1. How a Bill Becomes a Law (Learning Stations)
American Government
Mr. Hays

2. Agenda: What are we doing?
Friday: 9/9
Announcements
Leg Branch Article 1 Review
Why are we learning?
Learning Targets
Vocabulary
What do you know about a bill becoming a law?
Teacher Model: Sponsor and Introduction
Learning Stations
How a Bill Becomes a Law
Be ready to move around the room while you learn about bills becoming laws!
Individual Assessment: Explain How a Bill Becomes a Law
Closure and Relevancy:

3. Announcements!
Missing work = Full credit for excused absences for up to number of days you were absent. Up to One week after due date in order to receive partial credit.
Cell phones = put away during instruction unless otherwise stated

4. Goto Kahoot.it Put in: 964384 Review (5 min)
Take out your phones and from the Legislative Branch from Tuesday!!!
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5. Students Lesson Objectives Aligned to CAS
Analyze the steps a bill goes through before becoming a law.
Explain how a bill becomes a law.

6. Bill Creation: Vocabulary (Last page of packet)
Act - The term for legislation that has been passed by Congress and signed into law by the President.
Amendment - The proposal of a member of Congress to alter the wording of a bill being considered by a subcommittee, committee, or on the House or Senate floor. Amendments can also be offered to add or delete entire sections of a bill.
Bill - A proposed law introduced by a member(s) of Congress.
Conference - A meeting between House and Senate members to reconcile differences between bills passed by their respective chambers of Congress. Once a compromise has been ironed out, a conference report is issued and voted on by the full House and Senate. The measure is then sent to the President for approval.
Standing Committee - A committee that is permanently established by House and Senate rules. Standing committees are empowered to prepare and review legislation (as opposed to select committees, which serve only to advise Congress on a limited range of issues).
Veto - The President's formal disapproval of legislation passed by Congress. When Congress is in session, the President must veto a bill within 10 days after receiving it from Congress; otherwise it becomes law without his approval. A bill can become law after a presidential veto if two-thirds of Congress votes to override the veto.
Define these

7. Warm Up (3 min) Take out a half sheet of notebook paper…
What laws most affect students/people your age? What laws should we make or get rid of?
Make a list!
How did they become laws anyway? We will find out!

8. How a Bill Becomes a Law

9. What do you know? (3 min) Using the same sheet of paper.
How does a bill become a law? In your own words, explain!
How confident are you that you know the process for how a bill becomes a law?
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10. Was this confusing?Don’t Worry!!!
This graphic will make more sense by the end of class because we are going to simplify the process and explain “How a Bill Becomes a Law!”

11. Simplified: Bill to Law Process
Idea
Sponsored and Introduced
Committees
Floor Debate and Vote
Presidential Action

12. Teacher Model: Sponsorship and Introduction
Follow along with the reading and annotations while we look at the SECOND step for a bill to become a law. I will answer the questions to help develop understanding.

13. Learning Stations (54 min)
At each “learning station” you will spend approximately minutes reading the short article that describes a step in the legislative process.
Idea - Every bill/law starts out as an idea (good or bad)
Sponsorship and Introduction (Teacher Model) - Bill is sponsored by a member of Congress and introduced to other members of Congress
Committees - Bills are amended (changed) by members
Debates and Votes - Pros and cons are debated on the floor before being put to a vote on passage.
Presidential Action - President signs or vetoes the bill.

14. How confident are you now?
How confident are you that you know the process for how a bill becomes a law? Better than before?
What steps are unclear, if any?
Reteach if necessary

15. Individual Assessment (10 min)
Using the graphic in the packet, fill in the blanks and explain the process for a bill becoming a law in your own words!

16. Closure: Reflection and Relevancy (7 min)
Reflection and Relevancy: Consider your ideas you had for Commerce City.
Explain in a paragraph (3-4 sentences): Why is important to you for this idea to become a bill and eventually a law? What is the next step you can make for this to happen?!

17. Materials Learning Stations Packet - Student