Welcome
to our AP Government class blog! Our activities on the blog will be in the
green box located below. Read the activity and follow its instructions. When
you are ready to answer the questions required, scroll down to the bottom of
the blog page and click on add comment. Type your answers in the box that pops
up and at the end of your answers, include your name. You MUST have your name
in the comments box or you will NOT receive credit for your work. This is just
like putting your name on your paper! ALSO, you must click anonymous from the
drop down boxes listed below the comments box, since the comments are submitted
to me for review and not published. If you leave the box for Google ID checked,
your answers will be lost in space for all eternity (until you redo it!). If
you have ANY questions, please let me know! Tip: If you have any doubts or
fears about losing your work, do as I do, and copy and paste your answers into
a Word document, Notepad, e-mail to yourself, etc., so you have an electronic
copy as backup. I will be posting to the class blog on a weekly basis from now
on, so stay tuned and check back frequently!
Be reminded that you lose
participation points when you are caught on YouTube, Facebook, and similar
sites. You may listen to music on a site like www.grooveshark.com that does NOT have
videos. If music starts to interfere with your ability to complete your work or
stay on task, you will lose that privilege.
Activity:
AP Government – Here
are the objectives for today: I can identify the Republican and Democratic
candidates for President of the United States. I can identify news sites that
are known for their conservative or liberal bias or form being unbiased. Tasks:
Do a Google search for current presidential candidates. List 5 of them and the
political parties they belong to, if applicable. I recommend opening a Word
document to record all of your responses for today, so you don’t accidentally back
arrow or close out a tab or browser and lose all of your work you are typing in
the comments box!! Then do a Google search for biased political news sites. You
may also do searches for conservative political news sites or liberal political
news sites or unbiased political news sites. Identify one of each and read an
article from each. On the class blog, list the 3 sites that you found and give
an example of bias that you found on the class blog (example a conservative
site criticizing a liberal candidate or a liberal site criticizing a
conservative candidate). Then, click on the following link to find a news story about a current presidential
candidate. Summarize the article in a paragraph in the comments box on the
class blog. *Chapter 11 Vocab Matching Quiz Tomorrow – Interest Groups!
