Archive for December 2019

Review

By | Published Friday, December 13, 2019


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December 11th 2019

By | Published Wednesday, December 11, 2019

Review Day

Activity #1: Notes

Activity #2: PPC on AP Classroom

Activity #3: Benchmark on Illuminate


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December 9th 2019

By | Published Monday, December 9, 2019

Lesson 2.9: Legitimacy of the Judicial Branch

Enduring Understanding:

The design of the judicial branch protects the Supreme Court’s independence as a branch of government, and the emergence and use of judicial review remains a powerful judicial practice.

Learning Objectives:

Explain how the exercise of judicial review in conjunction with life tenure can lead to debate about the legitimacy of the Supreme Court’s power.

Essential Knowledge:

Precedents and stare decisis play an important role in judicial decision making.

Ideological changes in the composition of the Supreme Court due to presidential appointments have led to the Court’s establishing new or rejecting existing precedents.

Activity #1: Finish Supreme Court Stations

In your notebooks, finish the three Supreme Court Stations that you have left to complete.  Make sure to title the activity "Supreme Court Stations."  If you are absent, you can find the stations below.

Supreme Court Stations 

Activity #2: Nifty-Fifty Vocab:

Once you are finished with the Supreme Court Stations, please complete these four vocabulary terms in your notebooks.  For each of the terms identify the long (textbook) definition, the short (in your own words definition) and example.

Amicus Curiae Brief
Stare Decisis
Judicial Review
Precedant

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December 5th 2019

By | Published Thursday, December 5, 2019

Lesson 2.8: The Judicial Branch

Enduring Understanding:

The design of the judicial branch protects the Supreme Court’s independence as a branch of government, and the emergence and use of judicial review remains a powerful judicial practice.

Learning Objectives:

Explain the principle of judicial review and how it checks the power of other institutions and state governments.

Essential Knowledge:

The foundation for powers of the judicial branch and how its independence checks the power of other institutions and state governments are set forth in:
  • Article III of the Constitution
  • Federalist No. 78 
  • Marbury v. Madison (1803)

Debrief 2.13: ASAP: Author Setting Audience Purpose

Passages from Federalist #78, Written by Alexander Hamilton, 1788
The judiciary, from the nature of its functions, will always be the least dangerous to the political rights of the Constitution . . . [it] may truly be said to have neither FORCE nor WILL, but merely judgment; and must ultimately depend upon the aid of the executive arm even for the efficacy of its judgments.

For there is no liberty, if the power of judging be not separated from the executive and legislative powers.

Activity #1: Judiciary Notes

Activity #3: Supreme Court Stations

In your notebooks, title the activity "Supreme Court Stations."  Then travel to each one of the stations in the hallway and complete the activity to learn about the Judiciary.  If you are absent, you can find the stations below.

NOTEBOOK CHECK!

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December 3rd 2019

By | Published Tuesday, December 3, 2019

Lesson 2.8: The Judicial Branch

Enduring Understanding:

The design of the judicial branch protects the Supreme Court’s independence as a branch of government, and the emergence and use of judicial review remains a powerful judicial practice.

Learning Objectives:

Explain the principle of judicial review and how it checks the power of other institutions and state governments.

Essential Knowledge:

The foundation for powers of the judicial branch and how its independence checks the power of other institutions and state governments are set forth in:
  • Article III of the Constitution
  • Federalist No. 78 
  • Marbury v. Madison (1803)

Debrief 2.12:

How many of the justices in the picture below can you name?


How many were you able to name?  1 maybe?  How do you think the founding fathers would have felt about our performance?  Would they be happy, or upset?

Activity #1 Judicial Branch One Pager

In order to create a divider in your notebooks between the Executive Branch (The President) and the Judicial Branch (The Courts) we are going to create a one pager.  The one pager should include the following...
  • A title and subtitle across the middle
  • A border that includes the powers of the Judicial Branch
  • A picture in one quadrant
  • Judicial checks on the other branches in the next quadrant
  • A Diagram of the Structure of the Federal Courts
  • 3 questions about the Supreme Court in the last quadrant

Activity #2: EdPuzzle

Federalist #78

Tweet Sheets as before you leave!

NOTEBOOK CHECK!




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