October 27, 2015

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!