Standard(s):
SS8CG5 The student will analyze the role of local governments in the state of Georgia.
a. Explain the origins, functions, purposes, and differences of county and city governments in Georgia.
b. Compare and contrast the weak mayor-council, the strong mayor-council, and the council-manager forms of city government.
c. Describe the functions of special-purpose governments.
Essential Question (s):
Why do we have County and City government?
How do Counties and Cities come into being?
What services do County and City governments provide?
Where does the revenue come from to provide these resources?
What is a special purpose government? What does it do?
Warm up:
If you had a budget deficit (you lost revenue) would you cut services or raise taxes?
A: Answers will vary.
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Special Announcement:
Awtrey's PTSA is sponsoring an Internet Safety Workshop this Thursday, 1/15, at 6:30 p.m. in the theater. Jeff Inman, coordinator or Prevention Intervention, will be our guest speaker.
Today in Class:
Students presented their budgets from yesterday's class. Yesterday students took the 15 services that they put in order of importance yesterday and then applied a budget of $100,000,000 dollars. After budgeting they had to write a short summary justifying their budget.
Constitution of the State of Georgia:
http://sos.georgia.gov/elections/constitution_2007.pdf
Full Power Point Ch. 16:
http://www.mystatehistory.com/georgia/powerpoint/GA8-CH16.pps
Our Textbook:
http://www.mystatehistory.com/georgia/ga_05/
Our text book in Audio Format:
http://www.mystatehistory.com/georgia/audio.aspx
Textbook password:
ga11hist
Homework:
Review of Ch. 16 Sections 1 - 3 as well as all notes and hound outs including vocabulary.
Long term Assignments:
Test over local government on January 22nd.
Today in Georgia History:
January 15, 1929 Civil-rights leader and clergyman Martin Luther King, Jr. was born in Atlanta, Georgia. He attended Atlanta's public schools before entering Morehouse College at age fifteen. Upon graduation from Morehouse, King decided to follow his father into the ministry, studying at Crozier Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania before earning his doctorate at Boston University. While in Boston King met and married Coretta Scott. In 1954 he began his ministerial work at the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama The following year he was thrust into national prominence as he helped organize and became an important spokesperson for the Montgomery bus boycott. Here his famous rhetoric and philosophy of non-violence were put to the test; attributes which he carried with him throughout his life despite sometime bitter and often violent resistance.
Link-O the Day:
http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-586
My Email Address:
robert.hutchins@cobbk12.org
