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:
None
A: None.
Today in Class:
Students took their quiz over the vocabulary they were assigned on Tuesday. We will continue our study of of local government next week looking at government services and sources of revenue.
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:
Start review of Ch. 16 Sections 1 - 3.
Long term Assignments:
Test over local government on January 21st.
Today in Georgia History:
January 9, 1805 Politician and doctor Noble Wimberly Jones died in Savannah. Born in England around 1723, he and his family were among the original Georgia colonists who arrived with James Oglethorpe in 1733. At age 16, Jones became a cadet and subsequently an officer in Oglethorpe's military force. By the late 1740s, he had learned the practice of medicine from his father and partly from his own experiences. In 1755, after Georgia became a royal colony, Jones was elected to the Commons House of Assembly, where he was elected speaker (1768-69). Soon, however, Jones became part of the Whig movement, and by 1774 was an active patriot. During the American Revolution, he was captured by the British and imprisoned at St. Augustine. After the war, Jones moved to Charleston, but in 1788 returned to Savannah. Here, he practiced medicine the rest of his life, getting involved with politics one more time to preside over Georgia's 1795 constitutional convention. As a measure of his reputation as a doctor, Jones was elected first president of the Georgia Medical Society in 1804.
Link-O the Day:
http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-586
My Email Address:
robert.hutchins@cobbk12.org
