November 14, 2016

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 explain the difference between a primary election and a general election relating to elections and campaigns. I can explain why incumbents have an advantage when they are running for re-election. I can identify one news story about the recent elections and summarize it. Tasks: do a google search for Wilson Chapter 10 Elections and Campaigns to find the definitions for primary election and general election and write the definition of each in the comments box on the class blog. Then, google incumbency effect and read about WHY incumbents seem to be very successful when running for re-election. Provide an explanation in the comments section on the class blog. Then, RIGHT CLICK on the following link to find a news story about the recent elections. Read ONE article and write a summary of it in the comments section of the class blog.