Essential Question- How do liberals and conservatives differ on various issue?

Essential Question- How do liberals and conservatives differ on various issue?

 

 Go to Political Spectrum Quiz (Links to an external site.) I 

Take quiz. 

Look at the results and download the PDF which explains which answers were conservative and which were liberal.

1. Explain the results of the quiz. Are you more liberal or more conservative?

2. Pick two of the issues that you feel strongly about.

 - for each issue explain, in your own words, how you feel. Include points from the quiz writings that you agree with and points from the other side that you disagree with. Answers should a paragraph or two.

3. Find one candidate for president that shares your views.  How are they? Describe their position.

Points

Degrees of murder

After viewing 48 Hours Fatal Choice read the article explaining how the law distinguishes between First and Second degree murder.
1. Based on the evidence presented in 48 Hours Fatal Choice and your knowledge of 1st, 2nd, and voluntary manslaughter as well as the defense of justifiable homicide, explain in a minimum of one paragraph what if anything Sandra Franklin is guilty of. More importantly demonstrate your understanding of the degrees of murder by explaining why.

Read Human Nature and Capitalism 

Explain the following

1. The author lists and explains three views of human nature;

a. the French Enlightenment school

b. Thomas Hobbes' view

c. the American founders view.

Briefly explain , in your own words, the thinking of each.

2.In your own words , explain  why the author thinks understanding human nature matters. 

3. Think about and in a paragraph explain your thoughts on human's nature. Are we basically good or evil? What motivates us etc....

Read New York Times article Police Shootings: Reasonable Fear.

1. Explain in your own words what the police must consider before they resort to deadly force.

2. Summarize the Ferguson Police Department's version of the shooting of Michael Brown.

3. Summarize the Dorian Johnson's version of what happened.

Think about and discuss with your group  your thoughts about the situation. 

Ideas to consider

- What factors need to be known or proven before a judgement can be made?

- Does the policeman's background play a role in this?

- Is Michael Brown's past important?

- What role if any does race play in this ?

- How does the criminal justice system work?

final project cj

Click on Final Trial Project. for the parameters of the project.

Choose a case that is interesting to you and one in which you won't mind spending a lot of time learning about.

These are good places to start looking for a case.

http://www.crimelibrary.com/index.html

http://crime.about.com/od/history/u/famous.htm

http://www.crimemuseum.org/library/

http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/history/famous-cases

The Following is a list of possible choices. These are cases that students have done in the past. You are NOT limited to only these cases, this list is just to help you focus.

Diane Downes- ( book Small Sacrifices )murder trial for killing children

Thomas Capuano-  Rich DE lawyer murdered ex girlfriend

Ryan Ferguson- tried, convicted of murder, recently found to be innocent 

Murder of Jason Sweeney ( Fishtown PA)

Charles Lindbergh baby kidnaping

Amanda Knox- american college student tried in Italy for killing roomate

Jeffrey MacDonald ( book Fatal Vison)

Ron Cotton - falsely convicted of Rape

Susan Smith -murder trial for her killing children

Conrad Murray - tried for killing Michael Jackson

IRa Einhorn- 1970s hippie tried for killing girlfriend in Phila

Scott Peterson- infamous California Murder trial 

Rae Carruth- NFL wide receiver murder trial

Timothy McVeigh - Domestic terrorist who blew up Oklahoma Federal Building

Jason Sweeney - murder trial of three friends who were tried for killing him

Joel and Ethel Rosenberg- Executed for treason in 1950s 

Lizzie Borden - 1890s case where she allegedly took an axe to her parents

Robert Marshall- (book/ movie called Blind Faith made on case)

Clutter Family murder- (famous book In Cold Blood written on case)

Andrea Yates- insanity trial for killing her 4 children

O.J. Simpson Civil Trial- can NOT do criminal Trial

John Gotti -mob trial

Lyle Erik Menendez - twins tried for killing rich parents

John Allen Muhammad- DC Sniper

Stacey Koon, Theodore Briseno, Laurence Powell, Timothy Wind - Rodney killing beating

Colin Ferguson- shot people on NYC subway then defended himself ( very poorly)

Jodi Arias -murder trial of Mormon Boyfriend

Alexis Simpson- tried for killing college roomate

George Zimmerman- found not guilty of killing Trayvon Martin

Damien Echols- West Memphis 3; three teenagers wrongfully convicted of murder

Drew Peterson- former police officer thought to have killed at least two of his wives

Jerry Sandusky- former Penn State Football coach convicted of multiple accounts of child molestation

Elizabeth Smart - kidnapped and then found
Jaycee Duggard- kidnapped and found 18 years later

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
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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