Social Science Notebooks

2013,

Purther is collecting notebooks on Thursday 5/23.  You are welcome to leave it earlier in the week on the Monday/Tuesday rotation too.

In addition to this, I am asking you to bring in your college logo on a printed piece of paper or in your notebook.

Social Science Final

WED:  West and East

THUR:  North and South

 

Big Idea: 

This year, I have hoped you would explore the role of citizenship in our democracy inside the classroom and outside of it.  The course EQ is: 

What is the most important role of citizenship in our democracy?

Role:  Like an actor playing a part in a play.

Citizenship: Way of acting, behavioral

Democracy:  Review the XLANDIA PBL

Instructions:

1.  Write an essay answering the course EQ.

2.  Essay should include:

·      Thesis statement (aka the best answer)

·      Introduction, Body, Conclusion

·      Introduction should define the EQ and specifically show understanding of citizenship and democracy

·      The introduction should also include your thesis statement.

·      The body should support your thesis.

·      The conclusion should summarize the essential point, provide the most important assignment and why, and describe the product of your experience in my course. 

3.  You should reference in your essay a minimum of five assignments from two different challenges.  Each pentagon is closure to each challenge.  We have completed three challenges.   You can reference Core PBLs, senior project, or senior class activities. 

4.  Essay should:

·      Be written well

·      Be reviewed for spelling and grammar issues

·      Show that it has been well thought out and five paragraphs minimum.

5.  Essay will be submitted to turnitin.com by the end of class.

Please note.  You can’t write the essay prior to the class day.  You are welcome to write outlines, but not the essay.  If there is evidence you wrote the essay prior, you will earn a zero on the final.

Roles:  You are all of them.

Rule of Three:  See Rubric

Questions:  See Purther

Core Assigment: Campaign Problem Robocall

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BIG IDEA:

Robocall is automated phone call that uses both a computerized autodialer and a computer-delivered pre-recorded message.  

It is used in telemarketing, politics, and for public service announcements or emergency information.

The laws in California states:

• Must have an existing relationship with the person
• Live person must come on first to tell you the nature of the call and the organization behind it
• Call must be disconnected immediately if the person hangs up or the message is done

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INSTRUCTIONS:

1.  Review the Big Idea, Instructions, Roles, Rule of 3, and decide if you have questions.

2.  Take a look at the following websites and the examples.  Do a Know/Need to Know. 

Do a know/need to know on the sites below

Companies:

http://www.robotalker.com/

http://www.voicebroadcasting.org/services/robo-calls/?gclid=CNOh9Zzkh64CFQ9-hwodFRFA6g

http://www.voiceshot.com/public/outboundcalls.asp?ref=RoboNonPolitical_robocall

Examples:

http://www.cpecllc.com/main/page_pricing_call_samples.html

http://www.politicaller.com/samples.html

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3.  Review the biography of your candidate. 

4.  Write a script of the robocall in all notebooks.   The robocall should include who the candidate is, how they stand on an issue, and encourage turning out to vote.  The election is next Tuesday. 

5.  Reporter acts out your robocall to the class (with the help of others if needed).

ROLES:

•  Facilitator (ABC by first name person):  Makes sure group does the assignment and keeps the group focused on the purpose. 
• Harmonizer (Whoever is left): Gets consensus on what is going to be in the robocall. 
• Resource Manager (Youngest person):  Keeps group focused on the rule of 3 
• Reporter (Oldest person):  Leads presentation of the robocall to the class.

RULE OF THREE:

·      Does your robocall include who the candidate is and how they stand on one issue

·      Does your robocall encourage votes to get out to the polls

·      Did you all play your roles as expected?

QUESTIONS: Facilitators see Purther

Campaign Ad: Four Levels of Effectiveness

"A great ad campaign will make a bad product fail faster. It will get more people to know it's bad."
William Bernbach

BIG IDEA:  

Do political ads matter?  Who is the intended audience?  With so much money being spent to target the minority of the minority, it is now time for us to look at the different commercials and examine the four levels of effectiveness. 

To read more about the science of political advertising.  Click here!  

INSTRUCTIONS:

1.  Imagine that you are creating a television ad for vans shoes.  

• Who is the intended audience? 
• What do you want viewers to think about the product?
• What sounds and images would be part of the ad?   

2.  Intended Audience

• Surgeon
• Yes We Can

Do the ads target a general or specific audience?
How do you know?
Do you think it was effective?  Why or why not?

3. Four Levels of Effectiveness:  Emotion, Persuasion, Factual Claims, and Cinematic Style
 
a.  Emotion

• Prouder, Stronger, Better
• Celeb
• Taxes

How do you think of the makers of the ad want you to feel?  How do you know?
What is the tone of the ad?
What is the ad's argument?
How would you rate the emotional appeal on the rubric and why?

b.  Persuasion

• McGovern Defense
• Accountability
• Voting Booth

What is the central issue of the ad?
What is the ad's argument?  How do you know?
How would you rate the ad on the rubric and why?

c.  Factual Claims

• Accomplishment
• Rebuilt America
• Wolverine 

What specific factual claims are made?
What source is cited?
How would you rate the apparent truthfulness of the ad on the rubric?

d.   Style

• Wind Surfing
• Rollercoaster
• Senator Margaret Chase

4.  Rubric Review

• Surgeon
• Yes We Can

5. Group work (do not do the extension or homework)

• Emotion
• Persuasion
• Factual Claims
• Style

6.  Make your own ad using the iPads.   You will be assigned one of the levels of the effectiveness.

ROLES (in partners)

• Facilitator:  Check for understanding in groups on the levels of the effectiveness
• Resource Manager:  Focus on the sounds, images or text to support on one of the levels

ROLES (in groups)

• Facilitator:  Check for understanding in groups on the levels of the effectiveness
• Harmonizer:  Consensus on what a 1, 2, 3, and 4 means on the rubric
• Resource Manager:  Focus on the sounds, images or text to support on one of the levels
• Reporter:  Film and make sure everybody has a role.

RULE OF THREE (in partners)

•  Playing the expected role
•  Completing the assigned questions in your notebook
•  Keeping your political view out of this and analyzing it as expected

RULE OF THREE (in groups)

• Playing the expected role
• Completing the assigned lesson
• Keeping your political view out of this and analyzing it as expected  

*Making your own campaign commercial?  Assessments are based on ranking effectiveness.

QUESTIONS

Campaign PBL: Hit Piece for Second Rotation

BIG IDEA:

Is negative advertising successful?  It is something often used in all types of campaigns.

Click here!

INSTRUCTIONS:

1.  Do a know and need to know on:

• Characteristics of a hit piece.  Click here!
• Examples.  Click here!

2.  Make your own hit piece on Microsoft word.
3.  Email me your work and save it under the same folder you saved your profile mailer.

ROLES:  Same roles as in last mailer----

RULE OF THREE:

• Do you play your roles?
• Did you complete your know/need to know?
• Did you complete the expectations of the hit piece?

QUESTIONS:   

•  When is it due?   It is all in class work.  It depends on when we start it and how long you have left in class.  The goal is to complete it in one class block.  

Profile Mailers

Big Idea:

Direct mailing or marketing is an opportunity for your candidate to speak directly to their constituents.  It is also considered one of the most cost effective ways to communicate with your votes.

Why do direct mailers work?   Because people still check their mailboxes on a daily basis.  A profile mailer is also is about getting name recognition and biographical information to the voters.  It is not about the issues.

Instructions:

1.  Facilitator get the badges and make everything is cleaned up at the end.  Create a folder on the computer called West and save your file using your facilitator's name.
2.  Review the following PowerPoint file and do a know/need to know in your notebook.  Be sure to review the examples and tell me what you see.   Everybody should write in their notebook this know/need to know. 
3.  Put together a written plan in your notebook.  Your reporter should include this in their notebook.
4.  Make a profile mailer on a computer using word (word only).
5.  Send me an email with the profile mailer. Please don't print it out. Create a folder on the computer called West and save your file using your facilitator's name.

Roles:

Facilitator:  (First person in ABC order by first name)

• Make sure everybody is focused on the goal
• Follow up to make sure all know the background of the candidate and district demographics
• Ask me any questions

Harmonizer:  (Not counting the facilitator, it is the oldest person in the group)

• Get consensus on who the person will be in all four groups
• Make sure all group members agree on what is put on the mailer

 Resource Manager: (Not counting the facilitator or harmonizer, it is the person's senior project who comes first in ABC order)

• Making sure your profile mailer is getting name and face recognition

Reporter:  (Whoever is left)

• Writing the plan in your notebook
• Making sure everybody is involved

Rule of Three:  

• Does the profile mailer include the basics (name, photos, campaign slogan, etc)?
• Do I want to open up your mailer and read it?
• Is it the most effective in meeting the expectations of name and face recognition and the biography of the candidate?

Questions: Facilitator see me if you have questions.  

Stock Market

“A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.”
― Charles Darwin

NYSE Stock Market prepares for a disaster by having the floor run by computers.  Click Here!

Today's Simulation

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
                                                             Benjamin Franklin

 Check this out! I choose "C."  Click Here

$4.10 Market Equilibrium Price

$4.30 Market Equilibrium Price

$4.30 Market Equilibrium Price

$4.10 Market Equilibrium Price

How a bill becomes a law

A. Watch the following videos:

•  School House Rock (click here)
•  How a bill becomes a law in California (click here)

 B.   We do a part of the how a bill becomes a law

Day 1: Committee Day (Friday December 14th) 8-10:26

•  Location: iPoly

Day 2: Committee Day (Monday December 17th) 8-12:38

• Location: iPoly

Tuesday December 18th is Model Assembly Research Check 3 first block and then the holiday party

• Location:  iPoly

Day 3:  Party Caucus Day (Wednesday December 19th) 9-12:38

• Location: Cal Poly

Day 4:  Full Assembly Day (Thursday December 20th) 8-3:00PM

• Location: West Covina

Election Results: November 2012

California:  President, US Senate, House, State Legislature, Ballot Measures etc.  Click Here!

National Politics:  Different options

• Click Here
• Click Here
• Click Here

WEST: Make up if you missed today 2nd Block

WEST:

Come tomorrow during 4th Block (at 1:30 PM) and we will complete the following assignments:

#55 Pentagon
#56 Model Assembly

It will take a little over an hour.  

Xlandia Assessment

These are the numbers related to Xlandia.  I may also pull from senior announcements or things we did in my class too.  

14. Xlandia

16. Profile

17. Island

22. Nations

23. Constitution

24. Big Four #1

26. Federalism

29. Big Four #2

30. FAC

31. Power

32. Grab

36. Big Four #3

37. Parliamentary

38. Bill of Rights

40. Reporter

44. Direct Democracy

45. Share-out

47. Research Count

51. Xlandia II

 

English Summer Assignment: Poetry Outloud

Please choose a poem to memorize and recite from www.poetryoutloud.org.  Your poem choice is due the first day of school.

You may choose any poem that is currently on the site that you did not use last year. However if you wish to be competitive, it is important to remember that “level of difficulty” is one of the judging categories. 

It might also help to review that contest evaluation sheet at http://poetryoutloud.org/guide/guide_evaluation.html

Note:  Do not choose Fire and Ice.