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Massachusetts police officers have to be very vigilant. They always have to be alert and watchful for crime and bad behavior Massachusetts students and teachers have to respect each other for class to run peacefully.

9/26-27

Yesterday in history we had and Edcafe. We split up into different groups and taught each other about the different freedoms guaranteed to us by the 1st Amendment to the Constitution and then led a discussion about that freedom. We had each been assigned a freedom to teach everyone else about. We started with freedom of religion, then freedom of speech, then freedom of the press, then freedom to peacefully assemble, and ended with freedom to petition. I had freedom of assembly. Today we took a quest on the Constitution. There were five sections on it. A fill in the blank section, a section where you had to identify which branch of the government did what job, a defining terms and names section, a section where we had to memorize the Preamble, and a short answer section.

Timeline

9/24-25

Yesterday in history we read a paper called "The Bill of Rock and Roll Rights" this was about a hypothetical situation in which Madonna goes to perform at a farm party on a Sunday. The cops show up and everyone is arrested and put on trial. The party goers had to spend one day in the stocks, Madonna was sentenced to death by hanging after her second trial, and the man who threw the party had to wait a year in jail before a trial and then another year before it was decided that he would be banished and have his farm sold to benefit his favorite charity. We then had to determine which of everyone's rights guaranteed by which amendment were taken away from them in the story. Today we talked about the first party system of the U.S., which included the Federalist party and the Democratic-Republican party. The Federalists were primarily made up of wealthy business men who wanted a physically and militarily strong nation and a strong central government. The Democratic-Republican party was mostly made up of farmers and landowners who thought that the people should have the power through the government at the state level and did not want there to be any adding to laws at the national level, only at the state level.

9/20-21

Yesterday in history we were handed either a federalist or anti-federalist paper and split into partners with someone else who had the same paper as us. Then, with our partner we filled out a paper that went with the one we were handed on our way in. Later we got a new partner and shared our information with them. We then used that information to create a fake pro-federalism or anti-federalism magazine cover Today was a half day and we did not have class. We only had C period and some of B before going to an activities assembly for the rest of the day.

Info-graph

Spreaker

9/17-18

      Yesterday on our way into class, we were handed a document on different "plans" for the executive branch of government called "One President or Three" . Then with the people that we happened to be sitting with, we read the document and filled out a paper about different aspects of each "plan"-the Virginia Plan, the New Jersey Plan, and the Hamilton Plan. At the end of the class we discussed our answers with everyone.
       Today we were handed papers on our way into class again. These were on the three branches of government. We then filled out the first page of the packet and on the back of that page we glued descriptions of the governments system of checks and balances into sensical places. Then we divided up into groups and made info-graphs on the three branches. We were supposed to do this on a technological device but a lot of people had trouble with the website and just drew an info-graph.

9/13-14

   Yesterday in history we split up into groups of three or four and shared the information we collected from the readings from Wednesday. In each group there was at least one person who had read about either unicameral Congress versus bicameral Congress, election by the people versus election by state legislatures, or proportional representation versus equal representation in Congress. We then took more notes as a class on those topics. Today we just discussed what has happened so far this year and Mr. Boyle cleared up any confusion that anyone had. We talked about the syllabus and how it has been hard to stick to it with the BYOD pilot. We also talked about upcoming due dates and Mr. Boyle explained some of the assignments to us again.

9/11-12

   Yesterday in history we learned about the Preamble. There were pages at different desks around the room and on each page was a phrase from the Preamble. In groups we went to each page and wrote down what that phrase meant to us and how it works currently and how it is not currently working. Today we split into groups of three and read about different people at the Constitutional Convention and their views on state representation. We then made fake Twitter conversations between those people defending their opinions.

Civc Values in My Family

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Actifacts To Describe Me

        I would also want a photograph of what I look like now to be found with me. That way, it would be easier for the scientists to figure out my age, gender, nationality, and anything else they would be able to determine from my physical appearance. Also, if they found a picture of me it would help my memory live on and people would be able to picture the face on my skeleton. I would want this so that when the scientists are working with and studying my skeleton it is a more personal experience not for me but for them. And they would remember me as who I am now, not as a skeleton.

        Another artifact I would want to be found with my body is a Vaccines CD. The Vaccines are my favorite band and perform some of my favorite songs. I would want one of their CD's to be found with me so that along with recognizing me from the picture, they would be able to recognize the music I like and maybe be able to tell what type of person I am based off of it. I want the scientists who find my body to know me on a more personal level than just by my decayed body.

         If my body was found 100 years  from now, I would want a tennis racket to be found with me. I spend a lot of my time playing tennis. My whole family plays, I take lessons, and I play on the Triton tennis team. This would also help the scientists know me better. Also having a tennis racket by me when I died could mean that I died in a tragic, athletic tennis accident. Which would be cool because I would have died doing something that I love.