Finishing OUT.

For All STudents-- Special Note to Mr. Neils Green Day Class. Do NOT DO CHAPTER 21).

For Next Week, the week of the 19th.
Chapter 4

Week of the 26th
Chapter 5

Expect some practice ESSAYS, and one practice AP Test the last day of the week before the test.

Essays

1) Citizens often choose to participate in the political process in ways other than voting.
(a) Identify two forms of participation in the political process other than voting.
(b) Explain two advantages of each form of participation you identified in (a).

2) Trust and confidence in government have declined in recent decades.
(a) Explain how divided government has contributed to the decline in trust and confidence in government. Be sure to include a definition of divided government in your response
(b) Explain how the increased cost of election campaigns has contributed to the decline in trust and confidence in government.
(c) Explain two specific consequences of the decline in trust and confidence in government for individual political behavior.

3) The Framers of the United States Constitution created a legislative system that is bicameral. However, it is not just bicameral; the framers also established two houses of distinctly different character and authority.
(a) Discuss two reasons why the framers created a bicameral legislature.
(b) Identify one power unique to the House of Representatives and explain why the framers gave the House that power.
(c) Identify one power unique to the Senate and explain why the framers gave the senate that power.

4) Congressional reapportionment and redistricting are conducted every ten years. When redistricting is conducted, politicians often engage in gerrymandering.
(a) Define congressional reapportionment and explain one reason why it is important to states.
(b) Define congressional redistricting.
(c) Explain two goals of politicians when they gerrymander during redistricting.
(d) Describe two limits that the United State Supreme Court has placed on congressional redistricting.

HOMEWORK FOR THE WEEKEND.

By way of 'developing our' note taking technique:
Rather than questions, you are to outline from
Politics of Judicial Selection (511 in my book)
to
The Courts and the policy Agenda (526)
I will grade these notes in class.
Proper material will include all definitions, and outline of concepts.

go to this website.

find an example for each 'type' of bias: note, some forms of bias will require two examples. For example, bias by photograph will be best illustrated by a contrasting example. That is, show two pictures of the president that show different bias. And explain the perceived bias.

For Bias by headline: Include the text of the article from say, NYTIMES, and then the headline that NY Times had, and that the Bend bulletin used (They will often run the same article from the NY Times, but change the headline).

Bias by source control: Identify how they use of a press release, or who you ask about something affects the article.

Etc.

use the internet to find 'bias by ommission' to find an article that the news overlooks. projectcensored.org provides one source of these sites, but i will consider relevant well researched examples from other sources.

Chapter 14, part 1, due Tues/Wednesday.

1. Bush’s pledge?
2. 2 Questions central to public policy?
3. Budget
4. Deficit
5. Expenditures
6. Revenues
7. Taxes according to Holmes
8. ‘Art of Taxation’
9. 4 major sources of federal revenue?
10. Income tax
11. 16th amendment
12. IRS perception
13. Progressive tax
14. Flat tax
15. Sales tax
16. Social insurance taxes and their growth.
17. Federal debt?
18. What is bad about deficit and debt?
19. Why is debt not bad?
20. Reagonomics?
21. Describe Figure 14.2
22. Tax loophole, and example
23. Ross Perot’s Loophole
24. Tax expenditures and 2 examples
25. Who do tax expenditures benefit?
26. History of modern tax reduction (in 3-4 sentences)
27. How does US tax burden stack up?
28. What are some goals for tax reform?
29. Describe the Tax reform act of 1986
30. Describe figure 14.3
31. Why is the budget so large?
32. Describe American government as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product

AP GOV Schedule for rest of week.

Green -- Thursday) and Silver -- Friday):
GO OVER ALL OF CHAPTER 10.

Green --Monday and Silver -- Tuesday
Quiz Chapter 10

chapter summary and review.

chapter 6

chapter 9