Bill Proposal was a very interesting lesson, if you look at the lesson plans you'll probably notice that this is not mentioned in any of the lessons, reason for it is because this was strictly an impromptu. I was teaching my first block class about how a bill becomes a law and after I realized it was very stale, very boring and just seemed too much for them. So for the last two blocks I made up an activity on the spot which worked really well. This Bill Proposal was a group activity where half the class was the House of Representatives and the other half the Senate. Using the flowchart I have given them, we "acted out" what it was really like to to get a bill passed. The reason this is placed in this standard is because it shows my variety of instruction, that I can teach lecturing, but I also can make spur of the moment changes to get group work done as well. I got away with lecturing during my first block because they are the more "advanced" but this worked really well for the last two blocks.

Learning the Preamble was difficult for me when I was learning about the Constitution and Bill of Rights, this was a really unique way of getting the information to the students. An artist collected license plates from all 50 states and had the Preamble abbreviate written on them. It was up to the students, however, to "crack the code" and figure out which state license plate was referring to a part in the Preamble. This shows that I can not only create group work, lecture or even have individual projects, but shows the variety of lessons and activities I have in the classroom. I've never seen this been done in any other class and figured it was an interesting way to get the students thinking and engaged.