Assignments

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10	11 1/11: How was your break? Did you do anything fun? 11:59 PM	12 History on Program/Agency 11:59 PM 1/12: Is cereal soup? 11:59 PM	13 Purpose—What does it aim to accomplish? 11:59 PM 1/13: You are given the option of keeping your name or choosing a new one. What do you choose? 11:59 PM	14 1/14: Would you rather live forever in a theme park or a zoo? 11:59 PM Contributions 11:59 PM	15 Programs 11:59 PM 1/15: Is a hot dog a sandwich? 11:59 PM	16
17 Fight For Your Life 11:59 PM Prove to your other classmates why your federal program should not be cut from the budget and annual spending. 11:59 PM	18	19 1/19: What is one thing that you have always wanted to do but haven't yet? 11:59 PM	20 1/20: If you could be a character in any movie, which one would you choose? 11:59 PM 1. How do interest groups have an effect on public policies? 2. From the Federal Budget project, Fight for your Life, how would a specific interest group help to keep your Federal program funded. 3. Brief explanation on your Federal program that you want to keep and then find an interest group that would back you. 11:59 PM	21 Identify the members of the interest group. Identify and describe a domestic policy area and policy problem the group you would like to explore and try to solve (how could your agency solve this problem) 11:59 PM 1/21: If you could trade lives for a day with anyone, who would it be and why? 11:59 PM	22 1/22: If you could go on vacation with one with a famous person who is no longer living, who would it be and why? 11:59 PM Explain the significance of the policy problem by describing how key stakeholders in this issue will be affected if the problem is not solved. 11:59 PM	23
24 Domestic Policy Problem of Interest 11:59 PM How much discretion should a bureaucratic unit have to correct injustices in the law? Why is it so difficult for Congress to anticipate problems implementing laws? 11:59 PM	25 1/25: What is your best subject in school? 11:59 PM	26 What is the Job that you want? Please provide me with a short description of your job and wages/salary 11:59 PM 1/26: If you got a parrot for a pet, what phrase above all others would you teach it to say? 11:59 PM	27 Find out if the job will provide health insurance and/or life insurance as a benefit or if they will have to pay for these from their own pay check 11:59 PM 1/27: If you could create a new class for our school, what would it be? 11:59 PM	28 1/28: If, instead of “hi,” you had to greet people by making the sound of a farm animal, which sound would be your greeting? 11:59 PM	29 1/29: What is something that many adults do that seems really silly to you? 11:59 PM	30
31 Unit 6 Vocab/Questions 11:59 PM FRQ: Bureaucracy 11:59 PM Federal Bureaucracy Review/Outline 11:59 PM Explaining the Iron Triangle 11:59 PM Job: Budget Project Assignment #1 11:59 PM	1 2/1: What was the last movie you watched? 11:59 PM	2 What bank do you have? And why do you have that financial institution? If you do not have a bank account what financial institution would you go with. 11:59 PM 2/2: What is a chore that you dread? 11:59 PM	3 2/3: What is your favorite snack? 11:59 PM What is the national average for student loans for 4 year degree? What are the current Federal interest rates on student loans? Please read the article and give an overview on what you found interesting or shocking as it relates to student loans/debt. 11:59 PM	4 2/4: If you had the ability to do something that only an animal can do, what animal “skill” would you want to have? 11:59 PM	5 2/5: If you could get out of school for a week to help an adult at their job, what job would you choose? 11:59 PM	6