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Unit 1 Calendar (1-4)
03/29 Intro., Text, Web,
-Assign: Purpose of Government Due 03/31

03/30

 

03/31 Purpose of Government DUE

 

04/01
-Reading Quiz Ch 1 Bring NOTES

04/02 Sleep in Day
04/05
-Assign: Constitutional Scavenger Hunt Due 4/09
-Reading Quiz Ch 2 Bring NOTES

04/06

 

 

04/07

 

 

 

04/08
- Reading Quiz Ch 3 Bring NOTES

 

 

04/09
- Constitutional Scavenger Hunt DUE

 

 
04/12
-Reading Quiz Ch 4 Bring NOTES 		04/13 04/14 04/15 Exam
Unit 1-4 -Assign: Curve Essay 		04/16

Unit 2 Calendar (5,8,9)

04/15 Exam 1-4 Begin Unit 2 (Chapters 5,8,9) Assign: Interest Group Presentations Sign up sheet is on my whiteboard (1st come, 1st served) 04/16 Optional Curve Essay DUE
04/19 Assign: Political Ideology Quiz Due 04/26 04/20 Computer LAB 1530 04/21 Computer LAB 1560 04/22 Reading Quiz Ch 5 "Bring Notes" 04/23
04/26 Ideology Quiz DUE 05/27 Class meets from 12:08 to 2:27 (c-lunch) Reading Quiz Ch 8 "Bring Notes" 04/28 04/29 Class meets from 12:08 to 2:27 (c-lunch) 04/30
05/03 Reading Quiz Ch 9 "Bring Notes" 05/04 05/05 05/06 Interest Group Presentations 05/07 Exam Chapters 5,8,9

Unit 3 (Chapters 10,13,15,18)

05/10 Begin Unit 3 Chapters 10,13,15,18 05/11
Assign: Electoral College Map Exercise Due 05/18 This assignment will NOT be posted online. You must pick it up in class!! 		05/12
Reading Quiz Ch 10 		05/13 05/14
05/17
Reading Quiz Ch 13 		05/18 Electoral Map DUE
Assign: Supreme Court due 5/26 		05/19 05/20
Reading Quiz Ch 15 		05/21
05/24 05/25
Reading Quiz Ch 18 		05/26 Supreme Court DUE 05/27 05/28 Exam Chapters 10,13,15,18 Assign: Curve Essay
05/31 Memorial Day so sleep in 06/01 Curve Essay DUE
Assign: Culminating Project
CBA!!!		 06/02
Classwork: Culminating Project 		06/03
Classwork: Culminating Project
06/04 Senior DAY! Go to grad practice and SIX-FLAGS
06/07
Classwork: Culminating Project
06/08
Classwork: Culminating Project 		06/09 Final Exam and Culminating Project DUE Bring Textbook to TURN IN!!!!!  
06/11 Graduation!!!!!!

 

Note Cards

Students are allowed to create a single note card for each Reading Quiz that will gain the student up to TEN points added tp that quiz. Note card must be a 3x5 card (not handmade). Information from the assigned chapter must be handwritten in ink and can only be written on one-side of the card.  Note card will be stapled to the quiz and there is no sharing of note cards. This is for reading quizzes only!!!

Curve Purchase

The day of each exam students will be given a bonus essay question. The essay is to be hand written and returned the NEXT day at the beginning of class for up to TEN points added to that test grade. The essay is optional.