Criminal Justice
Show 48 Hours Mystery: Loved to Death
Have Students do mod 16 pre final project

Watch Inside the Mind of Google?
Answer
1.Who are the founders of Google?
2. How do they make money? Give multiple example.

Read Robots,self driving cars- What's going on with Google

Answer
1.What is a conglomerate?
2.What is Google doing to prepare itself for the future?
3. What do you think about their plan?

Watch Self Driving Car
Researching your BEST stock or your WORST stock reasearch and explain numerous things that are going on with your company
Create a very brief powerpoint that has the following elements
Name of Company , Logo, description of what they do

1. Read about the Laws of Demand. What are the 5 factors that can influence demand?
2. WatchABC News look at Starbux. Summarize into a paragraph the news report's conclusions about the starbux's decline and resurgence .
3.-Search current news articles to find a recent example of 3 of the factors that effect demand for a product.( as explained in the above article.)
- Summarize each current example into 2-3 sentences.
example: The demand for iphones 3G (sales of) has dropped in recent months because of the rumors of the new 4G iphone that have been circulating on internet chat rooms. Rumors abound about a waterproof 4g phone that has a battery with twice the life.

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stock market

stock market

Join the stock market game. This contest will run until the end of the semester. The goal is to learn how the market works and to better understand the concepts of supply and demand.Click on the link below. Use your ridley password and create a username that includes your first and last name.
Join my contest
After joining the contest the questions on the below link are the key concepts and terms that you need to know to be successful in this unit. They will all be fair game for the unit test on the market.
http://www.howthemarketworks.com/education/stock-questions.php
Power point project
Pick one company.
You must create a power point for that company.
The goal of the power point is to inform the class on the following things:

What is the company?
What does it do? Use the company’s profile on yahoo finance as the source. ( Research and learn. Don’t tell us what you think they do)
What other companies and or products do they own / produce?
What is the stock's currently price? ( time / date/ price)
Find a current headline( from yahoo finance) that explains something that is going on with the company. Briefly explain it.
How has the company’s stock been doing over the last 52 weeks?
Cut and paste pictures/ charts/ graphs onto the power point. Not a lot of words are needed. Your explanation of these is the important thing.
Do power point on your gmail account.

COPS survey
1

Objective: Create a Cops episode that demonstrate understanding of the 4th amendment, and specific case law dealing with a 4th amendment issue

Cops

 Research a Supreme Court Case that deals with a search and seizure issue.
1. Go to oyez.org for Good Resources for Supreme Court Cases 

2. Scroll down on the left of the above page and find search and seizure . Click around and look for a case that interests you. Read it understand the facts of the case , the legal question the court considered, and their ruling( and the reasoning behind the ruling)

3. Create a Cops episode that loosely deals with that case.

    a. episode should be filmed on ipad or i movie
   b. episode must contain the following elements

-filmed or existing video that loosely relates to a precent setting case(60 pts)

- a segment of the video that includes a slide or narration( apart from the filmed episode) that poses asks a legal question about the search(10 pts)

- a segment that correctly gives the legal reasoning why the search is legal or illegal (20 pts)

- a brief explanation of the Supreme Court Case the episode is based on (10 pts)

 

Sub plans
Period 5 Senior Seminar
Explain to students that our next unit after mock congress is on economics and these two companies will play a big role in our discussions

Show video Ipod Revolution all five parts.
At the end have students list 3 reasons for the ipod's success
2 things about Steve Jobs as a person that led to his success
1 summary sentence of the video.
Show video Swoosh: Inside Nike

House search

Read Police Arrest Father and Son for Underage Party
1.  If you were a defense attorney in this case what 4th amendment issue could you look into?
2. Read  Birmingham City Utah v Stuart
Apply the reasoning of the court in that case to the West Chester Case and writing as judge explain your reasoning on the legality of the house search.

Criminal Justice

Criminal Justice

Pick any 10 page segment of Steven King's Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption Book.
1. Describe in a paragraph any differences and similarities between the book and the movie ( include a commentary on your preferences)
2. Based on the movie, pick out and describe how each of the following theories of punishment were exemplified in the movie.
- rehabilitation
- incapacitation
- deterrence
- retribution
Tell which parts of the movie showed which theory and how.

3. A few times in the movie older inmates were said to be "institutionalized" . Brooks Hanlon was , and Red also thought he may have been. What does that concept mean and how could that be a bad thing at the time of parole.

The goal for today is to understand the case and to be able to discuss the complexities of it.
Read Officers in the Bronx Fire 41 Shots both pages.
Read The Diallo Verdict
answer the following questions:
1. what were the officers charged with?
2. what was the prosecution's argument?
3. What was the defense's argument?
4. What do you think?
5. List three words/ phases you do not understand. Look up and define those words.

 Criminal Justice- allow 20 minutes for students to finish yesterday's state and federal prison work. 
Discuss

Show video  LOCKUP - TEXAS MAXIMUM SECURITY PRISON 

Using their notes have students write a 1 paragraph essay explaining the different theories of punishment shown in the video
1. retribution
2. deterence
3. rehabilitation
4. incapacitation
 

 SENIOR SEMINAR

The objective of today's lesson is to understand various common Best Practices for public speaking and to apply those practices to three  speeches.

Have students read  
1. Tips for Public Speaking

2.More tips


View Rep. Anthony Weiner's speech

have student's fill out observations on worksheet.

View Steve Job's speech
- have student's fill out observations on worksheet

View Will Ferrell's speech

- have student fill out observations on worksheet.

If there is time remaining go to abcnews and show World News

Read NJ proposed bill to raise smoking age to 21
Answer the following
What does the bill require?
What proof is offered to justify the bill?
What groups oppose the bill and why?

Look at Oklahoma  House Bill 2314 to see what a similar bill looks like

The following sites are starting places to get ideas for your own bills.
Find something that is of interest to you. Your bill needs to fix a problem in society.
You will spend a lot of time becoming an expert on the problem your bill seeks to address , so find something that you will be willing to spend time on.
Ideas for mock congress

Bill Idea Page

23 Laws We Should Adopt in the United States

Once you have decided upon your bill you must research it and then decide upon the exact wording of what you address as the problem and the SPECIFIC ACTIONS your bill REQUIRES to happen.

When you have done this READ

THE PRINCETON MODEL CONGRESS bill requirements and use  their
 template to write your bill (Change the Princton heading to  US SENATE

Criminal justice

Read about Scared Straight Effectiveness
Summarize the article into three sentences .


Read Ten Weird Court Sentences- pick three and explain your thoughts on the effectiveness of the proposed sentence

Join a Political Party

Today you will officially pick the political party that you will represent in your role as a US Senator.
Take all three political party quizes:
1. Are you a republican or democrat?
2. What political party are you?
3. What political party is right for you?
After reading the results of the quizes go to an official site of the party that the test said you most closely resembled; democratic party, republican party, Libertarian Party, 
Green Party , Tea Party
Post a one paragraph declaration explaining the party you will join
Paragraph must include
a. name of the party
b. an explanation of the major beliefs of that party and why you chose to join it.
c. include any things that you do not agree with

Go to the E- learning module How a Member Decides to Vote
Go through the simulation on the Flag Burning Amendment
Understand the issues pros and cons and what a congressperson considers before voting
-Craft a 30 second sound bite ( to be delivered in response to a reporter's question Senator, why did you vote for this amendment?)
you will have to read this in class so make sure its 30 second long and demonstrates understanding of the issue.
Rehearse the answer so your delivery is smooth

Read Cruz One Sore Loser

Go to www.opensecrets.org
click on lobbying on the left hand side of the page.Read
click on ranked sectors. Read and look at all the different sectors. Click around.
click on top spenders. read and look around.
Post the following:
- Define in your own words - lobbyist

Write a 1-2 paragraph explanation of much one industry spent in 2013, then discuss one particular company or group and how much they spent. finally research one particular bill and try to explain what the bill said and try to figure out why the company wanted to influence it.

Objective- What is a psychopath?
Watch Most Evil Psychopaths from the begining to the 15 minute mark.

Read The Depressive and the psychopath
Create list of 7 traits of a psychopaths
In your own words summarize this article into one paragraph

Lobby groups and their role in legislation

Lobby groups and their role in legislation

Go to The National Rifle Association's website 
1. Explain one piece of legislation they are for and one they are against.





Go to the National Restaurant Association's website
1. Explain who they are, what they do and 5 companies that are members.
Check out Issues for Action
2. Describe in three sentences the proposed NY Beverage Ban
3. Describe the NRA position on the ban.
4. Describe the NRA reasoning for their position on the ban.
5. What do you think about the ban.

Check out other issues of interest to the NRA lobby.
6. What is the H-2B Visas? And what is the NRA's position on them?

lyrics - pumped up kicks

lyrics -Nebraska

Bill to law

Bill to law

Represent Me Do activity.
What does this activity say about the role of a Congressman.
Read How Old is Too Old To Drive

- List 3 reasons the article offers to support the idea that there may be a crisis on the highways because of elderly drivers.
Read House Approves Mandating Regular Vision Tests for Seniors
Answer the following questions:
1. Is this a state or federal law? How do you know?
2. What does the law require seniors to do?
3. What other requirements are there in the bill?
4. According to Donna Erdman which age group has the most accidents?

Watch South Park Grey Dawn

Review Bill of Rights and the First Amendment
Read article  on First Amendment




Constitution Test
Test will be on Wednesday
Review Quizlet for test
One sheet can be brought to the test ( Constitution Review front and back)

Article II of the Constitution sets up the Executive Branch of the government.
Today's assignment gives two different perspectives of President Obama.
Read Obama's Way. After reading the article post a well thought out comment explaining a piece of the author's portrayal of the President that you found interesting or informative. Include comments on your impressions of the President and /or  the powers of the office of the President based on Michael Lewis' portrayal. Must be at least 1 paragraph.

Read A Small President on the World Stage
Why does the author give this article the above title?
List three reasons she gives to support her argument.
In a paragraph give your opinions about her argument or anything the article inspires in you

US Constitution

US Constitution

You are responsible for knowing the information in lessons 3 and 4 on the Constitution. These lessons are a great review for a test.
Today's assignment- Read the above lessons and answer the following:
Read Lesson 3 on Article 1 of the Constitution
1. Explain what an ex post facto law is, what congress can do in regards to them , and give real world historical or current example of a law that was deemed to be ex post facto.

2. What does Article 1 of the Constitution say about congress' power when it comes to commerce?
a. What is commerce?
b. Find a current example of a law passed by congress that exemplifies congress' ability to make laws regulating commerce.
3. What does Article IV sec IV  say about new states?
a. Find out and describe any information on Puerto Rican statehood movements.
Read Lesson 4 and answer the following:

4. What does Article II say about the President's role over the military?
a. Find one example of a recent decision or action by President Obama in his role over the military.
5. How does Article II set up the election of the President? Do the people elect him or what?
6. Which article describes how to change the Constitution?
a. What was the last change to the Constitution?
b. Find an example of a current proposal to amend the Constitution.

Read Government Shut Down :What You Need To Know
Explain in one Paragraph the following things
- What does a government shutdown mean?
-What do the House Republicans say about it?
- What do Senate Democrats say about it ?

In the second paragraph write your opinions about the situation?
Possible this to consider( but not necessarily)
who is right?
does our government work at all?
what is the President's role here?
Is ObamaCare a good thing?

Research and List
3 reasons why proving OJ did it
3 reasons why he was not guilty
1 explaination of your view
Read about the difference between direct and circumstantial evidence
Explain it in your own words

Each of the sites below has a reputation for either being left , right, or moderate in its reporting. Find an article of appropriate length and write a 1 paragraph summary and a one paragraph commentary ( spin; your thoughts, feelings or ideas related to the article) 

Topics for the article must be related to the subject matter in the weeks mod.

www.cnn.com

www.realclearpolitics.com

www.foxnews.com

www.philly.com

www.huffingtonpost.com

www.thehill.com

www.drudge.com

www.thedailybeast.com

Quiz tomorrow on the following important documents
Mayflower Compact -1620
Declaration of Independence-1776
Articles of Confederation-1776
Review for the quiz by clicking on quizlet
                  Read blog on Thomas Jefferson Quote post a comment explaining what Jefferson's quote and the other quotes tell you about these men's suspicions about government.

Ideas on Government- What is the role of government?

Ideas on Government- What is the role of government?

1. Go to Political spectrum quiz
Take quiz. Post a comment on the blog summarizing the results of your quiz.
2. Go to liberal v conservative
Pick any four topics that are of interest to you. Read each competing view. On a piece of loose leaf write your own view of the topic. Explain your view and explain if you are liberal / conservative or somewhere in the middle. Each explanation should be about a paragraph or more in length.

Criminal Justice

1. Take  Police Entrance Exam

Threat Assessment

Threat Assessment

Foreign Policy Research

OBJECTIVE- You have been assigned to research and brief the President of the United States on a current threat to US security. Your group must prepare a 10 minute presentation designed to give the President the following information:

1. Historical perspective on the threat.

a. Include maps, statistics, satellite footage, charts and graphs explaining how the threat came to be, where it is located, and other background information you feel is necessary for the President to fully understand the threat.

2. Current Events-

a. Include an assessment of the current status of the threat. Examine and brief the President on at least three news stories that have occurred in the last three months.

b. include an video that you feel will help inform the President of the situation, ie: news reports, demonstrations, recreations etc....

3. Options- Research and brief the President on the various different options available to him on how to effectively deal with the threat.

Threats

1. Nuclear Weapons- who has them? When did they get them? How many do they have? What is our current relationship with the country? How stable is the country?

2. IRAN-

3. North Korea-

4. EMP-

5. Al Qaeda-

6. China-

7. Lone Wolf Scenario / Home Grown Terrorism

8. Cyber warfare-

A good site to look at is Greatest threat

Read Great Recession to understand the facts and statistics behind the "Great Recession"
List 4 conditions that characterized the great recession
Then do the following:
1. Pick out any 4 stocks and answer the following questions about those stocks.
2. What was the stock's price in May  2007?

3 . What was the Price in Dec 2008?
4. What is the Price today?
Finally after researching 4 companies answer the following question
5. How do you think the data you collected on these stocks played a role in the Great Recession?
6. Which of the 4 companies fared the best? the worst? why do you think so?

market watch

market watch

Create a powerpoint
1. find out what stock has been your biggest winner and your biggest loser.
2. Pick either company and do the following:
slide 1- create a slide explaining what the company does.
go to yahoofinance and click profile. summarize. Include pictures
slide 2
- list your biggest loser or winner and list how much you have gained or lost.
Slide 3
- go to headline section of yahoofinance and try and determine what market factors are making your company's stock perform the way it has. summarize.

Criminal Justice

Criminal Justice

The goal for today is to understand the case and to be able to discuss the complexities of it.
Read Officers in the Bronx Fire 41 Shots both pages.
Read The Diallo Verdict
answer the following questions:
1. what were the officers charged with?
2. what was the prosecution's argument?
3. What was the defense's argument?
4. What do you think?
5. List three words/ phases you do not understand. Look up and define those words.

Supply and Demand

Supply and Demand

Find a product/ stock /or service where the forces of supply and demand are at work. You can google key words like; "demand drops (or increase.) for..", "supply increases..." , "competition increases for.....".Then explain the following:
Post a 2-3 sentence comment summarizing your answers to the following:
1. How have the forces of supply and demand been at work?
2. How has the price been effected?
3. Has this been good or bad for consumers?

Sub plans 5/10
Period 1 Senior Seminar
Show video Ipod Revolution all five parts.
At the end have students list 3 reasons for the ipod's success
2 things about Steve Jobs as a person that led to his success
1 summary sentence of the video.
Show video Swoosh: Inside Nike

Pd 2-3 Criminal Justice
2(many students will be missing from block 2 due to AP exams)
3 (most students will be absent from this block due to early dismissal for Senior Prom)
Show 48 hours video Over the Edge
After the video you can take whatever students are there to the library and let them continue research for their final trial project 

Criminal Justice

Pick any 10 page segment of Steven King's Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption Book.
1. Describe in a paragraph any differences and similarities between the book and the movie ( include a commentary on your preferences)
2. Based on the movie, pick out and describe how each of the following theories of punishment were exemplified in the movie.
- rehabilitation
- incapacitation
- deterrence
- retribution
Tell which parts of the movie showed which theory and how.

3. A few times in the movie older inmates were said to be "institutionalized" . Brooks Hanlon was , and Red also thought he may have been. What does that concept mean and how could that be a bad thing at the time of parole.

Read Wal-Mart: An Empire Built on Bargains Remakes the Working World
Create a T- Chart with Pros and Cons of Wal-Mart on opposite side of the chart. Try and get a total of 10 effects

Use your notes on demand and read the following article on Facebook's Stock to post a comment on the following topic. Comment must be a minimum of four sentences.
Topic- According to the article and your own experience with Facebook what factors have contributed to the stock's performance in recent times and how have the forces of demand been at work in the performance of Facebook's stock. Also include at least three words or phrases used in the article that you think mean the same thing as the concept of "Demand" or illustrate the concept of demand.

Criminal Justice

Read Effectiveness of Deterrence as a crime control
1. What are the two types of deterrence?
2. What assumptions do Rational Choice theorist make about why people commit crime?
3. What do you think about the idea of deterrence theory?

Read Scared Straight Not Really
1. What does the research say about the effectiveness of Scared Straight Programs?
2. How does the Swift, Severe, and Certain theory of crime punishment explain the problems with Scared Straight?
3. Why does the media and TV talk shows like programs such as Scared Straight?

5/4/12
senior seminar sub plans
Go to http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=1409843923&play=1 show cocca cola the real story behind the real thing
Have students write 5 facts that they found interesting about coke.
Discuss
Show
Swoosh inside nike
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=1414941056&play=1

Have students write 5 facts that they found interesting about Nike

stock market

stock market

Join the stock market game. This contest will run until the end of the semester. The goal is to learn how the market works and to better understand the concepts of supply and demand.Click on the link below. Use your ridley password and create a username that includes your first and last name.
Join my contest
After joining the contest the questions on the below link are the key concepts and terms that you need to know to be successful in this unit. They will all be fair game for the unit test on the market.
http://www.howthemarketworks.com/education/stock-questions.php
Power point project
Pick one company.
You must create a power point for that company.
The goal of the power point is to inform the class on the following things:

What is the company?
What does it do? Use the company’s profile on yahoo finance as the source. ( Research and learn. Don’t tell us what you think they do)
What other companies and or products do they own / produce?
What is the stock's currently price? ( time / date/ price)
Find a current headline( from yahoo finance) that explains something that is going on with the company. Briefly explain it.
How has the company’s stock been doing over the last 52 weeks?
Cut and paste pictures/ charts/ graphs onto the power point. Not a lot of words are needed. Your explanation of these is the important thing.
Do power point on your gmail account.
Make it attractive to the eye!

Read Colorado Jury awards $11.5 million in Helmet Concussion Verdict
Use this as an example of how to write your own Civil Law news report.

Thomas V Nomad Mock Trial Newspaper Report Quiz

Your assignment is to use your notes and the notes you took on the trial and as an objective reporter, write a 350 word newspaper report covering the Thomas v Nomad civil trial. You must accurately report on the trial proceedings and use at least 7 of the following words in your article. Underline or boldface each word

Civil Law                                    Last clear chance doctrine

Negligence                                    Plaintiff

Contributory negligence             Defendant

Compensatory damages            Liability

Punitive damages                        Contingency fee

Your article must :

1.     Accurately depict what went on in the case.

2.     Use 7 of the 10 vocabulary words correctly.

3.     Use proper spelling and grammar.

 Refer to Thomas v. Nomad Case to get specifics of the case. You are a reporter ask some of the people involved in the case for specifics.

The objective of today's lesson is to understand various common Best Practices for public speaking and to apply those practices to three  speeches.

Have students read Tips for Public Speaking

View Rep. Anthony Weiner's speech

have student's fill out observations on worksheet.

View Steve Job's speech
- have student's fill out observations on worksheet

View Will Ferrell's speech

- have student fill out observations on worksheet.

If there is time remaining go to abcnews and show news segment

Making an Effective Speech

Making an Effective Speech

Grading rubric for the senate speech have been handed out. Check out the following sites for guidance and ideas on how to make a good speech.
1. Presentation tips for Public Speaking -
2. How to Write a Good Speech-
Key points
1. Know your stuff. If you are unclear about the material you will not do well.
2. Be over- prepared. Rehearse your speech, time yourself, sync your power point with the speech.
3. Know your audience
4. Use various techniques to engage your audience.

Ideas for Bills

Begin the Bill to law process. Check any of the sites below to get an idea for your own piece of legislation


1.Bills by subject
2. controversial topics
3. Argument essay topics

For ideas about the format of writing a bill and examples check out :Mock Congress Bill Template.

Senate Committees

Senate Committees

Go to the Senate Committees Homepage
Read the About the Committee System Section.
Go back to the homepage
Pick 1 committee that sounds interesting to you or a committee that you may want your bill to be in.
Create a powerpoint that explains the following:
1. Jurisdiction of the committee (what areas are under its responsibility)
2. Who is the chairman?
3. Describe two bills that are currently in committee

Senate

Test on Friday or Monday review on quizlet 

Senate Research

Your objective today is to research a current US Senator who is up for reelection and find the following information:
Go to senate.gov for list of all current US Senators
1. What state? and party?
2. List 5 things you think are important to know about the Senator's biography.
3. How many terms has the Senator served?
4. On what committees does the Senator serve?
5. Describe the current polling data of the election.
a. Find a current political advertisement  in favor of your candidate
b. Find one against him/her . describe
5. Go to Thomas.gov find one piece of legislation that the Senator sponsored or co-sponsored. Find one that makes sense to you and summarized into a few sentences what the bill does.

8. Finally pick an issue that your Senator feels passionately about and write a 30 sec sound bite, to be delivered in class, writing as if you are that Senator. The sound bite should be written as if your senator is answering a question from a reporter, so give the question then give your 30 sec answer.

Today's lesson focus is on interest groups or lobby groups. By the end of class you will know what they are, how they operated and be able to identify the particulars of their influence.
Go to www.opensecrets.org
click on lobbying on the left hand side of the page.Read
click on ranked sectors. Read and look at all the different sectors. Click around.
click on top spenders. Read and look around.
post a one paragraph comment on the blog explaining one specific interest group and their influence/ interest on a particular bill.

Key terms

Key terms

Look up the Bill of Rights, read through the 1st 10 amendments to the constitution. Post a one paragraph comment on your thoughts about what they mean& how the are applied today

Define Judicial Review- Google "judicial review ____ amendment" and find an article that discusses how the courts are currently ruling on a particular constitutional issue regarding a specific amendment, read it and write a 1-2 paragraph summary / opinion .

Show Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.

View Colbert interview Gun Control lobby
Have students view 60 minutes piece on Jack Abrahamov
Have students answer the following questions
1. What was Jack Abramov's job? Explain what he did for his clients in detail.
2. Give an example of how he was able to get around Congressional rules about givng money to congressmen.
3. Give your thoughts on lobbist.
Read text 

Go to The National Rifle Association's website 
Read around the site.
1. Explain one piece of legislation or idea they are for and one they are against.





Go to the National Restaurant Association's website
1. Explain who they are, what they do and 5 companies that are members.
Check out Issues for Action
2. Describe in three sentences the proposed NY Beverage Ban
3. Describe the NRA position on the ban.
4. Describe the NRA reasoning for their position on the ban.
5. What do you think about the ban.

Check out other issues of interest to the NRA lobby.
6. What is the H-2B Visas? And what is the NRA's position on them?

Lawmakers make laws to address problems in society.
Read Obama Proposes Longer School Day. Post a 1-2 paragraph comment on President Obama's proposal. Comments must address at least 3 specifics ideas mentioned in the article. #ign your name after comment.
Where in the constitution does President Obama get authority to enact laws?

Bill to law

Bill to law

Represent Me Do activity.
What does this activity say about the role of a Congressman.
Read How Old is Too Old To Drive

- List 3 reasons the article offers to support the idea that there may be a crisis on the highways because of elderly drivers.
Read House Approves Mandating Regular Vision Tests for Seniors
Answer the following questions:
1. Is this a state or federal law? How do you know?
2. What does the law require seniors to do?
3. What other requirements are there in the bill?
4. According to Donna Erdman which age group has the most accidents?

Watch South Park Grey Dawn

Article II of the Constitution sets up the Executive Branch of the government.
Read Obama's Way. After reading the article post a well thought out comment explaining a piece of the author's portrayal of the President that you found interesting or informative. Include comments on your impressions of the President and /or  the powers of the office of the President based on Michael Lewis' portrayal. Must be at least 1 paragraph.

the US Constitution

the US Constitution

You are responsible for knowing the information in lessons 3 and 4 on the Constitution. These lessons are a great review for a test.
Today's assignment- Read the above lessons and answer the following:
Read Lesson 3 on Article 1 of the Constitution
1. Explain what an ex post facto law is, what congress can do in regards to them , and give real world historical or current example of a law that was deemed to be ex post facto.

2. What does Article 1 of the Constitution say about congress' power when it comes to commerce?
a. What is commerce?
b. Find a current example of a law passed by congress that exemplifies congress' ability to make laws regulating commerce.
3. What does Article IV sec III say about new states?
a. Find out and describe any information on Puerto Rican statehood movements.
Read Lesson 4 and answer the following:

4. What does Article II say about the President's role over the military?
a. Find one example of a recent decision or action by President Obama in his role over the military.
5. How does Article II set up the election of the President? Do the people elect him or what?
6. Which article describes how to change the Constitution?
a. What was the last change to the Constitution?
b. Find an example of a current proposal to amend the Constitution.

Test review

1. Go to test 1 review and use this in addition to your notes as a study guide for test on tuesday

criminal justice

Read Entrapment Defense. List 7 important elements to this defense; elements that you feel are vital for explaining the defense  to someone. This may also include things that are NOT entrapment

Read Story on Drone Strikes. Post a comment on this blog. Include your comparison between this policy and Pres. Bush's use of enhanced interrogation techniques. Comment should be about a paragraph. Go to youtube and view a drone strike; predator drone strike
The following tests may help you  decide which political party best reflects your views:
Take all three political party quizes:
1. Are you a republican or democrat?
2. What political party are you?
3. What political party is right for you?

Ideas on Government- What is the role of government?

Ideas on Government- What is the role of government?

1. Go to Political spectrum quiz
Take quiz. Post a comment on the blog summarizing the results of your quiz.
2. Go to liberal v conservative
Pick any four topics that are of interest to you. Read each competing view. On a piece of loose leaf write your own view of the topic. Explain your view and explain if you are liberal / conservative or somewhere in the middle. Each explanation should be about a paragraph or more in length.

Read section from Machiavelli the Prince Concerning the Question is it Better to be Loved or Feared answer the questions on the board

Criminal Justice

ReadPa Castle Doctrine summarize its content into a few sentences

The Nature of Mankind

The Nature of Mankind

Great political thinkers often look to answer the question of "what is the nature of mankind?" before they begin their thinking on what is the best way for a society to be governed.
Read What Makes Us Moral. On a separate piece of paper take notes on the each of the pages. Break down each page and list at least two bullets that capture the main points for each topic headline. Headlines are: pg 1 What makes us moral. pg 2 the Moral Ape pg 3. How we stay good. pg 4 Why we turn bad.

Read Household Debt article. Post a 2 sentence comment that summarized the article and gives your opinion of the problem.
Try to balance the federal budget by playing the budget game. 
Check stock portfolio. Find the stock that has been your best or worst. Scour the headlines and explain the following:
1.  What company made you the most money? (% and $ amount)
2. Based on research of headlines explain why your stock has performed the way it has.
 - cite the source / sources you used to come up with your reasoning

Great Recession

Read Great Recession to understand the facts and statistics behind the "Great Recession"
List 4 conditions that characterized the great recession
Then do the following:
1. Pick out any 4 stocks and answer the following questions about those stocks.
2. What was the stock's price in Dec  2007?

3 . What was the Price in June 2009?
4. What is the Price today?
Finally after researching 4 companies answer the following question
5. How do you think the data you collected on these stocks played a role in the Great Recession?