Supreme+Court

Intro to the Supreme Court
July 12, 2010/Day 1 Objective: Connect last week’s topic with this week’s topic Identify what we already know about the Supreme Court Create List of questions we still have about the Supreme Court What is the Supreme Court? · The mother of all courts. · Highest Court if, no other court can solve it, the last results go to the Supreme Court Connections: · Immigration laws go through the Supreme Court. · Laws in Arizona are defying immigration. · The Judicial Branch (Supreme Court) has a say to Arizona’s immigration laws. · Obama and the government are questioning about Arizona’s immigration laws becoming national.

Vocabulary Terms:
Chief Justice- The Head of Supreme Court who makes the final decision. Who is the Chief Justice? Conservative / libera l- The moral beliefs of the two political parties, Republicans and Democrats. Conservative is more traditional while liberal is more open. Precedent- A prior court case having similar characteristics to solve a current court case. How is precedent used? Confirmation hearing- A process to confirm a new court of justice. Who comes to the confirmation hearing? Elena Kagan is currently being confirmed. Majority Opinion- Conclusion of Jury’s opinions on a topic. Since it is an “opinion” does it play into the final verdict? 5(majority)-4(minority)

Supreme Court: Things I Know · The Judicial Branch of our government system. · Highest court and authority of the U.S.A · Have 9 judges to hear the cases. · How do the judges make a final decision? · How do they get the cases? · Can they over turn decisions from the other branches? · Is there a balance of democrats and republicans? · What do the Justices consider when they make their decisions? · When and why was the S.C. created? · Do Justices consider the opinion of the people? What do they consider? · How many women have served in the Supreme Court? African Americans, Etc.

July 13, 2010/Day 2
What do the Supreme Court Justices base their decisions on? The court considers the evidence and details of the case to reach a final decision. They consider the oral arguements provided by the laywer. They also spend their time researching and arguing their cases in written papers. Then they vote and the case is decided on a written paper. Sometimes they base it on a Precedent.

Tokblock was very fun and cool. It's a fast way to get in touch with someone that isn't with you right now and learn. I video chatted with my friend and I learned some facts about the Arizona Laws being passed. Also, I have learned how to use Inspiration to help me creat maps/etc. for projects I will have in the future. In school, a student can just send a video message and ask a teacher a question when they can't make it to the classroom. Saves a lot of time and work. In my personal life, I can video chat my friends and have a convosation with them from my home. I want to learn how to make a three way video chat or more using Tokblock. I did it though, but it was through sending an invitation through email. I want to learn how to do it without sending an email. I hope that we can do this activity again someday.

July 14, 2010/Day 3
Guided Questions:
 * What type of class is the Warren Court famous for hearing?
 * How did the decision made by the Warren Court effect U.S citizens?
 * What effects of the Warren Court still affect us today?

Objectives: Amendment VIII- No bail or fine is required and tourture/punishments aren't allowed. Amendment IX- The constitution cannot revoke, grant, or take away people's rights. Amendment VI- People have the right to go to court.
 * Identify Important Constitutional Amendments
 * Analyze the parameters of Consititutional Amendments
 * Apply amendments to everyday life situations

Activity 3 I think the case that influenced the world mostly today would be the Black Girl (Linda Brown) walking to her school while the White people have buses to take them to their schools. They violated amendment IX in the Constitution. The Warren Court is most famous for rights being violated and kepts from the people. U.S citizens now know their rights and thats how they effected them. Cases from the Warren Court still influence most of our rights and amendments. Cases with similar qualities can be compared to the cases from the Warren Court. Marbury vs Madism Marbury tried to sue James Madism because he didn’t give him a commission to be an a government seat. =My online poster= Day 3 was very intresting. We learned about the Warren Court and also about the Case Marloury vs Madism. With that, we also learned about the amendments and our civil rights. Then after soome activities we made our own "Glog." It's basically an online poster that our class made. I was able to put pictures and texts on the picture. A cool feature of the text is that if you click on the text, it brings you to a website I wanted it to bring you to. I hope to use this again for school projects, like the ones in English when they tell us to make a poster. I also hope that we will be able to use a Glog during the remaining days of the Summer Technology Project. Day 3 was cool.

Day 4, July 15, 2010
Guided Questions: Objectives:
 * What are the key components to a political debate?
 * How do bipartisan politics get invovled in Supreme Court Case decisions and the Justice Nomination process?
 * research current treads/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 view points about the situation?

Activity One
What are the major parts of a news/talk radio show? Hosts, At least Two Sides, Massive Questions, Bystanders, Conservative, and Liberal Opinions make up a news/talk radio show.

Case on Mcdonald vs Chicago

Activity Two
I was researching on the Chicago vs Mcdonald case. The whole idea of the case was that Chicago had a law banning handguns, but it violated the 2nd amendment and the 14th. Mcdonald tried to sue the city for this violation and it took them to the Supreme Court to sort out this mess. Mcdonald won the case, but still people wonder if there is a limit to the 2nd amendment. I took this article and revised it. It favors the Chicago side on banning guns. My editted document from "Case on Mcdonald vs Chicago"

PodCast
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Closing 7/15
I studed the Chicago vs Mcdonald case. It was about Chicago banning guns, but Mcdonald sued them because it was aganist the 2nd amendment. My opinion is that Mcdonald shouldn't have sued Chicago because banning guns would prevent violence. Also, my group divided in half first, then decided if we were liberal or consevative. Then we researched our articles and finally made our podcast.