FOCUS/REVIEW QUESTION: Questions or help needed with your project? Please ask or see me!

LEARNING TARGETS:

• Explain the basic rights and liberties laid out in the Constitution.

AGENDA:

• Civil Liberties Presentation Project (See Google Classroom)
  • Choose a topic from the list to research.
  • Make a slide to add to our class slideshow that answers the basic questions for your topic. Copy and paste your slide into the slideshow linked here.
  • Be sure to check the scoring rubric so you gain all your points
  • Present the slide to the class tomorrow!

ASSIGNMENTS:

• Work on your slide for our class slideshow on Civil Liberties. Be sure to copy and paste your slideshow into our class slideshow linked above. Due TOMORROW for the start of class. Be ready to present your slide to the class.

UPCOMING ASSIGNMENTS:

• EXTRA CREDIT:
  • Listen to the following podcast. Complete the Podcast/Article Review. (+1 point)
  • More Perfect: Kittens Kick the Giggly Blue Robot All Summer (36 min) - How the Supreme Court got its power. The case that changed it all.

FOCUS/REVIEW QUESTION: Look over the Bill of Rights. Which of these do you consider to be most important and why?

LEARNING TARGETS:

• Explain the basic rights and liberties laid out in the Constitution.

AGENDA:

• Present your Civil Liberties Slide.
  • Complete the section of your Unit 1 Study Guide on Civil Liberties as you listen.

ASSIGNMENTS:

UPCOMING ASSIGNMENTS:

FOCUS/REVIEW QUESTION:Student of the Day

LEARNING TARGETS:

• Understand our major Civil Liberties as laid out in the U.S. Constitution

AGENDA:

• Finish presenting your Civil Liberties Slide.
  • Complete the section of your Unit 1 Study Guide on Civil Liberties as you listen.

ASSIGNMENTS:

UPCOMING ASSIGNMENTS:

FOCUS/REVIEW QUESTION: Student of the Day

LEARNING TARGETS:

• Understand our major Civil Liberties as laid out in the U.S. Constitution

AGENDA:

• Finish our Unit 1 Study Guide:
• Explain the importance of the basic purposes served by the guarantees of FREE EXPRESSION.
  • Understanding Free Expression
  • Does Free Speech rights expand to businesses? Citizens United vs. FEC (4 min)
• Define SYMBOLIC SPEECH.  What are the limits of its exercise?
  • Understanding Symbolic Speech
  • Limits on Free Speech
• How can the government place LIMITS on TIME, PLACE, AND MANNER?
  • Limits on Free Speech
• Describe the right of PRIVACY and its origins in the Constitution.
  • Understanding Right to Privacy

ASSIGNMENTS:

• Complete your Unit 1: Foundation of U.S. Gov Study Guide

UPCOMING ASSIGNMENTS:

FOCUS/REVIEW QUESTION: Open AI and ask it what public policy is and to give some real life examples of how it is applied in the U.S. What did you find?

LEARNING TARGETS:

• Understand our major Civil Liberties as laid out in the U.S. Constitution
• What is public policy and what is government's role in it?
• Choose a public policy issue you would like to learn more about, take a position on and present to the class.

AGENDA:

• Summarize the constitutional provisions designed to guarantee DUE PROCESS and the rights of the accused.
  • Understanding Due Process
    
    
• Applying What you Know...
  • Read these actual Supreme Court Cases and based on what you've learned from the Civil Liberties slides, answer how you think these cases should be decided.
  • Civil Liberties Cases - Complete your Essential Questions in Google Classroom and be ready to discuss.
    • Were you right? Reveal the Supreme Court's decisions.
  
  
• Introduction to Public Policy Project.
  • Research what Republicans & Democrats have to say on the major issues.
  • Choose 5-6 topics you may be interested in.
  • Writed down what you found in the Topics handout found in Google Classroom.
  • After researching Choose a topic you feel strongly about. - Tell Mr. P!
  • Create a public policy presentation where you explain the topic, explain the two sides to the issue and then argue for your own solution to the issue. (See Google Classroom for instructions)

ASSIGNMENTS:

• Finish your Civil Liberty Case by looking up how the Supreme Court actually decided the case. Add it to the bottom of your sheet. Did you decide the same way as the Court? - Due MONDAY.

UPCOMING ASSIGNMENTS: