The United States Supreme Court building, in Washington, D.C. Photo taken in 2010.
Hi everyone,
Thanks for your focus today, before a nice long three day weekend! I have a ton of grading to do - I hope that you are either catching up on work or getting some rest! Here's what happened today in class:
Learning Targets Addressed:
Knowledge LT 5: I can demonstrate an understanding of the principles, structures, and functions of different levels of U.S. government.
Soundtrack: "Spirit in the Sky" by Norman Greenbaum. Selected for today because of the Executive Branch test, and the possibility you were hoping for some divine intervention in doing well on it. Lyrics here.
AGENDA 4/23/15:
News Brief – Dean/Bailey/Raul/Yeli
Executive Branch Test
Judicial Branch
10 Cases
Homework: Read the blog. Have a great long weekend - you have earned it! Next news brief: Ben.
News Brief: There were actually a ton of news briefs being turned in today - so many that I am not going to recap them all! Dean and Bailey had a particularly disturbing story from Southern Oregon about a murder.
Ben was selected to do the next news brief.
Executive Branch Test: I hope that you studied and did well on this! I will try to have the grades entered in later today. Forty questions, multiple choice. Not too bad, I hope! Thanks, as always for your effort on this!
Judicial Branch: To start out our look at the judicial branch, I showed this video to the class:
I thought this was a good overview of the structure of the federal court system in the United States. Next, I led students through a fill in the blank overview of the judicial branch. Here it is again, if you want to go over it to study for the test:
10 Supreme Court Cases: After going over the introduction to the unit, I passed out this reading:
2) Describe the judge’s decision and explain their reasons why.
3) Do you agree or disagree with the judge’s decision? Explain your reasons why or why not.
Ben was selected to do the next news brief.
Executive Branch Test: I hope that you studied and did well on this! I will try to have the grades entered in later today. Forty questions, multiple choice. Not too bad, I hope! Thanks, as always for your effort on this!
Judicial Branch: To start out our look at the judicial branch, I showed this video to the class:
I thought this was a good overview of the structure of the federal court system in the United States. Next, I led students through a fill in the blank overview of the judicial branch. Here it is again, if you want to go over it to study for the test:
10 Supreme Court Cases: After going over the introduction to the unit, I passed out this reading:
The rest of class was devoted to reading the cases, and following these directions: On a separate sheet of paper, read and write the answers to the following questions for a minimum of five out of the ten cases.
1) What was the issue?2) Describe the judge’s decision and explain their reasons why.
3) Do you agree or disagree with the judge’s decision? Explain your reasons why or why not.
Next class, we will finish this, discuss, then move on to some more case studies.
Thanks! See you next time! Have a great weekend! :-)
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