The Rest of the Bill of Rights - Class Recap

It is over a week since the Malaysia Airlines 777 disappeared without a trace. This is an Air France Airbus A340, landing at St. Maarten in the Caribbean in 2009.

Hi everyone,

A full week of school before Spring Break. Let's keep up the hard work! Here's the recap for the day:

Learning Targets Addressed:
SS.HS.KN.ALT.05: I can demonstrate an understanding of the principles, structures, and functions of different levels of U.S. government.
SS.HS.CO.ALT.05: I can communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing.

Soundtrack: “Learn to Fly” by Foo Fighters. Selected for today because of the disappearing Malaysia Airlines 777. Lyrics here.

AGENDA 3/17/14:
News Brief
The Rest of the Bill of Rights
Juvenile Rights
Study Time

Homework: Study the handouts ! Read the blog! Next news brief: Micah.

News Brief: James was a little delayed in getting to class today, so we did not have a news brief section. It was good to hear about a few of your weekends, though!

The Rest of the Bill of Rights: Because I want to get done with the Bill of Rights, today we looked through the details of the 4th, 5th, 6th, and 8th Amendments. Specifically, I started by looking at the cleaned up lyrics to "99 Problems" by Jay Z, then going through a packet of individual U.S. Supreme Court cases that helped set the scope of the Fourth Amendment. Then, I showed this clip to introduce the Fifth Amendment:

This led to another handout, going through the rights of the accused in the United States.

Juvenile Rights: For this section, we started to read this article about whether or not life imprisonment for juvenile offenders as old as 13 violate the 8th Amendments protections against "cruel and unusual punishment" - New York Times Upfront - Locked Away Forever.

Please finish reading this as homework!

Study Time: With a test on the basics of the Constitution coming up this week, I am hoping that you will use in class time, as well as some out of class time, to study for it.