Today, in our seminar on government current events, we discussed whether we need federal mask mandates, the Texas George Floyd Act, and the new voter suppression law in Georgia which violates the For the People bill that hasn’t been passed by Congress. Then we read two chapters of our choice from American Government 101 and The Infographic Guide to American Government. I read about the evolution of the Democrat and Republican parties and the U.S. security agencies. After working on our personal representatives “Cheat Sheet,” we researched how to conduct a Voter Registration Drive. Then we shot a PSA and planned our drive.
When the mask mandates were brought up, we were able to discuss whether the state governments should give local systems of government more power because within a state, urban, rural and suburban areas have different needs. During independent reading time, I got to read more about topics I wasn’t familiar with. Now I can differentiate between the FBI, CIA, NSA and DHS. While we were researching for our Voter Registration Drive we learned that we can’t actually register people to vote, unless we are official voter registrars, we can only offer them the resources and facilitate the process.
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