American Studies – Mr. Anthony Perno/Mr. Victor Wisniski – 2011/2012 School Year

 

AUGUST

 

MONDAY

 

TUESDAY

 

WEDNESDAY

 

THURSDAY

 

FRIDAY

22

 

 

Begin First Marking Period

 

Seating Chart

 

Textbook Distribution

23

 

Law: Reading Trial Techniques, Chapter II, The Psychology of Persuasion, pages 13-29

 

Macro: Lecture Introduction; terminology; scarcity and resources; factors of production; economic question; business cycle; production possibilities curve; opportunity costs

 

Am. History Reading Assignment Theme 1/Question #2 Manifest destiny - Westward Expansion, Pages 359-383

 

Am. History Prepare Syllabus Question Theme 1/Question #2 a & g

 

24

 

 

25

 

 

26

 

 

29

 

Macro: Quiz #01 Introduction; terminology; Etc.

 

 

 

30

 

Law: Reading Trial Techniques, Chapter IV, Opening Statements, pages 61-95

 

Lecture: Productivity and growth; types of economic markets; circular flow chart.

 

 

 

31

 

Law: Vocabulary Quiz, Trial Techniques, Chapter II

 

 

 

 

 

 

SEPTEMBER

 

MONDAY

 

TUESDAY

 

WEDNESDAY

 

THURSDAY

 

FRIDAY

 

 

 

1

 

 

2

 

Am. History: Essay Assignment Syllabus Question Theme 1/Question #2 a or g

 

5

 

 

Labor day

6

 

Macro: Quiz #02 Productivity and growth; types of economic markets; Etc.

 

Am. History: Reading Assignment Theme 1/Question #2 Sectionalism, Pages 387-411

 

Prepare Syllabus Question: Theme 1/Question #2 b, c, & d

 

 

7/8

 

Macro: Lecture Quantity demanded; demand; determinates of demand; elasticity of demand; normal and inferior goods; components of aggregate demand

 

9

 

Macro: Exam Units #01, #02, and #03 [2 grades]

 

12

 

 

13

 

Law: Reading Trial Techniques, Chapter V, Direct Examination, pages 97-168

 

 

 

14/15

 

Law: Vocabulary Quiz, Trial Techniques, Chapter IV

 

Macro: Unit #04 supply; determinates and components; price equilibrium; surpluses and shortages; long run equilibrium

 

16

 

Am. History: Essay Assignment Syllabus Question Theme 1/Question #2 b, c, or d

19

 

Macro: Quiz #03 Quantity demanded; demand; determinates of demand; elasticity of demand; Etc.

 

Am. History: Reading Assignment Theme 2/Question #3 Civil War, Pages 419-447

 

Prepare Syllabus Question: Theme 2/Question #3 a & b

 

 

20

 

Macro: Lecture Quantity supplied; supply; determinates of supply; price equilibrium; price floors and ceilings; costs of production

21/22

 

Early Release [Thursday Only]

 

23

 

 

26

 

Quiz #04 Quantity supplied; supply; determinates of supply; price equilibrium; Etc.

27

 

Law: Reading Trial Techniques, Chapter VII, Cross Examination, pages 251-311

 

Macro: Long-run equilibrium; full employment; Classical model; Keynesian model; recession; self-correcting argument; demand-pull inflation; cost-push inflation;

 

28

 

Law: Vocabulary Quiz, Trial Techniques, Chapter V

 

 

29

Teacher Planning

30

 

Am. History: Essay Assignment Syllabus Question Theme 2/Question #3 a or b

 

 

 

OCTOBER

 

 

MONDAY

 

 

TUESDAY

 

 

WEDNESDAY

 

THURSDAY

 

FRIDAY

3

 

Macro: Quiz #05 Long-run equilibrium; full employment; Classical model; Etc.

 

Am. History: Reading Assignment Theme 2/Question #3 Reconstruction, Pages 451-475

 

Am. History: Prepare Syllabus Question Theme 2/Question #3 k & m

 

 

4

 

Macro: Unemployment rate; types of unemployment; work force; weaknesses of the unemployment measurement; short-run Phillips curve; long-run Phillips curve

5/6

 

 

7

10

 

Macro: Quiz #06 Unemployment rate; types of unemployment; work force; Etc.

11

 

Law: Trial Techniques, Chapter VI, Cross Examination, pages 169-251

 

Macro: Gross Domestic Product; expenditure model; Real GDP; GDP Index; weaknesses of the GDP; Net Domestic Product; Gross National Product; net foreign factor; GDP Per Capita; income model; incomes; injections and leakages

 

 

 

12/13

 

Law: Vocabulary Quiz, Trial Techniques, Chapter VI

 

 

14

 

Am. History: Essay Assignment Syllabus Question Theme 2/Question #3 k or m

 

17

 

Macro: Quiz #07 Gross Domestic Product; expenditure model; Real GDP; GDP; Etc.

 

Am. History: Reading Assignment Theme 3/Question #4 Industrial Revolution, Pages 511-537

 

Am. History: Prepare Syllabus Question Theme 3/Question #4 r

 

18

 

Macro: Banking and interest rates; money market graph; loanable funds graph; spending and banking multipliers

19/20

 

 

21

 

 

24

 

Macro: Quiz #08 Banking and interest rates; money market graph; loanable funds graph; Etc.

25

Law: Trial Techniques, Chapter IX, Closing Arguments, pages 387-445

 

Macro: Expansion and contraction; fiscal policy; Keynesian economics; supply-side economics; crowding out of private investment; monetary policy; money supply and loanable funds.

 

 

26/27

 

Law: Vocabulary Quiz, Trial Techniques, Chapter VI

 

 

End First Marking Period

Early Release

28

Teaching Planning Day

31

Begin Second Marking Period

 

Macro: Quiz #09 Expansion and contraction; fiscal policy; Keynesian economics; Etc.

 

Essay Assignment: Syllabus Question Theme 3/Question #4 r

 

 

 

 

 

 

NOVEMBER

 

MONDAY

 

TUESDAY

 

WEDNESDAY

 

THURSDAY

 

FRIDAY

 

1

 

Macro: Taxation and the economy; Laffer curve; types of taxation; taxation as a leakage/cost of production

 

Am. History: Reading Assignment Theme 5/Question #6 The Roaring 20s, Pages 719-741

 

Am. History: Prepare Syllabus Question Theme 5/Question #6 a, c, d, & e

 

2/3

 

 

4

 

 

7

 

Macro: Quiz #10 Taxation and the economy; Laffer curve; types of taxation; Etc.

8

 

Law: Trial Techniques, Chapter VII, Experts, pages 313-386

 

Macro: International exchange rates; foreign exchange market graph; exports and imports; current accounts; capital accounts;

 

 

9/10

 

Law: Vocabulary Quiz, Trial Techniques, Chapter IX

 

 

11

Veterans Day

14

 

Macro: Quiz#11 International exchange rates; foreign exchange market graph; Etc.

 

Am. History: Essay Assignment Syllabus Question Theme 5/Question #6 a, b, c, d, and e

 

 

15

 

Macro: Absolute advantage; Comparative advantage; comparative advantage trade

 

Am. History. Reading Assignment: Theme 5/Question #6 The Depression and New Deal, Pages 749-775

 

Prepare Syllabus Question: Theme 5/Question #6 i & k

 

16/17

 

 

18

 

 

21

 

Macro: Quiz #12 Absolute advantage; Comparative advantage; Etc

22

 

Law: Trial Techniques, Chapter X, Objections, pages 447-481

 

 

23

 

Law: Vocabulary Quiz, Trial Techniques, Chapter VIII

 

 

24

Thanksgiving

25

No School

28

 

Macro: Free Response Review question

 

Law: mock trial auditions [1 grade]

 

Am. History: Essay Assignment Syllabus Question Theme 5/Question #6 i or k

 

 

 

29

 

Law: mock trial auditions [1 grade]

 

Am. History: Prepare Syllabus Question Theme 5/Question #6 k, l, & r

 

 

30

 

 

 

 

 

DECEMBER

 

MONDAY

 

TUESDAY

 

WEDNESDAY

 

THURSDAY

 

FRIDAY

 

 

 

1

 

Law: mock trial auditions [1 grade]

2

 

Law: mock trial auditions [1 grade]

 

5

 

Law: mock trial auditions [1 grade]

 

6

 

Law: mock trial auditions [1 grade]

7/8

 

Law: Vocabulary Quiz, Trial Techniques, Chapter X

 

Law: mock trial auditions [1 grade]

9

 

Law: mock trial auditions [1 grade]

 

Am. History: Essay Assignment Syllabus Question Theme 5/Question #6 i, l, or r

 

 

 

12

 

Law: mock trial auditions [1 grade]

 

 

13

 

Law: mock trial auditions [1 grade]

14/15

 

Law: mock trial auditions [1 grade]

16

 

Law: mock trial auditions [1 grade]

19

Teacher Planning Day

20

No School

21

No School

22

No School

23

No School

26

No School

27

No School

28

No School

29

No School

30

No School

 

 

JANUARY

 

MONDAY

 

TUESDAY

 

WEDNESDAY

 

THURSDAY

 

FRIDAY

2

No School

3

 

Law: mock trial rehearsal [1 grade]

 

Am. History: Reading Assignment Theme 6/Question #7 New Manifest Destiny & Imperialism, Pages 601-624

 

Am. History: Prepare Syllabus Question: Theme 6/Question #7 c & d

 

4/5

 

Law: mock trial rehearsal [1 grade]

6

 

Law: mock trial rehearsal [1 grade]

9

 

Law: mock trial rehearsal [1 grade]

 

 

10

 

Law: mock trial rehearsal [1 grade]

11/12

 

Law: mock trial rehearsal [1 grade]

13

 

Law: mock trial rehearsal [1 grade]

 

Am. History: Essay Assignment Syllabus Question Theme 6/Question #7 c or d

 

16

MLK Jr. Birthday

17

 

Macroeconomics Final Examination

 

Law Midterm Examination

18

 

Macroeconomics Final Examination

 

Law Midterm Examination

19

 

Macroeconomics Final Examination

 

Law Midterm Examination

20

 

End Second Marking Period

23

 

Begin Third Marking Period

 

Am. History: Lecture Foreign Policy 1920s [Isolationism]

 

Am. History: Reading Assignment Theme 6/Question #7 New Neutrality and World War I, Pages 689-716

 

Am. History: Prepare Syllabus Question Theme 6/Question #7 c & f

 

 

24

 

Law: mock trial rehearsal [1 grade]

25

 

Law: mock trial rehearsal [1 grade]

26

 

Law: mock trial rehearsal [1 grade]

27

 

Law: mock trial rehearsal [1 grade]

30

 

Law: mock trial rehearsal [1 grade]

 

31

 

Law: mock trial rehearsal [1 grade]

 

 

 

FEBRUARY

 

MONDAY

 

TUESDAY

 

WEDNESDAY

 

THURSDAY

 

FRIDAY

 

 

1/2

 

Early Release [Thursday Only]

 

Am. History: Essay Assignment Syllabus Question Theme 6/Question #7 c or f

 

3

Teacher Planning Day

6

 

Law: mock trial rehearsal [1 grade]

 

Am. History: Reading Assignment Theme 6/Question #7 Isolationism and World War II, Pages 777-804

 

Am. History: Prepare Syllabus Question Theme 6/Question #7 l, m, & p

 

 

7

 

Law: mock trial rehearsal [1 grade]

8/9

 

Law: mock trial rehearsal [1 grade]

 

10

 

Law: mock trial rehearsal [1 grade]

13

 

Law: mock trial rehearsal [1 grade]

 

14

 

Law: mock trial rehearsal [1 grade]

15/16

 

Law: mock trial rehearsal [1 grade]

17

 

Law: mock trial rehearsal [1 grade]

 

Am. History: Essay Assignment - Syllabus Question Theme 6/Question #7 l, m, or p

20

Presidents Day

21

 

Law: mock trial rehearsal [1 grade]

 

Am. History: Reading Assignment Theme 7/Question #8 Post War Prosperity Pages 837-849 & Culture Wars, Pages 864-866 

 

Am. History Prepare Syllabus Question Theme 7/Question #8 e, k, & q

 

22/23

 

Law: mock trial competition

24

 

Law: mock trial competition

27

 

Law: TBA

 

28

 

Law: TBA

29

 

 

 

 

MARCH

 

 

MONDAY

 

 

TUESDAY

 

WEDNESDAY

 

THURSDAY

 

FRIDAY

 

 

 

1

 

Law: TBA

 

2

 

Law: TBA

 

Am. History: Essay Assignment Syllabus Question Theme 7/Question #8 e, k, & q

5

 

Law: TBA

 

Am. History: Reading Assignment Theme 4/Question #5 Civil Rights, Pages 849-854 &

Pages 866-873

 

Am. History: Prepare Syllabus Question: Theme 4/Question #5 d, f, & m

 

6

 

Law: TBA

7/8

 

Law: TBA

9

 

Law: TBA

12

No School

 

13

No School

14

No School

15

No School

16

No School

19

 

Law: TBA

 

Am. History: Essay Assignment Syllabus Question Theme 4/Question #5 d, f, & m

 

20

 

Law: TBA

 

Am. History: Lecture Source Evaluation

 

Possible Assignments [TBA]

Theme 3/Question #4, Economic Expansion

Pages 539-565 Immigration & Labor

Pages 573-598 monopolies & Politics

Pages 627-651 Progressives

Pages 655-683 Presidential Progressives

21/22

 

Law: TBA

 

Possible Assignments [TBA]

 

 

Video/Interpreting social satire: Modern Times, Charlie Chaplin [20 minutes], Discussion – [20 minutes]

 

 

Lecture: Immigration and the Party Machines

 

·                Spoils System

 

Lecture: Failure of Organized labor

 

·         A Railroad Strike

·         Working Conditions

·         Sweat Shops

·         Worker Conditions

·         Knights of Labor

 

Lecture: Monopolies

 

·         Rockefeller

·         Combinations

 

Lecture: Progressive Reformers

23

 

Law: TBA

 

Am. History: Possible Essay Assignments Theme 3/Question #4, Economic Expansion [TBA]

26

 

Law: TBA

27

 

Law: TBA

28/29

 

End Third Marking Period [Thursday]

 

Law: TBA

30

Teacher Planning Day

 

 

APRIL

 

 

MONDAY

 

 

TUESDAY

 

WEDNESDAY

 

THURSDAY

 

FRIDAY

2

Begin Fourth Marking Period

 

Law: TBA

 

Am. History: Lecture Compromise of 1850

3

 

Law: TBA

4/5

 

Law: TBA

 

AM. History: Essay Assignment Source Evaluation/Question #1 a

6

Teacher Planning Day

9

 

Law: TBA

 

Am. History Lecture Bleeding Kansas

10

 

Law: TBA

11/12

 

Law: TBA

13

 

Law: TBA

 

AM. History: Essay Assignment Source Evaluation/Question #1 d

16

 

Law: TBA

 

Am. History: Lecture Dred Scott Decision

 

17

 

Law: TBA

18/19

 

Law: TBA

 

20

 

Law: TBA

 

AM. History: Essay Assignment Source Evaluation/Question #1 f

23

 

Law: TBA

 

Am. History: Lecture Extremists and the Slavery Issue

 

 

24

 

Law: TBA

25/26

 

Law: TBA

27

 

Law: TBA

 

AM. History: Essay Assignment Source Evaluation/Question #1 j

30

 

Law: TBA

 

Am. History: Lecture Lincoln’s Election

 

 

 

 

MAY

 

 

MONDAY

 

 

TUESDAY

 

WEDNESDAY

 

THURSDAY

 

FRIDAY

 

1

2

3

Early Release

4

 

AM. History: Essay Assignment Source Evaluation/Question #1 q

7

 

Law: TBA

 

Am. History: Lecture Secession

8

 

Law: TBA

9/10

 

Law: TBA

11

 

Law: TBA

 

AM. History: Essay Assignment Source Evaluation/Question #1 n

14

 

Law: TBA

 

15

 

Law: TBA

16/17

 

Law: TBA

18

 

Law: TBA

21

 

Law: TBA

 

22

 

Law: TBA

23/24

 

Law: TBA

25

 

Law: TBA

28

Memorial Day

29

 

Law: TBA

30/31

 

Law Final Examination

 

 

 

JUNE

 

 

 

MONDAY

 

 

TUESDAY

 

WEDNESDAY

 

THURSDAY

 

FRIDAY

 

 

 

 

 

1

 

Law Final Examination

 

 

4

 

Law Final Examination

5

 

Law Final Examination

6

 

7

End Fourth Marking Period

8

Teacher Planning Day