2nd Quarter: 10/16 - 12/22

Week 1: 10/16 - 10/20

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Mon.:
10/16

Today, we tie up any loose ends for Red Ribbon Week. An SSC Teacher of the Month committee should also be formed. This committee will need to decide on a September Teacher of the Month and create a Teacher of the Moth ad to air at the end of the week. Finally, the 2017 campaign season will finally come to an end this Wednesday, when the student body casts their vote for our executive cabinet positions.

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Tues.:
10/17

Today, we need:

• a postering crew: 4 people
  • Split up and poster the campus with Red Ribbon posters
• a teacher of the month crew: 2 people
  • Create a screencast showing students how to nominate Teacher of the Month
• a ballot crew: 2 people
  • Finish cutting ballots and place in teachers boxes
• a Veteran's day crew: everyone else
  • Determine how we will celebrate our Spartan Vets

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Thurs.
10/19

Introducing, your 2017 Spartan Council Executive Cabinet:

• President Lydia Emmons
  
• Vice President Taylor Booth
  
• Treasurer Ryan Gross
  
• Outreach Secretary Zach Gordon
  

Congratulations to all candidates and staff members for running some great campaigns. You are all AWSOME!!

Now that we have three branches of government, we will begin to restructure the way we operate. Here are two of the changes we will see:

• Executive Cabinet members will have regular, daily, weekly, etc. tasks to complete, and will often operate independent of Congress.
• Congress will now have regular Session Days to create and debate legislation.

I have come up with a general structure for how we will operate from here, but this will be an organic process, and we will likely change things as better ideas are presented.

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Week 2: 10/23 - 10/27

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Mon.:
10/23

Congress is now in session! Today, Speakers will take control of their houses, as they work together to write legislation. Follow the steps below to get things moving.

• First, Speakers should set the agenda. Look at the Billboard, and discuss the priorities of today's session.
• Give Reps an allotted time to collaborate and come up with ideas that focus on the agenda's priorities. The Speaker can do their own brainstorming, but should also make their way to the other Reps, to ensure they are working on the task.
• At the end of "idea time", gather the Reps together and call the session to order. Allow Reps to lay out their ideas.
• Debate each idea, to determine what should make it into the final bill.
• At the end of "debate time", read off a summary of the bill, make final amendments  and bring it to a vote.

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Tues.:
10/24

Before we recess for the week, we'll need to wrap up yesterday's session. We want to do everything we can to leave any unfinished business. Let's get some bills passed and to the President!

The remaining time in class will be dedicated to making ads and executing legislation.

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Thurs.:
10/25

Tomorrow, we will be handing out red ribbons to students who are wearing red. So....

The remaining time in class will be dedicated to making ads and executing legislation.

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Week 3: 10/30 - 11/3

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Mon.:
10/30

Wednesday is our Pink Out Day. On Friday, Hands On Milwee Club made a bunch of signs for us to advertise this day. Take the first part of class to poster the campus. Posters and tape are on the back counter.

President Emmons should direct the rest of class to either execute existing legislation on Veterans Day, Thanksgiving, etc. or have Speakers take control of their houses to write new legislation.

​Outreach Secretary Gordon should also ensure that the Home Weekly is up-to-date for the week.

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Tues.:
10/31

Tomorrow is our Breast Cancer Awareness Pink Out Day. We also have a raffle to conduct. We will need three pairs of students to table during lunches to hand out pink ribbon stickers and submit names to our raffle.

We will also need to decide what our raffle prize will be.  Any remaining time can be dedicated to picking up where we left off last class.

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Thurs:
​11/2

Pink out day is done, so to start things off today, let's get our posters down, and reset the campus for Veterans Day. Here is what we want to accomplish today:

• Red Ribbon/Pink Out Drawing Video (Lydia and Taylor)
• Tie up any loose ends for Veterans day (banner, videos, etc.) and coordinate with Ms. Peters on yellow ribbon decor. (Ryan, Michelle, Izzy, Kaelyn, etc.)
• Determine what videos are running when, and finish P.O. (Zach and Dominic)
• Continue with Thanksgiving/Food Drive banner/ads. (whoever's available)
• Begin work on candy grams and toy drive. (whoever's available)
  

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Week 4: 11/6 - 11/10

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Mon.:
​11/6

Congress is now in session! Today, Speakers will take control of their houses, as they work together to write legislation. Follow the steps below to get things moving.

• First, Speakers should set the agenda. Look at the Billboard, and discuss the priorities of today's session.
• Give Reps an allotted time to collaborate and come up with ideas that focus on the agenda's priorities. The Speaker can do their own brainstorming, but should also make their way to the other Reps, to ensure they are working on the task.
• At the end of "idea time", gather the Reps together and call the session to order. Allow Reps to lay out their ideas.
• Debate each idea, to determine what should make it into the final bill.
• At the end of "debate time", read off a summary of the bill, make final amendments  and bring it to a vote.

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Tues.:
11/7

What are we working on:

1. Magnet Night Confirmations
2. Poster Crew: Veterans Day banner and Red White and Blue posters
3. Thanksgiving Banner: Hand Turkeys and days left in drive
4. Ads: Cross Country and Spartan Volleyball Showdown
5. Holidays: Candy Grams, Toy Drive, Spirit Days, etc.
6. ​Anything else?
   

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Thurs.
11/9

What's left from Tuesday,
​and what's next?

Week 5: 11/13 - 11/17

Week 6: 11/26 - 11/27

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Mon.:
11/27

What needs to be done for...

• Candy Grams: TV ads, banner, cards punched, purchase ribbon and candy canes
• Toy Drive: TV ads, banner, boxes with signs in social studies classes, organize with guidance
• Flag Football Tournament​

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Tues.:
​11/28

The agenda was not updated, and many students were absent this day, due to Beta Competition. Students spent the day finishing up posters for our upcoming Toy Drive and candy gram sale. Students also made significant strides toward getting a Valentine's Dance planned and scheduled. More on this to come.

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Thurs.:
11/30

Here is what we need for the Toy Drive:

• An email to social studies teachers, explaining how this whole thing is going to work. (Lydia)
• 3 different ads (GOOD ONES!) that explain what we are doing, when it is happening, and how students can get involved. We need to be specific. (whole class involvement)
• An updated HOME Weekly, highlighting this initiative. (Zach)

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Week 7: 12/4 - 12/8

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Mon.:
12/4

Here is where we are with the toy drive:

• Boxes have been orders, signs have been made.
• An email to social studies teachers, explaining how this whole thing is going to work has been sent.
• Today, we'll take a look at our ads, and make any necessary adjustments.
• Update the HOME Weekly, highlighting this initiative. (Zach)

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Tues.:
12/5

What do we need for candy grams?:

• Mr. Danner needs to purchase candy canes and ribbon.
• Students need to recruit a teacher to supervise the candy gram sale table at each lunch all next week.
• We need a good ad to run!

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Thurs.:
12/7

Mr. Danner was not in today. Students took it upon themselves to make progress with the various initiatives we are working on. An email was drafted and sent to all Milwee staff, about next week's dress up days.

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Week 8: 11/11 - 12/15

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Mon.:
12/11

Let's sell some Candy Grams!!

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Have we recruited any other teachers to help supervise Candy Gram sales?

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