1. Do-Now
• Please work on your do-now silently and have your study
guide out so I can check it.

2. Announcements
• Good weekend?!
• Quest tomorrow!
• Stamp & envelope by Dec. 2nd
• Prepare mentally for HW over break

3. Review
• What did we do last class?
• What activities did we do?
• What information did we talk about or review?

4. Influence of International
Events on Policymaking
Unit: Policymaking

5. Today’s Agenda
• Do-Now
• Announcements + Review
• Influence of International Events & Issues on Policymaking
• You’re the Professor!
• Notes
• La Vérité ou Non!
• Study Guide Checks + Bye-Now

6. You’re the Professor!
• Each of you is a professor at a university.
• You are professors of different topics (some repeat) like:
• Economics
• Environmental Science
• Biology
• Politics
• As professors, you know a lot about your topic. A world crisis
has emerged that deals with your topic, and the city near you
has asked for your scholarly opinion about what to do.

7. You’re the Professor!
QUESTIONS?

8. Influence of International Events & Issues on
Policymaking
NOTES

9. Notes Since I’m a local
govt official, it’s a
good thing I
• International events listen to BBC’s
World Report on
and issues can the radio
everyday…just
influence how local like Ms.
Mitchem!! Lolz!!
government officials
make policy
decisions.

10. Notes
• Certain types of international
events and issues have
particular effects on local
policymaking, such as:
1. Public health concerns in
the event of a pandemic
• Examples: Swine Flu and
Avian Flu

11. Notes I’m delicious!! But
I’m also expensive
because I’m an
2. Public safety in the event of an act of import from Italy.
terrorism
• Example: 9/11- tougher screening
process at airports
3. Economic development policies in
response to the emerging global economy
• Example: tariff on imports; the North
American Free Trade Agreement
between the U.S., Canada, and
Mexico

12. Notes If we stop protecting
nature, then I won’t
have plants to hide
behind during games
4. Policies to protect of hide and seek!
Bummer!!
the environment
• Example: Pollution
Prevention Act;
endangered
species

13. That’s fancy talk for True or False…
LA VERITE OU NON!

14. LA VERITE OU NON!
• Blue is true; red is false.
• Read the statement and hold up the card that represents
your response.

15. LA VERITE OU NON!
• Local government officials make decisions based on only
things that are happening in that community.

16. LA VERITE OU NON!
• If there’s an outbreak of Meganpox in Australia, there
may be consequences for us here in Charlottesville.

17. LA VERITE OU NON!
• The media, individuals, interest groups, and international
events and issues impact how policy gets made in the
United States.

18. LA VERITE OU NON!
• The decisions made by the World Trade Organization (an
international economic organization) don’t have impacts
on Charlottesville.

19. LA VERITE OU NON
• A pandemic is a disease that can spread easily but isn’t
that serious.

20. LA VERITE OU NON!
• If a man on flight going from London, England to Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil hid a bomb in his shoe, you could expect
to have your shoes searched next time you had a flight
leaving from Charlottesville.

21. Take out your
STUDY GUIDE

22. Vocabulary
• Public policy: a plan of action started by the govt to achieve a
particular goal
• Public agenda: a set of priorities for public action
• Accountability: accepting responsibility for one’s actions
• Lobbying: an organized effort to influence the policy process
by persuading public officials to favor or oppose action on a
specific issue
• Interest group: any organized group whose members share a
common goal and try to promote their interests by influencing
govt policymaking and decision making.
• Pandemic: a disease that affects a large area
• Terrorism: using terror or fear to make people do things

23. Everything Not Vocabulary
• 1. Ways the media play an important role in setting the public
agenda:
• Focusing public attention on selected issues
• Offering a forum in which opposing viewpoints are
communicated
• Holding government officials accountable to the public.
• 2. Govt officials use media to communicate with the public.
• 3. Ways an individual can influence public policy
• Participating in politics (voting, campaigning, seeking office)
• Expressing opinions (lobbying, demonstrating writing letters)
• Joining interest groups

24. Everything Not Vocabulary
• Ways interest groups influence public policy
• Identifying issues
• Making political contributions
• Lobbying govt officials
• Ways international events/issues could impact local govt
officials and their decision making
• Public health concerns in the event of a pandemic
• Public safety in the event of an act of terrorism
• Economic development policies in response to the emerging
global economy
• Policies to protect the environment