Thurs/Fri, April 28-29

Economics:
Thurs:
1. 7-Minute Reading: Outsourcing (handout: list key reasons why this has increased rapidly in the past 3 decades)
2. Lecture Notes on Business Cycle and Leading/Lagging Indicators
3. Homework: Chapter 13, Section 3 Questions on the back of the fill-in-the-blank notes for Unemployment/Inflation (due Friday)

Fri:
1. Collect Homework
1a. 7-Minute Reading: Robert Reich article (what is Reich's thesis and what does he think we should do to fix the economy?)
2. Review Macro Stats (PPT)
3. Practice Multiple Choice Test


AP World
*Mock AP Test #1

American Government
1. 7-Minute: Jared Loughner--No Death Penalty?
2. Death Penalty Arguments and Statistics
3. 60 Minute Clip: Death Penalty and DNA
4. 60 Minute Clip: Guantanamo Bay Scandal

Tues/Wed, April 26-27

Economics:
1. 7-Minute Reading: Fat Cats (handout--1/2 page summarizing argument and 1/2 on your opinion)
2. Continue Macro PPT: Inflation
3. Lagging Indicators/Leading Indicators
4. Poverty worksheet for homework

AP World:
1. Test Corrections: Review Test #2
2. Timelines
3. PPT: AP Test Multiple Choice Guidelines

American Government
1. 7-Minute Reading: Miranda Warnings (handout--1/2 page summary)
2. Chapter 20 PPT
3. Finish Inside Job

Thurs/Fri, April 21-22

Economics
Thurs:
1. 7-Minute Reading: The Two Jobs Report (handout)

Questions:
A. How does the author explain the tension of the 2 jobs reports (how can they BOTH tell so different stories)?
B. According to the author, why do Americans persistently focus on what is wrong with the American economy (last paragraph)?

2. PPT Notes on Unemployment
3. Inside Job Continued

Fri:
1. Worksheet on GDP and Inflation (do both sides--due at end of period)

AP World
1. PPT on Chapter 33
2. Chapter 33 TEST
3. Chapter 34 Practice Test
4. Work on Timelines (both docs on School Loop: Timelines and Must Know Dates)

American Government
1. 7-Minute Reading: The Supreme Court Gun Fight (handout)
--> Summarize both points of view and write an opinion piece taking a position on the issue

2. Read Chapter 20 and take notes (at least 2 pages, front/back)
3. pg.590, #10-25

Tues/Wed, April 19-20

Economics
1. 7-Minute Reading: Be Like Bhutan (handout)
2. PPT on Gross Domestic Product

AP World
1. PPT on chapter 32
2. DBQ Practice

American Government
1. 2nd Amendment Preview/Notes
2. 1st Amendment Review Sheet (handout)

Monday, April 18

Economics and American Government
*Guest Speaker from Westwood College

AP World
*Review Test #1 (8000BCE to 500CE)--corrections and analysis

Th/Fri, April 14-15

Economics
--> Business Project Presentations
--> Continue Inside Job (2010)

AP World
1. Finish Chp 31 PPT
2. Chp 31 Test
3. Essay: Compare/Contrast US and USSR during Cold War Period (political, economic, and cultural)

American Government
1. 7-Minute Reading: South Park versus Revolution Muslim (get handout)

Reflections:
1. What do YOU think of Comedy Central’s decision to bleep out Muhammad on South Park? Agree? Disagree? Explain?

2. What do YOU think about the constitutionality of a blogger from the Revolution Muslim writing the things he wrote? Should this be censored by the government? Explain.

2. PPT Notes on Freedom of Speech, Press, Assembly (get handout)
3. Continue Inside Job

Tues/Wed, April 12-13

Economics:
--> Working on the Business Project

AP World:
1. Test Corrections
2. Chp 31 PPT
3. Persian Charts: US versus USSR (Cold War)

American Government:
1. 7-Minute Reading: Fred Phelps versus the father of a dead soldier
2. Notes on Freedom of Religion (Part I of the 1st Amendment)
3. HW: 22 Questions on Chapter 19, sections 1-2 (handout)

Monday, April 11

Economics
1. Introduction to Business Project and Time to work on it in class.

AP World
1. Chapter 30 TEST
2. Chapter 30 Review Sheet

American Government
1. 7-Minute Reading: Atheists versus Evangelical Christians over the Day of Prayer
--> Summarize arguments on both sides in regards to the 1st Amendment
--> Opinion: which side to you agree with?
2. Start 1st Amendment PPT

Thurs/Fri, March 31--April 1

Economics
1. Notes on Costs (handout)
2. Micro Review Sheet (handout)
3. Micro II TEST and Corrections
4. Annie Leonard on Bottled Water

AP World History
1. PPT Notes on Marx/Communism/Russia/China
2. TEST and corrections

American Government
1. TEST
2. Political Self-Inventory (see course locker on School Loop)
3. Read article (handout) on Internet Tax proposals and complete this assignment:

Write a letter to the editor of the LA Times in response to this article. Take a position on the issue and make strong arguments to support your position. Be sure to include how the proposal in the article affects businesses, the government and consumers.