Grafton High School AP American Government Class

Khan Academy assignments on the court system are due by Thursday night at 11:59.  Be sure they are finished. Current Events for the first half of the alphabet is due on Monday.  This will be Grading Period 5, CE#1. Here is the agenda for the week: Monday: Preamble Review of Civil and Criminal Courts Finish 5-1 Notes Examine the structure of the federal court system Read pages 516 to 521 for Tuesday Tuesday: Preamble EQ Notes 5-2:  How are Federal Judges and Justices selected? Read pages 521 to 525 for Wednesday Wednesday: Preamble EQ Notes 5-3:  What are the backgrounds of the Supreme Court Justices? Thursday: Preamble Characteristics of Justices activity Complete Khan Academy assignments by tonight. Friday: Preamble (turn in) Crash Course Videos - watch on your device or on class iPads.  Please bring earbuds to listen.  

There will be no school on Monday due to the Presidents Day holiday. If you are the second half of the alphabet, you will have to turn in Current Events on Tuesday.  This is grading period 5, CE#1. The end of the grading period is Tuesday.  If you have anything to turn in for the fourth grading period, please turn it in by 9:00 on Wednesday. Here is the agenda for the week: Monday:  No School Tuesday: New Preamble paper Current Events Turn in chapter 4 packet Chapter 4 test  Chapter 15 Vocabulary Read pages 506 to 516 for Wednesday Wednesday: Preamble Chapter 15 study guide EQ Notes 15-1:  Who are the participants and what is the structure of the Federal Judicial System? Read pages 516-521 for Thursday Thursday: ·        Preamble ·        EQ Notes 15-2:  How are Federal judges elected? Read pages 521-525 for Friday F    Friday: · ...

Current Events is due on Monday for the first half of the alphabet.  Grading period 4, CE#3.  There will be a new Current Events schedule distributed this week. Bring both books to class all this week. Monday: New Preamble ·        AMSCO Book – ·        Practice Test p.270 to 273 ·        p. 276 to 294 Court Cases Gideon v Wainwright, Roe v Wade Read pages 143 to 145 for Tuesday Tuesday: Preamble    EQ Notes 4-6:  Is there a right to privacy? Wednesday: Preamble Multiple Choice Questions p.270 to 273 Complete Study Guide Thursday: Preamble ·        Free-Response Questions p. 273-275 Free-Response Questions p. 273-275 Friday: Turn in Preamble

State of the Union - take a picture of your own Bingo Board creation after the SOTU.  Post to either Twitter or Instagram and use #GraftonGov. Social Studies Fair Set up Wednesday starts at 3:30 at TCMS Library.  Please set up by 4:00.  There may already be judging taking place when you arrive.  Please be courteous. There are two projects that have said they will not be able to make it to TCMS on Wednesday.  Please bring your project to school on Thursday to be scored.   We will finish the group required cases reviews on Wednesday in class.

Social Studies Fair information The make-up date is Wednesday, February 6 at Taylor County Middle School.  Please get there before 4:00.  Please let me know on Monday if you cannot attend The second half of the alphabet will have Current Events (Grading Period 4, CE#3) on Monday or Tuesday.  They will be accepted on Tuesday since you may not have a copy of the Current Events form yet. Keep the Preamble papers from last week.  There will be no Preamble for this Monday as we will use the paper from last week and will be turned in this Friday with questions from this Tuesday through Friday. Mr. Zukowski may video record some lessons in class starting this week.  Students release forms were turned in previous weeks. All the Preambles this week will use the AMSCO book.   Here is the agenda for the week: Monday: No Preamble question Review Mr. Bolton's visit from last Tuesday ·        AMSCO – p.234 2...