HOMEWORK
Community
Engagment Opportunity! – Attend all or part of the Whatcom Human Rights Task Force
conference on Saturday, January 17 (9:30 AM – 5:00 PM). The conference is
FREE and is called “Making the Shift: Reawakening the Seeds of Sustainable
Justice.”
~ From the syllabus ~
Homework: Expect nightly reading assignments from the regular textbook Government in America and supplementary readings. Take these very seriously – they are the foundation of daily discussions and lectures. You will be quizzed on readings and vocabulary from the readings.
Dec.
12 UNIT 4 EXAM – MULTIPLE
CHOICE ONLY
HOMEWORK: Read Chapter 17 (all) –
Economic Policymaking
** Take
excellent notes and write out questions about things you do not understand
** Start
making a vocab list or flash cards of key terms
** Know the
difference between fiscal policy & monetary policy
Dec. 15 Snow
Delay Schedule (all classes 35 minutes)
Today: Give Ms. Johnston the email address you check
the most from home. Assign Chapters
19 & 20 teaching groups (sign up). Distribute Chapter 17 Quiz to do as homework. Bring your
quiz score to class on Wednesday. Lecture on fiscal policy (click here for my notes).
HOMEWORK (3
assignments):
1) Take the Chapter 17 Quiz
and self-correct using your textbook. Email your score to
kjohnsto@bham.wednet.edu.
2) Read the information on these two websites about the
current state of the economy ~
·
Read
the White House description of economic plans: http://www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/economy/
Then, a) identify which activities are fiscal policy
and which are monetary policy and explain how you can tell the difference; b)
explain the relationship between the fiscal and monetary policy activities
mentioned on the website, Congress, and the bureaucracy.
·
Read
this public opinion poll from the Center for American Progress: http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2008/12/opinion_snapshot1212.html.
Then, a) explain how this poll relates to Keyensian
economics, b) describe why the public would favor such government activities,
and c) explain whether these are fiscal or monetary policy activities and why.
3) Complete the Parent/Guardian
tax interview handout (5 pts). The purpose of this assignment is to have a
discussion with your parents/guardians about the impact of taxes on their (and,
subsequently, your) lives. I will simply check this off; I will not ask to read
about your parents’/guardians’ tax brackets.
Dec. 17 Today: Monetary Policy & Federal
Reserve. Click here
for my notes.
~ Videos: The Fed Today and Open and
Operating (the Fed during 9/11). Video guides are in your homework packet.
If you missed class or school was closed,
read
this article,
pages 37-40 ONLY, or this article (all)
about the Fed’s response to 9/11 so that you can do the homework. You
can also watch The Fed Today on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KN3kD4T3ltY
and complete the video guide. Open and Operating can be viewed on Google
Video by doing a search for “open and operating” or trying this link: http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=%22open+and+operating%22&emb=0&aq=f#.
** Glossary of Terms from the 9/11 video can
be found here.
Concept chart about the Federal Reserve can be found here
(p. 3 of this document only).
HOMEWORK: Read
this speech by Ben Bernanke, Chairman of the Federal Reserve. In it, he
discusses what the Fed did wrong during the Great Depression. Your task is
to: Examine the differences between how the Fed operated during the
Great Depression and 9/11. What did the Fed do to exacerbate the conditions of
the financial system before and during the Depression, and what did the Fed do
to help maintain stability in the financial system during and after 9/11?
Explain the differences in the Fed’s use of monetary
policy in these two events. Be specific!!!
Dec. 18 Today: Chapters 19 & 20 teaching groups
meet to plan how to teach the content. Introduce Chapter 18.
~ If you were absent or school was closed, see this PowerPoint presentation
on social policy and read this segment of a report on Welfare to Work policy
effectiveness: http://aspe.hhs.gov/hsp/newws/synthesis02/chapt4.htm.
~ You should also read one or both of the following:
See Winter Break Homework
for more details about Chapters 19 & 20.
HOMEWORK: Read Chapter 18 – Social Welfare Policymaking. Take
the online
quiz and email it to me at kjohnsto@bham.wednet.edu
or bring in a printout of your results.
Dec.
19 Early Release.
Today: In-class discussion
about welfare. If you were absent or school was
closed, see readings from Dec. 18.
HOMEWORK: See Winter
Break work.
SUPPLEMENTAL
READINGS: THE FED & THE CURRENT STATE OF THE ECONOMY
Help
with any policy area (scroll down to Chapters 14-16 on this website)
HOMEWORK
1) Read Chapters 19 and 20. Take quizzes
online and submit scores to kjohnsto@bham.wednet.edu.
2) Work on your task for teaching classmates about Chapter 19 or 20. Your group must
present the essential information out of your assigned chapter AND seek to
extend beyond the book by using current events, etc. Prepare to meet with your
chapter group on Monday, January 5!! You will only have about ½ an hour to meet
that day, and will be presenting on Wednesday, January 7.
3) Watch Michael Moore’s Sicko. Do a short
reflection paper that explains the relationship between the content of the
video and Chapter 19. Also provide your opinion of the issues addressed in the
movie – do you agree or disagree with the movie? Why? This assignment is due
Thurs., Jan 8. (NOTE: I have a copy, so let me know if you need to borrow
it after the break.)
Chapter Groups:
|
2nd
Period |
|
|
Chapter 19 – Health Care
& Environmental Policy |
Chapter 20 – Foreign
Policy |
|
Patrick |
Leo |
|
Diana |
Evan |
|
Katy |
Tyler
V. |
|
Angela |
Jared |
|
Mandy |
Sara |
|
Eli |
Sean |
|
Bryn |
Rolf |
|
Emma
B. |
Mitch |
|
|
Alejandra |
|
|
Tyler
P. |
|
6th
Period |
|
|
Chapter 19 – Health Care
& Environmental Policy |
Chapter 20 – Foreign
Policy |
|
Brennan |
Margaret |
|
Titus |
Teresa |
|
Ben |
Sarah |
|
Joe |
Evan |
|
Tenny |
Zoe |
|
Emma
C-Y |
Susanne |
|
Clinton |
Brad |
|
Jake |
Ashley |
|
Cristi |
Keirsten |
|
Kyla |
|
Things you
should consider doing over the break if you are planning to take the AP Gov
Exam in May:
1) Making key terms flash cards
for all the chapters we have covered so far
2) Organizing your notes and
handouts
3) Reviewing past units and
typing up your own study guides or quizzes for future use
4) Taking practice tests online
or trying FRQs that you find online
Jan.
5 Today: ½ hour on welfare.
½ hour for Group meeting time.
HOMEWORK (2
assignments):
A) Finish preparing for your Wednesday group teaching (Chs. 19 & 20) If you have handouts you
need me to make before your presentations, please get them to me no later than
Tuesday after school so that I have time to make copies.
B) Connecting AP Gov to the
Real World - MOYERS (20 points, due no later
than Wed., Jan. 14)
1)
Watch the Bill Moyers Journal of
August 15, 2008, in which he interviews scholar and former Army Colonel Andrew
Bacevich. (You can watch online at http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/08152008/profile.html or
come in after school to watch on DVD.I also highly recommend reading the
introduction to Bacevich’s book, The Limits of Power, at http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/08152008/profile2.html.)
You may have to search for the interview by typing “Bacevich interview” into
the search box on Moyers’ home page.
Take
notes on the issues addressed in the program. You will find that they are
wide-ranging and cover a great deal of the content you have learned in this
class thus far. You will turn these notes in as part of your assignment.
2) Identify and thoroughly
discuss at least 3 main issues addressed in the program:
v
What are the issues, and
how are they framed by Bacevich and Moyers?
v
Analyze the issues as
presented in the video (causes/sources, why the issues continue to be problems,
what can be done about them, etc.). How are the issues interconnected?
v
Finally, explain the connections to this course.
3)
Choose one issue from #2 that you are most concerned about. Explain why and
what you would like to see happen about it.
4) Turn in all of your work, including notes from part
1 of this assignment.
Jan.
7 NO SCHOOL - FLOODING
Jan.
8 NO SCHOOL - FLOODING
Jan.
9 Today: Groups teach
Chapters 19 and 20. THERE WILL BE NO IN-CLASS
REVIEW FOR MONDAY EXAM!!
o
2nd
period video: “Perils of American Health Care” http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4546226n%3fsource=search_video
o
2nd
period video: “A Conversation with Dr. James Hansen”
HOMEWORK (3 assignments)
1) Anything assigned by the teaching groups.
6th period
assignments:
o
Ch
19 – Take the Chapter 19 online
fill-in-the-blank quiz.
o
Ch
20 – think about when it is appropriate to transition between economic foreign
policy to military foreign policy. What would trigger that transition and why?
2) REVIEW FOR EXAM. Unit
5 Study Guide
2) Letter to Congress assignment, due Fri., Jan.
16 (40 points). Must be typed, well edited. Bring your letter and envelopes
w/stamps (or money for stamps) to class on the 16th. For complete
details on this assignment, read
the handout. NO LATE WORK ALLOWED ON THIS ASSIGNMENT!!!!
IMPORANT UPDATE: 1st
semester has been extended to Thursday, Jan. 29 with Jan. 30 being a teacher
workday (no school). Finals will be Wednesday & Thursday, January 28 &
29.
The
1-3-5 and 2-4-6 schedule will remain in place.
Jan. 12 UNIT 5
EXAM TODAY – Multiple Choice in class, Free Response is take-home. FRQ
due Wed., Jan. 14!
HOMEWORK:
1) FRQ
2) Letter to Congress assignment, due Fri., Jan.
16 (40 points). Must be typed, well edited. Bring your letter and envelopes
w/stamps (or money for stamps) to class on the 16th. For complete
details on this assignment, read
the handout. NO LATE WORK ALLOWED ON THIS ASSIGNMENT!!!!
Work to turn in for Unit 5:
o
State
of the economy homework (12/15)
o
Tax
interview (12/15)
o
Ben
Bernanke speech analysis (12/17)
o
Sicko
Reflection (Winter Break)
o
Connecting
AP Gov to the Real World - Moyers (1/5)
Jan.
14 Today: Start final unit!
(Unit 6 – Civil Rights). FRQ DUE TODAY.
Letter to Congress
due Fri., Jan. 16!! NO LATE WORK ALLOWED.
Work to turn in for Unit 5:
o
State
of the economy homework (12/15)
o
Tax
interview (12/15)
o
Ben
Bernanke speech analysis (12/17)
o
Sicko
Reflection (Winter Break)
o
Connecting
AP Gov to the Real World – Moyers (1/5)