Thursday, April 29

Period 0:
1. 7-Minute Reading: Redskins is Wrong
2. Finish Chapter 20 Assessment (Review for Test)
3. Video: Bill Moyers interviews Jerry Miller, the 200th person convicted of a crime but later released with DNA evidence

Period 2:
1. 7-Minute Reading: South Park Threat No Joke
2. Finish Chapter 20 Assessment Review
3. Landmark Supreme Court Cases (back of notes from Tuesday)

Period 4:
1. TEST!!!!!
2. Post Test: Chapter 14, Sections 1 & 2 (section review questions due on Monday)
3. Start Fiscal Policy Notes (Packet)

Wednesday, 4/28

Period 0:
1. 7-Minute Reading: South Park Threat No Joke
2. Lecture on Supreme Court
3. Chapter 20 Assessment (page 590, #1-25)

Periods 1 and 3:
**Deputy Wayne!!!!!

We're BACK!

Tuesday, April 27

Period 2:
1. 7-Minute Reading: Redskins is Wrong
2. Lecture on Supreme Court
3. Chapter 20 Assessment (page 590, #1-25)
4. Video: Bill Moyers interviews Jerry Miller, the 200th person convicted of a crime but later released with DNA evidence

--> 10 point assignment: Reflection on Redskins article and page 590, #1-25

Period 4:
1. Inflation article and questions (HANDOUTS)
2. Poverty Worksheet--Chapter 13, Section 3 (HANDOUT from last week--back of inflation notes)
3. Review for Macro Stats Test on Thursday!

What's Due Thurs?
A. Inflation article questions
B. Poverty Worksheet
C. Inflation worksheet (pre-strike)

Thursday, April 22

Strike Day: Get Informed!

Check out these sites for ongoing information:
-Capistrano Unified School District Beyond the Blackboard
-OC Register Article on the Strike

Competing Narratives:
-CUSD "Facts"
-CUEA "Facts"

Wednesday, 4/21

Period 0:
--> Filled Out CUSD Senior Survey and watched 6-minute clip of Obama at LA Fundraiser getting heckled!
1. 7-Minute Readings and Discussion: Ohio's Single Injection Method
2. Finishing Chapter 20 Notes
3. HW: Read Amendments #9--27 and summarize in a sentence or less

Period 1 & 3:
--> Filled Out CUSD Senior Survey and watched 6-minute clip of Obama at LA Fundraiser getting heckled!
1. 7-Minute Readings and Discussion: Ohio's Single Injection Method and Life in Prison without Parole for Minors?
2. Voting on the Death Penalty
3. Finishing Chapter 20 Notes
4. HW: Read Amendments #9--27 and summarize in a sentence or less

Tuesday, Four-Twenty

Period 2:
1. 7-Minute Readings and Discussion: Ohio's Single Injection Method and Life in Prison without Parole for Minors?
2. Voting on the Death Penalty (52% For the Death Penalty--compared with 65% nationally)
3. Finishing Chapter 20 Notes
4. HW: Read Amendments #9--27 and summarize in a sentence or less

Period 4:
1. 7-Minute Reading: CA jobless rate hits 12.6%
Questions:
-Total # of unemployed in CA?
-Total # who have exhausted jobless benefits?
-Sectors gaining jobs?
-Sectors losing jobs?
-Total # of jobs lost in CA since Dec 'O7?
-OC Unemployment rate?
-Total weeks of jobless benefits?
-Ratio of applicants to openings?
2. DVD Clip: Paul Solman on Unemployment
3. Inflation: Notes (HANDOUT)
4. HW: Complete Both Sides of Inflation Worksheet (HANDOUT from last week)

Monday, April 19

Period 0-3: Cruel and Unusual Punishment
1. 7-Minute Reading: CA Death Row Population Grows
2. Scrolling through some Death Penalty Facts
3. Lecture Notes on the 8th Amendment

Period 4:
--> Guest Speaker: Megan Gauger from Westwood College

Friday, April 16, 2010

Period 0:
1. 7-Minute Reading: Gay Rights Advocates Demand Transparency with Petitions
2. Illinois v. Wardlow (page 589: read and respond)
3. Gideon v. Wainwright (page 584 in text)
4. Elizabeth Warren AGAIN! This time, her January 2010 interview with Jon Stewart

Period 1 & 3:
1. 7-Minute Reading: Gay Rights Advocates Demand Transparency with Petitions
2. 8-Minute Video: Elizabeth Warren's interview with Jon Stewart
3. Quick Read: Arizona v. Gant (2009)
4. Continued Lecture Notes through 6th Amendment
5. Illinois v. Wardlow (read and respond: page 589 in text)
6. Gideon v. Wainwright (read and respond: page 584 in text)

Thursday, April 15

Period 0:
1. 8-minute Clip: Elizabeth Warren on Morning Joe (Financial Regulation)
2. Quick Read: Arizona v. Gant (2009)
3. Continued Lecture Notes through 6th Amendment

Period 2:
1. 8-minute Clip: Elizabeth Warren on Morning Joe (Financial Regulation)
2. Quick Read: Arizona v. Gant (2009)
3. Continued Lecture Notes through 6th Amendment
4. Illinois v. Wardlow (read and respond: page 589 in text)

Period 4:
1. 7-Minute Read: Unemployment Rate (Get HANDOUT)
2. Notes on Unemployment
3. 8-minute Clip: Elizabeth Warren on Morning Joe (Financial Regulation)

Wednesday, April 14

Period 0:

1. 7-Minute Reading: School Strip Searches?
2. Notes: Due Process (HANDOUT)
3. Homework: See School Loop

Periods 1 & 3

1. 7-minute Clip: Max Blumenthal covers the Gun Show!
2. 7-Minute Reading: School Strip Searches?
3. Notes: Due Process (HANDOUT)
4. Homework: See School Loop

Tuesday, April 13

Period 2:
1. 7-minute Clip: Max Blumenthal covers the Gun Show!
2. 7-Minute Reading: School Strip Searches?
3. Notes: Due Process (HANDOUT)
4. Homework: See School Loop

Period 4:
1. 7-Minute Reading: Recession Retreats, Hard Times Don't
2. Notes: Business Cycle (White Board)
3. Video: Paul Solmon on the Business Cycle
4. Leading versus Lagging Indicators (HANDOUT--2nd page of packet)
5. GDP Follow-up (HANDOUT--1st page of packet)--Due on Thursday!

Welcome Back to Capo!

Monday, April 12:

Period 0:
1. Read the 2nd Amendment to the Constitution
2. Interpreting the 2nd Amendment—dueling opinions: Erwin Chemerinsky (liberal) versus Brian Doherty (conservative)
3. Reviewing Chapter 19: Civil Liberties (1st Amendment): HANDOUT
4. 7-minute Clip: Max Blumenthal covers the Gun Show!

Periods 1-3:

1. Read the 2nd Amendment to the Constitution
2. Interpreting the 2nd Amendment—dueling opinions: Erwin Chemerinsky (liberal) versus Brian Doherty (conservative)
3. Reviewing Chapter 19: Civil Liberties (1st Amendment): HANDOUT

Period 4:
1. 7-Minute Reading: Be Like Bhutan—Gross National Happiness versus Gross Domestic Product
2. Notes on GDP (from whiteboard): Defining GDP, nominal GDP, per capita GDP and 8 weaknesses of the GDP
3. Begin Reading Chapter 13, Section 1: Gross Domestic Product

Thursday & Friday: April 1-2

Thursday:

Period 0-->Turn in Homework
1. Finish Lecture Notes
2. Tinker v. Des Moines School District (1969)--page 560
3. Chapter 19--end of the chapter assessment in textbook--#1-12

Period 2
--> Turn in Homework: Online Assignment
1. Race: An American Timeline
2. 16-minute Video Clip: Rachel Maddow vs. Pat Buchanan
3. Chapter 19--end of the chapter assessment in textbook---#1-12

Period 4
1. Econ Project Presentations

Friday:

Period 0
--> Turn in Homework: Online Assignment
1. Race: An American Timeline
2. 16-minute Video Clip: Rachel Maddow vs. Pat Buchanan

Periods 1 & 3--> Turn in Homework: Online Assignment
1. Race: An American Timeline
2. 16-minute Video Clip: Rachel Maddow vs. Pat Buchanan
3. Chapter 19--end of the chapter assessment in textbook---#1-12
4. PPT Reviewing Supreme Court Church/State Decisions

Tuesday & Wednesday: March 30-31

Tuesday, March 30:

Period 2
--> Turn in Homework
1. 7-Minute Reading: CA's political landscape (handout)
2. Lecture Notes on 1st Amendment Freedom of Speech/Press/Assembly/Petition (handout)
3. Tinker v. Des Moines School District (1969)--see exercise on page 560

Period 4
1. 7-Minute Reading: The Owner of Poquito Mas
2. Work on Econ Projects

Wednesday, March 31

Period 0:
1. 7-Minute Reading: CA's political landscape
2. Start Lecture Notes on 1st Amendment Freedom of Speech/Press/Assembly/Petition (handout)
3. Time to work on Homework Assignment

Period 1 & 3:
--> Turn in Homework
1. 7-Minute Reading: CA's political landscape (handout)
2. Lecture Notes on 1st Amendment Freedom of Speech/Press/Assembly/Petition (handout)
3. Tinker v. Des Moines School District (1969)--see exercise on page 560