Extra Credit Opportunity - Politics/Democratizing

Politics and Government - Read the following articles.  Summarize, analyze, compare, and contrast, and connect to the concepts covered in unit 1. Email to me by 6 pm on Sunday.  Your writing should be sophisticated, make a claim, include evidence, and indicate proofreading.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-01-30/obama-s-radical-adherence-to-the-constitution.html

http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2014/01/29/presidential-power-vs-congressional-inertia/president-obamas-desire-to-wield-executive-power-is-understandable

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/29/us/politics/executive-order-may-be-only-option-but-it-comes-with-limits.html?_r=0

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/01/31/obamas-love-affair-with-executive-orders-or-not-in-1-chart/

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jimpowell/2014/01/30/how-president-obama-could-be-swept-away-with-his-executive-orders-that-defy-congress-and-the-courts/


Democratizing - Read the following articles.  Summarize, analyze, compare, and contrast, and connect to the concepts covered in unit 3. Email to me by 6 pm on Sunday.  Your writing should be sophisticated, make a claim, include evidence, and indicate proofreading.

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303448204579340563460729046

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/ill-labor-unions-sue-plan-cut-pensions-22266339

http://espn.go.com/espn/otl/story/_/id/10363430/outside-lines-northwestern-wildcats-football-players-trying-join-labor-union

http://www.delcotimes.com/government-and-politics/20140128/labor-unions-pack-pa-capitol-over-paycheck-bill

BRING A NUMBER 2 PENCIL

BRING A NUMBER TWO (2) PENCIL TO EXAM ON THURSDAY

ALSO BRING A PEN TO WRITE YOUR ESSAY

Politics and Government Link to Flash Cards

Two of your classmates, Ilana Schiller-Weiss and Nam Nguyen, made a study guide and would like to share it with you.

Please thank them!

http://quizlet.com/34969614/politics-and-government-midterm-flash-cards/

Democratizing Twentieth Century Homework - Due Friday, Jan 24

Read each and take notes.  Your notes should reflect connections to at least one of the following:

The Labor Movement: Why Then? Why did the Labor Movement get underway when it did?  

What gains were won?  What gains were sought but not won?  Why? 

The American Franchise 

Good for all workers? Justices debate union dues, bargaining and free speech

Politics and Government Homework - Due Friday Jan 24

Read and prepare a case analysis for each

1. McCollum v Bd of Ed

2. Zorach v Clauson

3. a) Zelman v Simmons-Harris 

    b) Zelman v Simmons-Harris 

Democratizing Twentieth Century America - Homework - Due Tues, Jan 22

1) Read and take notes: Taft Hartley Act

2) Read and take notes: Michigan's right-to-work laws will ripple across the US

Politics and Government Homework - Due Tues Jan 21

1 - Type up an opinion analysis for WVA v Barnette
(Remember, an opinion analysis is like a mini-essay.  You must do more than re-tell, you must interpret and analyze.  You should make a claim about the opinion)

and

For this WVA v. Barnette, you should discuss both the majority and dissent

2 - Do a case analysis for Minersvile v Gobitis

Politics and Government Homework - Due YESTERDAY

Prepare an opinion analysis for Everson v. Bd of Ed 

Democratizing Twentieth Century Homework - Due Tues. Jan 14

Read and take notes 

Politics and Government Homework - Due Tues, Jan 14

Read and prepare a case analysis 

No homework, finish exhibitions!