1. Unit 3, Lesson 2 How does the Legislative Branch work?  Essential Questions: How do our Federal, state, and local governments work?  Learning Target: IWBAT analyze the structure, function, and process of the Legislative Branch.  IWBAT illustrate the law making process at the local, state, and federal levels.  Formative Assessment(s):What are the benefits to the American people that the bill takes such a long process to become a law? Homework: Vocabulary Daily Rubric: 4 – I fully understand the learning target and I am ready to move on 3 – I feel like I have a good understanding of the learning target but I need to cover it a little more 2 – I feel kind of lost on the learning target and I need a lot of review before I can move on 1 – I am completely lost and feel like I need to completely cover this learning target over

2. Preview How do state governments differ from the federal government?

3. Vocabulary  Bicameral legislature:  Senate:  House of Representatives:  Apportioned:  Gerrymandering:  Caucuses:  President Pro Tempore:  Speaker of the House:  Whip:  implied powers:  elastic clause:  filibuster:

4. Vocabulary  Bicameral legislature: lawmaking body that consists of two houses  Senate: House of Congress based on equal representation per state. Each state has 2 senators, for a total of 100 senators in the Senate.  House of Representatives: House of Congress based on population of each state. Each state is guaranteed at least one representative. There are 435 representatives all together.  Apportioned: to be distributed, as in the seats in the House of Representative  Gerrymandering: the process of drawing congressional district lines to favor a political party  Caucuses: meetings of party leaders to determine party policy or to choose the party’s candidates for public office

5. Vocabulary  President Pro Tempore: the official who presides over the Senate in the vice president’s absence  Speaker of the House: presiding officer of the House of Representatives  Whip: official in a political party whose primary purpose is to ensure party discipline in a legislature  implied powers: powers not specifically given to Congress by the Constitution that are suggested to be necessary to carry out powers delegated to Congress under the Constitution (necessary and proper clause)  elastic clause: “necessary and proper clause” that allows Congress to extend its delegated powers  filibuster: method of delaying action on a bill in the Senate by making long speeches

6. Activity  Learn how a bill becomes a law:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFroMQlKiag http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFroMQlKiag  Page 151: find a new and creative way to draw a diagram on page 151.

7. Formative Assessment What are the benefits to the American people that the bill takes such a long process to become a law?