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Do-Now
• We will complete a do-now and transition activity after WSMS.
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Do-Now
• Please complete your do-now and transition activity silently.
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Announcements
• Test corrections due Friday• Presentations on Friday• Short test/quiz Tuesday• Bring a forever stamp & envelope
addressed to yourself by December 2nd.
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Review
• What did we do yesterday in class?• What activities did we do?• What information did we learn?
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Wrapping Up Yesterday
• Please take out your grading media clips worksheet so that we can answer the last question.
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The Art of Persuasion: Influences of Individuals & Interest Groups on
PolicymakingUnit: Policymaking
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Today’s Agenda
• Do-now + transition activity• Announcements + review +
finishing up grading media clips
• The Art of Persuasion:• Act-It-Out!• Notes!• Persuaded or Jaded!• Policy & Origami!
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Transition Activity
• How are you going to persuade me to bring back Food Fridays?
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Act-It-Out!
Influence of Individuals & Interest Groups on Policymaking
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Notes!
Influence of Individuals & Interest Groups on Policymaking
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1. Key Terms
• Lobbying means seeking to influence lawmakers to introduce and vote for or against a bill.
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Notes
2. In addition to the media, individuals and interest groups can shape the way policy is formed in the United States.
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Notes
3. Ways that the individual can influence public policy:• Participating in politics (voting,
campaigning, seeking office)• Expressing opinions (lobbying,
demonstrating, writing letters)• Joining interest groups
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Notes
4. Ways that interest groups can influence public policy:• Identify issues• Making political contributions• Lobbying government officials
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Persuaded (True) or Jaded (False)!
Influence of Individuals & Interest Groups on Policymaking
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Persuaded or Jaded
• Read the statement. If you think it’s true, you’ve been persuaded and hold up your blue card.
• If you think it’s false, you feel jaded and hold up your red card.
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#1
• Only the media shapes how public policy is formed.
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#2
• If individuals want to influence policymaking, they should consider expressing their opinions by having internet blogs that voice their opinion and participating in demonstrations.
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#3
• Interest groups are only important because they give money to political parties during campaign season.
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#4
• Governmental officials shape all public policy.
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#5
• An example of an interest group would be Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD).
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#6
• One way that interest groups are helpful is that they pick out what issues need to be addressed as part of the public agenda.
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Policy & Origami!
Influence of Individuals & Interest Groups on Policymaking
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Policy & Origami
• You are going to write a letter as a concerned citizen or on behalf of your interest group (could be made up) to someone in Congress.
• You will need to select an issue that you are writing about and decide what law you want the lawmaker to vote for or against.
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Policy & Origami
• Ideas for issues:• Education• Environment• Taxes• Crime
Prevention• Immigration
• Economy• Defense/
military• Energy sources• Health care• Gun Control
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And then…
• We get to fold paper in new and interesting ways!!