Goal for the day: To understand the nature of legislative process
Welcome to Model Senate!
For the next six weeks you’ll be preparing for a single day when you will become a United States Senator and debate legislation on the Senate floor. Today, we’ll introduce the project and get you oriented to the legislative process. We’ll do this in several ways.
First, off you’ll get the project introduction, which will become more detailed over the next week. We’ll also go over the calendar for the rest of the semester so in this busy month you can better manage your time.
Next, I’ll show a video of what is still one of the best explanations of the legislative process courtesy of Schoolhouse Rock.
Then, you’ll divide into groups and I’ll give you the different steps in the legislative process. Your group will take a stab at arranging the pieces in the right order given what you know already about how Congress works.
You’ll compare your arrangement to Sistine Chapel of White Board diagrams in this video by the honorable Matt Hughes.
After break, we’ll see how this all plays out during a single day by watching “Taking the Hill,” a documentary by NBC News about what a day in the Capitol looks like close up. Note observations and questions during the commercial breaks of this video. We’ll compile these in a Google Doc.
Homework due on November 4, 2014
If you are 18 years of age, go vote!
Welcome to Model Senate!
For the next six weeks you’ll be preparing for a single day when you will become a United States Senator and debate legislation on the Senate floor. Today, we’ll introduce the project and get you oriented to the legislative process. We’ll do this in several ways.
First, off you’ll get the project introduction, which will become more detailed over the next week. We’ll also go over the calendar for the rest of the semester so in this busy month you can better manage your time.
Next, I’ll show a video of what is still one of the best explanations of the legislative process courtesy of Schoolhouse Rock.
Then, you’ll divide into groups and I’ll give you the different steps in the legislative process. Your group will take a stab at arranging the pieces in the right order given what you know already about how Congress works.
You’ll compare your arrangement to Sistine Chapel of White Board diagrams in this video by the honorable Matt Hughes.
After break, we’ll see how this all plays out during a single day by watching “Taking the Hill,” a documentary by NBC News about what a day in the Capitol looks like close up. Note observations and questions during the commercial breaks of this video. We’ll compile these in a Google Doc.
Homework due on November 4, 2014
If you are 18 years of age, go vote!