HW ASSIGNMENTS--1st Quarter   (Skip Days # 2 & #5)

• HW--Summer Reading In-Class Essay on Berkin's Inventing the Constitution
• In Class--
  • Writing Essay
  • Assigning of Current Events (Look below for your name in Red)
    • Each student will present political current events for 5 minutes
    • If you plan to be absent, pass the task down to the next person in line by flip-flopping dates ( a John Kerry favorite)

• HW--Serow Reading pgs. 56-62 "A Machine That Would Go Itself"
• In Class:
  • Discuss Kammen Article
  • Begin discussion on human's need for government
  • Look at various philosophies on government

• HW--Wilson Pgs. 3-15 (All of Chapter #1)
• In Class--Intro to American Government (Political Philosophy & Who Governs)

• HW--Serow book read either:
  
  C.  Wright Mills "The Power Elite" (pgs 71-78)
      Benjamin, Berner, Feiwel, Fox, Kiechel, Luse, Mallory, McCarrick
  OR  Robert Dahl "Who Governs" (pg. 88-94)
       Morrisroe, Mullen, Nowell, Platter, Piscina, Snyder, Tory, Weinberg
• In Class--
  • Students Teach/Debate Mills & Dahl
  • Current Events--Sarah Benjamin

• HW--Wilson pages 17-27 (Should be review so feel free to skim)
• In Class:
  • Get back and go over summer reading essays on Berkin book
  • Historical background on Constitution
  • Current Events--Clare Berner

• HW--
  • Wilson pages 28-40 (helpful for readings below)
  • Serow pages 49-55 & pages 97-101 (Fed papers # 10 & 51)
• In Class--
  • James Madison & the Constitution
                       Current Events--None

• HW--Wilson pages 40-47 ( Start with Constitutional reforms)
• In Class--Amending the Constitution
  • How to reform
  • In what areas
  • Current Events--Emma Feiwel

• Charles Beard "Framing the Constitution" (In Acrobat)
• John P. Roche "The Founding Fathers"  (In Acrobat)
• Essay Question (In Word)

In Class: 

• Look over Constitution (in back of Wilson book)
• Complete Constitutional Scavenger Hunt w/ partner

Click here to get a copy of the answers for Scavenger Hunt (Downloadable AFTER Class)
Current Events-- Allie Fox

Current Events--Charlotte Keichel

• Current Events--Walter Luse
• Bring books to class--you will read--Begin Ch # 3 Wilson 49-60 (stop @ Federal-State Relations)

In Class--Intro concept of Federalism/Portions of video on Federalism in class

In Class:  Federalism Introduction

Current Events--Dixon Mallory

In Class:  Federalism--Fed Aid & Control including Mandates

Current Events--Sarah McCarrick

• "American Federalism" pgs 121-125

In Class:  Discuss Daniel Elazar Article (above)

Current Events--Dan Morrisroe

• "Recall!" pgs 135-143

In Class:  Discuss 2003 California Recall

Current Events--Nina Mullen

Intro to Government, the Constitution & Federalism

Current Events Day (Justin Nowell)

In Class-Political Efficacy

Current Events--Brian Platter

In Class-Public Opinion & Political Attitudes

Current Events--Tommy Piscina

In Class-Political Ideology--Finish up chapter

Current Events--Mr. Booth (since officially I cannot assign reading/work, I'll do the current events!)

HW: 

• Serow pgs. 383-387 " The Phantom Public" & pgs. 393-400 "Direct Democracy"

In Class:  Debate--Public Opinion:  Worthwhile or Overrated?

Current Events--Diana Snyder

In Class:

• A Closer Look at Non-Voting
• Voting--a Shift from State to more Federal Control

Current Events--Ariel Troy

(reading focuses on participation rates--who votes (and who doesn't) & why

In Class: If it is not raining, we WILL NOT MEET TODAY
( I will be at a golf event w Alums for Homecoming)

• Teixera Reading Click on link:
   ACROBAT HANDOUT  pgs. 151-156
• Serow  "Why Americans Still Don't Vote pg 500-507
• "How We Vote" (one page--In Acrobat)

In Class:  Why More Americans Don't Vote (and should we be worried?)

Current Events--Peter Weinberg

In Class:  Focus on Local Election coming up next Tuesday!!!

Current Events--Tom Hotchkiss (still need both Diana & Ariel to makeup current events next week...)

***2nd QUARTER***

"All governments in Oregon may not use their monies or properties to promote, encourage or facilitate homosexuality, pedophilia, sadism or masochism. All levels of government, including public education systems, must assist in setting a standard for Oregon's youth which recognizes that these behaviors are abnormal, wrong, unnatural and perverse and they are to be discouraged and avoided."
 

• Finish Video on Oregon Ballot Measure #9 (1992)
• Go over Unit Tests & get quarter grades

• Election Results (still might be some undecided!!!)
• Begin Interest Group discussion & notes
  • Explaining Proliferation
  • Birth/History of Groups
  • Kind of Organizations
  • Interest Groups & Social Movements

• Election results
  • the races
  • the Propositions
• Finish Wilson notes
• Visit the web site:  http://www.opensecrets.org (Checking out Interest Group/PAC money)

• Article #62 "The Lobbyists" --Benjamin, Hotchkiss, Feiwel, Troy, Kiechel, Platter, Mallory, Nowell
• Article  #63 "Who Will Tell the People" --Berner, Weinberg, Fox, Snyder, Luse, Mullin, Morrisroe, MacCarrick, Piscina

In Class-

• Receive handout detailing restrictions on lobbyists through the years
• Discuss Serow Articles
• Watch some video on Lobbyists

Current Events (starting second cycle through)-Sarah Benjamin

• Review Lobbying handout from class
• Potentially prepare questions for guest speaker (TBA)

In Class:

• Potential guest speaker on Lobbying
• Finish Lobbying video

Current Events-Clare Berner

• Bring in a working laptop (internet accessible)
• Begin Lobbying PowerPoint Projects
• Download assignment details HERE

In-class: 

• Lottery of working parnters & topics
• Work with partner(s) on lobbying project planning

In-class--

• Mrs. Kiechel visits for first half of class
• Present Group Projects in Class (Chosen at Random) Day One--must do at least two groups!

In Class-History of Parties in US &Party Realignment through the years

Current Events-Emma Feiwel

In Class-National Party Structure, Local political machines & Nomination Process

Current Events--Charlotte Kiechel

In Class-Presidential vs. Congressional Campaigns

Current Events-Walter Luse

View Presidential Campaign ads through the years!!!  One of the best sites ever on the web!

http://livingroomcandidate.movingimage.us/

Current Events-Dixon Mallory

Current Events-Sarah McCarrick

In Class--

• Over the next three class periods, you will be watching a movie and a documentary,  reading at night and putting all you learn into a paper due shortly right after the holidays--on Wednesday, January 9th (3rd day back from break).  You must show up on time, not be chatty and take notes...
  • Reading Packet Downloads (in Acrobat):
    • Reading #1 Jamieson (Dirty Politics), Reading #3 Matalin/Carville
      & Reading #4 Germond/Whitecover
    • #2 Lewis
    • Reading #5 Jamieson (Candidates Say...)
    • Reading #6 Mayer
       
  • Essay Question Download HERE
     
• Begin DVD "The Perfect Candidate"

In Class: DVD "The Perfect Candidate"   full class

• Finish Video "The Perfect Candidate"
• Begin "Journeys with George" if time allows

In Class:  "Journeys with George"

Current Events-Dan Morrisroe

In Class:

• Finish "Journeys with George"
• Check out polls on Real Politics. com

Current Events-Nina Mullen

In Class: 

• The History of the Media in America

Current Events-Justin Nowell

In Class-

• Paper Questions?
• Rules Governing the Media & Bias in the Media

Current Events-Tommy Piscina

In Class:

• N.H. Primary Redux
• Collect Papers (for those who want +2)
• Media Video (Either PBS or Brian Williams  New Orleans video)

In Class-

• Collect rest of papers (no bonus if handed in today)
• Go over big test from before break...
• Government's "using" of the news media

Current Events-Brian Platter

In Class--Discuss Sabato & and Anderson Articles

Current Events-Diana Snyder

In Class-Catch up day if needed

Current Events-Ariel Troy

Current Events-Peter Weinberg

Current Events-Tommy Hotchkiss

THIRD QUARTER BEGINS

• Brief look at tests
• Receive quarter & semester Grades

• Full Review of Exam
• Current Events "They are dropping like flies"...look at why the various candidates are out of the race

In Class-

• Uniqueness of US Congress
• Evolution of Institution & its Membership

In Class-

• Organization of Congress
  • Parties & Caucuses
  • Committees
  • Staff & Specialized Offices

Current Events-Sarah Benjamin

In-class-

• How  Bill Becomes a Law
• Powers & Perks of Congress
• Post 9/11 Changes

Current Events-Clare Berner

In Class-

• Make sure Chapter is finished
• Role out Congressional PowerPoint Projects
  Download a copy of project assignments and requirements HERE
• DVD Excerpts on Congress (if time allows)

Current Events-Emma Feiwel

• Congressional Reps assignments & report requirements
• Bring in a working laptop

In Class-Work on Congressional PowerPoints

Congressional Representative PowerPoint Reports Due

(MUST BE E-MAILED TO ME BY 9:00am--
I NEED TO HAVE THEM ALL READY ON MY COMPUTER FOR CLASS)

In Class-5-7 people will be randomly selected to present their Power Points

HW- Wilson Chapter #14-The Presidency (beginning new chapter) Read pgs. 368-380

In Class-

• Presidents Vs. Prime Ministers

• Divided Government

• Evolution of the Presidency

• Powers of the President

Current Events-Allie Fox

In Class-

• The Office of the President
  • White House Office
  • Executive Office of the President
  • The Cabinet
• Independent Agencies, Commissions & Judgeships
  • Worksheet to help review White House Office and Executive Office
  • DVD selection from "The West Wing" TV Series Season One, Episode 4  "Five Votes Short"

Current Events-Charlotte Kiechel

In Class-

• Finish up West Wing DVD
• Look at the actual powers of the prez--not just Constitutional ones!

Current Events-Walter Luse (absent)

In Class-

• Key Presidential Programs though history
• Impeachment

Current Events--As a group...handout Time Magazines as well

In Class-

• Video (from ITunes on the White House)
• Questions about exam?

Current Events-Walter Luse (again)

In-Class-  DVD on government waste in the Bureaucracy

Current Events-Dixon Mallory

In Class:

• Begin discussion on bureaucracy (I will be back)
  • Distinctiveness of US Bureaucracy
  • Growth
  • Hiring
  • Culture

In Class: 

• Look at Congressional Oversight
• Bureaucratic Pathologies
• Some current events articles:
  • Hiring in the Fed Government
  • Ads from 501 c (4) groups & Campaign Finance

In Class: 

• Discuss Article on Bureaucracy
• Video on Government "Waste"

In Class: 

• Development of Federal Courts
• Structure of Court System
• Jurisdiction of Fed Courts

In Class:  The Supreme Court in Action

In Class:  The Supreme Court in Action (Moved test to Monday...)

FOURTH QUARTER BEGINS

In Class-  ***Ch # 15 The Bureaucracy & Ch 16 The Judiciary TEST*** 

In Class:  TBA (Go over tests?)

In Class-

• Civil Liberties
  • History of Conflict over Constitutional Rights
  • Bill of Rights--lay them out
  • Expand on Free Speech controversies

Current Events-Sarah McCarrick

In Class-

• Issues of Church & State
• Crime & Due Process

Current Events-Dan Morrisroe

In-Class-

• Hand out Greenwich Time (every day)
• Listen to Civil Liberties Supreme Court cases w/ transcript

Current Events-Sarah McCarrick (makeup)

In Class-Historical Overview of Black Civil Rights in U.S.

Current Events-Nina Mullin

In Class-Talk about others who are affected by Civil Rights Issues:

• Women
• Gays
• Disabled/Handicapped
• Elderly

Current Events-Justin Nowell

In Class-Local Current Events

Current Events-Justin Nowell (carried over from Friday)

In Class-Listen to Civil Rights Case (Bakke vs. California)

In Class-Discuss Public Policy

Current Events-Tommy Piscina

• "The Other America" pages 607-611
• "The Freedom to Choose" pgs. 611-617

In Class-Continue Discussion on Public Policy

In Class-  ***Test-Civil Liberties, Civil Rights & Public Policy

In Class-Review Day #1--Handout Review Books for AP; Discuss Test structure

Current Events-Brian Platter

In Class-Review Day #2--Review MC Answers; Brainstorm Essay Q's

In Class-Review Day #3--Review MC Answers; Brainstorm Essay Q's

In Class-Review Day #4--Review MC Answers; Brainstorm Essay Q's

In Class-Go to Brunswick Meeting Room for AP--Arrive at 7:30 am!!!

In Class-

• AP Exam Redux
• Fill out teacher evaluations for course
• Reminder:  Local Government Projects due on Wednesday, May 14th!!!

To download a copy of the assignment CLICK HERE!

Current Events-Via The Daily Show!!!

In Class-Work on Projects....Day #1 or West Wing

In Class-Work on Projects....Day #2 or West Wing

In Class-Work on Projects....Day #3 or West Wing

In Class-Turn in Papers

Current Events-Via The Daily Show!!!

In Class-

• Class party
• Farewells