13106 Agenda

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• 1/31/06 Agenda
• Discuss Reading/Quiz
• Putnam reading and Questions
• Charles Beard and the Constitutional Elites
  theory/review Lockes ideas
• FRQ
• Gender gap thesis

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• Please get out a separate piece of paper. Thank
  you!
• Title the paper Reading Quiz and put your heading
  in the upper right corner.

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• When is partisanship usually acquired?
• Infancy
• Childhood or adolescence
• Teenage years
• Young adulthood

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• 2) Candidate appeal is often
• A) Less important than positions on issues
• B) Difficult to discover
• C) More important than party or issues
• D) The only factor in elections

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• 3) Most political Scientists agree that that
  issues are
• A) The most important factors in an election
• B) Argued over but misunderstood by the public
• C) Ignored and lampooned over by the public
• D) Not as important as partisanship and
  candidate appeal
• 4) Retrospective Issue Voting is
• A) When voters think about a candidates personal
  past
• B) When voters vote based on their gut feeling
• C) When people vote based on their parents
  beliefs
• D) When people hold the presidents political
  party
• responsible for problems.

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• Putnam Reading and Questions

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• Please open your Interactive Notebook to page 21.
• Title the page Charles Beard and get ready to
  take some lecture notes.
• Review of Lockes ideas

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• Please get out a separate sheet of paper.
• Title the paper FRQ 1 and put your heading in
  the upper right corner.

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• Free Response Question (FRQ)
• 24 Minutes
•  The Founding Fatherswere impelled by class
  motivesbut they were also controlledby a
  statesmanlike sense of moderation and a
  scrupulously republican philosophy.
•  Assess the merits of this statement with
  reference to all of the following the politics
  of the Constitutional Convention in 1787, the
  general structure of the government established
  by the constitution, and thinkers or historical
  events that influenced the Founding Fathers.

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• Gender Gap Activity

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• Homework
• Read pages 175-199 in textbook.
• Take at least two pages of notes on pages 22-23
  of your Interactive Notebook
• Make sure you title your notes