This document provides an agenda and notes for a class on policymaking. It includes announcements, topics to be covered in the unit like the role of media, lobbying and interest groups, a transition activity asking about classroom policies, unit vocabulary definitions, notes on the role of media in influencing public policy, and a take-home point question about the influence of media. Students will analyze video clips about the Occupy Wall Street movement and how it was portrayed in different media sources.

1. Do-Now
 You will have a pre-test and a transition
activity after WSMS.
 NO NOTEBOOK QUIZ

2. Do-Now
 Please work on your pre-test and
transition activity silently.

3. Announcements
 Testcorrections due Friday
 After school

4. Project
 If
you have it ready to turn in today, 5
extra points.
 Be prepared to present on Friday.

5. What I Learned…from your
surveys
 Everyone misses chalkboard swatting
review
 Thumbs up on projects
 Love/hate relationship with notes
 Everyone diggin’ on Monty Python
 Give up on Anderson Cooper on
December 2nd, Ms. Mitchem!

6. POLICYMAKING
Last unit with Ms. Mitchem

7. Unit Agenda
 Shorttest/quiz next Tuesday
 Over the next week, these are the topics
we are going to be covering:
 How policy gets influenced:
 Roleof the media
 Lobbying and interest groups
 Impact of international events
 Unit Opener Video

8. Transition Activity
 Whatwere some of the policies you
created for your classroom?

9. Unit Vocabulary
 Public policy: a plan of action started by the
govt to achieve a particular goal
 Public agenda: a set of priorities for public
action
 Accountability: accepting responsibility for
one’s actions
 Lobbying: an organized effort to influence the
policy process by persuading public officials
to favor or oppose action on a specific issue

10. Unit Vocabulary
 Interest group: any organized group
whose members share a common goal
and try to promote their interests by
influencing govt policymaking and
decision making.
 Pandemic: a disease that affects a large
area
 Terrorism: using terror or fear to make
people do things

11. The Role of the Media in
Public Policy
Unit: Policymaking

12. Take-Home Point
 Are
we, the people, puppets of the
media?
5 sentence minimum

13. Today’s Agenda
 Pre-Test
+ Transition
 Announcements + Bizarre Unit
Opener + Unit Vocab
 Media’s Influence on Policymaking
 Notes
 Grading News Clips
 THP/Bye-Now

14. Role of Media
 The media plays a major role in setting the
public agenda.
 1. The media focus public attention on
selected issues.
 How? > By publishing articles or airing stories
about a particular issue, the media are
able to create interest in a topic

15. Role of Media
 2.The media offer a forum in which
opposing viewpoints are communicated.
 How? > editorials and tevelvised debates
provide candidates or experts a way to
present opposing viewpoints.

16. Role of Media
 3.The media hold government officials
accountable to the public.
 How? > The mass media follow
officeholders to make sure they keep their
promises. They also inform voters about
actions of officeholders that might not
otherwise be known.

17. Role of Media “Good
evening, Americ
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 Also,government off by giving a
officials use the mass shout-out to my
media to mom. Love u
girl!!”
communicate to the
public. How might they
communicate without
mass media? Would
those techniques as
effective as mass
media?

18. Grading Video Clips!
Practice with the media’s role in policymaking

19. Occupy Movement
 What
have you guys heard about the
Occupy Wall Street Movement?

20. Video Clips
 #1: “Parks and Demonstration”
 News Source: The Daily Show (Comedy Central)
 Date: 11/3/11
 #2: “Wall Street CEO Takes on Occupiers”
 News Source: Anderson Cooper 360 (CNN)
 Date: 10/27/11
 #3: “Protestors Ousted in Zuccotti Park in
NYC”
 News Source: Fox Report (Fox News)
 Date: 11/15/11

21. Take-Home Point
 Are
we, the people, puppets of the
media?
5 sentence minimum