branch
There are many different departments and agencies in the Executive Branch, each department and agency deals with different issues

6. Whose Job Is It, Anyway?
Department of Homeland Security

7. Whose Job Is It, Anyway?
Department of Education

8. Whose Job Is It, Anyway?
Department of Justice

9. Whose Job Is It, Anyway?
Environmental Protection Agency

10. Whose Job Is It, Anyway?
Department of Housing and Urban Development

11. Whose Job Is It, Anyway?
Department of Health and Human Services

12. Whose Job Is It, Anyway?
Department of Agriculture

13. Whose Job Is It, Anyway?
Department of Veterans Affairs

14. Line of Succession What if the president cannot be the president?
Who becomes President in his/her place?
1. Vice President
2. Speaker of the House
3. President pro tempore of the Senate
4. Secretary of State
5… The Cabinet (based on the order the department was created)

15. Instructions
Use the reading handout to complete “The President’s Cabinet” on the back of your worksheet.
Answer the writing prompt (use p. 115 in your textbook to help if you need)
Extra Credit Opportunity! (do this at home)
Currently, how far down the line of succession do you have to go to get a female president? What job in government does that woman hold now?