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
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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!
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Activity:
AP Government –Here are the objectives for today: I can identify key elements of the Magna Carta. I can discuss key aspects of the English Bill of Rights. I can write a reaction that compares and contrasts the English governing documents with the governing documents of the United States. Tasks: RIGHT CLICK on the following link to go to a copy of the Magna Carta translated from Latin into English. After you have skimmed the document, write a 1 paragraph reaction in MS Word or Google Docs of what you learned from the translation and from the Lesson 5 packet comparing what you have learned about the Magna Carta and the US Constitution and Bill of Rights. If you need to review the Constitution and Bill of Rights, right click here on them. Provide an explanation in the comments section on the class blog. Then, RIGHT CLICK on the following link to look at the English Bill of Rights. Review the document and write a 1 paragraph reaction to what you think of that document, compared to the U.S. Constitution’s Bill of Rights. When you are done, copy your reactions and paste them in the comments section of the class blog.
