Sunday, September 26, 2010

Week of 27 September 2010

Looks like a short week ahead! Friday is a teacher workday, so enjoy the longer weekend. But before that we still have school to attend to. This week interim reports will be distributed on Monday. Monday we will also have our Unit 2B Test on The Constitution (chapter 3.3, 3.4, and all of chapter 4). We will be heading to the computer lab Monday after the test for the students to look at some Supreme Court cases regarding the First Amendment. Tuesday we will be watching a great movie, The Ghosts of Mississippi. This movie is about the trials of slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers. It has an all star cast but more importantly demonstrates MANY goals and objectives for Civics & Economics including

  • 1.07 Evaluate the extent to which the Bill of Rights extended the Constitution
  • 2.06 Analyze court cases that demonstrate how the United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights protect the rights of individual
  • 5.02 Identify the jurisdiction of state and federal court
  • 5.03 Describe the adversarial nature of the judicial process
  • 6.02 Cite examples of common, criminal, civil, constitutional, administrative, and statutory law
  • 6.08 Evaluate methods used by society to address criminal and anti-social behaviors
  • 10.02 Develop, defend, and evaluate positions on issues regarding diversity in American life
  • 10.05 Describe examples of recurring public problems and issues

On Thursday we will also be having a vocabulary quiz for Unit 3. In some cases, vocabulary quizzes have not been going well. Please make sure your students are studying a little every night. There is a lot of information, if they are neglecting their studies, they are also neglecting their grade.

Thursday this week is Picture Day. Photos for the Yearbook will be taken throughout the day. Parents should have already received literature for purchasing pictures through their student's second period teacher. Even the students who are not ordering pictures will be taking picture that day as well. These pictures will not only be in the yearbook but also be the student's identification picture for their Leesville ID. Leesville ID are required for entry to some school events, such as dances. So be sure to dress for pictures on Thursday!