Week #9 A.P.Gov. Rogers

Sorry about the blog being late. My son is very sick and in the hospital. I will not be in attendance tomorrow. Please show our guest your ram pride by being attentative and on task.

10-24-11

Finish Non-Completed Current Event Projects- Student list will be provided

10-25-11

Discuss Pages 184-188

Target: Students will learn about political socialization. Specifically, students will learn how Americans learn about politics.

Political Socialization
--The Family
--The Mass Media
--School

10-26-11

Discuss Pages 189-193

Target: Students will learn about how to measure public opinion about political information.

How polls are conducted?
--Sample
--Random Sampling
--Sampling Errors
--Random Digit Dialing
What Role do the polls play in American Democracy?
--Exit Polls
What polls reveal about Americans' political information?

10-27-11

Discuss pages 196-200

What Americans Value: Political Ideology
--Foreign Policy
--Social Policy
--Economic Policy
--Crime
How Younger and Older Americans Compare on the Issues?

10-28-11

Current Event- Finish Current Event #2

Week #8 A.P. Gov. Rogers

10-17-11

Discuss results of political ideology quiz.

Target: Students will take a political ideology quiz and we will discuss the results. An discuss of the results and the differences in ideology between Liberal, Conservative, Populist and Libertarian will help facilitate an understanding of each individual political ideology.

10-18-11

Discussion of pages 85-90

Target: Students will learn about fiscal federalism and its importance in politics today. Though the discussion students should begin to understand the difference between the following.

• Categorical Grants--Project Grants and Formula Grants





• Block Grants

10-19-11

Review of Federalism Unit: Review sheet provided

10-20-11

Unit #2 Exam 4o multiple choice and one short essay response. 50 pts. possible

10-21-11

Current Event Projects

Week #7 A.P. Gov. Rogers

10-10-11

Discuss pages 74-79

Target: Students will learn where in the Constitution Federalism is discussed. They will learn the following concepts.

The Division of Power in the Government.
The Establishment of National Supremacy
--Implied Powers
---McCulloch v. Maryland
--Commerce Power
---Gibbon v. Ogden

10-11-11

Discuss Woll Reading McCulloch v. Maryland

Target: Students will learn about the Supreme Court case that established the supremacy of the national government.

10-12-11

Discuss reading 79-81

Target: States' obligation to each other; Full Faith and Credit

10-13-11

Discuss reading 81-84

Target: Intergovernmental Relations; Students will learn about duel federalism and cooperative federalism.

10-14-11

Current Event Project #2

Week #6 A.P. Gov. Rogers

10-3-11

Discussion of the first 1o Amendments (Bill of Rights). Please be prepared to discuss and contribute.

Target: Students will learn about the first 10 Amendments to the Constitution. An in depth discussion about how the Bill of Rights really protected the following.

• Protection of Free Expression



• Protection of Personal Beliefs



• Protection of Privacy
  


• Protection of Defendant's Rights
  


• Protection of Other Rights
  

10-4-11

Discussion of pages 68-74.

Target: Students will learn a working definition of Federalism and why it is important to the United States.

10-5-11

Read Pages 74-79

Target: Students will have their first examination returned. A in-depth explanation and debriefing will allow student the opportunity to see where they could improve. Test revisions will be discussed.

10-6-11

No School

10-7-11

No School