1. This is your life-are you who you want to be?
2. Welcome- discuss song, Hero project, course connection
a. Course questions on power point
b. Website Intro
3. Word association game
4. Handout Sabato, WWLB, Enduring Debate and Reader-
a. Importance of WWLB
b. 3x5 cards
c. line up by alpha to turn in
5. Constitution quizzes (40 minutes w/ book distribution)
6. Discuss current events, AP test

HW:
1.WWLB 10-17 Preamble Constitutional underpinnings
2. Sabato 3-7,11-14,15-28 (Optional 8-11 Locke etc.)
3. FYI: Annotated Const 66-93 in Sabato

1. Practice Q
2. Review WWLB preamble- Discuss conflict in drafting Preamble that are brought up in WWLB- but are NOT part of our cultural memory
3. Reveal “winning” const. group from quiz Tues Wed. (Highest average score) Get in Const groups to review test
4. Handout Const vocab
5. West Wing clip Season 4 “Guns or Butter”

HW:
1.Reader 1-5 Herztberg- this is the beginning of a discussion that will culminate in a Socratic
2. Fed #10 & 51 due Thurs Fri 8/28 or 29

1. Practice Q
2. Citizenship assignment
3. Discuss Sabato reading so far
4. Const essay-intro take home essay due 9/11 or 12

HW:
1. Fed #10 questions
2. Essay intro
3. Sabato 44-53

1. Goals on back of 3x5-class goals, personal goals and three colleges
2. Power point on Constitution- Jib Jab
Click here for notes if absent
3. Song groups (Check Essay intros)
4. Handout AP Multiple choice strategies

HW:
1.Essay
2.Sabato 44-53

1. Review Federalist papers Fed #10 questions due

2. Thesis game Mc Manus

3. Get inexpert groups Article I, II & II-look at quizzes from all three to preview test

HW:
1. ED Pluralism vs. elitism
Enduring Debate Beard 22-27 last names A-M OR Brown 28-33 last names N-Z: Write (or type) the author’s thesis and find and write 5 supporting quotes, Read BOTH Beard and Brown, but you only have to do the write up for your assigned author.

3. Reader “Fathers don’t always know Best” by Mark Kulansky
4. Essay due 9/ 11 or 12

NO SCHOOL LABOR DAY!

1. Practice Q slide #7
2. Socratic
3. Power grab game

HW:
1. Reader- “A Republic if you can Keep it” John Mc Manus
2. Study for test 9/4 or 5
3. Essay

REMEMBER: Vocab & Discussion questions are due the day of the test

TEST- Multiple choice and essay
“West Wing clip”???

HW:
Essay due Sept 11 or 12

Monday Sept 10 Senior Project launch periods 3 and 4 so I won’t see period 4
Periods 1 & 2:
Practice question
Go over Constitution test
Discuss campaign
HW: Work on essay due Thurs or Friday

Handout Federalism vocab
Use cake analogy
PDF of gay marriage as example
Sabato power point slides 1-13
Political Phil survey

HW:
Sabato pages 95-104
Essay due Sept 11 or 12

1. Collect essays
2. Practice question
3. Review Const test
4. Sabato power point continued.
5. Review Article I section 9- things federal gov. can NOT do (habeas corpus), section 10 things states can NOT do
6. Scavenger Hunt of government in our lives- walk out to Wright Library

HW:
1.A State’s Rights Left by Jim Holt,
2.The Late Great States by Steve Chapman
3.Scavenger hunt due Friday Sept 19
4.Have a parent take survey

1. Practice slide #22
2. Thesis game States rights left & Late Great States
3. Finish Federalism Power Point
4. Go to Media Center for Politicalcompass.org and landmarkcases.org activities

HW:
1. Sabato 104-109
2. Finish landmarkcases.org assignment for Wed Thurs
3. Talking Right due Monday Sept 22-be prepared to write about this excerpt!
4. Scavenger hunt due Sept 19
5. Blog due Monday, Sept 29 www.fthsonline.com/dialogue/
Buckley excerpt
Chomsky excerpt
6. Hero form due Monday, Sept 22 7:50 am

1. practice slide #8 Supreme court cases
2. Fiscal federalism power point (on power point web page)
3. Sex ed in CA as example of state resisting federal bribe
4. Debrief take home Const essays
5. Landmarkcases.org review

HW:
1. Scavenger Hunt due Friday

2.“The Price of Federalism” in ED- thesis w/ 5 supporting ideas or quotes due Monday Sept 22
3. Talking Right due Monday Sept 22
4. Practice quiz Friday
5. Sabato 110-121

1. practice #24 cooperative federalism
2. Collect scavenger hunt
3. Practice quiz-take individually, then compare in groups and record for a “master” answer sheet. Reward for best group.

HW:
1. “The Price of Federalism” in ED- thesis w/ 5 supporting ideas or quotes due Monday Sept 22
2. Talking Right due Monday Sept 22
3. HERO INTENT form 7:50 am!

1. practice slide #3-reviews fiscal fed
2. Collect and discuss Price of Federalism from ED
3. Talking Right quick write
HW:
Study for test remember DQs are due day of test –Thurs or Friday 9/25 or 9/26 (multiple choice and in-class essay)
There will be s few questions from the Constitution test that many of you missed- we reviewed them in class.

practice slide #24 cooperative federalism
1. Putting it all together-significance of Federalism and the eras of increased or decreased federalism
a. LA Times US suing Illinois over immigration
2. Page 140-141-students did Not read this-referendums and initiatives- are they good government? Look at scanned tables from Chapter 4-state & local govs at end of Sabato FHS pp
HW:
Review for test
Vocab and DQs

FEDERALISM TEST!

Tues Wed Oct 2 & 3
1. practice slide #21-influence of parents-goes with Sabato reading
2.Quick write on "Permanent Fatal Errors" in Reader
3. Bowling for Columbine & Michael & ME clips3. Bowling for Columbine clips-
Chapter 6 James Nichols-stop after Gandhi comment
Chapter 11-Heston at NRA rally
Chapter 16-stats US vs. Europe
Chapter 19 Fear of Black Men
 http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_mur_wit_fir_percap-crime-murders-firearms-per-capita
 http://www.chrisjordan.com/current_set2.php?id=7 photo of hand gun deaths
Michael & Me 3 clips:
Beginning of movie-end after Dad’s testimony to Congress 4:15
8:10 to 9:30-stick ups used to result in no violence
Scene is titled “Gun Control Book”35:40 through 38:50-history of gun laws woman professor
This movie supports the idea that violent crime is a social issue that we must take responsibility for, rather than a legislative issue, guns are not the problem it is a people problem.
Discuss
3. Party platform in pod if time-show website in class

HW:
Sabato 389-404
party platform fill in chart by Wed Oct 8

Use these pdf files for the chart:
Republican platform
Democratic Platform

Socratic on Huntington’s article in Reader

Practice slide
Review party platforms
Begin perfect candidate posters

HW: Culture War? by Morris Fiorina

No school for you

Magic Mountain!

Practice slide #1
Quick write on Culture War?
Finish Perfect candidate posters based on pol. party
HW study for twiz on Political culture- bring DQs and vocab

Politcal CultureTwiz
West Wing episode