11/13 + 11/15 | PLC MINUTES

Tuesday 11/13 
* Wrapped up the Election Project
* Planned our new unit (Three Branches overview -> Executive Branch after Thanksgiving to End of Semester)

* Talked about Civics Test Final & World History general final

• Giving the Civics Citizenship Test 2x: take the better of two scores for the Final 
• Double bubble for grades? 
• Discussed how to review for the finals; shared different techniques for reviewing for major tests and what might work the best with our students 

Thursday 11/15 

*Briefly reviewed the meeting contents of earlier in the week 

*Discussed the DBQ: it's going well for both Kelly and Funk! 

*Talked about "my favorite no" technique for working with thesis statements

*Deciding on curving the final; use of gradecam for the final 

*Covered failures/making a fail list/intervention 

*Formal/informal powers of the Presidency 

11/5 Gold Day Minutes

Gold Day Minutes

Set final schedule for election project: Project will end Tuesday. 
Begin Executive Unit starting block day!

Talked through logistics for the rest of the project
*Debate prep questions -> combed through them for accuracy and relevance and prepared for Wednesday.
*Set election values and grading: decided to meet and talk about what does and doesn't work in PBL as it finishes
*Adding in clout and travel committees for next year?
*Also next year; working on gearing towards specific issues (unions/policy for industrial, healthcare for medical)

11/1

Attendance   Funk, Kelly, Roy

Election Project

Timing for this is excellent with election day next week. 
Students are debating.

Teachers plan to combine 3rd periods since both of their classes are pretty small to help with the debates.

There is a rubric for scoring the debates.

Students will be asked to evaluate the project, their performance and their group.  This project is a backpack opportunity. 

Ms. Funk will be presenting this activity on Gold Day.

The usage of Google Classroom has been very positive for these teachers and has helped with make up work and helping the students find the materials.  The teachers are seeing more investment from the students because of the usage of technology. 

The current plan is to use the Citizenship test as the Final which will also serve as somewhat of a diagnostic exam to determine what students are ready.

Upcoming:  Legislative Branch