AP Government Syllabus 2014-15
Unit & Dates
Reading
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The Constitution
August 19-September 5
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Federalism
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September 9-19
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The Electoral Process
September 22-November 4/5
Fall Break is October 20-24
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Sabato Chap 1 3-7,11-14,15-28 (Annotated
Const pages 66-93)
Words We Live By (WWLB) 10-17
Reader: “Framed up” by Hendrik Herztberg
Sabato 44-53
Federalist # 10 & 51
Enduring Debate Beard 22-27 OR Brown 2833 Pluralism vs. elitism
Reader: “Fathers Don’t Always Know Best”
by Mark Kurlasky
Sabato 95-104
Reader “A States’ Right Left” by Jim Holt
“The Late Great States by Steve Chapman
“Abstaining from Federal sex-ed by PJ
Huffstutter “Oregon Right to Die” Supreme
Court decision- State exemptions from
Affordable Health Care, Sabato 104-109
Enduring Debate “The Price of Federalism”
by Paul Peterson
Reader “10 Steps to Better Elections” by
Steve Hill Reader: Update on Campaign
Finance- The impact of Citizens United
Sabato Chap 11 389-404
Sabato Chap 12 419-458
Sabato 581- 566 and 590-606
Sabato Chap 13 461-507 Sabato Chap 16
584-586, lobbying-590-606
Enduring Debate “The Paradoxes of the
American Presidency” by Thomas Cronin &
Michael Genovese Reader: “Packing
Cracking and Kidnapping” by Don Peck &
Caitlin Casey
Atlantic Monthly The Quill Is Voting Worth
the Trouble?
Assessment
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Blog: Reclaiming our Republic
Multiple Choice & essay TEST!
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Multiple Choice test and in class essay
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Class elections November 3 (See role
handouts for due dates for Election &
Campaign assignments)
Multiple Choice test and in class essay
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Political Culture and the Media
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November 6-Dec 4/5
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Congress
December 4/5—Dec 11/12
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The Executive & Bureaucracy
Dec 15-Jan 16
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The Judiciary
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January 27/28-Feb 19-20
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Sabato Chap 15 562-579
Reader: “Deep Throat and Shallow
Journalism” by Howard Kurtz
Reader: “Permanent Fatal Errors” by Louis
Menand 23-28
Reader: -“One Nation out of Many” by
Samuel Huntington
Sabato 404-417
Culture War? by Morris Fiorina 2011 edition
Sabato Chapter 7
Reader: -“To The Founders, Congress was
King” by John Dillin
“ New Anthrax Vaccine” 64-72
Capital’s New Four Letter Word Reader:
Congressional memo: Behind the Noisy
clashes-2 chambers that don’t understand
each other” by Carl Huise New York Times
Profiles In Courage by John Kennedy
Introductory chapter
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Quiz
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Multiple Choice test and in class essay
Sabato Chapter 8 & 9
WWLB 64-72
“The Power to Persuade” by Richard
Neustadt Enduring Debate
Reader: FCC Fines by Joel Stein LA Times (in
class) High Court may Rethink @#!”
Sabato Chapter 10 359-371
Courtroom 302 Chapters “Good Facts Bad
Facts” & “Busted Again”
Enduring Debate “Overruling the Court” by
Leon Friedman
“Enduring Debate Common Law Courts in a
Civil Law System” by Antonin Scalia and
“Our Democratic Constitution” by Stephen
Breyer
Sabato 157-195
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Multiple Choice test and in class essay
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Multiple Choice test and in class essay
Mock Supreme Court
Matching Quiz on Supreme Court cases
Quiz
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Civil Rights
Feb 26/27
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Reader
WWLB SC cases