March 23, 2016

Welcome to our AP Government class blog! Our activities on the blog will be in the green box located below. Read the activity and follow its instructions. When you are ready to answer the questions required, scroll down to the bottom of the blog page and click on add comment. Type your answers in the box that pops up and at the end of your answers, include your name. You MUST have your name in the comments box or you will NOT receive credit for your work. This is just like putting your name on your paper! ALSO, you must click anonymous from the drop down boxes listed below the comments box, since the comments are submitted to me for review and not published. If you leave the box for Google ID checked, your answers will be lost in space for all eternity (until you redo it!). If you have ANY questions, please let me know! Tip: If you have any doubts or fears about losing your work, do as I do, and copy and paste your answers into a Word document, Notepad, e-mail to yourself, etc., so you have an electronic copy as backup. I will be posting to the class blog on a weekly basis from now on, so stay tuned and check back frequently!

Be reminded that you lose participation points when you are caught on YouTube, Facebook, and similar sites. You may listen to music on a site like www.grooveshark.com that does NOT have videos. If music starts to interfere with your ability to complete your work or stay on task, you will lose that privilege.

Wednesday Schedule:

1^st hour:           9:35-10:22 am                         C lunch:           1:15-1:40 pm

2^nd hour:          10:27-11:04 am                       6^th hour:           1:45-2:22 pm

3^rd hour:           11:09-11:46 am                       7^th hour:           2:27-3:05 pm

4^th hour:           11:51-12:28 pm                                              

5^th hour:           12:33-1:10 pm

Activity:

AP Government –Here are the objectives for today: I can research a Landmark Supreme Court Case and identify the key information from it. I can identify the name of the court case, the year it was decided, the Court’s decision (vote), the key facts of the case, the issues of the case (what law and/or part of the Constitution in question), and the holding (Court’s explanation and any precedent that is established). Tasks: Do a google search for the court case Bush v. Gore (2000). Sites such as oyez, lexisnexis, GavinPSmith.com, and Wikipedia usually give good overviews of court cases. Use the information from one or more of the sites you find to complete the Case Brief you received in class yesterday. If you don’t have one, you may type one or write it on a blank sheet of paper. When you are done, look through some of the search results to find the majority opinion and any concurring or dissenting opinions. What is the purpose of these written opinions? Will there always be a written opinion? Be prepared to explain!