1. Do-Now
• We will complete a do-now and transition
activity after WSMS.

2. Do-Now
• Please complete your do-now and transition
activity silently.

3. Announcements
• Test corrections due Friday
• Presentations on Friday
• Short test/quiz Tuesday
• Bring a forever stamp & envelope addressed to
yourself by December 2nd.

4. Review
• What did we do yesterday in class?
• What activities did we do?
• What information did we learn?

5. Wrapping Up Yesterday
• Please take out your grading media clips
worksheet so that we can answer the last
question.

6. The Art of Persuasion: Influences of
Individuals & Interest Groups on
Policymaking
Unit: Policymaking

7. Today’s Agenda
• Do-now + transition activity
• Announcements + review + finishing
up grading media clips
• The Art of Persuasion:
• Act-It-Out!
• Notes!
• Persuaded or Jaded!
• Policy & Origami!

8. Transition Activity
• How are you going to persuade me
to bring back Food Fridays?

9. Act-It-Out!
Influence of Individuals & Interest Groups on
Policymaking

11. Notes!
Influence of Individuals & Interest Groups on
Policymaking

12. 1. Key Terms
• Lobbying means seeking to influence
lawmakers to introduce and vote for
or against a bill.

13. Notes
2. In addition to the media, individuals
and interest groups can shape the way
policy is formed in the United States.

14. Notes
3. Ways that the individual can
influence public policy:
• Participating in politics (voting,
campaigning, seeking office)
• Expressing opinions (lobbying,
demonstrating, writing letters)
• Joining interest groups

15. Notes
4. Ways that interest groups can
influence public policy:
• Identify issues
• Making political contributions
• Lobbying government officials

16. Persuaded (True) or Jaded (False)!
Influence of Individuals & Interest Groups on
Policymaking

17. Persuaded or Jaded
• Read the statement. If you think it’s
true, you’ve been persuaded and
hold up your blue card.
• If you think it’s false, you feel jaded
and hold up your red card.

18. #1
• Only the media shapes how public
policy is formed.

19. #2
• If individuals want to influence
policymaking, they should consider
expressing their opinions by having
internet blogs that voice their opinion
and participating in demonstrations.

20. #3
• Interest groups are only important
because they give money to political
parties during campaign season.

21. #4
• Governmental officials shape all
public policy.

22. #5
• An example of an interest group
would be Mothers Against Drunk
Driving (MADD).

23. #6
• One way that interest groups are
helpful is that they pick out what
issues need to be addressed as part
of the public agenda.

24. Policy & Origami!
Influence of Individuals & Interest Groups on
Policymaking

25. Policy & Origami
• You are going to write a letter as a concerned
citizen or on behalf of your interest group
(could be made up) to someone in Congress.
• You will need to select an issue that you are
writing about and decide what law you want
the lawmaker to vote for or against.

26. Policy & Origami
• Ideas for issues:
• Economy
• Education
• Defense/military
• Environment
• Energy sources
• Taxes
• Health care
• Crime Prevention
• Gun Control
• Immigration

27. And then…
• We get to fold paper in new and interesting
ways!!