Thursday 2/20 & Friday 2/21: 4.5-6: Measuring and Evaluating Public Opinion Data

Enduring Understanding:

Public opinion is measured through scientific polling, and the results of public opinion polls influence public policies and institutions.

Learning Objectives:

Describe the elements of a scientific poll.

Explain the quality and credibility of claims based on public opinion data.

Essential Knowledge:

Public opinion data that can impact elections and policy debates is affected by such scientific polling types and methods as:

• Type of poll (opinion polls, benchmark or tracking polls, entrance and exit polls) 
• Sampling techniques, identification of respondents, mass survey or focus group, sampling error
• Type and format of questions

The relationship between scientific polling and elections and policy debates is affected by the: §

• Importance of public opinion as a source of political influence in a given election or policy debate
• Reliability and veracity of public opinion data

Debrief 4.3: Unit One Review

In class we will review the Madisonian System, then answer the following questions...

1. How did the Madisonian System demonstrate the principle of Separation of Powers?
2. What are the Checks and Balances that exist within the Madisonian System
3. How does this system reflect the main arguments of Federalist 10 and 51?

Opener:  Below are the most common sources for the formation of political opinion.  Choose the 2 that you feel are/were the most influential in developing your political opinions and craft a an argument for why that might be.   Be sure to provide a line of reasoning for your claim that allows others to fully understand your thinking.  

• Peers
• Parents
• School/teachers
• Famous figure
• News Media
• Social Media
• Movies/shows
• Political Ads
• Other nation's policies

When you have finished, compare your list with your neighbor.  Make sure that you take the time to explain your top and bottom choices in your ranking to that person.

Activity #1: TIP-C to learn about Voter Behavior...

For each of the following charts complete a TIP-C analysis in your notebooks.  Make sure to highlight or underline the C(onclusion) for each one; this is the important learning target for the lesson...

NUMBER ONE

NUMBER TWO

NUMBER THREE

Activity #2:  Notes over Polling...

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Tuesday 2/18 & Wednesday 2/19 : Enrollment

Enrollment for 2020 - 2021 School Year

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Wednesday 2/12 & Thursday 2/13: 4.1 - 4.4 American Attitudes, Ideology, and Political Socialization

Enduring Understanding:

Citizen beliefs about government are shaped by the intersection of demographics, political culture, and dynamic social change.

Learning Objectives:

Explain the relationship between core beliefs of U.S. citizens and attitudes about the role of government.

Explain how cultural factors influence political attitudes and socialization.

Essential Knowledge:

Different interpretations of core values, including individualism, equality of opportunity, free enterprise, rule of law, and limited government, affect the relationship between citizens and the federal government and the relationships citizens have with one another.

Family, schools, peers, media, and social environments (including civic and religious organizations) contribute to the development of an individual’s political attitudes and values through the process of political socialization.

As a result of globalization, U.S. political culture has both influenced and been influenced by the values of other countries.

Generational and lifecycle effects also contribute to the political socialization that influences an individual’s political attitudes.

The relative importance of major political events to the development of individual political attitudes is an example of political socialization.

Debrief 4.2: Unit One Review

First, give a ten word gist of the Articles of Confederation.  Then, for each of the following characteristics, explain how the new Constitution of the United States (written at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia) provided a remedy to that weakness...

1. Lacked the power to tax: 
2. Lacked a National Court:
3. Lacked an Executive Branch:
4. No National Military:
5. No ability to regulate trade between states:

Activity #1: Notes over Political Socialization

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Activity #2: Political Ideology Interview

Using the following document, interview the people at your table (I will explain this process) in class.  Make sure to record the name of the person in your interview and their responses in your notebook.  

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Monday 2/10 & Tuesday 2/11 4.1 & 4.2 American Attitudes, Ideology, and Political Socialization

ENDURING UNDERSTANDING:

Citizen beliefs about government are shaped by the intersection of demographics, political culture, and dynamic social change.


LEARNING OBJECTIVE:

Explain the relationship between core beliefs of U.S. citizens and attitudes about the role of government.

Explain how cultural factors influence political attitudes and socialization.

ESSENTIAL KNOWLEDGE:

Different interpretations of core values, including individualism, equality of opportunity, free enterprise, rule of law, and limited government, affect the relationship between citizens and the federal government and that citizens have with each other.

Family, schools, peers, media, and social environments (including civic and religious organizations) contribute to the development of an individual’s political attitudes and values through the process of political socialization.

As a result of globalization, U.S. political culture has both influenced and been influenced by the values of other countries.

Debrief 4.1: Unit One Review

Use ASAP to analyze the follow excerpt:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

                                ~ The Declaration of Independence, 1776 

Then answer the following questions:

1. How does this excerpt reflect the Enlightenment ideals of John Locke?
2. How does the phrase "Consent of the Governed," as stated in the excerpt, fit into the Social Contract Theory of Government?

Toy Story 3 Clip

Monty Python Clip

Activity #1: Ideology and Me

(See Class Activity)

Once you have finished and you see your results (and the class results).  Explain what factors have shaped your political ideology

Activity #2: Isidewith.com Political Quiz

Take the quiz at the following link: I Side With Quiz

Once you finish, record the following information in your notebooks...

1. Which candidate(s) did you most identify with?
2. Were there any surprises that you found in your results?

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Tuesday 2/4 & Wednesday 2/5 (Chiefs Red Wednesday) Test Review Day

Activity # 1:

Civil Liberties & Civil Rights Exam Review



Test Review Materials:

Civil Rights & Civil Liberties

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Friday 1/31 & Monday 2/3: Civil Rights 3.10 Social Movements & Equal Protection

Learning Targets:  Students will be able to....

• Explain how the U.S. Constitution protects individual liberties and rights.
• Describe the rights protected in the Bill of Rights.
• Explain the extent to which the Supreme Court’s interpretation of the First and Second Amendments reflects a commitment to individual liberty.

Through the U.S. Constitution, but primarily through the Bill of Rights and the Fourteenth Amendment, citizens and groups have attempted to limit national and state governments to prevent them from infringing upon individual rights and from denying equal protection under the law. 

However, it has sometimes been argued that these legal protections have been used to slow reforms and restrict freedoms of others in the name of social order.

Opener:  ASAP

No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

• 14th Amendment - Ratified in 1868

Activity # 1:

Activity #1: Civil Rights Break Up

In each of your groups, you will be presenting on one of the topics from Civil Rights and Civil Liberties.  In order to do this, we will create a poster with the following information: Who was involved, What happened or what is it, Why it happened, When and Where it happened.  Then we will present to the class.  Here are the topics we will look at:

• Civil Rights Act of 1964
• Plessy v. Ferguson and Brown v. The Board of Education
• LGBTQ Issues
• Voting including the Voting Rights Act of 1965, 19th, 24th, and 26th Amendments
• Affirmative Action
• Americans with Disabilities Act

Then we will Present!

Activity # 2:

Exam Review

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Wednesday 1/29 & Thursday 1/30: 3.7 Selective Incorporation

Lesson 3.7: Selective Incorporation

Enduring Understanding:

The protections of the Bill of Rights have been selectively incorporated by way of the Fourteenth amendment’s “Due Process” and “Equal Protection” clause to prevent state infringement on basic rights.

Learning Objectives:

Explain the implications of the selective incorporation doctrine

Essential Knowledge:

The doctrine of selective incorporation has imposed on state regulation of civil rights and liberties as represented by McDonald v. Chicago (2010), which ruled the Second Amendment’s right to keep and bear arms for self-defense in one’s home is applicable to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment.

Debrief 3.3: 

Who, or what, does the Bill of Rights protect you from?  How do you know?

Activity #1:

Notes

Activity #2: 2018 AP Gov SCOTUS FRQ

Closing: Kahoot over Supreme Court Cases...

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