Mr. John Middleton, Social Science and Physical Education Teacher, ACE Charter High School
  Mr. John Middleton  
Teacher: ACE Charter High School, Camarillo, CA.
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  • Chemistry
  • Economics 2019
  • ACE Independent PE
  • AP European History 2017/2018
    • American Government 2018
    • AP Euro Warm-ups
    • Unit 1 & 2 The Middle Ages and the Renaissance
    • Unit 3 The Reformations
    • Unit 4 The Age of Exploration
    • Unit 5 Absolutism vs. Constitutionalism
    • Unit 6 The Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment
    • Unit 8 The French Revolution and The Age of Napoleon
    • Unit 7 The Industrial Revolution
    • Unit 9 The Age of Social Revolutions: Romanticism, Nationalism, Liberalism, and Conservatism
    • Unit 10 New Nations, New Social Classes, and Realism
    • Unit 11 Europe at War 1914 to 1945
    • Unit 12 Post WWII and to the recent past
    • Unit AP FRQ/DBQ
  • ACE PE 2015/2016
  • Modern World History 2015/2016
  • Election 2014 Unit
  • ACE LEO Club
  • ACE Internship Prep
  • American Government 2017
Warm-up 10/15 A Day 10/15 & B Day 10/16
1) Please respond to one specific story from the CNN student News broadcast.
2) Please respond to one specific statement from President Obama.
Link 1: _
Link 2: _

Warm-up 10/17/13 #17 A= 10/17/13 & B = 10/24/13 
1) A member of the US House of Representatives serves a term of ______ years.
2) A member of the US Senate serves a term of ________ years.
3) Define Ex Post Facto.
 
Warm-up 10/21/13 #18 A= 10/21/13 & B= 10/22/13
1) Please respond to one specific story from the CNN Student News broadcast:
2) Please respond to one specific statement from President Obama: 
Link 1: http://www.cnn.com/studentnews/
Link 2: _

Warm-up 10/23/13 #19  A = 10/23/13 &  B = 10/28/13

1) The ability to impeach the President of the United States rests in the hands of the _________________.
2) The trial of impeachment is conducted by the ____________.
3) True/False, it is the President's job to raise funds (money) for a specific war.

Warm-up 10/25/13 #20 A = 10/24/13
1) Describe a recent conflict that you have had with a peer, teacher, parent, co-worker, etc. where you had 
to compromise in order to solve that conflict.  
2) How did compromise overcome that conflict? or did it? 

Warm-up 10/29/13 #21 A = 10/29/13 & B = 10/30/13
1) Please respond to one specific story from the CNN Student News broadcast:
2) Please respond to one specific statement from President Obama:
Link 1: _
Link 2: _

Warm-up 10/31/13 #22 A = 10/31/13 & B = 11/01/13
1) Why did the Constitutional Convention of 1787 not include a Bill of Rights?
2) Define the term "useful arts".  

 Warm-up 11/04/13 #23 A = 11/04/13 & B = 11/05/13
1) Please respond to one specific story from the CNN Student News broadcast:
2) Please respond to one specific statement from President Obama:
Link 1: _
Link 2: _

Warm-up 11/06/13 #24 A = 11/06/13
1) The Constitution establishes a system of? _____
A)  Federalism
B)  Socialism
C)  Democracy
D)  Republicanism

2) Explain why the answer to question 1 is not C.

3) Where does the government get its power? _____
A) The Constitution
B) The Bill of Rights
C) The Declaration Independence
D) The People

4) Explain why the answer to question 3 is not B.

Warm-up 11/07/13 #24 B= 11/07/13
1) Which founding fathers is often referred to as the "father of the Constitution"?
A) Thomas Jefferson 
B) James Madison 
C) John Adams
D) George Washington 
 
2) Contrast Federalism with Republicanism.

3) Define the term "useful arts".   

Warm-up 11/08/13 #25 A = 11/08/13 and B = 11/12/13
1) Using the Constitution USA film as your guide, or any modern constitutional debate that you 
are familiar with, explain how this specific issue is challenging your sense of right and wrong.
I.E. Freedom of religion within a public space, gun ownership, privacy and the internet.  Please write 
your answer in paragraph length and try to use specific examples and evidence in your work. 

Warm-up 11/12/13 #25 B = 11/25/13
1) Article III addresses which specific branch of the federal government?
2) The Commerce Clause of the constitution specifically applies to which branch 
of the federal government?
3) Identify one specific power granted to that branch within the Commerce Clause.  

Warm-up 11/13/13 #26 A = 11/13/13 & B = 11/14/13
1) Please respond to one specific story from the CNN Student News broadcast:
2) Please respond to one specific statement from President Obama:
Link 1: _
Link 2: _

Warm-up 11/15/13 #27 A= 11/15/13 & B = 11/18/13
Read the following section and use that section to answer the questions below.

Article 1 Sec. 9
"The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or invasion the public safety may require it.
No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed."

1) Identify the four specific legal concepts within Article 1 Sec. 9
2) The following legal rules are listed under Article 1 and not Article III, why?

Warm-up 11/19/13 #28 A = 11/19/13 & B = 11/20/13
1) Please respond to one specific story from the CNN Student News broadcast:
2) Please respond to one specific statement from President Obama:
Link 1: _
Link 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bB0Cv4Oz0I&list=PL3nFGrtbkwqSIAd_1FhpdK6mLBNbivHtQ

Warm-up 12/02/13 #29 A = 12/02/13 & B = 12/03/13 
1) Please respond to one specific story from the CNN Student News broadcast:
2) Please respond to one specific statement from President Obama:
Link 1: http://www.cnn.com/studentnews/
Link 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGiUxYBdsFA

Warm-up 12/04/13 #30 A = 12/04/13 & B = 12/05/13
Please discuss what you know about how your city government is constructed and run.
Think about:
1) Is there a city council/mayor?
2) How are these individuals elected? Voted in? Selected? 
3) Are there any non-elected members that run your city government?

Warm-up 12/05/13 #31 A = 12/05/13 & B = 12/09/13
1) What do we mean when we say a person has beliefs in something?
2) What are your beliefs?
3) How do you put your beliefs into action?
Complete the graphic organizer for 5 points extra credit:   
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/mandela/


Warm-up 12/10/13 #32 A = 12/10/13 & B = 12/11/13 
1) Please respond to one specific story from the CNN Student News broadcast:
2) Please respond to one specific statement from President Obama:
Link 1: http://www.cnn.com/studentnews/
Link 2: _

Warm-up 12/12/13 #33 A = 12/12/13 & B = 12/13/13 
A _____________ is being offered by the federal government for the development of 
new green technology programs in public schools.  This ____________ will fund the research and development of 
such programs within the states that are awarded it.  However, only those states that
follow specific steps and meet specific requirements developed by Congress are rewarded access to this funding.
1) Is BLANK a mandate or a grant? And why?
2) Why is the Federal government only able to offer Federal dollars in return for implementing this green program? 

Warm-up 12/16/13 #34 A = 12/16/13 & B = 12/17/13 
1) Please respond to one specific story from the CNN Student News broadcast:
2) Please respond to one specific statement from President Obama:
Link 1: http://www.cnn.com/studentnews/
Link 2: _

Warm-up 12/18/13 #35 A = 12/18/13 & B = 12/18/13
1) Match the following concepts with the correct governmental duty:
A) Federal Power
B) State Power
C) Concurrent Power
___: The imposing a personal income tax
___: The right to establish citizenship criteria (standards).
___: Setting car emission standards or other service regulations.
___: Setting marriage license criteria 
2) The 10th Amendment is often said to protect the powers of the States.  Which Amendment is said
to protect the individual citizen from the power of the States or of the Federal government? 
3) Why are states offend considered laboratories for future federal laws? 

Warm-up 12/20/13 #36 A = 12/20/13
Please make visual and written flashcards for the following terms:
1) Concurrent Powers
2) Implied Powers
3) Expressed Powers
4) States Powers
5) Inherent Powers
Please have information on your cards that will help you understand the concepts

Warm-up 01/06/14 #37 A  = 01/07/14 & B = 01/06/14 
1) Please respond to one specific story from the CNN Student News broadcast:
2) Please respond to one specific statement from President Obama:
Link 1: http://www.cnn.com/studentnews/
Link 2: _
 
Warm-up 01/08/14 #38 A = 01/09/14 & B = 01/08/14
1) How does this story address federalism?
2) How does this story highlight some major benefits of federalism?
3) How does this story highlight some major negatives within federalism?
Link for radio story: _

Warm-up 01/13/14 #39 A  = 01/13/14 & B = 01/14/14 
1) Please respond to one specific story from the CNN Student News broadcast:
2) Please respond to one specific statement from President Obama:
Link 1: http://www.cnn.com/studentnews/
Link 2: _

Warm-up 01/15/14 #40 A = 01/15/14 & B = 01/16/14
1) Who are the three groups involved within the film on Wounded Knee?
2) How are Indian Reservation Lands property of the US?
3) How are Indian Reservation Lands sovereign independent nations?

 Warm-up 01/21/14 #41 A = 01/22/14 & B = 01/21/14 
1) Please respond to one specific story from the CNN Student News broadcast:
2) Please respond to one specific statement from President Obama:
Link 1: http://www.cnn.com/studentnews/
Link 2: _
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