CONSTITUTION NOTEBOOK SAMPLE TABLE OF CONTENTS

*Please don’t forget to put your CHECKLIST with a parent and peer signature in front of the notebook and to number ALL pages in your notebook & list those below to type your own.

Table of Contents

A. Title page for the Constitution Notebook .........................……………………1

B. Table of Contents ..............................................................…………………2

C. Legislative Branch (title page)…...................................................................3

Legislative Branch worksheet...................................................……………………….4

Senator Ted Stevens article w/article summary.......................................………5-7

Senator Lisa Murkowski article w/article summary...................................…………

Rep. Don Young article w/article summary.............................................………….

D. Executive Branch.........................................................………………….......

Executive Branch worksheet.....................................................……………………….

President George W. Bush w/article summary....................................................

Vice President Dick Cheney picture..................................................................…

Cabinet member w/article summary..........................................………………………

Governor Sarah Palin picture (Alaska Executive Branch-state)……………………………

Mayor Mark Begich (Anchorage Executive Branch-local)…………………………………...

E. Judicial Branch....…..............................................................………….…….

Judicial Branch worksheet................................................………………….............

Supreme Court w/article summary....................................................……………...

G. Minor Articles......…………………................................................................

Minor articles worksheet...………………................................................................

H. Amendments...........…………………............................................................

Amendments worksheet...………………................................................................

I. Government Terminology……………..........................................................

Vocabulary Words defined (#1-30) w/two quizzes .............................................

J. Personal Involvement...…………………......................................................

Citizenship Challenge write-up………………..........................................................

K. Extra Credit...........................…………………..............................................

Extra article summaries..............................………………......................................

Extra projects “Over and Above”...................................………………..................

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“OVER AND ABOVE”

CONSTITUTION NOTEBOOK STUDY

(Extra credit doesn’t take the place of required assignments--it is “over and above”)

Each of these EXTRA projects are worth from 5-10 points each depending on the effort, neatness, creative thought, and presentation.

_____ 1. Compare and contrast the state preamble with the federal preamble to the

Constitution.

_____ 2. Draw a political cartoon illustrating a current event in our state.

_____ 3. What’s Happening? List 10 political current event issues and tell why

you listed each. (model this after the Anchorage Daily News editorial section where they put thumbs up!, neutral, thumbs down!)

_____ 4. Track a bill in the state legislature and give the status of the new law.

_____ 5. Political Spectrum: Choose 10 members of one of the three branches of

state or federal government and plot them on the political spectrum.

Tell why and how you made each decision.