Supreme+Court

=​Wiki Supreme Link= = __Day 1: Monday July 12, 2010__ = __**Title** **: Introduction to the Supreme Court Objectives: ** __ Students will be able to: -Connect last week's unit on immigration to this week's unit on the Supreme Court -Identify prior knowledge about the Supreme Court -Create a list of questions students still have about the Supreme Court = Research Question: What are the opinions of SB 1070 on the Supreme Court of conservative justices and libaral justices?=

__**Activities/Lessons**__
__**Connect last week's topic with our week**__ Discuss the Arizona immigration case that you learned about last week, and predict how this will connect with the Supreme Court. == = = =Day 2: Tuesday July 13, 2010= Objectives __** Students will be able to - research a topic of personal interest on the Supreme Court - evaluate a variety of internet resources for research - organize research findings on to a Mind Map using the program Inspiration - present research findings within the classroom and virtually using video chat
 * __ Title: Continuation of Day 1 project

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Closing Reflection:
I researched the current people in the Supreme Court. Also, I learned that Kennedy is a conservative man. From my partner, I learned that Sandra Day O'Conner was the first woman in the Supreme Court, and at the age of 16, she had graduated from high school. It was Presiden Reagan who nominated her. I think that the web cam chat was kind of cool, but it was troublesome to go through all that to get there. If it does work one day, I think it would be a good way to communicate information, but I think that it's graphics were pretty bad.

**__ Day 3 – Wednesday July 14 __**
**//Either for Marbury v Madison//** -- Ms. Pember
 * __ Title: Focus on one famous case and begin final project __**
 * __ Objectives __**
 * the role of the Supreme Court in interpreting the Constitution;
 * the significance of Marbury v. Madison;
 * the concept of judicial review and how //Marbury v. Madison// solidified it;

Students will be able to: - summarize researched and shared information on the Supreme Court by creating a Glog - research current trends/decisions of the US Supreme Court - analyze and annotate court documents (majority/minority opinions) and expert analysis reports
 * Both classes: **

B. What are the possible negatives to denying these people their jobs? What are the possible positives to allowing them to take these jobs?
== Negatives might be the loss in trust of the people and their faith in the government. Also, they might feel cheated if the old mayor died without passing them their jobs. If I knew that he was promising them siome kind of job, then I would finish it. These friends are political friends, so they might arouse citizens to go against me if I don't keep the old promise. Positives might be that I can possibly be friends with them, and they will assist me if I was ever in need of something. ==

C. Would it make a difference if the perspective employees had worked against you in the mayoral elections?
== Yes, it would. I wouldn't allow them to work in my office at all. These people would be treacherous in my career that I've worked hard for. It would be the old mayor's friends, not mine, so I don't exactly have to keep that promise that I didn't even make. Then again, sometimes it might be depend on how much power they have, or their qualifications to the job. ==

== I put the justices on my glog because that was information I've learned over my time researching. In text, I put Judicial Referee and Executive VS. Legislative because of the tension between them and the story between Madison and Marbury. Then, I put a picture of both of these guys and thee house where they have argued in. == == From my partner, I learned about the Warren Court, named after Earl Warren, and stories that surround the violation of the 27 commandments, like a colored girl not being able to go to a particular school because of her race. ==



= **__Day 4 - Thursday July 15__** =
 * __ Title: Podcast/Video of a Political Talkshow on a recent Supreme Court decision __**


 * Guided Questions: **
 * What are the key components to a political debate?
 * How do bipartisan politics get involved in Supreme Court Case decisions and the Justice Nomination process?

After the lesson, students will be able to:
 * Objectives: **
 * research current trends/decisions of the US Supreme Court
 * analyze and annotate court documents (majority/minority opinions) and expert analysis reports
 * discuss the details and ramifications of recent court cases and justice nominations
 * create a podcast that incorporates students' knowledge and various viewpoints about the situation

Liberal View of Mcdonald VS. Chicago
Our article was about the liberal view of the Chicago vs. Mcdonald's case. In this, a liberal person gives his thoughts about how he thought of the gun banning. For liberals, they agree with the gun banning law, and the majority does too. Since this is the case, it is safe to assume that states have high crime rates and need to be protected. But since this idea goes against the 2nd amendment, it isn't followed and the case is won by the Mcdonald's, 5-4. Even though 82% of the people had wanted stricter, or was alright with the gun laws, the Mcdonald's won.

Reflection:
I studied about Mcdonald's vs. Chicago's case. In this case, the liberal view was for the banning of the guns and the conservatives were against the banning of guns. They brought in the 2nd and the 14th amendments to help with the case. I think that there should not be a banning of guns because even after there is a law to ban guns, I don't think people would follow that law. Since the robbers and thieves aren't following them, what gives them the right to hurt us while we can't defend ourselves?

I like that the group helped answer questions I asked and that they were patient when I messed up. I didn't like that there wasn't much we can come up with because the topic was dense. I guess we can improve by researching our own sites first, and instead of starting that late to analyze the articale.