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​​​Supreme Court Wiki The Supreme Court! **__Day 1: Introduction to the Supreme Court__** **__Objectives:__** Students will be able to: -Connect last week's topic w. this week's topic -Identify what we already know about the Supreme Court -Create list of questions we still have about the Supreme Court

__Connection__ between Immigration & Supreme Court (Last week’s topic & this week’s topic): - Immigration cases in the Supreme Court -Passing/Amending laws about immigration in the Supreme Court based upon court cases they recieve in the court -The Arizona Law will eventually be passed on to the Supreme Court so they will have their say -Supreme Court wants to sue the state of Arizona because of Senate Bill 1070 (Arizona Law) being ‘unconstitutional’ ** Conservative/Liberal: ** moral beliefs of the two political parties, Republican and Democrat; Does whether you being a Republican or Democrat determine whether you being Conservative or Liberal? Conservative: More traditional & sticks w. the Constitution, Liberal: More free thinking of the Constitution; Republicans are usually Conservative, Democrats are usually Liberal. -Can be made up of women or men -Dominates over state decision -Thousands of cases are brought to the Supreme Court every year, only have about 100? -There are 9 Justices -Once you are a justice you are a justice for life -Determines if laws are unconstitutional
 * __Vocabulary Terms:__ **
 * Chief Justice: ** The head of the Supreme Court, who makes the final decision. Who is the current Chief Justice? How is the Chief Justice Chosen?
 * Precedent: ** Model, Pattern, Example; A prior court case having similar characteristics to solve a current court case; Can you use any case in context of the case? Whichever one you want? Do you need permission to use a certain case? How is precedent used?
 * Confirmation Hearing: ** A meeting to confirm the final decision on the court case; A process to confirm a new court justice – Elena Kagan Does the confirmation hearing happen right after the first hearing? How many years after?
 * Majority Opinion: ** conclusion of multiple opinions on a topic. Is the majority opinion the majority opinion of the jury? Or the people? Or the judges? Does it play into the verdict? Since it is an opinion does it play the final verdict? 5 to 4 (9 Supreme Court Justices – 5 would be the majority opinion) Is there a Minority Opinion?
 * __Identify What You Already Know About the Supreme Court:__ **

-When was the Supreme Court established? * -Did the Supreme Court come before state court? Can the Supreme Court override state decisions w/o cause? -Who was the longest serving Chief Justice? -Who was the longest serving justice? -How many women have served as justices on the Supreme Court Justices? -Does the justices being Republican or Democrat have anything to do with how they are picked? -Do the Supreme Court Justices have to have an equal amount of Democrats & Republicans? -What are the qualifications of becoming a justice? * -Do justices consider the opinions of the population when they are making their opinions? -Do they try to achieve diversity to prevent bias? -Why was the Supreme Court created? -What is the most current Supreme Court Case? -BP Oil Spill, Court case? -Does the justice have to be nominated by the federal government? Top Two Choices= *
 * __Questions about the Supreme Court:__ **

__Day 2 – Tuesday July 13, 2010 Title: Continuation of Day 1 project Objectives__ Students will be able to - research a topic of personal interest on the Supreme Court - evaluate a variety of internet resources for research - organize research findings on to a Mind Map using the program Inspiration - present research findings within the classroom and virtually using video chat ​ Here's a link to my delicious account, [] check it out! It's a great site tag, save, manage and share Web pages all in one place! Closing! I found that [|tokbox.com] was a very interesting and fun site. At first, I was somewhat confused because my camera was not working and the people which whom I was chatting with could only hear me. Then I changed my camera's mode to capture mode instead of IM mode and everything was fine. I think that students can use this social site in the future in schools to help share ideas for projects or even do projects together as a group. I think that it would make it a lot more fun and easier to use a video chatting website in school than to just to it the plain original way. If you were to use this chatting network instead of doing it the old fashion way, I think that it would be much faster to find information and everyone could use the internet to find it. I think that you could use Tok Box in your personal life as well. You could chat with friends or family in the United States or maybe across the pond in Europe or down under in Australia. I think the possiblities are endless while using this in your personal life by chatting via video.
 * A Mind Map, made by using Inspiration 9.0 IE about when and why the Supreme Court was established.**

__Day 3 - Wednesday July 14th Title: Focous on one famous case and begin final project__

Either Maubury v. Madison - Ms. Pember

 * the role of the Supreme Court in interpreting the Constitution;
 * the significance of Marbury v. Madison;
 * the concept of judicial review and how //Marbury v. Madison// solidified it;

Guided Questions:

 * What type of cases is the Warren Court famous for hearing?
 * How did the decision made by the Warren Court affect US citizens?
 * What effects of the Warren Court still affect us today?

Objectives:
After completing this lesson, students will be able to:
 * identify important ConstitutiVional Amendments
 * analyze the parameters of Constitutional Amendments
 * apply amendments to everyday life situations

Amendment fourteen states protects and defines the rights as an United States legal citizen. Also the fourteenth amendment requires that all states are prohibited from interferring with privilges and immunities. The fourteenth amendment also requires due process and equal protection along with punishing states for denying someone from voting.
 * Amendment 14! **

**Activity 3** I think that one of the four cases that we looked at today, that is most influencial today, is the case of Brown v. Board of Education. This case paved the way for intergration and the Civil Rights Movement. Can you imagine, what our lives would be like now, without the Civil Rights Movement or even intergration? I couldn't. __Other Answers made by classmates:__ **Mapp v. Ohio** - Cops are still cops, but they need to **obey** the law that they are suppossed to be enforcing.
 * The Warren Court** - The Warren Court, which was under Earl Warren had many cases that dealt with civil rights and the amount of power of the federal government and state government. The decisions made by the United States Supreme Court justices in the era of the Warren Court affected citizens dramatically. For example, the Brown v. Board of Education case, was a very dramatic case that affected many Americans. This case lead to intergration and the Civil Rights Movement, therefore, it affected the nation in a very dramatic way.

Glogster! Objectives: Students will be able to: -summarize researched and shared information on the Supreme Court by creating a Glog -Embed your Glogster link here as well as upload a Snip It or Print Screen format picture of your Glog.

Visit my Glog about the Surpreme Court! [|My Glog - Supreme Court!] A quick view of my Glog:

Closing! The Glogster, I thought was a very interesting program. It was very fun to use. I would use it for school purposes and my personal life. I thought it was very fun to use. I enjoyed being able to link websites without it looking very complicated. I also liked the many various selection of graphics, backgrounds and texts. I thought that the website was very well thought-out and it would help many students to share their work. I hope to use this site again with school related projects. = **__ Day 4 - Thursday July 15__ ** = =__Title: Podcast/Video of a Poltical Talkshow on a recent Supreme Court decision__ ** Guided Questions: ** =
 * What are the key components to a political debate?
 * How do bipartisan politics get involved in Supreme Court Case decisions and the Justice Nomination process?

Objectives: After the lesson, students will be able to:
 * research current trends/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 viewpoints about the situation

List of Roles!
 * Hosts: ** Devon Moran and Danielle Aguinaldo
 * Experts:** Norma Borque-Pimentel & Amanda Goncalves
 * Caller:** Jasmine Coutinho

Reflection! **What did you learn about your case? What do you think of projects in video/audio format? How can they fit into school?**
 * I think that for one, I learned that ** you don't really have **any** privacy when working with a work-owned computer or cell phone, use those two items for work related things only. Also, I think that I still like the somewhat traditional way of making a project, I don't really enjoy the audio format because it doesn't really show all the hard work you've done, only you speaking.

<span style="color: #008080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 108%;">Answers to questions to beginning of the week about the Supreme Court! **When was the Supreme Court established?** It was established in 1789. The Supreme Court does in fact dominate over state court with their rulings, but the Supreme Court has to declare it unconstitutional and have a specific amendment to support it.
 * Did the Supreme Court come before state court? Can the Supreme Court override state decisions w/o cause?**

John Marshall was, serving a total of 12, 570 days in court = A little bit more than 34 Years. **
 * Who was the longest serving Chief Justice?

William O. Douglas, serving 36 years and 209 days.
 * Who was the longest serving justice?**

As of July of 2010 only three have: <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px;">Sandra Day O'Connor, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, and Sonia Sotomayor.
 * How many women have served as justices on the Supreme Court Justices?**

-Do the Supreme Court Justices have to have an equal amount of Democrats & Republicans? -What are the qualifications of becoming a justice? * -Do justices consider the opinions of the population when they are making their opinions? -Do they try to achieve diversity to prevent bias? -Why was the Supreme Court created? -What is the most current Supreme Court Case? -BP Oil Spill, Court case? -Does the justice have to be nominated by the federal government?