MMP, System of Government, (Social Studies)

For the past 3 weeks, I have been learning about the house of representatives and the system of how governments/prime minster are chosen. I now know what MMP and MP stands for. MMP, stands for Mixed-Member Proportional which means, different parties get to share their ideas. MP, stand for Member of Parliaments, which means that people who got voted in.

What I also Learned was that, it depends on how much votes you get, which means that's the percent of chairs you get, in the house of representatives. For Example, If you get half of the votes, you are guaranteed to get half of the chairs to your party. 

 

There are 120 seats in the House Of Representatives

Learning new concepts in class (Social Studies)

At the start of Social Studies today (01/08/2019) we were instructed to abandon
the electronics for we were going to use or brain and to also talk in groups.

First we were told to warm up our brain by memorising the 7 key concepts about
the government. Secondly me and my partner volunteer to present the words that
we had to remember. It was a bit hard to memorise the 7 words but it was a
win-win situation because we exercised our brain. After that we were shown
each meaning of the 7 words we were told. We again had to memorise all the
meaning to the words and later on present it. Again, me and my partner volunteered
to present to the class the meaning of a certain word. It was very challenging
because we had little time to memorise these words. My partner and I
were trying to remember and fortunately we did it.

Some of the new words I learned was:

• Laws - A rule or set of rules
• Member of parliament - A person who has been elected by the people
• in a particular to electorate

• Rights - something we are entitled to
• Electorate - is a voting district
• Political party - an organised party