A.G.B.U Vatche & Tamar Manoukian High School
Instructor: Miss. Movsisyan
Civics Three Week Schedule – Quarter Two
November 12 – December 20 (Semester 1).
Instructor: Miss Movsisyan
National Standards for Civics (highlighted areas represented topics covered within the timeframe)
I. What are Civic Life, Politics, and Government?
A.
What are the essential characteristics of limited and unlimited government?
II. What are the Foundations of the American Political System?
B.
What values and principles are basic to American constitutional democracy?
III. How Does the Government Established by the Constitution Embody the Purposes, Values, and Principles of American Democracy?
C.
How is the national government organized and what does it do?
We read it in the papers and hear it on the air
Of killing and stealing and crime everywhere.
We sigh and we say as we notice the trend,
“This young generation...where will it end?”
But can we be sure that it’s their fault alone?
Are we less guilty, who place in their way,
Too many things that lead them astray?
Date
Anticipatory Set:
Instruction/Guided Practice/ Closure/
Objective & Bellwork
Independent Practice
M 11/12
Veterans Day
No School
Tu 11/13
Objective:
Instructor Guidance: Interactive Power point
Lecture: the Judicial Branch
Student Application: Class notes.
Closing Activity: Self-Reflection. The role of the
Read: Chapter 10,
Section 1.
Reading Response
Answer: Section 1
Supreme Court Justice.
Assessment All.
Understand the need for laws and courts in
our society.
Bellwork:
W 11/14
p. 268- law and the real world.
Objective:
Instruction: Interactive Power point Lecture: The
Understand the need for laws and courts in
organization of the Federal Courts.
Bellwork:
How does the law apply to you?
Th 11/15
Independent Practice:
What is the purpose of the legal system?
our society.
Guided Practice: Discuss why it is important for
judges to be impartial.
Closure: 273- analyze map of federal court
Learn what district courts do.
Supreme Court
federal court system? Explain why.
Assessment All.
Independent Practice: 272- citizen profile.
Instruction: Interactive Power point Lecture: The
Which courts do the bulk of the work in the
Read: Chapter 10,
Section 1.
Reading Response
Answer: Section 1
circuits.
Objective:
Bellwork:
Assignment
Guided Practice: Discuss Marbury vs Madison.
Closure: cooperative learning, they did the crime you
decide the time.
Read: Chapter 10,
Section 1.
Reading Response
Answer: Section 1
Assessment All.
Independent Practice: 277 – analyzing poetical
cartoon.
F 11/16
Objective:
Seniors to
Analyze the importance of judicial review.
Midnight Mission
Review for Test –
Read: Ch: 10 Section
2
Answer: Section 2
Assessment &
Bellwork:
What qualifications do you think a Supreme Court
Justice should have?
worksheet and practice
Reading Response.
questions
Read: Ch: 10 Section
3
Answer: Section 3
And
Assessment &
Reading Response.
Have a BEAuuutiful Weekend.
M 11/19
Review for Test
Tu 11/20
CH 10 Test
W 11/21
Objective:
Instruction: Define crime.
Use knowledge about the law and legal system to
Guided Practice: Cooperative learning, they did the
Ch 10 Review and Assessment: All
determine how to sentence a criminal based on the
crime you decide the time.
crime they have committed.
Closure: Answer the questions regarding
Bellwork:
Independent Practice: Read: Ch: 20 Section 1
sentencing for each crime.
Compare and contrast civil and criminal law.
Th 11/22
F 11/23
NO SCHOOL
Happy Thanksgiving
"He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has." –
Epictetus
“For each new morning with its light, For rest and shelter of the night, For health and food, for love and friends,
For everything Thy goodness sends.”-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Study Guide
Have a BEAuuutiful Weekend.
M 11/26
Objective:
Instruction: Explain technology project.
Work on Tech
Explain Technology Project.
What does civics/citizenship mean to you?
Project
Guided Practice: model expectations.
http://www.crfcap.org/mod/resource/view.php?id
=85
Due 12/14
Closure: discuss and watch samples.
Independent Practice: questions.
Tu 11/27
Objective:
Instruction: Define crime.
Work on Tech
Use knowledge about the law and legal system to
Guided Practice: Cooperative learning, they did the
Project
determine how to sentence a criminal based on the
crime you decide the time.
crime they have committed.
Closure: Answer the questions regarding
Bellwork:
Independent Practice: Read: Ch: 20 Section 1
sentencing for each crime.
Due 12/14
Compare and contrast civil and criminal law.
W 11/28
9th Grade to
USC
Objective:
Instruction: .
Use knowledge about the law and legal system to
Guided Practice: Cooperative learning, they did the
determine how to sentence a criminal based on the
crime they have committed.
Bellwork:
crime you decide the time.
Closure: Answer the questions regarding
sentencing for each crime.
Independent Practice: Read: Ch: 20 Section 1
Read: Ch:
20 Section
1
Answer: Section 2
Assessment &
Reading Response.
Th 11/29
Marine Bio
Objective:
Instruction: Interactive Power point Lecture: Crime
Examine the problem of crime in the United
in American Society
States.
fieldtrip
Bellwork:
Identify and describe the types of crimes.
what ways crime has a negative effect on life in
Read: Ch:
20 Section
2
the United States.
Answer: Section 2
Guided Practice: Build vocabulary and discuss in
Closure: Students describe the contrast between
crimes against people and crimes against
Assessment &
Reading Response.
property.
Independent Practice: Students crate Taking
notes graphic organizer.
F 11/30
Objective:
Instruction: Interactive Power point Lecture: the
Learn about the criminal justice system from
Criminal Justice System & Juvenile Crime.
arrest to sentencing.
TECHNOLOGY
PROJECT
Bellwork:
Benchmark:
Define Juvenile
Part 1 Due
M 12/03
why the juvenile courts came into existence.
Read: Ch:
20 Section
3
Closure: Partner students and have them answer
Answer: Section 3
Guided Practice: Build vocabulary and discuss
the reading check question p.555.
Independent Practice: Do curfews prevent
Assessment &
Reading Response.
crime? P. 553.
Objective:
Determine the flaws people have found in the
juvenile justice system.
Instructor Guidance: Juvenile Justice System:
Conflict Management
Student Application: Juvies film
Closing Activity: Notes on Juvies
Ch 20 Chapter
Instructor Guidance: Juvenile Justice System:
Conflict Management
Research Paper:
assessment
Bellwork:
Review questions for Juvies and set purpose
for video.
T 12/04
Objective:
Research Juvenile
Discover what juveniles face behind bars.
Bellwork:
Student Application: Juvies
Closing Activity: Notes on Juvies
crime rates, laws
regarding juveniles
and punishment in
California from
Which case portrayed in the film has personally
2011-2012 and write
effected you?
a 1-2 page paper
summarizing and
analyzing the cases
and laws. Cite your
sources.
W 12/05
Objective:
Contrast the adult and juvenile justice
system.
Instructor Guidance: Juvenile Court System
Student Application: Discussion: Should Juveniles be
convicted and punished as adults? Why or why not?
Reflection on
Juvies: 1 page
Closing Activity: Self-Reflection – Should juveniles be
Bellwork:
convicted and punished as adults? Why or why not.
Why are some juveniles convicted and punished as
adults?
Th 12/06
Review for Test
F 12/07
CH 20 Test
study
& study guide
Complete Study Guide.
REMEMBER: STUDY GUIDE IS YOUR TICKET TO
THE TEST AND IT MUST BE COMPLETE AND READY
TO BE HANDED IN!
Read: Ch:
18 Section
1
Answer: Section 1
Assessment &
Reading Response.
M 12/10
Objective:
Instruction: Interactive Power point Lecture:
Study the government’s role in the circular
Government & Economic Goals.
flow of economic activity.
Guided Practice: Build vocabulary and discuss
how the end of WWI posed challenging issues for
Read: Ch:
18 Section
the American economy.
Bellwork:
Closure: Discuss the overall income and spending
Why are full element and price stability important for
in a process called national income accounting.
the American economy?
Independent Practice: Students create a Taking
2
Answer: Section 2
Assessment &
Reading Response.
Notes graphic organizer.
T 12/11
Objective:
Instruction: Interactive Power point Lecture:
Identify different types of government
Paying for Government
revenue.
Bellwork:
Identify the difference between proportional
and progressive tax.
W 12/12
a good tax.
Read: Ch:
18 Section
3
Closure: Analyze tax diagram and answer
Answer: Section 3
Guided Practice: Analyze the characteristics of
questions 1 & 2, p. 492.
Independent Practice: p.495 – political cartoon
Assessment &
Reading Response.
analysis.
Objective:
Instruction: Interactive Power point Lecture:
Ch 18 Chapter
Discuss spending policy goals.
Government Policy and Spending.
assessment
Bellwork:
p. 499 –analyze graphs. Question 1 & 2.
Guided Practice: Build vocabulary and discuss
how to balance the national budget.
Closure: Students create Taking Notes graphic
organizer.
Independent Practice: Analyze graph of national
debt from 1997-2007, p. 501.
Th 12/13
F 12/14
Technolog
y Project
Review for Final Exams
Exam Study Guide & Technology Project
Review for Final Exams
Exam Study Guide & Technology Project
Technology
Project
Study Guide
due
M 12/17
Review for Final Exams
Study
Tu 12/ 18
Final Exams
Study
W 12/ 19
Final Exams – Do not forget your binder (including
notes) & textbook.
Th 12/ 20
Holy Communion
Have A Beautiful Break!!!
PERFECT TIME FOR
REVIEW, RE-READ,
AND PRACTICE. 
School Reopens, Tuesday
January 8.
Study
Get familiar with
the world map.