ESSENTIAL LINKS
Khan Academy for AP Government (Review Website)
Khan Academy offers practice exercises, instructional videos, and a personalized learning dashboard that empower learners to study at their own pace in and outside of the classroom. Associated Press (News Website)
An independent, not-for-profit news cooperative headquartered in New York City. Our teams in over 100 countries tell the world’s stories, from breaking news to investigative reporting. Politifact (Fact Checking Website)
Fact-checking site that rates the accuracy of claims by elected officials and others who speak up in American politics. FactCheck.org (Fact Checking Website)
Nonpartisan, nonprofit “consumer advocate” for voters that aims to reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics. 270towin (Presidential Elections)
270towin is an interactive Electoral College map for 2016 and a history of Presidential elections in the United States. FiveThirtyEight Politics (Statistical News Website)
News website ran by statistical whiz Nate Silver. Dude is smart! Politico (News Website)
Politico is a global news and information company. Their mission is to help sustain and vastly expand nonpartisan political and policy journalism. Pew Research Center (Polling and Research)
Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping the world. It conducts public opinion polling, demographic research, media content analysis and other empirical social science research. Pew Research Center does not take policy positions. Cagle (Political Cartoons)
A political cartoon and column syndicate which distributes the work of newspaper editorial cartoonists from around the world to subscribing newspapers. Gallup (Polling)
For more than 70 years, Gallup has built its reputation on delivering relevant, timely, and visionary research on what humans around the world think and feel. The Onion (Satirical)
The Onion is the world’s leading news publication, offering highly acclaimed, universally revered coverage of breaking national, international, and local news events. It's just for fun, Grandpa! |
"To me, there are three things we all should do every day. We should do this every day of our lives. Number one is laugh. You should laugh every day. Number two is think. You should spend some time in thought. And number three is, you should have your emotions moved to tears, could be happiness or joy. But think about it. If you LAUGH, you THINK, and you CRY, that's a full day. That's a heck of a day. You do that seven days a week, you're going to have something special."
- Jim Valvano AP GOV & POLITICS UNITS OF STUDY
UNIT 1 - FOUNDATIONS OF AMERICAN GOVERNMENT (15-22%)
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