1. Daily Goals: Articles of Confederation
Content:
We will understand the successes and the failures of the Articles of Confederation.
Literacy:
With our Study Buddies we will identify successes and failures from a class reading.
Social:
We will work hard with our Study Buddies and contribute to class discussion.

2. Daily Goals: Strong and Weak Central Governments
Content:
We will compare and contrast strong and weak central governments.
Literacy:
With our Study Buddies we will use sentence frames to understand strong governments and weak governments.
Social:
We will work hard with our Study Buddies and contribute to group and class discussion.

3. Did the Articles of Confederation create a strong or weak government?
We will be working on SENTENCE FRAMES in order to understand the difference between
a STRONG CENTRAL GOVERNMENT
and a WEAK CENTRAL GOVERNMENT
Based on the question and the clues given, help Mr. Kelly fill in the blanks with a word or phrase that makes sense!

4. What is a strong central government?
A strong central government is one where most of the power is at the NATIONAL level. The states have very LITTLE power.

5. Advantages of a Strong Government
POWER to make DECISIONS/LAWS
NO PROBLEMS raising MONEY ($) or enforcing LAWS.
The national government does all of it.

6. Disadvantages of a strong central government
Easy to ABUSE/MISUSE power.
Takes power away from the STATES/PEOPLE.

7. What is a weak central government?
The STATES have a majority of the power.
The NATIONAL government has very LITTLE power.

8. Advantages of a weak central government
Keeps power CLOSE/NEAR to the people.

9. Disadvantages of a weak central government
PROBLEMS/Trouble raising taxes or passing laws
Hard to FORCE the states to make joint decisions (to agree).

10. Articles of Confederation: Strong or Weak Central Government?
Strong Central Govt. Weak Central Govt.

11. Critical Thinking Question
What type of government was the Articles of Confederation as a whole—strong or weak?
Give two examples to explain your answer!