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** Day 1 – Monday July 12 **
** Title: Introduction to the Supreme Court ** __** Objectives: **__ Students will be able to: -Connect last week's unit on immigration to this week's unit on the Supreme Court -Identify prior knowledge about the Supreme Court -Create a list of questions students still have about the Supreme Court

__ -  Connect last week’s topic with this week’s topic __
Supreme Court is involved with immigration, sp1070 unconstitutional based on the 14th amendment, anyone has the right to sue, immigration is a political issue, and federal government has power over Arizona, Obama and the federal government think that sp1070 is unconstitutional

-__Indentify what you know already about the Supreme Court__
Supreme Court enforces laws, it’s the top of all the cases (its cant go any further than this), judicial branch, 9 judges ,

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**Confirmation hearing**: a meeting to confirm the final decision , a process to confirm a new court justice ======

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**Chief justice:** the head of Supreme Court, who makes the final decision who is s/he? How is the chief justice chosen? ======

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**Conservative/liberal**: the moral beliefs of the political parties, democratic & republican,  they think that both sides of the case is right, what kind of moral beliefs? Conservative is more traditional (republican), liberal is more open (democratic) ======

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**Precedent**: a prior court case having similar characteristics to solve a current court case  does that mean the same case with different people? How do they use precedent? ======

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**Majority opinion**: conclusion of multiple opinions on a topic , I don’t think it’s a conclusion since it’s an opinion does it play in the final verdict? 5 to 4? Is there a minority opinion? ======

** Day 2 – Tuesday July 13, 2010 **
<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">** Title: Continuation of Day 1 project ** **__Objectives__** Students will be able to - research a topic of personal interest on the Supreme Court - evaluate a variety of internet resources for research - organize research findings on to a Mind Map using the program Inspiration - present research findings within the classroom and virtually using video chat

Tokbox video chat: <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">My video chat didn't work, so i didn't get any other info from my peers. =[ I think i could be useful outside of school, like if your doing a project with a group you can video chat. In school I dont think it would be useful. Becasue who else are you going to chat with besides your classmates, other classrooms might be ahead or behind, it wouldn't make sense if you chatted with your people in you class.



** Day 3 – Wednesday July 14 **
<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">** Title: Focus on one famous case and begin final project ** Objectives: **
 * // The Warren Courts //** <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">-- Ms. Johnson

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Guided Questions:

 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">What type of cases is the Warren Court famous for hearing?
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">How did the decision made by the Warren Court affect US citizens?
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">What effects of the Warren Court still affect us today?

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Objectives:
<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">After completing this lesson, students will be able to: > ** Both classes: ** > Students will be able to: > - summarize researched and shared information on the Supreme Court by creating a Glog > - research current trends/decisions of the US Supreme Court > - analyze and annotate court documents (majority/minority opinions) and expert analysis reports > <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">__Amendment <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">IV __ Police can not enter or look through a persons home, papers without a warrent.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">identify important Constitutional Amendments
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">analyze the parameters of Constitutional Amendments
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">apply amendments to everyday life situations
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__Which case they think was most influential in their lives today and why?__ The 1st amendment I think is the one thats most influential becasue its the freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and freedom of press. If we didn't have it people couldn't express there opinions, or practice there religion.

Browen vs. Board of education violated the 14th amendment, now blacks and whites go to the same school. Mapp vs. Ohio violated the 4th and 14th amendment, cops made a fake warrent, Baker vs. Carr violated the 14th amendment, one person one vote Gideon vs. Wienwright violated the 6th amendment, wasn't given a lawyer

__Supreme Court Gloster__ media type="custom" key="6548643" Glog <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Today we made a glogster on the supreme court, it was fun, we could add pictures and videos.

= ** Day 4 - Thursday July 15 ** = <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">** Title: Podcast/Video of a Political Talkshow on a recent Supreme Court decision **
 * Guided Questions: **
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">What are the key components to a political debate?
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">How do bipartisan politics get involved in Supreme Court Case decisions and the Justice Nomination process?

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">** Objectives: ** After the lesson, students will be able to:
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">research current trends/decisions of the US Supreme Court
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">analyze and annotate court documents (majority/minority opinions) and expert analysis reports
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">discuss the details and ramifications of recent court cases and justice nominations
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">create a podcast that incorporates students' knowledge and various viewpoints about the situation

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**__Activity 1:__** Watch/Listen to either CBS's Face the Nation //or// NPR's Talk of the Nation below to answer this question: **What are the major parts of a news/talk radio show?**

media type="custom" key="6587793" The major parts of a new talk show are : a host, 2 sides (conseritive/liberal), bystanders

__**Activity 2:**__

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Ontario v. Quon:
<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">A SWAT officer was giver a pager with a certain amount of text messages a month. He kept textng/sexting to his wife girlfriend. "Quon had been told that he coul us the pager for private communications as long as he paid for them." He thinks that the police department violated his 4th admendment. I think that it didn't violated his 4th amendement becasue because its not his personal pager its his WORK pagar, he should be sexting to his wife or girlfriend on his work pager. Affects: employees privacy expectation,

The article that I marked up was High court reviews privacy of texts on company gear by Joan Biskupic. So basically the article was about how the police departemnt can look through his phone and it didn't go against his 4th amendment.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**Final Project** with Mercy, Thao, Esrath, Sarah

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">My groups did a podcast, the process of the project went well. I liked how at the end we all finished and did a great job. The thing I didn't like was how we could pause the voice thing, so if someone messed up we had to do it all over.

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