Block 2: They completed the party affiliation worksheet and came up completely even: 12 Democrats and 12 Republicans. Model Congress should be very interesting! During Model Congress students will more than likely vote their conscience and not necessarily along their supposed party lines, but it will still be interesting to see how it turns out.
I handed out the extra credit (I want students to write a poem or a rap about the powers of Congress as expressed in the US Constitution) and at first they seemed excited, until they found out what the assignment was. I will just have to see what gets turned in, if anything.
Today was a crunch day; we got through most of (if not all of) Chapter 6. The students seemed to work with me to get through the material. I am getting better at writing on the board; my students seem to like a lot of information written on the board that they can copy (this is what my CT does, so they are probably used to this) so I am getting better at writing enough on the board to make them happy. I would prefer do less lecturing but since I am lecturing it is nice to know that I am at least improving.
A couple of students turned in their worksheet at the end of the class period, so I graded it, and I realized that I had forgotten to cover one thing. The plan is to cover it on Friday so everyone understands that one concept.
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