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Day 3 Lesson Plan

The many “Hats” of the President: The Jobs of the United States President

Seventh Grade Civics

Goal: Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding the

governmental system of the United States.

Objectives: Working individually and in small groups, students will be able to describe and

categorize the powers granted to the President of the United States by reading Article II of the

Constitution and correlate various situations with the Powers of the President by listening to

scenarios of the President exerting his power.

Required Materials: Computer/Projector and Handout/Article II of the Constitution

Detailed Lesson:

Warm up Activity:

Students will be divided into small groups of about three or four students each and asked to share

the “flash prompts” they wrote during the previous class’s wrap up activity. Each student will be

required to answer at least three prompt questions written by their peers. After a little more than

five minutes of working in their respected groups, the instructor will ask the groups to share two

prompts written by group members. The prompts that will be shared by one person elected to

speak for the group and the prompts that will be shared by the designated speaker will be

determined by a group decision. This activity is estimated to take about ten minutes to complete.

Activity f or the Day:

Students will be kept in their small groups for the remainder of the period. The majority of the

lesson will be given orally rather than through a PowerPoint. The instructor will write the

following terms on the board that the students will be required to write definitions for: The

Commander-in-Chief, Head of State, Chief Executive Director of Foreign Policy, Political

Party Leader and Legislative Leader. After the instructor lectures on the various “hats” of the

President, sections 2, 3 and 4 of Article II of the constitution will be projected from the SMRT

board. Selected students will be called upon to read a few sentences, and once students have

read the articles, groups will be assigned a “presidential hat” and instructed to find where their “hat” is mentioned in Article II of the constitution. At the end of the lecture and reading of

sections 2, 3 and 4 of Article II of the Constitution, the students will be given an oral exercise

incorporating scenarios regarding the various jobs or “hats” of the President. One chart listing

the responsibilities of the President will be given to each group and one person, other than the

student who spoke for the group during the warm up, will be given the job of speaking for the



group as well. The lecture for this class period begins on the third page of this document, and

the material required for the oral exercise is listed on the fourth.

Wrap up Activity: Students will be instructed to create two of their own prompts, akin to the

ones incorporated into the listening exercise illustrating their knowledge of the various

responsibilities of the President.

Homework: “The President Wears Seven Hats” worksheet and “Weekly Review Challenge: Test

the Knowledge of Your Classmates,” worksheet. (see page five of this document)

Link to the Homework worksheet:

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Day 3 Lecture:

The jobs or “hats” of the President:

Relating the President’s responsibilities or “hats” to the student’s everyday life.

The Instructor’s responsibilities: Teacher, Wife, Husband, Care Taker

The responsibilities of the Students: Ask them what kind of “Hats” they

wear.

Commander-in-chief of the armed forces:

The head of the Armed forces: The president can authorize the use of

troops overseas without declaring war

Sending the military to fight in a foreign country: FDR sending troops to

Japan during WWII/Lyndon B. Johnson sending troops to Vietnam.

Head of State:

Ceremonious symbol representing the United States: The Face of the

Nation

Annual wreath laying at the Tomb of the unknown soldier/Pardoning a

Turkey around Thanksgiving time

Speaking to the Nation on Topics of interest

Chief Executive:

Acts as the administrative Head of the Government: meeting with the

cabinet, signing bills, and appointing heads of departments

Declares States of Emergency/ Executive Orders/Appoints people to

positions on the Supreme Court and Federal Departments with the

approval of the Senate/Has the power to grant pardons

Director of Foreign Policy:

Negotiates on behalf of the United States with foreign governments

Appointing ambassadors.

Signs treaties with foreign Nations/Truman signing the Paris Peace

Treaties ending WII

Political Party Leader:

Head of his or her Political Party

Raises money for political party and supports party members running for

office.



Chief Legislator

Executes the instructions of Congress/ Recommends legislation to

congress Has the power to veto bills passed by Congress

Link to the group worksheet for the oral exercises:

http://learningtogive.org/lessons/unit108/lesson1_attachments/1.html

The following scenarios will be given to students orally:

Barack Obama, being a President and a Democrat, attends a fundraising party for

a Democratic candidate running for governor of New York State. The President vetoes legislation passed by congress calling for an increase in

taxes to improve federal highways.

The President sending troops to Israel to help in the foreign nation’s defense

against Pakistani forces.

The President appointing a new Secretary of Defense into his cabinet

The President signs a treaty with Venezuela calling for an increase in gasoline

sales to the United States.

The President attends the funeral of a foreign leader.






Name:____________________________ Date:____________

Weekly Review Challenge: Test the Knowledge of Your Classmates!

To prepare for Friday’s quiz, part of tomorrow’s class will be spent playing a review game of all

the materials we’ve learned this past week. Rather than the teacher chose what questions toask students, it is up to you to create questions that will be asked during Friday’s review game!

Each student should prepare three questions that will be collected before the start of the game.

The question can be of any kind! It can ask for the definition of a vocabulary term, it can

provide a scenario making students figure out if a person meets all the requirements to become

President—the sky the limit! Use the following space bellow to write your three questions and

the three answers to your questions. If you decide to create questions that can be answered

with a simple yes or no, in your answer, you must explain why the answer is yes or no.

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Answer: _______________________________________________________________________

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2) Question: ______________________________________________________________________

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Answer: _______________________________________________________________________

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3) Question: ______________________________________________________________________

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