Fishbowl Fridays
Staying up to date on current events is vital for understanding how our political system is functioning.
Every Friday, 3 students will be randomly selected to share a current event from the week. Because this is a random selection, every student MUST be prepared to present a current event. Even if you are not randomly selected to present a current event, you should keep your weekly events in your binder. These will be checked for a grade.
Use the following guidelines to help you prepare:
1. Find a current event that connects to our weekly vocab. Be able to explain the vocab word, and how we see it in action in the event.
2. Article selection -the piece you choose is appropriate in length and content
-the selection relates well to US government and politics
- no sports or celebrity news unless it relates DIRECTLY to gov.
- article is a published piece associated with a news source
- no blog entries. They can be informative but are not subject to the same fact checking as formal news sources.
3. Bullet list of ten pieces of factual or inferential information
-what did you learn from the article?
-what could you infer from the information?
-these bullets must be in YOUR words
4. An analysis of how the article relates to the study of politics, looking for a minimum of three relationships.
-use political language/concepts/models -shows relationship of phenomenon
-reference specific topics covered in class
-discusses cause and effect
-minimum 6-8 sentence paragraph
Every Friday, 3 students will be randomly selected to share a current event from the week. Because this is a random selection, every student MUST be prepared to present a current event. Even if you are not randomly selected to present a current event, you should keep your weekly events in your binder. These will be checked for a grade.
Use the following guidelines to help you prepare:
1. Find a current event that connects to our weekly vocab. Be able to explain the vocab word, and how we see it in action in the event.
2. Article selection -the piece you choose is appropriate in length and content
-the selection relates well to US government and politics
- no sports or celebrity news unless it relates DIRECTLY to gov.
- article is a published piece associated with a news source
- no blog entries. They can be informative but are not subject to the same fact checking as formal news sources.
3. Bullet list of ten pieces of factual or inferential information
-what did you learn from the article?
-what could you infer from the information?
-these bullets must be in YOUR words
4. An analysis of how the article relates to the study of politics, looking for a minimum of three relationships.
-use political language/concepts/models -shows relationship of phenomenon
-reference specific topics covered in class
-discusses cause and effect
-minimum 6-8 sentence paragraph