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**Ms. Pember's Supreme Court Page**


 * __Day 1: Monday July 12, 2010__**
 * __Introduction to The Supreme Court__**

Students will be able to: -Connect last week's unit on immigration to this week's unit on the Supreme Court -Identify prior knowledge about the Supreme Court -Create a list of questions students still have about the Supreme Court
 * __Objectives__**

__**Group Research Question on Supreme Court**__ __Research Question for the Supreme Court__ How does Congress block a justice's nomination to the Supreme Court and is this necessary to keep the court unbiased?


 * __ How would the Arizona law relate to the Supreme Court? __**

The Arizona law would connect to the supreme court because the supreme court might want to review the law and interpret it so they can decide whether or not it is constitutional or not. It could defy the rights of the citizens of Arizona.

__**Vocabulary on the Supreme Court**__ **__Majority Opinion__**: The opinion held by most people in the Supreme Court **__Confirmation Hearing:__** A meeting to confirm a person to the Supreme Court. **__Conservative/Liberal:__** Two different interpretations of the law. Conservative means strict, literal interpretation of the constitutional. Liberal means a little more lose interpretation of the constitution. **__Chief Justice:__** The head of the supreme court **__Precedent:__** To take into consideration previous rulings.

__**Three things I know about the Supreme Court**__

1. There are nine justices. 2. The Supreme Court is the highest court in the USA 3. They are part of the Judicial Branch of the US Government.

· How do you get into the supreme court? · What kinds of cases does the supreme court handle? · Who are the justices on the supreme court? · Is there any court that has more power than the supreme court? · // When the justices vote does the chief justice vote last or with the rest of them? // · ** How do they decide their ruling ** · __ What are the nine justice in the supreme court? __ · **__ What kinds of cases are brought to the supreme court? __**
 * __List of Questions on the Supreme Court__**

Objectives: Students will be able to - research a topic of personal interest on the Supreme Court - evaluate a variety of internet resources for research - organize research findings on to a Mind Map using the program Inspiration - present research findings within the classroom and virtually using video chat
 * __Day 2: July 13, 2010__**
 * __Continuation of Day 1 Project__**

How does Congress block a justice's nomination to the Supreme Court and is this necessary to keep the court unbiased?
 * __Supreme Court Reaserch Question__**

__**Links (because delicious was blocked on my computer)**__ [] [] [] []


 * __Supreme Court Outline on Questions__**

Something that I learned about the Supreme Court was that only 18 justice nominees have ever been rejected. I also learned that a majority vote decides whether or not a justice nominee is accepted or rejected. I think that the idea of a video chat is cool and a good way to share information with friends or classmates. I think that it would be good to use in school.
 * __Reflection:__**

__**Day 3 July 14, 2010**__ __**Focus on one Famous Case and B****egin Final Project**__

**//Either for Marbury v Madison//** -- Ms. Pember Students will be able to: - summarize researched and shared information on the Supreme Court by creating a Glog - research current trends/decisions of the US Supreme Court - analyze and annotate court documents (majority/minority opinions) and expert analysis reports
 * __Objectives__**
 * the role of the Supreme Court in interpreting the Constitution;
 * the significance of Marbury v. Madison;
 * the concept of judicial review and how //Marbury v. Madison// solidified it;


 * __Do Now__**

You have been elected the new Mayor of Malden. Before leaving office, the old mayor gave jobs to several of his political friends but the paperwork hasn’t made it to the personnel office yet.


 * A.** Should you 1) honor the jobs promised by the old mayor, or 2) cancel the jobs since they aren’t “officially” in the system yet?
 * B.** What are the possible negatives to denying these people their jobs? What are the possible positives to allowing them to take these jobs?
 * C.** Would it make a difference if the perspective employees had worked against you in the mayoral elections?


 * __A.__** I would cancel the jobs since they arent officially in the system yet. Id probably feel that these people had received these jobs because they were friends of the old mayor. I'd rather find people to take these jobs myself. There could be people who are better suited for the job.
 * __B.__** A negative of denying these people their jobs is that they might start to ruin my reputation which would'nt leave a good mark for the rest of my reign as mayor. Also maybe these people arent the right people for the job. A positive of allowing these people to take th

ese jobs is that
 * __C.__** Yes it would make a difference if the employees had worked against me in the mayoral elections. This could mean that they could still try to work against me when im in office. It could also mean that they could disrespect me or act rude to me, which wouldn't be acceptable

Marbury v Madison Mark Document with mark ups:

I see/It means political cartoon - summary connects this cartoon to the Marbury v Madison case:

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I chose the pictures that i chose for this glog because they all had to do with the supreme court. I added captions to help people know about whats in my glog. I had information so that people looking at my glog can learn something about the supreme court from it

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Title: Podcast/Video of a Political Talkshow on a recent Supreme Court decision
 * __Day 4 July 15th, 2010__**


 * Guided Questions:**
 * What are the key components to a political debate?
 * How do bipartisan politics get involved in Supreme Court Case decisions and the Justice Nomination process?

After the lesson, students will be able to:
 * Objectives:**
 * research current trends/decisions of the US Supreme Court
 * analyze and annotate court documents (majority/minority opinions) and expert analysis reports
 * discuss the details and ramifications of recent court cases and justice nominations
 * create a podcast that incorporates students' knowledge and various viewpoints about the situation



__**Project:**__ For the project that we did with our group. We created a talkshow/ video interview on the Carruchuri-Rosenedo case. My role in the script was to be Rosendo's son media type="custom" key="6621415"

This is my marked up document of the rosendo case



__**Reflection:**__ What did you learn about your case? What do you think of projects in video/audio format? How can they fit into school?

I learned that if commit an aggravated felony more than once, and your an immigrant, you can be deported. I think projects in video/audio format are a great way to get across a message or to teach someone something. They can fit into school because they can help teach students how about a certain subject. Also maybe if a student is doing it, then maybe another student is more likely to view/hear it.