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Thurs Aug 27 |
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Get to know your classmates...go to the link below. You will be
able to chat with all students in the class. The
assignment is for you, WITHOUT TALKING, to learn as many of your
classmates names as possible. The person who learns the most
names will get a couple bucks from Mr. Pahl...
http://123.writeboard.com/2a28fe5f59ad0a20f
The password is the number 1. Hit ADD COMMENT to
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Wed Sep 2 |
TCI SITE: Two codes you will need
- There is an activation code in your
textbook. You will need it.
- Secondly there is a class code for the
specific class you are in:
- 1st per: 2A4ZZJ
- 4th per: B713G0
- 5th per.: 6NUB2G
- Here is the URL link:
http://www.learntci.com
- Click on the picture of our textbook,
Government Alive!
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GAMES PEOPLE PLAY. POWER. I want you to
sign into the TCI site following the directions to the left.
You should get this done today if you can.
Notebook assignment #1
is to take notes in your Civics
Notebook about the theories for the origin of the state, and
the 3 main forms of government.
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Wed. Sep. 9 |
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- Check your grade...
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TCI login. You will need to access chapter 2
of the online textbook to answer one of the questions on the
test. Hopefully you remember your name and password...!
- You can take this assessment with a partner if you
want (no groups of 3, please!). So go
make some decisions.
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Wed Sep 16 |
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The Roots of American Democracy.
- Check your grade...
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TCI login.
Login to chapter 3 of your online textbook and call Mr. Pahl
over when you are there. This is worth 5 points.
- You must take a multiple choice quiz-game in the online
textbook, chapter 3, by Friday.
Here are the questions you will need to be able to answer.
- You must individually take this quiz-game by Friday.
Mr. Pahl will check your score after that. Whatever
grade you have recorded by Friday is what you will get as a
score. The game offers opportunity for Extra
Credit if you do well.
- The game is called "Crack the Code" and it is listed
in the table of contents of chapter 3 in your online
textbook.
- Please read section 3.3 in the online textbook today,
and read section 3.4 for tomorrow. There will be a
test on the sections your have read in Chapter 3, plus what
Mr. Pahl lectures about tomorrow, Thursday (notebook
assignment 4).
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Wed. Sep. 23 |
NOTE: No gaming or off-task surfing. You
must be working on one of the items to the right this period in
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Unit 2. CITIZEN PARTICIPATION
- Don't forget about
NOTEBOOK
assignments #5 and #6. Remember, you can get at the
text from Chapter 7 by
logging into your TCI textbook.
- Explain 3 quotes from the Declaration of
Independence. Due Friday.
- MOODLE. Get your login from Mr. Pahl.
Minimum of one post in the discussion board for your
class period, 10 points, with chance for more depending
on the leadership and quality of your post(s).
- Know the difference: Discussion, Chat rooms, WIKI
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Wed Sep 30 |
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Unit 3. POLITICAL IDEOLOGY.
- Homework from yesterday-turn it in to Mr. Pahl.
Take this test on which
Illinois legislators are conservative and which are liberal.
- Liberal or conservative? Take
this test to see if you understand the difference
between liberal and conservative.
- To do notebook assignment
#7 you will have to take these self-assessments
online:
- Tests. There are 3
tests on this page. Make sure you take all three of them and
write your results in notebook assignment #7, along with a
paragraph in which you assess these results with what you
know about your own views and come to a determination of
whether you are liberal or conservative.
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Wed Oct 7 |
NOTE: No games in
the lab today. If you have finished everything listed to
the right, see Mr. Pahl to get your SUPERPASS TO DO WHATEVER THE
HE__ YOU WANT. Until then, do the work! :-)
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The Power of Media
- Check your grade...
- You have the
media
assignment sheet due tomorrow which you can work on
in the lab today...
- Also, go to the
TCI online site and
- do the Matrix of Knowledge activity in
Chapter 9. Have this done by Friday...and
- Also in Chapter 9, Read "Power, Politics and You:
Should Truth in Advertising Apply to Political Ads?"
and then leave a
posting in the class Moodle as to whether you
think Truth in Advertising laws should apply to
political ads.
- Remember, your notebooks are due Friday...so you
can work on some of the
Notebook Assignments if you have not finished them..
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Wed Oct 14 |
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Elections
- Active
Citizenship Projects...
- Answer the two questions in the
Moodle about
elections. The questions are the two (1. and 2.) listed
above...
- Go to
TCI login and do the Primary Source Investigation
activity at the end of Chapter 10.
- Read about how the Electoral College actually elects
our President in section 10.4. Write a one page
report explaining how the Electoral College works, and
explain the 3 proposals listed in the book as to how the
Electoral College could be amended. Which one do you think
is best, and why? 10 points, due tomorrow, Thursday.
- Read sections 10.5 and 10.6 in the
online (or hard cover) book. There will be a test on
Friday on Chapters 9 and 10.
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Wed Oct 21 |
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TARGET TEST
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Wed Oct 28 |
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- Go to Chapter 4 on the Constitution and
work on the Primary Source Investigation assignment.
Have it completed by Friday, worth 20 points.
- Search it out...
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Thu Nov. 5 |
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TCI Chapter 4
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Fri Nov 6 |
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Wed. Nov 18 |
BUDDY people, nice work yesterday!
Supreme Court Justices, your brief must
contain
- The name of your case
- The question that is before you in the
case
- What arguments each side will bring to
you
- What facts are important in the case
- Fill out the diagram to the right (only
include the case that applies to your case...) by indicating
which precedent would benefit which side of the case.
- Write out a question you could ask the
petitioner:
- Write out a question you could ask the
respondent:
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The First Amendment
In our mock trials you must be prepared either as an
Associate Counsel, or a Supreme Court Judge. For the remaining 3
trials each Supreme Court Justice and each Counsel must
prepare a brief about the case they are involved with, and
turn it into at the conclusion of the trial.
Associate Counsels, your brief must contain:
- The name of the case and which of the two parties in the
case you represent
- The question before the Court
- Very plainly, how you are answering the question for the
best benefit of your client
- The strongest appeal to the Court that you can make on
behalf of your client. What facts are important for the
Court to know for your client to win?
- Know which of the precedents (left column) support the
Petitioner and which of the precedents support the
Respondent.
| PRECEDENTS |
PETITIONER |
RESPONDENT |
| ? Cantwell-->
Epperson-->
Tinker-->
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Hazlewood |
v. Kuhlmeier (1988).
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| ? WV v. Barnette->
Engel v Vitale->
Lemon-->
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Wallace
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v. Jaffree (1985). |
| ? Ginsburg-->
Tinker-->
FCC--> |
Bethel
School District 403 |
v. Fraser (1986). |
| ? Lemon-->
Widmer-->
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Board of Ed
of Westside |
v. Mergens (1990). |
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Wed. Dec.2 |
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Constitution!
- Check your grade!
- Take this test
on what we have studied so far on the Constitution
(Overview, Articles 1 and 2).
- Study guide.
Similar to the handout given out in class today...This is
for the whole Constitution test, including things we have
not yet studied...
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Wed and Thurs Dec 16 and 17 |
SMART MOUTH:
Chicago Youth Core rep versus a speaker from the ACLU
TCI
login
Study chapter 6, section 5 about local government
Study for quiz on Friday:
The 3 forms of local government:
Mayor-Council
Commission
Council-Manager |
SMART MOUTH
Read about some
hot-button First Amendment issues, most of them dealing
with the Establishment Clause and the Free Exercise Clause, and
the idea of separation of church and state.
- 1st and 4th hour students. Read through the
stories of at least 5 of the 13 "hot-button" cases linked
above, and then comment on them in the class
Moodle. Pick the
number of the topic you are commenting on, and say who you side
with, and why. This is a two day assignment and you are
expected to comment on at least 4 of the stories, so you
should make at least 4 separate posts, stating your opinion
(which side you are on and why) on each one.
- 1st period students. After you are done
with your 4 posts about these hot-button stories, you must
prepare a few questions to ask Michael Kelly, the President
of Bartlett, who will be in class on Friday... Do some
research on issues or Bartlett, or else enterprise some
questions you would really like answered about Bartlett and
how it is run, etc. Keep a copy of your questions so you can
ask Mr. Kelly on Friday, and turn your questions into Mr.
Pahl here:
- 5th Period students going on the field trip, write out two
questions you could ask at the SmartMouth debate we will be
attending at the Chicago Cultural Center. Draw these two
questions from the hot button issues linked above. There will be two
opposing speakers debating these issues. Keep a copy
of the two questions so you can actually have them with you when
we are downtown, so you can ask them!
5th Period, turn in your two questions here.
Tell me in each one which issue it deals with, if it is not
obvious from your question...:
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Wed. Jan. 6 |
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Wow, it just hit me as I was putting together this lab that this
is my last lab session with you as a class, so if you're up to
it, feedback to me a little here:
- During the final exam period, you will be taking both
the Civics final and the 2nd quarter target test. On
that test will be the required Civics vocabulary
words...Study those
here!
- Now take a test
(not for points) to see how well you know them...
- Here is a
study guide
meant to help you on the Target test...it's the stuff we
have studied this semester...Note: This is the best study
guide you can use for that test, so really study it if you
want to do well on that test! :-)
- Here is the link to the
study guide for the
final that I gave you in class...
- 5th Period...finish your active citizenship projects!
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