Monday
8/16

Activities:

Homework:

Tuesday
8/17

Activities:

Homework:

Activities:

• School Begins tomorrow

Homework:

Thursday
8/19

Activities:

Homework:

Speech Requirements     Speech Schedule

Friday
8/20

Activities:

Homework:

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Activities:

• Demonstrate website & relationship with Canvas
  
• Pass out textbooks, discuss importance of note taking, grading procedures

Homework:

• Complete Personal Info Video
• get 3 ring binder

Tuesday
8/24

Activities:

• Introduction of Class processes
• Intro Foundations Unit
• Read Ch. 1-1, pp. 4-11

Homework:

• Begin Foundations Unit
• Review the Preamble
• Complete definitions for the terms in
  Ch. 1-1, pp. 4-11

Wednesday
8/25

Activities:

• (Block) 
• Discuss terms & definitions for
  Ch. 1-1, pp. 4-11
• Why do states form? Origins of a State
• Characteristics of a State
• Origins of a State
• Social Contract (Hobbes & Locke)
• Read Ch. 1-3, (pp. 20-24)
• Purpose of Government (Preamble)
• (Preamble video clip)

Homework:

• Complete definitions for the terms in
  Ch. 1-1, pp. 4-11
• Study for Preamble Quiz on Friday
• View SlideShow on Info from Ch. 1-1 & 1-2

Thursday
8/26

Activities:

• (Block) No Class

Homework:

• View SlideShow on Info from Ch. 1-1 & 1-2
• Study for Preamble Quiz on Friday

Friday
8/27

Activities:

•  Preamble Quiz
• Thomas Hobbes  "Life is nasty..." & John Locke
• Concepts of Democracy
• Indirect (Representative) vs. Direct Democracy

Homework:

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Activities:

• Ideas of Limited & Representative Government brought from England
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• 3 Basic Concepts:
• Limited, Ordered, & Representative Government

Homework:

• Read Ch. 2 #1 (pp. 30-34) 
  Complete Terms for Ch 2-1

Tuesday
8/31

Activities:

• Hammurabi's Code & 12 Tables of Rome,
• Ideas of Limited (Magna Carta) & Representative Government brought from England & Ordered Government
  
• Discuss key points in documents:
  Magna Carta, Mayflower Compact,  Petition of Right, English Bill of Rights, Two Treatises  of Government,  Maryland Toleration Act, Spirit of the Laws

Homework:

• Read Ch 2-2 & 2-3

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Wednesday
9/1

Activities:

• (Block) 
•  (Hammurabi's Code & 12 Tables of Rome)(Ordered Government)
• Read Declaration of Independence
• Complete Guide for Ch. 2 Sec. 2-3
  
  

Homework:

• Read Ch. 2 #5 (pp. 59-62) & Complete Guide for Ch. 2 Sec. 4-5
  

Thursday
9/2

Activities:

• (Block)  No Class

Homework:

Friday
9/3

Activities:

• No School

Homework:

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• Complete Guide for Ch. 2 Sec. 4-5
  
• Test on Foundations of  Gov't. next week
  

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Monday
9/6

Activities:

• No School (Labor Day)

Homework:

Tuesday
9/7

Activities:

• (Block) 
• Discuss Articles of  Confederation
• Weaknesses of Articles, Common features of State Governments
• VA Plan & New Jersey Plan
• Compromises in Constitution
• NW Ordinance & Land Ordinance of 1785
• Common features of state Constitutions

Homework:

Wednesday
9/8

Activities:

• (Block)  Finish up with unit
• Ratification of the Constitutution
• Federalists & Anti-Federalists------
• Slide Show
• Fed & Anti-Fed Chart
• Crash Course How Constitution Made (8:56)

Homework:

• Study for Test on Foundations of  Gov't.
  
• Study for Test

Thursday
9/9

Activities:

•  (Block)  No Class

Homework:

next month's plans

Friday
9/10

Activities:

• Foundations of  Gov't. Test 
  

Homework:

• Read Ch. 3 #1  (pp. 68-75)
  & take reading notes

(6 Basic Principles of the Constitution)

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Monday
9/13

Activities:

• Quiz on homework ???
• Intro Political Spectrum
• 6 Basic Principles of the Constitution
  (great topic for an essay question)
• pass out pocket Constitution
• Discussed how to amend (handout) the Constitution

Homework:

Tuesday
9/14

Activities:

• Briefly Review The 2 Step Process to Amend the Constitution  (Article V)
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• Read Ch. 3-3 (pp. 85-88) Informal Methods of amending the Constitution. (suggest taking Reading Notes)

Homework:

• Read Ch. 3-3 (pp. 85-88) Informal Methods of amending the Constitution. (suggest taking Reading Notes)

Wednesday
9/15

Activities:

• (Block) 
• Discuss  Ch. 3-3 Informal Methods of amending the Constitution.
  
• Went through the 7 Articles
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Homework:

• Must know all the Articles & first 10 Amendments for Quiz next Tuesday