Back to School Night

The course is designed to give students a view of the law through the lens of the Supreme Court

1.Nationalization of the Bill of Rights

2.The Rights of a Person Accused of a Crime

3.Right to Privacy

4.Freedom of Speech and Expression

5.Equal Protection

Briefs of the Cases – Nightly Homework

Class Participation – TEST GRADE

Unit Tests

Supreme Court Simulation

Lawyer’s Brief – TEST GRADE

Oral Argument – TEST GRADE

Majority Opinion – FINAL EXAM

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Everyday after school except most Wednesdays.

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•Homework Assignments – 10 – 15 points

•Tests – 100 points

•Study Guides – 30 points

•Research Paper – 200 points

•Presentation – 200 points

•Quizes – 10 – 50 points

The History of Europe from 1450 – The Present•The Renaissance

•The Reformation

•The Age of Absolutism

•The Enlightenment

•The French Revolution and Napoleon

•The Unification of Germany and Italy

•The Industrial Revolution

•World War I

•Between the Wars and World War II

•The Cold War

•Globalization

Everyday after school except most Wednesdays.

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A College Level Introductory Class

Can provide students with college credit or higher course placement depending on thei99r score and on the college they attend

Writing Skills

Organizational and Time Management Skills

World History SAT II – 80% European History

European History from 1450 – Present

Political, Economic, Religious, Social, Intellectual, Artistic, Technological and Geographical

Renaissance, Reformation, 17th Century State Making, Enlightenment, French Revolution and Napoleon, Industrial Revolution, The Rise of Nationalism, World War I, World War II, Russian Revolution, Cold War, Globalization

Tests = 100 points

Study Guides = 30 points

Homework = 10 – 50 points

Essays (In Class) – 100 points

Research Papers – 200 points

Presentations – 200 points

Friday May 7, 2010 – 12:00pm

½ Multiple Choice – 80 questions in 1 hour

½ Free Response Questions

1 Document Based Question – 1 hour including 15 minute reading period

2 additional Essays – 30 minutes each

Grades will come out in July

All students must take a Comprehensive Exam – if they do not to take the AP Test, they must sit an Exam during the June Exam period.

Students can visit one of the selected European Artists’ Exhibits at either the Met, the MoMa, the Jane Vorhees-Zimmerli Museum at Rutgers, or the Philadelphia Art Museum

Birdsall S. Viault’s Modern European History

Princeton Review’s European History AP

Everyday after school except most Wednesdays.

http://www.whrhs.org/faculty_web/mlettington/

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•Imperialism

•Progressivism

•World War I

•The Roaring 20s

•The Great Depression

•World War I

•World War II

•Civil Rights

•Cold War

•Vietnam

•Post Cold War and It’s Legacy

US History from 1898 - Present

•Homework Assignments – 10 – 15 points

•Tests – 100 points

•Study Guides – 30 points

•Research Paper – 200 points

•Presentation – 200 points

•Quizes – 10 – 50 points

Everyday after school except most Wednesdays.

[email protected]

Ext. 2250

www.whrhs.org