Monday's Sabato Reading Assignment

Class,

For Monday night's reading assignment, read pages: 594 to 602. You can find the Sabato quiz posted on the website here: http://www.mtbarclay.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/interestgroupsquiz3.doc

Cheers, Mr. B

Outline Form for Interest Group Assignment

Here is a format for you and group to consider for completing Interest Group Assignment. You may use another format if desired:


Interest Group Assignment (Substitute your Interest Group for the “AMA” Example Below)

Key Issues of Concern for (ie. “The AMA”)
* (minimum 5 sentences or bullets per section)
*
*
Legislation Related to (ie. “The AMA”)
*
*
*
Key Actions (ie. “The AMA”) Takes to Influence Policy and the Public Agenda:
*
*
*
Resources (ie. “The AMA”)Has to Make It Influential:
*
*
*
Parts of Government (ie. “The AMA”) Targets:
*
*
*
What (ie. “The AMA”) Does in Order to Support its Favorite Candidates:
*
*
*
(ie. “The AMA’s”) Political Ideology, the Legislation They Support and the Party They Support (or two news article summaries if your group is politically neutral):
*
*
*
The Strengths of (ie. “The AMA”):
*Back up with specific examples

The Weakness of (ie. “The AMA”)
*Back up with specific examples

Happy Veteran's Day

Period 3 Interest Group Assignments
MALDEF-M. Marquez

AMA-A. Velazquez

SIERRA CLUB-E. Montano

NATIONAL RIGHT TO LIFE-C. Cruz

GREENPEACE-J. Lopez

AMERICANS FOR DEMOCRATIC ACTION-M. Vidales, L. Medina

GREENPEACE-J. Rabanal, P Morales

NOW-B. Aguirre

SIERRA CLUB-M. Zarazua, J. Cruz

VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS-F. Ambriz

INDEPENDENT WOMEN’S FORUM-A. Flores, G. Rocha

HANDGUN CONTROL INC.-J. Zavala

NAACP-M. Guido

PETA-J. Rocha

NATIONAL RIGHT TO LIFE-M. Parker

AFL-CIO-J. Amaral

US CHAMBER OF COMMERCE-J. Curiel

CHRISTIAN COALITION-A. Figueroa, C. Gonzalez, M. Vargas

AMA-No name, but third choice of this person following GreenPeace, National Right to Life—reason given: “Honestly for this third choice I want to know a little bit more about it”…Do you recognize yourself by your quote 

Period 2 Interest Group Assignments

Period 2 students, you now have your "official" assignments. You may begin your interest group assignment now. Remember, it is due at the end of Unit 3. Let me know if you have any questions.

NCAAP
Andrew Saravia
Jameson Modzingira
Mike Wamagum

United Farm Workers (UFW)
Yajaira Medrano

WRA
Thalia Lomeli
Shaine Pearson
Ivan Ramos

Business Roundtable
Daniel Reyna

Handgun Control, Inc
Humberto Ramirez

Environmental Defense Fund
Alejandro Garcia
Johnny Alonzo

National Right to Life
Dominga Xirum

(MRC) Marine Resources Committee
Alejandra Madrigal

PETA
Viridiana Santoyo
Gaby Pantojo

Association of Trial Lawyers of America
Jessica Mendoza

American Medical Association
Stephanie Vargas
Cassie Fernandez

National Resource Defense Council
Mayra Mata Juarez
Tere Gutierrez
Jose Gonzalez Jr.
Christian Coalition
Sandra Vasquez

Center for Equal Opportunity
Valentin Lopez
Zague Villarreal
Nathaniel Distancia

Club for Growth
Jesus H Picero
National Right to Life
Karla Guillen

GreenPeace
Victor Gutierrez

AB 540 Scholarship Link

At the recommendation of Viri Santoyo, here is a link to scholarship info for students without a social security number: http://www.mtbarclay.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/e4fcab540scholarships11.pdf

BTW, I am sure ALL students (including those with social security numbers)are eligible for this money...

Thank you Viri for the suggestion!

2004 FRQ Answer Rubric and Model Response

Class,

Remember, your homework assignement is to check and grade your FRQ for tomorrow. The rubric for Question #2 can be found here:

http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/members/repository/ap04_sg_gopo_us_37090.pdf

The "model" student answer can be found here:

http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/public/repository/ap04_gopous_q2_38679.pdf

IMPORTANT: For the model student response, refer to the last student FRQ or "C." That was the response that earned all 8 points.

Also, be prepared to turn in your choices for interest groups. That was the handout that had "first," "second," or "third" choice with rationale. Also include the name(s) of your team members. Remind me if I forget to ask you...

FRQ Warm Up for Tomorrow

Here is an FRQ warm up for tomorrow in lieu of a Sabato quiz. Look at the notes from today and you should be able to answer it:

Different interest groups will choose different techniques(tactics) to achieve their
objectives based on their resources, characteristics and goals.
a. Describe each of the following techniques and explain why an interest
group would choose each technique.
• Litigation
• Campaign contributions
• Grassroots lobbying/mass mobilization
b. Select one of the following groups and identify the primary technique it
uses from the list in part (a). Explain why the group you selected would
employ that technique over the other two techniques.
• American Medical Association (AMA)
• Sierra Club
• National Rifle Association (NRA)
• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People