Th/Fri, Sept 15-16

Period 0: Econ
1. Zuckerberg Interview
2. Lecture: Capitalism versus Socialism
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3. 7-Minute Reading: Free Market Baby Making
4. Strengths and Weaknesses of Capitalism: Bush's TARP Speech

Period 2: American Government
--> Review Liberal versus Conservative (PPT)
--> Vote on same-sex marriage
1. 7-Minute Reading:
2. PPT: 6 Key Principles of the American Constitution
HW: When a Majority is Not Enough (Handout)
1. What % of the vote do CA legislators need to pass a budget?
2. Why is that the law?
3. Do you like that law? Why/why not?
4. Define: A. Plurality; B. Majority; C. Supermajority; D. unanimity
5. Give two specific examples of supermajority in action.
6. Give the advantages for using supermajority to make decisions.
7. Give the disadvantages for using supermajority to make decisions.
8. Why did the progressives want to use supermajorities in the state legislature and create the referendum process?
9. When did CA voters adopt 2/3 vote for taxes and budgets?
10. What main point is the author trying to make?


Period 4 & 5: Econ1. 7-Minute Reading: Free Market Baby-Making? (aka, Capitalism at her finest)
2. A Quick Review: Smith versus Marx
3. Strengths and Weaknesses of Capitalism: Bush's TARP Speech
4. Adbusters Interview: Why ways does Micah White critique capitalism? What do you resonate with? What is abrasive? What areas of YOUR life to you recognize that Capitalism has affected YOU?

AP World
--> Turn in Guided Reading
1. Chapter 1 & 2 TEST
2. Extended Analysis (use TEXTBOOK!)
3. Finish PERSIAN Charts