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Please go here and vote! This is a clark county student election, base your voting off of your previous ballot that you have filled out...

Student Mock Election- Do it NOW!!!

Click here for the Washington State Student Mock Election!

2014 Washington State Voters pamphlet! Yes YOU get to vote!

2014 Washington State Voters pamphlet! Yes YOU get to vote! Click here!!!

SuperPac Links

Stephan Colbert super pac link, click here

Big Sky, Big Money (Frontline) Click here

Political Typology Quizzes!!!

Click here to take the political typology quiz. #1
Click here to take the Political typology quiz #2


Click here for the library assignment sheet.

Unit 1 EXAM tomorrow STUDY Chapters 1,2,3! ALSO...

You will earn 5 bonus points for knowing the Preamble of the constitution...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30OyU4O80i4

Online access code!! And it works!

1. Register at www.pearsonschool.com/access
2. Enter the first 6 letters of your code below
3. Click on Covered Titles to Select Discipline and Title 
4. Accept - Pearson License Agreement
5. Access Information - 

* Enter or Create your username & password 
* Enter the appropriate access code below:


Student:SSNAST-SNAPK-MESIC-REGNA-PLANT-OOSSE


6. Account Information - complete or verify your name & school information 
7. Confirmation & Summary

Class IDamundson78874

Please look around especially the pre-test for chapter 2 try and take that. Feel free to revisit chapter 1

Task in the WIGL today

1.             Respond to this post by putting your name, period, a destination that you'd like to go and a destination that you've been that you love. (Make sure that you know how to get here in the future) on the blog.

2.             Go to skyward. Login. Go to Current Assignments. And take Reading Quiz 1 (Or RQ 1) over pgs 3-13.

3.             Go to Turnitin.com, make sure that you have added this class. If you have an account this process will be easier. If you don't have an account, follow the steps for creating an account and make sure to remember your information for later use. (Write down in your Journal). Once there and you have completed the steps for adding my class. Go to the "discussion' tab. View the prompt. FOLLOW the directions.(When responding to a student post please make sure to give thoughtful details and also your name at the end of the comment Once you have completed that please move to the next step. *Hint opening up multiple tabs may help you in this process.

 ClassID:          4th  Period: 8543538            Password:  reed                                                                            

4.             Create a Google Drive account. We will be using Google Drive for many class projects and assignments. You don’t have to have a Gmail account to access this, but it is easier to use with a Gmail account. You can also create a Google account using another email. After you have created your Google Drive account, create a new document and write one paragraph about the following question: “What is the purpose of government? Do we really need it? What do you think the role of our government is ? (Local, State, and Federal)/ (Internationally/domestically)” After you have written your paragraph (5 sentence min), please respond to two other classmates to start a dialogue. click the blue “share” button in the top right corner and share it with me (jim.reed@washougalsd.org). All is due at the conclusion of class.

5.              

To access online content for our textbook, including an electronic version of the textbook, follow the instructions below.

a.     1. Register at www.pearsonschool.com/access
2. Enter the first 6 letters of your code: SSNAST
3. Click on Covered Titles to Select Discipline and Title 
4. Choose Teacher or Student Registration 
5. Accept - Pearson License Agreement
6. Access Information - 
* Enter or Create your username & password 
* Enter the appropriate access code below:

Code:
SSNAST-FONDA-YOGIC-NEMAN-GABBY-BALES

7. Account Information - complete or verify your name & school information 
8. Confirmation & Summary

b.    You must then sign up for your specific period by selecting “Join a Class.”

Class id:  cm528663

c.     After you have joined the class, the program will keep track of all of your scores and progress on chapter practice quizzes and tests.

Please look around and get to know the site.

Welcome to A.P. Government and Politics Class of 2015!

I will be using this blog to keep students and parents updated with what is happening in this class. I will be posting daily lessons, including PowerPoints from class discussions, as well as documents and assignments.

The calendar (scroll down) shows daily class topics, due dates, quiz and test dates, and daily reading assignments. The pages listed on a calendar day means that you need to come to class the next day with those pages already read. There will be short reading quizzes on a near-daily basis that will be based on this reading. For example, Wednesday, September 3rd shows "Pages 3-13." That means you need to come to class on Thursday  prepared to discuss, and be quizzed over, pages 3-13.

Let me know if you have any questions. Students and parents can always email me!
Thanks, and I am looking forward to examining the American systems of government and politics!

Mr. Reed

Final Project instuctions. Also, PLEASE TURN IN YOUR BOOK. FINES WILL BE GIVEN ON WEDNESDAY.

We will start presentations so be ready. If your name is called and you are not ready to go you may not be able to make it up. Please don't miss it! We are down to the last week. Please click here to see the topics that have been chosen by students.
Please click here for the project requirements.

PLEASE TURN IN YOUR BOOK. FINES WILL BE GIVEN ON WEDNESDAY.

Economics Quiz on Monday June 2nd! Please see the link below if you missed the PowerPoint!

Make sure to study for the Economics Quiz! It WILL be on Monday! Please click here if you need to review the PowerPoint.

Today you will be watching "Inside the Meltdown"- Frontline

Today you will be watching "Inside the Meltdown"- Frontline
Click here to view the video.

Review by watching videos!

If you are a person likes to review by watching videos please click here. Keep studying!! We are going to count everything next week. All Multiple Choice and FRQ Exams! Study! Study! Study! Continue to work on your weakness chapters via chapter study guides! Those are due on May 14th! I am really proud of you guys! Keep pushing for 11 more days! Use your time wisely.

Today we took practice exam #1 (Multiple choice)

Also, Please feel free to go onto Jacob Lively's AP Government and Politics Study Blog! He's building it for you! Click here to view it. Make sure that you review the rest of chapter 21 and take the final RQ which will expire on Monday 4/28.

Be ready for Exam 7 (Chapters 4,5,16)

Please review and study notes (PowerPoints, on the left of the page). Also make sure that you take RQ #50 online via Skyward! Study!!!

Submit your Entitlement paper to Turnitin.com

All, please make sure that you submit your entitlements papers to turnitin.com. Also, please make sure that you are under the 10% threshold!

Entitlement Programs research

Entitlement Programs

Today and tomorrow (Tuesday) we will be in the Library researching entitlement programs. Click here to access the assignment. We will be discussing this assignment on Wednesday. Thursday we will have a Chapter 12 & 14 review. Friday you will have a Unit exam on Chaps. 12 & 14. Study Guide and Current events #2 (10) will also be due.

Fair tax assignment for Chapter 14.

Today we will be in the library researching the Fair Tax as an alternative to the federal income tax. The assignment can be found at the following link, click here.If you don't finish in the library, your completed research is due Monday.

Today's Library assignment Feb 5th 2014

4^th period- (A.P. Government and Politics) Today the students will head to the library. Please take roll and give the instructions in class before they head down but please be prompt so they don’t waste time. Please tell them this is the order I’d like for them to complete.

1. Please tell students that they need to login to the online text resource and take the chapter 12 pretest. (I’m using the information from Chapter pretests, so it is very important that they do this!)
2. Work on your constitution worksheet that is due tomorrow.
3. Anytime that you have left over please work on current events.
4. Also, they may go on and vote for the KATU $10,000 donation competition.

Gun Control and Executive Orders due Friday!

Today we will begin working on a position paper regarding gun control policy and executive power. You will write this paper using Google Drive and will be having your paper edited by at least two peers. Here is a link to the assignment. We will be spending Tuesday and Wednesday in the computer lab to work on this.

I have posted some links under "Gun Control Policy Links" below. These have information about some of the various proposals and President Obama's gun control objectives outlined last year's. These will help you get started.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/issues/preventing-gun-violence

http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/docs/wh_now_is_the_time_full.pdf

http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2013/01/16/president-obama-announces-new-measures-prevent-gun-violence

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/08/29/fact-sheet-new-executive-actions-reduce-gun-violence

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/response/message-president-obama-about-your-petition-reducing-gun-violence