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AP US Government |
Calendar for Second Semester:
January
February
March
April
May
June
February 1 – Brief Writing Speakers
February 3 -- Spin exercise
February. 5 – History, Organization, purpose and impact of Political
Parties
Homework: Lowi and Ginsburg, Chapter 11,
Federalist #10 (in the back of the text)
February 9 – The decline of political parties, Pluralism and Federalist #10
Homework: Lowi and Ginsburg, Chapter 12:
February 11 – What is a Special Interest Group? What do they do?
Homework:
Lowi and Ginsburg, Chapter 12
February 18 --
The Rise of Special
Interest Groups
Homework:
Lowi and Ginsburg, Chapter 12, "Running with the PACs" by Walter
Isaacson, and "The Misplaced Obsession with PACs" by Larry Sabato, and
"Buckley v Valeo"
February 22 – Money and elections (Appellate briefs due)
Review for test
February 24 – Media Special interest groups, parties test
Homework:
Lowi and Ginsburg, Chapter 5
February 26 -- The Nature of Congressional Representation
Homework:
Lowi and Ginsburg, Chapter 5
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March 2 – The evolution of the powers of Congress
Homework:
Lowi and Ginsburg, Chapter 5
"Rolling out the Pork Barrel" and "Roll out the Barrel: The Case against the Case against
Pork"
March 4 – Influences on Congress, The Power of Pork, and how
a bill becomes a law
Homework:
Lowi and Ginsburg, Chapter 6
“The Paradoxes of the American Presidency” by Thomas Cronin, et al.
March 8 – Presidency
Homework:
Lowi and Ginsburg, Chapter 6
“Presidential
Power and the Modern Presidents” by Richard Neustadt
“The
Imperial Presidency” by Arthur Schlesinger
March 10 – Presidency
March 12 – The Powers of the Presidency (activity) (Respondent Briefs
Due)
Homework:
Lowi and Ginsburg, Chapter 7
“Governing
America” by Joseph Califano
March 16 – What is the Bureaucracy and How Does It Work?
Homework:
Lowi and Ginsburg, Chapter 7
“Reinventing
Government” by David Osborne, et al
“Turkey
Farm” by Robert Maranto
“Bureaucracy”
by James Q. Wilson
March 18 -- The Difficulty in Controlling the Bureaucracy, FOIA, (Judge Questions Due)
March 29– Review for
Presidency/Congress/Bureaucracy test
March 31 – Congress/Presidency/Bureaucracy
Test
April 2 –3rd period -- Drug testing case, 4th period -- Foreign policy
April
6 -- 3rd period -- T-shirt case, 4th period -- pledge case
April 8 – 3rd period -- Foreign policy, 4th period -- drug testing
Homework: Lowi and Ginsburg, Chapter 16
April 12-- 3rd period -- pledge case, 4th period: policy -- social welfare
Homework: Lowi and Ginsburg, Chapter 15
April 14 – 3rd period -- social welfare, 4th period --economic policy
Homework: Lowi and Ginsburg, Chapter 14
April 19 -- (Judge decisions due) 3rd period -- economic policy, 4th period -- prep for policy test
Homework: Study for policy test
April 21 – Policy test, Intro to AP test
April 23 -- Prep for AP test -- Past multiple choice tests
April 27 -- Prep for AP test - Essay section of the test
April 29 -- Prep for AP test-- Review of first-semester materials
May 3 -- AP Test
Monday, May 3 -- AP Government exam is administered
May 5 – Jihad v Mcworld by Barber
May 7 - The End of History by Fukuyama
May 11 -- The Clash of Civilizations by Huntington
May 13 -- Power and
Weakness by Kagan
May 17 --Was
Democracy Just a Moment? by Kaplan
May 19 -- Why did the
Western World come to dominate the globe?
May 21 --Justice: What's the Right Thing to do? by Michael
Sandel
May 25 -- Bowling alone by Putnam
May 27 -- Odd Girl Out by Simmons
June 1-- The Wisdom of the Crowds by Surowiecki
June 3 -- The Mystery of Capital by de Soto related NPR Article on New Orleans
June 7 -- Review for the final
June
9 --
Senior finals