Thursday 12/12 & Friday 12/13 - 1st Sem Final Review ; Benchmark ; AP Classroom

Activity #1: District Benchmark # 2 

Activity # 2: AP Classroom

Activity # 3: Judicial Branch Notes

Activity # 4: Ed Puzzle - Judicial Branch 

Activity # 5:   Legislative Review - Kahoothttps://play.kahoot.it/v2/?quizId=d4cf8a22-8496-4c50-b5ef-d080ea857a28

Activity # 6: Executive Branch Review - Kahoot

Activity # 7: Final Review Sheet (this is going in your notebook, please draw this). 

You will use this List of Powers Sheet to fill in the Review Sheet

Answer these 3 Questions in your notebook:

Explain the process for deciding whether or not the Supreme Court will hear a case.

Explain the difference between Activism and Restraint when it comes to decisions in the courts.

How can the other two branches “check,” or limit, the power of the courts?

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Tuesday 12/10 & Wednesday 12/11: Judicial Branch

Lesson 2.9: Legitimacy of the Judicial Branch

Enduring Understanding:

The design of the judicial branch protects the Supreme Court’s independence as a branch of government, and the emergence and use of judicial review remains a powerful judicial practice.

Learning Objectives:

Explain how the exercise of judicial review in conjunction with life tenure can lead to debate about the legitimacy of the Supreme Court’s power.

Essential Knowledge:

Precedents and stare decisis play an important role in judicial decision making.

Ideological changes in the composition of the Supreme Court due to presidential appointments have led to the Court’s establishing new or rejecting existing precedents.

Activity # 1: District Benchmark # 2

Activity # 2: Using OSAM in your notebook

Activity #2: Judicial Branch Notes

Activity #3: Supreme Court Case Marbury v. Madison

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Friday 12/6 & Monday 12/9: 2.9 Judicial Branch

Lesson 2.9: Legitimacy of the Judicial Branch

Enduring Understanding:

The design of the judicial branch protects the Supreme Court’s independence as a branch of government, and the emergence and use of judicial review remains a powerful judicial practice.

Learning Objectives:

Explain how the exercise of judicial review in conjunction with life tenure can lead to debate about the legitimacy of the Supreme Court’s power.

Essential Knowledge:

Precedents and stare decisis play an important role in judicial decision making. 

Ideological changes in the composition of the Supreme Court due to presidential appointments have led to the Court’s establishing new or rejecting existing precedents.

Debrief 2.14: Nancy's making moves!

Activity # 1: 

ASAP Writing (in your notebook)

Passages from Federalist #78, Written by Alexander Hamilton, 1788

The judiciary, from the nature of its functions, will always be the least dangerous to the political rights of the Constitution . . . [it] may truly be said to have neither FORCE nor WILL, but merely judgment; and must ultimately depend upon the aid of the executive arm even for the efficacy of its judgments.

For there is no liberty, if the power of judging be not separated from the executive and legislative powers.

Activity #2: 

Supreme Court Stations

In your notebooks, title the activity "Supreme Court Stations."  Then travel to each one of the stations in the hallway and complete the activity to learn about the Judiciary.  If you are absent, you can find the stations below.

Supreme Court Stations

Activity #3: 

Scenario - What Would You Do?

Complete written response in your notebook.

 Activity #4: 

TIP-C

Activity #5: 

Nifty-Fifty Vocab: Define in your notebook

Amicus Curiae Brief

Stare Decisis

Judicial Review

Write of Certiorari

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Wednesday 12/4 & Thursday 12/5: 2.8 Judicial Branch

Lesson 2.8: The Judicial Branch

Enduring Understanding:

The design of the judicial branch protects the Supreme Court’s independence as a branch of government, and the emergence and use of judicial review remains a powerful judicial practice.
Learning Objectives:

Explain the principle of judicial review and how it checks the power of other institutions and state governments.
Essential Knowledge:

The foundation for powers of the judicial branch and how its independence checks the power of other institutions and state governments are set forth in:
Article III of the Constitution
Federalist No. 78
Marbury v. Madison (1803)

Debrief 2.13: Trump's Tax Returns


Activity #1: EdPuzzle

Federalist #78

Activity #2:

Judiciary Notes


Activity #3: Supreme Court Stations

In your notebooks, title the activity "Supreme Court Stations." Then travel to each one of the stations in the hallway and complete the activity to learn about the Judiciary. If you are absent, you can find the stations below.


Supreme Court Stations

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Monday 12/2 & Tuesday 12/3: 2.8 Judicial Branch

Lesson 2.8: The Judicial Branch

Enduring Understanding:

The design of the judicial branch protects the Supreme Court’s independence as a branch of government, and the emergence and use of judicial review remains a powerful judicial practice.

Learning Objectives:

Explain the principle of judicial review and how it checks the power of other institutions and state governments.

Essential Knowledge:

The foundation for powers of the judicial branch and how its independence checks the power of other institutions and state governments are set forth in: 

• Article III of the Constitution
• Federalist No. 78 
• Marbury v. Madison (1803)

Debrief 2.11:

How many of the justices in the picture below can you name?

How many were you able to name?  1 maybe?  How do you think the founding fathers would have felt about our performance?  Would they be happy, or upset?

Activity #1 Judicial Branch One Pager

In order to create a divider in your notebooks between the Judicial Branch (The Courts) we are going to create a one pager.  The one pager should include the following...

• A title and subtitle across the middle
• A border that includes the powers of the Judicial Branch
• A picture in one quadrant
• Judicial checks on the other branches in the next quadrant
• A Diagram of the Structure of the Federal Courts
• 3 questions about the president in the last quadrant

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