1. D0-Now
•No quiz today- Fakeout 2011
•We will do a do-now after WSMS

2. Do-Now
• Please work on your do-now silently.
• When you’ve finished, you can take out the following
to turn in…
• Yesterday’s take-home point
• Presidential roles booklet
• Do-now corrections
• Test corrections
• Letter to me
• Community service project

3. Announcements
• Quiz tomorrow; quiz Friday
• Test on Tuesday
• Review slides will be up today or tomorrow

4. Today’s Agenda
• Do-Now + Announcements
• Introduction to lesson + review
• Executive branch:
• Notes on influencing policymaking & practice
• Approve or veto!!
• Judicial branch:
• Reading
• Special guest

5. Review
• What did we do yesterday?

6. The executive branch & policymaking
NOTES!

7. Executive Branch & Policymaking
• The executive branch
Carry out? Why
is responsible for can’t I get
delivery?
executing or carrying
out the laws.

8. Executive Branch & Policymaking
• In addition to this, the
executive branch has
others ways of
influencing lawmaking or
policymaking. The
president can:
• Propose ideas for laws
Good thing I
in an annual speech to don’t get stage
Congress called the fright!
State of the Union
Address

9. Executive Branch & Policymaking
Seriously guys, my
ideas about making
a national movie
night are
awesome!!
• Appealing directly to
the people (going
directly to the people
to get their support
on laws)

10. Executive Branch & Policymaking
•Approving or vetoing
legislation (remember
checks and balances!!)

11. Executive Branch & Policymaking
• Appointing officials who
carry out the laws (For
example: Cabinet
members)

12. Executive Branch & Policymaking
•Cabinet departments, agencies, and regulatory
groups help the President carry out the laws.
• Examples of these include: Department of
Homeland Security, Department of
Education, State Department, NASA, CIA, and
United States Postal Service.

13. You decide to
APPROVE OR VETO!

14. Approve or Veto
•We will read the scenarios on the board
together.
•Hold up the green card if you approve of the
statement on the board (if you think it is true).
•Hold up the red card if you do not approve of
the statement on the board (if you think it is
false).

15. Approve or Veto!!
•The President of the United States is the
only person in the executive branch.

16. Approve or Veto!!
•Janie was born in England but became a
naturalized citizen of the United States 30
years ago. She can run for president!

17. Approve or Veto!!
•When the president goes to France to work on
a plan on how to deal with Libya, he is acting
as the chief diplomat of the United States.

18. Approve or Veto!!
•One way that the president can influence
lawmaking is by working on a congressional
committee that edits bills.

19. Approve or Veto!!
•The President can influence policymaking by
laying out his ideas for what laws should be
passed in his State of the Union Address.

20. Approve or Veto!!
•On her 30th birthday (gross, that’s old), Ms.
Mitchem is allowed to run for president.

21. Approve or Veto!!
•The president is limited to 2 terms in office.

22. Executive Branch
PRACTICE

23. ORGANIZATION OF
JUDICIAL BRANCH
Unit: The Federal System

24. Judicial Branch Reading Intro
READING