Component 1: Discovering your Consitutents

"Legislators represent people, not trees or acres. Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests." Earl Warren

BIG IDEA:  Who do you represent?  What interests do they have?  These are questions you will all be investigating by learning about your city.

INSTRUCTIONS:

1.  Review the formal process for "How a Bill Becomes a Law" in California.  Please note we do only a part of this in the Model Assembly.  Click here.  Also, take a look a even more simplified version. Click here.

2.  Determine what the DQ is asking:  What are the most significant features/characteristics of the city, and why?  It is the role of the facilitator to make sure everybody is on the same page. 

3.  Collect information from online sources to help answer the DQ.   I suggest to start with demographics, so you can see the make up of your city.  Click here.   

4.  Work on the PowerPoint.    

5.  HWK: Complete the interview, finish the PowerPoint, and plan the presentation.  The presentation is TUE (22), WED (23).  Please review the technical.

ROLES:

• Facilitator:  Checking for understanding making sure everybody can answer questions about your research, including the interview 
• Resource Manager:  Keeping the group focused on the DQ
• Harmonizer:  Getting consensus on decisions made in the group
• Reporter:  Keeping the presentation itself in mind as you do the research

RULE OF THREE (for in-class preparation):

• Using the time effectively and completing something significant
• Staying focused on the DQ
• Staying on-task and not talking to other groups 

QUESTIONS: See Facilitator