Presidency PPT Notes

Reading Quiz Postponed

Quiz will now be on MONDAY, November 23rd. Page numbers may be invalid. Use your AP Bellaire student brains and look at the table of contents ;) .

Reading Quiz Friday Nov. 20th

Readings to be done by Friday:

Woll Reader pages 261-269, 310-314

Richard Neustadt, Presidential Power

Clinton Rossiter, The Presidency

Peter Woll, Constitutional Democracy and Bureaucratic Power

Presidency Unit

The goal is to take the test by Tuesday November the 24th. Im hoping to be done before then and will go ahead and start on the last two major topics we will have to talk about:

-Elections/Voting

-The Judiciary

Only homework assignment so far for the Presidency is a Current Event due by November 20th.

Again, current event due November 20th!

BLAME HISD AND GRADESPEED

THE REVIEW POWERPOINT FOR CONGRESS

Party Platforms Assignment-Due Monday 10/26

Pick an issue that you care about and in two paragraphs explain the stance of the Democrat party platform and the Republican party platform. Here's a link to each of the 2008 platforms. Note, some of the issues we've talked about in class may not be in the platform so be prepared to switch issues.

Republican Platform

Democratic Platform

This assignment is due Monday 10/26 and is worth Daily points.

HW for Linkage Institutions

The following are due on these dates:

Friday 10/15-Quiz on pg. 12 and 13 of your packet. I recommend highlighting and taking notes from the pages

Monday 10/18-Complete pg. 18 of your packet INDEPENDENTLY. Actually putting your brain through the process of answering these questions is important for the AP exam.

Friday 10/22-Complete a current event paragraph dealing with Linkage Institutions. Must relate, use 5 vocabulary terms, and share your opinion.