Government Assignments

The final draft of your Miranda essay is due by midnight on the day of your trial. Please log into your Canvas account click into the assignment that is called Final Draft Miranda Essay to upload your essay.

 

 

Congratulations - you are finished with Gov. 

Miranda Rubrics

This is a test to make sure that we are all tech savvy enough. Upload a good morning greeting and your name to this link. This is a graded assignment and must be completed by the end of the class period: https://api.turnitin.com/api/lti/1p0/assignment

 

Important Trial Info Attached

General Essay help

Counterargument tips and help: https://writingcenter.fas.harvard.edu/pages/counter-argument

Transitions tips and help: https://www.smart-words.org/linking-words/transition-words.html

Precedent Case Files 

If you were absent on Monday, November 26th - make sure that you watch this video (only the beginning about a traffic stop) by Monday, December 3.

 

Also, reflect on this question:

4th Amendment: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

Were Darryl’s 4th Amendment rights violated?

The powerpoint has the legal teams for the Miranda trials. All periods are on the powerpoint, you may have to scroll through periods that are not your own before you find your name. 

 

Government Extra Credit  - Watch Notorious RBG (on Hulu) and write up a page of notes about her life and other elements that you found interesting about her work as a supreme court justice. 

Justices: https://www.oyez.org/justices

 

Bill of Rights - powerpoint attached :) 

1. Political Current Event Article due TODAY! 

 

2. Study for your quiz. The quiz is on Thursday.

3. S-I-T - Voter Restriction

1. So You Think You Can Vote?
2. S-I-T and Voter restriction laws
1. Exploring the information provided on the map
2. Synthesize your thinking about the map and the video:
1. List and explain one thing that you found: S-I-T (Surprising, Interesting, Troubling) from the video and the map

 

1. Explore and gather facts at least 4 facts about felony disenfranchisement
2. In addition to the facts (try to tie one on each side to the constitution)

• 2 pro
• 2 con

1. Make sure that you can answer these questions:
1. What is felony disenfranchisement?
2. Which states will allow felons to vote? Which will not? Why?
3. From what you have read, do you agree with felony disenfranchisement? Explain.

Independent Work Time:

Presidential Powers Notes: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1di5Af0LLTPNcNjTO4yRQ99kN-EOHLfU6zAsOMcKO564/edit?usp=sharing

Notes, practice and the answer key to the practice from today's class. You're welcome. :) 

zero period: https://goo.gl/forms/ombXoKbXDngEfpjB2

First period: https://goo.gl/forms/Gf57y3roIMMsJZ5A2

Third period: https://goo.gl/forms/8X3idHb28ze3bXjA3

The Midterms: Headlines, highlights, facts, politics as usual

Link to Padlet - 0 Period: https://padlet.com/kimberlyyoung/xnbtsyprgcv6

1st Period - https://padlet.com/kimberlyyoung/18x3cai1prih

3rd Period - https://padlet.com/kimberlyyoung/iy48bhtx6swg

Link to mock vote: tinyurl.com/mockelection18

Midterm Rubric 

Fake Tweet Generator: http://www.prankmenot.com/?twitter_tweet

Midterm/Proposition Project due Monday at the start of your class period!

 

Do Now #5 Video https://www.vox.com/2018/9/27/17911604/kavanaugh-lindsey-graham-ford-hearings

Do Now# 7 (part 2) video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=won-PvZHDuA

Midterms Political Cartoons  - Select 4 political cartoons to analyze with your partner. (Yes, I know that there are 5 political cartoons - you only need to analyze 4.)  Look through them all before you decide which you want to analyze. Also, fill the boxes with your thoughtful and insightful ideas. Seriously - FILL THE BOXES! 

Today's agenda is on the slides. Enjoy. Be productive. 

Socratic Seminar Slide Deck

Link to the America Divided episode. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9tqxPv7AW4&t=1141s

Wednesday's Assignments:

1. Gerrymandering Reading and Annotation

a. Take out your stapled packet from yesterday.

b. Silently read and annotate (margin notes) the reading on gerrymandering.

c. Watch this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mky11UJb9AY

d. Add more information about what you learned in the video clip to your margin annotations.

 

2. Extra Time/Binder Organization

a. If you finished gerrymandering, use the remaining time to complete any unfinished work from Tuesday or organize your binders according to the whiteboard. 

 

Good luck. Be productive. 

~Ms. Young

Good Morning! You have 2 assignments for class today: 

 

1. American Democracy
a. The assignment is in the PPT slide below.  
b. Work in your table groups to first read about your nation's democracy (take notes as you read the article)

c. Share out about your article/nation and takes notes on the other nations from your tablemates. 

d. Keep the notes in their binders - the new assignment numbers are on the board. 

2. The Electoral College
a. Ask the sub for the stapled packet (keep it in your binder)
b. Silently read and annotate with notes written in the margin, both sides of the first page.
c.Watch 2 videos on the electoral college:

 -Then watch this video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9H3gvnN468 

 -Now go to Google and find the second video of your choice on the electoral college to watch

d. Ask the sub for the Electoral College half-sheet to complete while you watch the videos. This half-sheet needs to be completed and turned in before the end of class.

 

Good luck. Be productive. 

 

Take notes as you read about the 3 branches of gov.

Please make sure that you have read and watched the corresponding video for class on Thursday. You must bring a 1/2 to 3/4 page of notes with you to use during the activity. You also need to arrive with a completed name tent.

 

Name tents must include all of the following information on one side:

Political Theory Readings:

 

Political Theory Videos:

All students - don't forget to study for your liberal/conservative quiz tomorrow. :) Make sure you review the powerpoint from last Friday's class for help. 

 

Political Theory Readings:

 

Political Theory Videos:

Link to the online quiz: http://www.people-press.org/quiz/political-typology/

Hello Seniors!

 

 

1) Take notes (identity charts or other types of notes) on the attached power point - Liberal Conservative Into Notes_18. (This will be assignment number 17 in your binder that you picked up yesterday or took off of the back table.)

 

2) Liberal/Conservative Statements

1. Find your liberal/conservative sort (assignment #16).
2. Identify one of the statements and answer the question - Why? Why do liberals or conservatives believe what they believe in connection to that statement? After conducting some internet research and coming to an answer, write the answer on the back of your liberal/conservative sort. (I will be checking for completion on Monday.)

1. Ask the sub for an Are you conservative or liberal reading? (please note: this is a class set, please don't write on the reading or can they take it with you) There are directions on activities to complete throughout the reading. Please complete the reading and the activities on a separate sheet of paper. This will be assignment #18.
2. In case there are not enough copies in the classroom, an electronic copy of the reading is attached.

 

In case you need access to the MLA citation document in digital form.

Link to the essay prompt, rubric, and optional scaffold: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1xm3nnO3_IQL9sLpHm75ZO7pfSmtIhCb0?usp=sharing

This is the ppt for the cities with the most crime.

Drugs in South Central Reading: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1czkK_BElq0XvtD4ydvl-Pnn8VBYqxoq3/view?usp=sharing

Drug Policy Reading: Portugal and Singapore: https://drive.google.com/file/d/13LH2ISlmNGKNV5WLvE05WkFt5LaER_wU/view?usp=sharing 

Policing Policies

Stop and Frisk: https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000001601732/the-scars-of-stop-and-frisk.html

Community Policing 2018: http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-lapd-funding-20171205-story.html

 

 

 

This assignment due on 9/21 for 1st and 3rd period.

This assignment due on 9/24 for 0 period.

 

Homework assignment:

Write a short paragraph summary: What was the Just Say No campaign? Why do you think the U.S. Government invested in PSAs as part of the War on Drugs?

Also, read one of the two attached articles - According to the article, how is the Trump administration responding to the Opioid Epidemic? (Your response can be short - just a few sentences)

pro/con gun control inquiry:

Zero Period - https://goo.gl/forms/Wbev2d1kKeyNfUU23

Google Form Period 1: https://goo.gl/forms/do1Tuiu94jGPJ0rp2

Google Form Period 3: https://goo.gl/forms/rWLbLzeydj6G6aci2

Great first week, Political Scientists!

Binders, 4 dividers, and signed syllabus sheet due on Wednesday, September 5th.

If you are going to miss class tomorrow because you are in ASB please complete the political pamphlet by class on Thursday. 

 

We will have the entire class period tomorrow (Wednesday) to work on our pamphlets so this is not homework for anyone who will be present in class. 

Zero Period - Come to class ready to engage in a conversation about family separation. You need to have read ONE of the following articles and have a few brief notes from the article.

 

 

Periods 1 & 3 - Get Angry Political Pamphlet is due tomorrow, Thursday, August 30 at the start of the class period.