Today's objectives:
By the end of today's lesson, students will be able to explain the process that the Supreme Court goes through to choose cases to hear and will be able to accurately apply the criteria for granting certiorari to sample cases.
Agenda:
1) Barack-etology and what's coming up in this unit
2) Review of homework reading on granting certiorari
3) Granting certiorari activity in small groups
4) McCullough v. Maryland reading and discussion (in preparation for activity on Monday)
HW: If you did not finish answering the McCullough v. Maryland questions today, you must finish it for HW over the weekend.