You will need this to answer questions today about Article 2.

First, take the short quiz I told you yesterday you would have today on page 6 in Mr. Pahl's Constitution Study Guide. Answer these questions by sending the correct letter for each question through the form below:

1. How many Justices on the Supreme Court?  
      a. 9    b. 7   c. 44      d. 10    e. 11

2. How long do Supreme Court Justices serve?  
    a.10 years   b. 11 years   c. 12 years    d. for life   e. none of these

3. Who oversees impeachment trials which take place in the Senate? 
        a.The House  b. the Vice Pres   c. The Speaker  
        d. Chief Justice of the Supreme Court   e. nobody

4. How many federal Courts of Appeal are there? 
         a.12    b. 11    c. 10    d. 91   e. 3

5. How many district trial courts are there? 
      a. 11     b . 91    c. 100   d. None of these  

• Look at these notes on Articles 3-7 of the Constitution. Then answer a few questions about these Articles. 
• Then, take a quiz on the requirements and duties involving the President, the Congress and the Courts.

Take the 5 point research question below.  Use google to find the answer.

Then take this test...

Take the tests linked here, to help you see if your views are more Republican (conservative - right) or Democrat (liberal - left):

Write a short paper to Mr. Pahl about whether you seem to be more of a Republican or a Democrat, and, as best you can, WHY you are more one or the other.  DUE: Fri.  Worth: 10 points

• Study Guide for your test on Chapter 5 on Congress. Answer these questions and then get the right answers...study this for your test on Friday...

Work on your two major projects:  Your issue group topic, and your class project (Haiti and underage drinking...):

• Researching your Mock Congress Issue -- record facts about your issue to help formulate a bill
• Working on your class civics project. Put something on your writeboard which shows some work you have done for it. (Be sure to write your name with your work)

You must do something on each writeboard, Mr. Pahl will grade these after school.  10 points on each writeboard.  Put something there and put your name with it. No name = 0 points (for each board)

USERNAME: Your username is  bhsyourlastname (with a few exceptions...)

PASSWORD: If your ID begins with "1" your password is your whole ID number. If you have leading zeroes, drop them, use the last 5 digits of your ID, and add a zero - this is your password. 

Two things your group needs to be working on:

1. Writing your bill...(25 points) it's due in two weeks...
2. Making a pamphlet (25 points) to advertise your bill, giving reasons why it should be passed, explaining the problem with statistics and facts, and pointing out what problems your bill will solve if passed, and what good it will do for society... 

Issue Board Links 

1. Decide on something specific and tangible. "We want to make the world a better place." is not specific and tangible.  "We want to require all American teenagers to do 18 months of community service" is more specific.
2. Your bill should SOLVE A PROBLEM.  There is no need for a bill if everything is okay, if all is well.  Your bill is needed because SOMETHING IS WRONG!!!
3. Go to the Civics homepage and click on "CONGRESS" (near the top of the page), the name and password are both "1."  Check out the SAMPLE BILL and BILL FORM there to craft your bill.
4. Have some of your issue group members work on the pamphlet which you will use to promote the bill. Use facts you have previously gathered.  Explain what the problem is.  Explain how your bill will solve the problem.
5. Place the electronic version of your bill on the wikispace which was created for it. (Due there by next Monday.)

• Be sure to VOTE in the library today!

• Be sure your bill is in written form on the wikispace and have a hard copy printed out for Monday.

• Have two people from your group prepare written statements to make before the committee hearing about why your bill should be passed. One should be the opening speaker and one should be the closing speaker.

• Work on your pamphlet. It will be due early next week.
• Leave a note for Mr. Pahl about any problems you are having:

• Take this test on the reading you did on pp464-467.
• Read the bills before your committee and write out three questions you can ask of each of the bills before your committee...
• Forms are available in three places: 1)hard copy from Mr. Pahl, and 2)electronically on the wiki, and also 3)the Congress page.
• Remember, you must make two copies, one for yourself to take to the committee hearing, and one to turn into Mr. Pahl due tomorrow, Thursday.

BUDDY. Every group that is going to a school (worth 25 points):

1. Get your permission forms in to Mr. Pahl!!
2. Turn in to Mr. Pahl an itinerary for Wed Dec. 5 that includes what time the driver will leave home, what time the driver will pick up each person, what time you will arrive at your school.
3. Include a  mapquest print out of the route to the school.
4. Include a page with at least one fact or saying  that could be added to the PowerPoint you will show in class, and include an activity you could try with the 5th and 6th graders you will be teaching...
5. Make a BUDDY poster you can leave with the kids, OR design a certificate that Mr. Pahl can mass produce that tells them they have passed the BUDDY course!

HAITI.  Here are some things that need to be done. Get a vision and get something donet his period.  Bill me for 0-10 points for what you do today, but don't bill me for 10 if you don't getting something done for Haiti!!

1. Every person should have at least 10 posters they can pass out on H Day (Friday when we mass launch our poster campaign) (20 points) (Take one of the pictures from www.aidtohaiti.com and add a simple fact about Haiti, or simply print www.aidtohaiti.com on it, or on some, just have the picture... Print them out in the lab...
2. Make some of the HAITI signs where every letter stands for something
3. Somebody make a schedule for selling suckers
4. Meet with Mr. Pahl about setting up the World Vision account to sponsor a child in Haiti...
5. T-shirts? Can we pull it off?
6. Somebody make the chart to show where donations stand (Maulik?)
7. Who will be class treasurer and keep track of money that comes in from student donations and fund raisers?

While the Establishment Clause is sometimes said to be in conflict with the Free Exercise Clause, the two should instead be viewed together as an increased grant of liberty for citizens.  The Establishment Clause tells the government is cannot set up or aid a religion, and the Free Exercise Clause tells the government that it cannot prevent citizens from freely exercising their religion. So in America, religion should come from the people themselves, not from the government.  That way religion is strongest.  Madison said that if the government is needed to support religion (such as in required prayers or moments of meditation) it leads to weak religion.

Answer the following questions (using your book and Google, etc). Due Thursday, worth 20 points.

• In Wikipedia
• Some Supreme Court quotes about incorporation
• Your Civics textbook on pages 356 and 357.

Here is your notebook assignment for today:

1. Which of the rights in the Bill of Rights have been incorporated through the 14th amendment to apply against the states?  Which have not?
2. Explain the doctrine of incorporation in your own words.  (Use normal language, don't write anything you don't understand yourself!)
3. Draw a diagram (with some words, also) in which you try to graphically represent the concept of Incorporation.  Included in the diagram should be a) something representing the federal government, b) something representing the states, c) something representing the 14th amendment, d) something representing the Bill of Rights  This chart, if done well, is worth 10 bonus points to the already-100 points your notebook will be worth when you cash it in before you leave for winter break...:-)

Put today's assignment in your notebook. 

For each scenario below, cite at least one Supreme Court case mentioned in Chapter 13, and tell how it applies in your appeal letter:

1. You have written an article for the school newspaper favoring an open policy toward posters in the school hallways and you are told it cannot be printed because the administration favors a new, more restrictive policy.  Write out below your letter of appeal to the school principal (Don't forget to cite at least one Supreme Court case):
    
2. Your friend is giving the commencement address for graduation. He wants to speak about his commitment to atheism, and why others should be atheists.  He is told he will not be able to give his speech. He asks you for help in drafting a letter to administration making a case for why he should be able to speak.  Write out your letter of appeal on his behalf (Don't forget to cite at least one Supreme Court case):
    
3. Same as # 3, but the speaker, a senior female, wants to talk about her faith in God.  Write out your letter of appeal on her behalf (Don't forget to cite at least one Supreme Court case):
    
4. You and 200 other seniors have requested permission to hold a rally in the BHS parking lot on a Saturday, to draw attention to the case of a teacher you all believe was unfairly dismissed by the U-46 School Board.  The school administration refuses your request to hold the rally. The student leaders of the rally call the event off, but 250 seniors show up to the school parking lot anyway and hold a rally. They have signs and several speeches are given defending the fired teacher. A reporter from the Herald covers the event.  School officials show up and give all  250 students a Saturday School and then break up the rally.  The students do not resist. You are one of the seniors involved. Write a letter to the BHS administration appealing this Sat. school (Don't forget to cite at least one Supreme Court case):
    
5. To protest the US involvement in Iraq, 100 students on the same day wore black t-shirts to BHS, saying "Get the hell out of Iraq now!" and large black buttons which said in large letters "OUT NOW."  Students were made to take the shirts and buttons off and they were given a Saturday School.  You decide you want to sue the school for violating your civil rights.  Write here the defense that your lawyer makes on your behalf in this situation (Don't forget to cite at least one Supreme Court case):
    

Here are some links to study for the exam:

• liberal-conservative
• From Chapter 16 on nominating the President (in book, pp464-467)
• Review of Constitutional Requirements
• Review of Required Vocabulary
• Study Guide-things to study