American Studies – Mr. Anthony Perno/Mr.
Victor Wisniski – 2011/2012 School Year
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22 Begin
First Marking Period Seating
Chart Textbook
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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 |
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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 |
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2 Am. History: Essay Assignment Syllabus Question Theme 1/Question #2 a or g |
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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] |
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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 |
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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] |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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1 Law: mock trial auditions [1 grade] |
2 Law: mock trial auditions [1 grade] |
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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 |
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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] |
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19 Teacher
Planning Day |
20 No School |
21 No School |
22 No School |
23 No School |
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30 No School |
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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] |
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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 |
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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
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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] |
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30 Law: mock trial rehearsal [1 grade] |
31 Law: mock trial rehearsal [1 grade] |
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1/2 Early
Release [Thursday Only] Am. History: Essay Assignment Syllabus
Question Theme 6/Question #7 c or f |
3 Teacher
Planning Day |
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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] |
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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 |
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20 Presidents
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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 |
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27 Law: TBA |
28 Law: TBA |
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1 Law: TBA |
2 Law: TBA Am. History: Essay Assignment Syllabus
Question Theme 7/Question #8 e, k, & q |
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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 |
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12 No School |
13 No School |
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16 No School |
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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 Lecture: Failure of
Organized labor Lecture: Monopolies Lecture: Progressive
Reformers |
23 Law: TBA Am.
History: Possible Essay Assignments Theme 3/Question #4, Economic Expansion
[TBA] |
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26 Law: TBA |
27 Law: TBA |
28/29 End Third
Marking Period [Thursday] Law: TBA |
30 Teacher
Planning Day |
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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
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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30 Law: TBA Am. History: Lecture Lincoln’s Election |
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3 Early
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4 AM. History: Essay Assignment Source
Evaluation/Question #1 q |
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7 Law: TBA Am. History: Lecture Secession |
8 Law: TBA |
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11 Law: TBA AM. History: Essay Assignment Source
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21 Law: TBA |
22 Law: TBA |
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25 Law: TBA |
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28 Memorial
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29 Law: TBA |
30/31 Law Final Examination |
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1 Law Final Examination |
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4 Law Final Examination |
5 Law Final Examination |
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7 End Fourth
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8 Teacher
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