Government AP

Weekly outline

• 2021-2022
  

  2021-2022

  
  

  • Syllabus File
• 23 August - 29 August
  

  23 August - 29 August

  
  

  • Mon/Tues - Teacher Work Days
    

    Wed - Homeroom
    

    Thurs - Syllabus, Seating chart, Textbook, Student Information Sheet
    

    Fri - AP Classroom "How American Politics went Insane" the Atlantic

    Read Ch1 and take the quiz (open book) look ahead for due dates...
    

    
    

    
    
  • How American Politics Went Insane Forum

    Read the Article. Post 3-2-1 = 3 things you learned, 2 things you found interesting, 1 question you have
    
  • Ch1 Quiz
• 30 August - 5 September
  

  30 August - 5 September

  Unit 1 - Foundations of American Democracy
  

  • Mon - Syllabus Review. Forum Due Analytical Reading Declaration & Second Treatise of Civil Government Questions
    

    
    

    Tues - Ch1 Quiz DUE (by start of class) 1.1 Ideals of Democracy, 1.2 Types of Democracy Topic Qs
    

    
    

    Wed - We The People L.1 What did the Founders think about Constitutional Government?  WTP L.2 What ideas about civic life informed the founding generation? L.3 What historical developments influenced modern ideas of individual rights? L4 What were the British origins of American Constitutionalism? 

    
    

    Thurs - WTP L.5 What ibasic ideas about rights & constitutional government did colonial Americans hold? WTP L.6/7 Why did American colonists want to free themselves from Great Britain? What basic ideas about government and rights did the State Constitutions include?

    
    

    Read Ch2

    
    

    Fri - Topic Questions (AP Classroom - Ideals & Types of Democracy)
    

    Complete Analytical Reading: Articles of Confederation
    
  • 1.1 Analytical Reading Declaration of Independence & Second Treatise of Civil Government File
  • WTP L.1 Notes File
  • WTP L.2 note organizer File
  • WTP L.3 note organizer File
  • Lesson 4 Notes File
  • Lesson 5 Notes File
  • Lesson 6 & 7 File
  • 1.4 Analytical Reading Articles of Confederation File
• 6 September - 12 September
  

  6 September - 12 September

  Unit 1 - Foundations of American Democracy
  

  
  

  • Ch2 Quiz
  • Mon - Labor Day No School

    Tues - Jr. Fair Day No School

    Wed - Ch2 Due1.4 Challenges of the Articles of Confederation We The People Unit 2
    

    Thurs - We The People Unit 2
    

    Fri - 1.3 Government Power and Individual Rights Analytical Reading Federalist 10 Brutus 1
    

  • WTP U2 File
  • 1.3 Analytical Reading Federalist #10 & Brutus #1 File
• 13 September - 19 September
  This week
  

  13 September - 19 September

  Unit 1 - Foundations of American Democracy
  

  
  

  • Debate Logistics Page
  • Anti-Federalist Information File
  • Federalist Information File
  • Mon - Federalist #10/Brutus #1 Due Topic Questions (1.3/1.4) Debate prep
    

    
    

    Tues - Debate: Federalist v. Anti-Federalist
    

    1.5 Ratification of the U.S. Constitution
    

    Read Ch3
    

    
    

    Wed - Ch3 due 1.6 Principles of American Government

    Analytical Reading Federalist No 51

    
    

    Thurs -1.7 Relationship Between the States and Federal Government

    1.8 Constitutional Interpretations of Federalism
    

    SCOTUS Case Analysis McCulloch v. Maryland and US v Lopez
    

    
    

    Fri - Analytical Reading 10th Amendment 1.9 Federalism in Action SCOTUS & 10th Amend due
    

    
    

    
    
  • Ch3 Quiz
  • 1.6 Federalist #51 File
  • SCOTUS File

    This document should be completed for each assigned SCOTUS case.  Complete in Notability, share as a pdf.

    
    

  • 1.8 10th Amendment File
  • Friday Notes File
• 20 September - 26 September
  

  20 September - 26 September

  Unit 1 - Foundations of American Democracy
  

  Unit 2 - Interactions Among Branches
  

  • We the People Speeches Page
  • Mon - Unit 1 Progress Check: MCQ & FRQ online
    

    Tues - Unit 1 Progress Check: FRQ online, MCQ paper
    

    Read Ch13
    

    Wed - WTP Unit 1 & 2 Speech work (See direction page)

    Thurs - Speech 1 & 2 Presented
    

    Fri - Ch13 DUE 2.1 Congress: The Senate and the House of Representatives 2.2 Structures, Powers, and Functions of Congress 2.3 Congressional Behavior
    

     
    
  • Congress Quiz
• 8 November - 14 November
  

  8 November - 14 November

  Unit 3: Civil Liberties and Civil Rights
  

  • Ohio Question - Part 1 File
  • Ohio Question - State Issue 1 File
  • Ohio question - Part 2 File