AP Gov Update for week of February 4-8

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.234 235 Court Cases and amendments
  • ·       P.236-237 – Due Process, 14th Amendment, and incorporation
    ·       Schenck v. US (p.240-241)
    ·       Tinker v. US (p.243-246)
    ·       Prior Restraint
    ·       NY Times v. US (p.250-251)
    ·       Review Religious freedoms from AMSCO book
    ·       Engel v. Vitale (P.254-256)
    ·       Wisconsin v. Yoder (p.257 – 260)
·   

Tuesday:
·     Read pages 126 to 129 from Yellow text
·       Second Amendment – McDonald v. Chicago (p. 264 -267)
·       Practice Questions on p. 270-273
Groups answer Free-Response Questions p. 273-275

Wednesday:
·       Preamble
·       EQ Notes 4-4:  What liberties do people have in the freedom of assembly and the right to bear arms?
Read pages 130-142 for Thursday

Thursday:
·       Turn in Preamble
·       EQ Notes 10-5:  Defendants’ Civil Liberties
Read pages 276 to 283 for Friday AMSCO Book

Friday:
·       Review AMSCO pages  276 to 283
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