Mr. Moreland
United States Government Honors
Room 436
Classroom Overview
Textbook U.S. Government American Government
Supplemental material provided by the teacher
Supplies needed: 3-ring binder
Composition notebook
Grading system: Exams will count 100 points
Essays and other writings will count 50 points
Classroom rules: Per the Student Handbook
Course Description:
This course provides students with a comprehensive understanding of the
operation of American national government. To accomplish this, students
develop analytic perspectives for interpreting, understanding, and explaining
political events in this country. The subjects that the course covers include
constitutional arrangements, policymaking institutions such as the
legislature, the executive, the judiciary, public opinion and the media,
political participation and voting behavior, political parties, interests
groups, and civil liberties and civil rights. Students will prepare to vote,
participate in community activities, and assume the responsibilities of
citizenship in a global society.
Honor students are expected to demonstrate competence in the methods social
scientists use to interpret political, social, and economic change. It is
important to note that this is not a course devoted to current events. Rather,
it is a course on the structure of American government and the operation of
politics in the United States. We will consider and discuss current
developments as examples designed to provide an intellectual foundation for
observing, analyzing, and understanding national politics in the United States.
