Court case
If you missed either day of our court deliberation, get those points back by watching this video and taking notes throughout. Make sure your notes cover all the major occurrences that happen as judges, juries, and lawyers put together a court case:
Starting a business
Choose your business:
For your business, find:
Answer: Yes or No
Should you need a license in order to:
1. Tell fortunes (Md.)
2. Shampoo someone’s hair (Ala., La., N.H., Tenn.)
3. Arrange flowers (La.)
4. Braid hair (24 states)
5. Be an interior designer (Fla., La., Nev., D.C.)
6. Be a makeup artist (36 states)
7. Be a tour guide (D.C., La.)
8. Interpret for the deaf (Ill., Texas)
9. Upholster furniture (Utah)
- Cinnabon
- Krispy Kreme
- KFC
- Zaxby’s
- Dunkin’ Donuts
- Cold Stone Creamery
- Menchie’s
- McDonald’s
- Sonic
- Carl’s Jr.
- Taco Bell
- Del Taco
- Pizza Hut
- Subway
- Jimmy John’s
- Corner Bakery Cafe
For your business, find:
- Liquid capital required
- Net worth required
- Investment
- Franchise fee
- Monthly service fee (royalties)
Answer: Yes or No
Should you need a license in order to:
1. Tell fortunes (Md.)
2. Shampoo someone’s hair (Ala., La., N.H., Tenn.)
3. Arrange flowers (La.)
4. Braid hair (24 states)
5. Be an interior designer (Fla., La., Nev., D.C.)
6. Be a makeup artist (36 states)
7. Be a tour guide (D.C., La.)
8. Interpret for the deaf (Ill., Texas)
9. Upholster furniture (Utah)
Bill Writing Practice
Congress exists to provide oversight, to be the voice of the people, and to solve problems. Some of the problems you see in the U.S. include:
• Education, Health care, Guns, Debt, Government corruption, Abortion, Foreign relations, Racism, Equal rights, The environment, Human rights, Immigration, Safety, Police, LGBT rights, Climate change, and The border
You will be writing a bill to help fix or address a problem — you choose which — with American society
• Education, Health care, Guns, Debt, Government corruption, Abortion, Foreign relations, Racism, Equal rights, The environment, Human rights, Immigration, Safety, Police, LGBT rights, Climate change, and The border
You will be writing a bill to help fix or address a problem — you choose which — with American society
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Utahns in Congress: Assignment
Using Congress.gov, find an interesting bill (not an amendment) sponsored by Utahns in Congress and explain the purpose of the bill in a few sentences AND list how many pages long the bill is:
- Sen. Orrin Hatch
- Sen. Mike Lee
- Rep. Rob Bishop
- Rep. Mia Love
- Rep. Chris Stewart
- Rep. Jason Chaffetz
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Mr. Smith video worksheet | |
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Supreme Court quiz
1. You wake up in the morning, get dressed, and download some music to your phone from the Internet before heading off to school. Which 2005 Supreme Court case affects the way you download music to your phone?
A. Korematsu v. United States
B. MGM v. Grokster
C. New York v. Miln
D. United States v. Fordice
2. When you get to school, you head to homeroom. During the morning announcements, you stand and say the Pledge of Allegiance. Two of your classmates choose not to say the Pledge, but they don't get into any trouble. Which Supreme Court case influenced whether or not you have to say the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag of the United States of America in your classroom?
A. Roe v. Wade
B. Clinton v. Goldsmith
C. Gottschalk v. Benson
D. West Virginia v. Barnette
3. At lunch, you eat lunch in the school cafeteria with your friend Kevin, who is African American, and your friend Lee, who is Asian American. Which Supreme Court case ruled that students of different races and ethnic backgrounds should attend the same public schools in the United States?
A. United States v. Nixon
B. Mapp v. Ohio
C. Brown v. Board of Education
D. Montana v. Egelhoff
4. After lunch, your principal announces that due to some suspicious activity in your school, the faculty will be searching students' backpacks. Some students object that the search is illegal, but that isn't true. Which Supreme Court case determined that your property can be searched by your school's principal?
A. New Jersey v. T.L.O.
B. Brown v. Payton
C. Bibb v. Navajo Freight Lines
D. Marbury v. Madison
5. Several of your classmates are wearing colored armbands, to protest a government policy with which they do not agree. You expect that your teachers will ask them to remove the armbands, but they do not. What Supreme Court case allows students to make a symbolic protest in public schools?
A. Engel v. Vitale
B. Bush v. Gore
C. Tinker v. Des Moines School District
D. Schenk v. United States
6. After class, you work on your school newspaper. The teacher supervising the newspaper informs you that a story that you've written is inappropriate, and will not run in the paper. Which Supreme Court case influences the content that students can include in their school newspapers?
A. Miranda v. Arizona
B. Luther v. Borden
C. Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier
D. Hernandez v. Texas
7. After working on the newspaper, you head to basketball practice. Your coach informs your team that you will have to take random drug tests during the season. Which Supreme Court case established that students participating in athletics or other extracurricular activities may be required to submit to random drug testing?
A. New Jersey v. New York
B. Vernonia v. Acton and Board of Education v. Earls
C. NAACP v. Alabama
D. Gibbons v. Ogden
8. After school you go to the library to do some homework. You are upset to find that some of the Web sites you want to look at on the library's computer are blocked, and you can't get to them. Which Supreme Court case requires libraries to install Internet filters on the computers used by their visitors?
A. Plessy v. Ferguson
B. Porter v. Nussle
C. Calderon v. Thompson
D. United States v. American Library Association
9. In the evening, you go to your job at a store in the mall. You'd like to sign up for an additional weekend shift, but your manager tells you that you can't, because you've already hit your maximum number of hours for the week. Which Supreme Court case helped determine how many hours a teen under the age of 18 can work?
A. United States v. Darby Lumber Co.
B. FCC v. League of Women Voters of California
C. Solem v. Helm
D. Dred Scott vs. Sandford
10. On the way home from work, you stop to pick up your little brother from his Boy Scout meeting. You hear that one of your brother's troop leaders was fired because he was gay. Which Supreme Court case allows the Boys Scouts program to fire the troop leader?
A. McCulloch v. Maryland
B. Hibbs v. Winn
C. James v. Illinois
D. Boy Scouts of America v. Dale
A. Korematsu v. United States
B. MGM v. Grokster
C. New York v. Miln
D. United States v. Fordice
2. When you get to school, you head to homeroom. During the morning announcements, you stand and say the Pledge of Allegiance. Two of your classmates choose not to say the Pledge, but they don't get into any trouble. Which Supreme Court case influenced whether or not you have to say the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag of the United States of America in your classroom?
A. Roe v. Wade
B. Clinton v. Goldsmith
C. Gottschalk v. Benson
D. West Virginia v. Barnette
3. At lunch, you eat lunch in the school cafeteria with your friend Kevin, who is African American, and your friend Lee, who is Asian American. Which Supreme Court case ruled that students of different races and ethnic backgrounds should attend the same public schools in the United States?
A. United States v. Nixon
B. Mapp v. Ohio
C. Brown v. Board of Education
D. Montana v. Egelhoff
4. After lunch, your principal announces that due to some suspicious activity in your school, the faculty will be searching students' backpacks. Some students object that the search is illegal, but that isn't true. Which Supreme Court case determined that your property can be searched by your school's principal?
A. New Jersey v. T.L.O.
B. Brown v. Payton
C. Bibb v. Navajo Freight Lines
D. Marbury v. Madison
5. Several of your classmates are wearing colored armbands, to protest a government policy with which they do not agree. You expect that your teachers will ask them to remove the armbands, but they do not. What Supreme Court case allows students to make a symbolic protest in public schools?
A. Engel v. Vitale
B. Bush v. Gore
C. Tinker v. Des Moines School District
D. Schenk v. United States
6. After class, you work on your school newspaper. The teacher supervising the newspaper informs you that a story that you've written is inappropriate, and will not run in the paper. Which Supreme Court case influences the content that students can include in their school newspapers?
A. Miranda v. Arizona
B. Luther v. Borden
C. Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier
D. Hernandez v. Texas
7. After working on the newspaper, you head to basketball practice. Your coach informs your team that you will have to take random drug tests during the season. Which Supreme Court case established that students participating in athletics or other extracurricular activities may be required to submit to random drug testing?
A. New Jersey v. New York
B. Vernonia v. Acton and Board of Education v. Earls
C. NAACP v. Alabama
D. Gibbons v. Ogden
8. After school you go to the library to do some homework. You are upset to find that some of the Web sites you want to look at on the library's computer are blocked, and you can't get to them. Which Supreme Court case requires libraries to install Internet filters on the computers used by their visitors?
A. Plessy v. Ferguson
B. Porter v. Nussle
C. Calderon v. Thompson
D. United States v. American Library Association
9. In the evening, you go to your job at a store in the mall. You'd like to sign up for an additional weekend shift, but your manager tells you that you can't, because you've already hit your maximum number of hours for the week. Which Supreme Court case helped determine how many hours a teen under the age of 18 can work?
A. United States v. Darby Lumber Co.
B. FCC v. League of Women Voters of California
C. Solem v. Helm
D. Dred Scott vs. Sandford
10. On the way home from work, you stop to pick up your little brother from his Boy Scout meeting. You hear that one of your brother's troop leaders was fired because he was gay. Which Supreme Court case allows the Boys Scouts program to fire the troop leader?
A. McCulloch v. Maryland
B. Hibbs v. Winn
C. James v. Illinois
D. Boy Scouts of America v. Dale
Presidential decision making
Imagine you are president of the United States...
1. Texas decides to secede from the United States. As president, what do you do?
2. You intercept a message from Russia saying that Canada is about the invade the United States. As president, what do you do?
3. Terrorism becomes such a huge problem in the Middle East that you need to do something about it — would you be willing to nuke the Middle East? If not, as president, what will you do to stop terrorism from that area of the world?
4. Terrorists storm the American embassy in Cairo, Egypt, and take more than 100 Americans hostage. As president, what do you do?
5. North Korea parks submarines carrying nuclear weapons off the coast of Seattle. As president, what do you do?
1. Texas decides to secede from the United States. As president, what do you do?
2. You intercept a message from Russia saying that Canada is about the invade the United States. As president, what do you do?
3. Terrorism becomes such a huge problem in the Middle East that you need to do something about it — would you be willing to nuke the Middle East? If not, as president, what will you do to stop terrorism from that area of the world?
4. Terrorists storm the American embassy in Cairo, Egypt, and take more than 100 Americans hostage. As president, what do you do?
5. North Korea parks submarines carrying nuclear weapons off the coast of Seattle. As president, what do you do?
Government Quickwrite
In 1/2 a page, address any or all of the following questions: Why are you in this government class? What do you know about government? How involved or interested in politics are you? What do you think about government? Is there anything specific you're hoping to gain from this government class?
Disclosure document
Gov't and Cit. syllabus | |
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Annotating documents
1. Find the rights of Englishmen listed in your document — annotate the document by underlining each right and then explaining each one in your own words. Use the margins, the back of the paper, or another paper.
1. Find the rights of Englishmen listed in your document — annotate the document by underlining each right and then explaining each one in your own words. Use the margins, the back of the paper, or another paper.
English Bill of Rights.docx | |
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Magna Carta.pdf | |
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John Locke Treatise on Government.docx | |
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Reading quiz 2 (chps. 3&4)
1. Why hasn’t Jack helped to build shelters?
2. How does painting his face change Jack?
3. Why is Ralph upset when the boys let the fire go out?
4. What happens to Piggy’s specs?
5. The boys successfully kill a pig — what is their battle cry? (You don’t have to write the whole thing; give me a general idea)
1. Why hasn’t Jack helped to build shelters?
2. How does painting his face change Jack?
3. Why is Ralph upset when the boys let the fire go out?
4. What happens to Piggy’s specs?
5. The boys successfully kill a pig — what is their battle cry? (You don’t have to write the whole thing; give me a general idea)
Peaceful transition quickwrite
Write 1/2 a page on any or all of the following questions:
• What does it mean to have a peaceful transition of power?
• Why is this important?
• What would happen if this transfer of power was interrupted?
• What events must take place in order for a peaceful transfer of power to occur?
• What role do YOU and other Americans play in legitimizing the transition of power?
• What does it mean to have a peaceful transition of power?
• Why is this important?
• What would happen if this transfer of power was interrupted?
• What events must take place in order for a peaceful transfer of power to occur?
• What role do YOU and other Americans play in legitimizing the transition of power?
Inauguration reactions
Watch or listen to the newly inaugurated President Donald Trump's inaugural address and write down your responses to various points of his speech. What did you like? What did you hate? What did you think about the words he chose or the tone he used?
Thinker 1: Punching Nazis
• Is it OK to punch Neo-Nazis in the face? (Video, if you're really dying to see it)
– Why would it be OK?
– Why would it not be OK?
– How does it benefit society?
– How does it harm society?
– Should all ideologies we disagree with be eligible for punches in the face?
– Why would it be OK?
– Why would it not be OK?
– How does it benefit society?
– How does it harm society?
– Should all ideologies we disagree with be eligible for punches in the face?
Delegate profile worksheet
Delegate worksheet | |
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Handy-dandy Constitutional Convention links:
- 1790 census
- Convention delegate biographies
- Even more delegate biographies
- Helpful (if slightly sketchy) info on the 13 colonies
Articles of Confederation worksheet
Articles of Confederation text.docx | |
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Articles worksheet.pdf | |
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Tolerance survey
Read through the following 25 scenarios, and with each scenario, write down whether or not you agree with that scenario, and then give a brief explanation for your position. Yes, these scenarios are all real.
Read through the following 25 scenarios, and with each scenario, write down whether or not you agree with that scenario, and then give a brief explanation for your position. Yes, these scenarios are all real.
Amendment 1 issues | |
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Lord of the Flies quickwrite
Write at least half a page responding to this: Why did I want you to read Lord of the Flies? What is the main message of the book and/or what does it say about human nature AND government? The boys had a society of rules, just like we do, so what happened to them could happen to us — how do we avoid that?
Write at least half a page responding to this: Why did I want you to read Lord of the Flies? What is the main message of the book and/or what does it say about human nature AND government? The boys had a society of rules, just like we do, so what happened to them could happen to us — how do we avoid that?
Thinker 2: Euthanasia
Watch the first 3:48 of this video, then read this article, then respond in at least 13 lines. Assisted suicide, or "death with dignity," is a tough issue. What do you think? Do you think assisted suicide should be legal everywhere? If so, what sorts of limits do you think should be placed on it, and why? If you don't think it should be legal, explain. There's no easy answer to this question, and there's no right or wrong answer, either.
Watch the first 3:48 of this video, then read this article, then respond in at least 13 lines. Assisted suicide, or "death with dignity," is a tough issue. What do you think? Do you think assisted suicide should be legal everywhere? If so, what sorts of limits do you think should be placed on it, and why? If you don't think it should be legal, explain. There's no easy answer to this question, and there's no right or wrong answer, either.
Thinker 3: Segregation
Watch this news report, read this NYT story, and watch this Saturday Night Live skit. THEN write 3-5 lines on why it could be good for people to segregate themselves. THEN write 3-5 lines on why it could be bad for people to segregate themselves. Figure out where you stand between the two sides — do you lean more toward segregation or integration?
Watch this news report, read this NYT story, and watch this Saturday Night Live skit. THEN write 3-5 lines on why it could be good for people to segregate themselves. THEN write 3-5 lines on why it could be bad for people to segregate themselves. Figure out where you stand between the two sides — do you lean more toward segregation or integration?
19th Amendment exit ticket
If you were fighting for women’s suffrage, which method would you favor and why? What are that method’s strengths? What are that method’s weaknesses? What are the strengths and weaknesses of the other methods and why would you not choose them?
If you were fighting for women’s suffrage, which method would you favor and why? What are that method’s strengths? What are that method’s weaknesses? What are the strengths and weaknesses of the other methods and why would you not choose them?
- Method 1: The moral plea
- Method 2: The state-by-state approach
- Method 3: Radical resistance
Government is Good
CLICK HERE: "A Day in Your Life"
Read the linked article (YES, all 3 pages of it), and then do the following:
It's easy to laugh and joke about our big, useless government, but really, the government provides important daily services that are easy to take for granted. Write a paragraph (half a page) explaining what stood out to you the most as you read the article. What things make government good?
* Yes, you can use a Thinker coupon on this assignment, BUT that doesn't mean you can skip reading the article. The coupon allows you to skip ONLY writing
* If by some chance the school Wifi blocks the article, click here to read it:
Read the linked article (YES, all 3 pages of it), and then do the following:
It's easy to laugh and joke about our big, useless government, but really, the government provides important daily services that are easy to take for granted. Write a paragraph (half a page) explaining what stood out to you the most as you read the article. What things make government good?
* Yes, you can use a Thinker coupon on this assignment, BUT that doesn't mean you can skip reading the article. The coupon allows you to skip ONLY writing
* If by some chance the school Wifi blocks the article, click here to read it:
A Day in Your Life | |
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