AP government and politics 2015
Lansing Eastern High School  
http://www.lansingschools.net
 
WELCOME TO ADVANCED PLACEMENT GOVERNMENT  This is an accelerated college level course.  It will require a significant amount of reading and study.  If you are one of those people who has avoided READING, then it is time to change your approach.  In the end, at the end of this rainbow is college credit. 


SECOND MARKING PERIOD QUIZZES:

GO ON TO MEL.ORG, LEARNING EXPRESS LIBRARY FOR PRACTICE EXAMS

or

take one of my old Final Exams on QUIA
****************************************************************

WARNING    WARNING     WARNING    MIDTERM GRADES GO IN THIS WEEKEND

FIRST MAKE SURE THAT YOU HAVE TACKLED THE QUIZZES ON THE PRESIDENCY AND THE JUDICIARY.

I have added a quiz on VOTING AND THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE, but I will be checking the other quizzes first for midterm grades.



@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@



APRIL 21ST   There are practice JAVA games:  AP GOVT SUPREME COURT REVIEW and a PRESIDENTIAL JEOPRADY CHALLENGE BOARD

QUIZZES:  THERE ARE A SERIES OF QUIZZES ON THE PRESIDENT--President and Executive Branch; Presidency: Focus of Leadership; Presidents and the Media; Bureaucracies and the Executive Branch


APRIL 20TH-----MAKE SURE YOU ARE CAUGHT UP ON ASSIGNED QUIZZES

NEXT QUIZ:  AP GOVERNMENT--GIDEON V. WAINWRIGHT


Get your research going on your Supreme Court case project.

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

APRIL 21ST-----NOW YOU CAN DO THE QUIZ:

BUREAUCRACIES AND THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH


APRIL 21ST:  We will be doing a week or more on the Judicial Branch and Civil Rights and Civil Liberties.  Before we get started :

TAKE:  AP JUDICIARY PRETEST

APRIL 16TH:   There are a series of quizzes on the Presidency.

I suggest you take them in the order 1 through 4.  Do not do the quiz of bureaucracy and the executive branch until we have completed the lecture on the chapter on bureaucracy in your text book.

QUIZZES  [These are open book, open source quizzes.]

PRESIDENT AND THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH-REGULAR GOVERNMNET

THE PRESIDENCY FOCUS OF LEADERSHIP (MORE AP STYLE)

THE PRESIDENT AND THE MEDIA ( AP STYLE)

GAME:  PRESIDENTIAL JEOPRADY CHAPTER 13 AND 14---play it with a friend it might help you with your quizzes.



FIRST MARKING PERIOD ASSIGNMENTS

MARCH 28TH MIDTERM 

MIDTERM EXAM:  CONGRESS-AP MASTERY EXAM

################################################
MARCH 25TH -----TAKE;  WIND CHILL:  THAT'S COLD, BABY

UNIT ON CONGRESS----4 DIFFERENT THINGS TO WORK ON

CONGRESS AND ITS POWERS PRETEST


MARCH 18TH TUESDAY-----UNIT TEST: POLITICAL CULTURE, PARTICIPATION, PARTIES AND ELECTIONS



MARCH 13 and 14TH :  DUE: POLITICAL CULTURE QUIZ

  DUE---QUIZ; POLITICAL OPINIONS, PARTICPATION AND POLITICAL PARTIES

and

QUIZ: VOTING AND ELECTORAL COLLEGE


_________________________________________________

MARCH 10TH   TAKE THE TEST:  AP Govt--Elections and Campaigns Vocab pretest

Start work on the Political Opinions, Particpation and Political Parties

FEBRUARY 24TH---- Make sure you have Federalism AP Chapter 3 Wilson done

then:   TAKE----QUIZ: CH. 3 Federalism

Our next chapter in the text which you should read this week is on POLITICAL CULTURE.    Please begin the quiz  POLITICAL CULTURE


_________________________________________________________________

FEBRUARY 21ST----Make sure that you have three tests done----The Pre-test, Ap Chapter 1 and the Characteristics of a State ...... (Chapter two)

then

QUIZ: FEDERALISM AP CHAPTER 3 WILSON



_________________________________________________________________

FEBRUARY 13TH----TAKE:

AP GOVT--CHAPTER 1 STUDY OF AMERICAN GOVERNMENT

CHARACTERISTICS OF A STATE, THE CONSTITUTION AND THEORIES OF GOVERNMENT

FEDERALISM AP GOVT CHAPTER 3 --WILSON

There ae several games---Battleship:  U.S.S. Constitution; Java Games: 27 Amendments to help get the basics into your MIND!!!










TAKE THE FOLLOWING QUIZZES

AP GOVT INTRODUCTORY ASSESSMENT-----This is a PRETEST.
DO NOT USE GOOGLE, I PHONES, IPADS JUST TAKE THE TEST AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE.

.




 
My Quia activities and quizzes
Final Exam Review AP 2014
https://www.quia.com/quiz/4827172.html
Voting and Electoral College
https://www.quia.com/quiz/3600191.html
AP Judiciary Quiz PRETEST
https://www.quia.com/quiz/4766297.html
AP Gov't Court Case Review
https://www.quia.com/jg/991508.html
AP Supreme Court Cases
https://www.quia.com/quiz/894853.html
President and the Executive Branch-Regular Government
https://www.quia.com/quiz/3459506.html
The Presidency: Focus of Leadership
https://www.quia.com/quiz/912021.html
Presidents and the Media
https://www.quia.com/quiz/4230036.html
Bureacracies and the Executive
https://www.quia.com/quiz/1807605.html
Presidential Jeoprady Chapter 13 and 14
https://www.quia.com/cb/111270.html
AP Government Final 2014
https://www.quia.com/quiz/4827811.html
AP GOVT FREE RESPONSE ESSAY FINAL
https://www.quia.com/quiz/1814991.html
AP Government--Gideon v. Wainwright
https://www.quia.com/quiz/3407766.html
AP Govt Final Exam Spring 2013
https://www.quia.com/quiz/4258725.html
Congress-AP mastery exam
https://www.quia.com/quiz/1800162.html
Congress and its powers---pretest
https://www.quia.com/quiz/4427601.html
Congressional battleship
https://www.quia.com/ba/95324.html
Congress---Know the basics
https://www.quia.com/quiz/3343808.html
Railroad Graph Social Studies
https://www.quia.com/quiz/4721188.html
Political Culture QUIZ
https://www.quia.com/quiz/844613.html
UNIT TEST-POLITICAL CULTURE, PARTICIPATION, PARTIES AND ELECTION
https://www.quia.com/quiz/4722101.html
Creation of Public Policy--Obama's Deal
https://www.quia.com/quiz/3339385.html
Political opinions, participation and political parties
https://www.quia.com/quiz/852885.html
Political party--Images and Realities
https://www.quia.com/quiz/3369053.html
AP Govt--Elections and Campaigns Vocab quiz pre test
https://www.quia.com/quiz/1227633.html
Federalism AP Chapter 3 Wilson
https://www.quia.com/quiz/1323981.html
UNIT TEST----WILSON CHAPTER 1-3
https://www.quia.com/quiz/4686875.html
Elections and Campaigns--Chapter 10 Wilson AP Govt
https://www.quia.com/ba/88532.html
Political Participation and voting
https://www.quia.com/ba/85869.html
Political Parties--Wilson's AP Govt 7
https://www.quia.com/rr/181860.html
Federalism Jeoprady
https://www.quia.com/cb/102126.html
Ch. 3 - Federalism
https://www.quia.com/quiz/4683063.html
Federalism in Cartoons quiz
https://www.quia.com/quiz/3305249.html
Public Opinion Chapter 5 Wilson AP Govt
https://www.quia.com/ba/85546.html
U.S.S. Constitution
https://www.quia.com/ba/44737.html
Characteristics of a State, the Constitution and Theories of Government
https://www.quia.com/quiz/3280567.html
27 Amendments
https://www.quia.com/jg/2433711.html
AP Govt Chapter 1 vocabulary--What is Political power?
https://www.quia.com/quiz/1228533.html
Chapter 2-Articles of Confederation/Constitution and their sources
https://www.quia.com/quiz/1258744.html
APGovt Introductory assessment quiz
https://www.quia.com/quiz/1648354.html
Constitution Day quiz
https://www.quia.com/quiz/1489658.html
AP Govt Chapter 2 Vocabulary
https://www.quia.com/quiz/1259065.html
Govt. Federalism Test
https://www.quia.com/quiz/3302323.html
American Political Culture
https://www.quia.com/ba/84466.html
Congress (House of Representatives or Senate)
https://www.quia.com/jg/1006342.html
Congress and its powers post test
https://www.quia.com/quiz/4460660.html
Judiciary Challenge
https://www.quia.com/cb/182231.html
Chapter 8 The Judicial Branch
https://www.quia.com/jg/991535.html
AP Government--Gideon v. Wainwright
https://www.quia.com/quiz/1765356.html
AP Govt Judiciary Quiz
https://www.quia.com/quiz/878952.html
Bill of Rights
https://www.quia.com/jg/1001162.html
Elections and Campaigns AP Govt--Wilson Chap. 10
https://www.quia.com/quiz/865428.html
ACT Prep The American Republic reading
https://www.quia.com/quiz/3586636.html
American Revolution review
https://www.quia.com/quiz/1468743.html
*Constitution Quiz*
https://www.quia.com/quiz/3263766.html
act prep maps, charts and quizzes
https://www.quia.com/quiz/4047250.html
50 states quiz----Part II
https://www.quia.com/quiz/4129575.html
Commerce Clause and Obamacare worksheet
https://www.quia.com/quiz/3387608.html
ACT PREP domestic violence reading
https://www.quia.com/quiz/3586424.html
Legal Latin--The Basics
https://www.quia.com/quiz/1840967.html
AP GOVERNMENT ---VOCABULARY COURTS AND THE LEGAL SYSTEM
https://www.quia.com/quiz/3600199.html
AP Goveernment Free Response vocabularyt
https://www.quia.com/quiz/3600278.html
Presidential Power Practice essay.
https://www.quia.com/quiz/3649726.html
Political Parties and the Presidency, Public Policy, Federalism etc ESSAY
https://www.quia.com/quiz/3649749.html
AP EXAM REVIEW -- Policy issues and implementation
https://www.quia.com/quiz/1782049.html
Independent Federal Agencies
https://www.quia.com/jg/2433727.html
APGOVT FINAL EXAM JUNE 2012
https://www.quia.com/quiz/3718810.html
50 STATES quiz
https://www.quia.com/quiz/4058418.html
ACT PREP--ROMAN HISTORY READING
https://www.quia.com/quiz/3585977.html
Constitution - President's Cabinet
https://www.quia.com/jg/2511008.html
Bill of Rights vocab matching
https://www.quia.com/quiz/4802885.html
Congress--the basics quiz
https://www.quia.com/quiz/885007.html
Congress AP GOVERNMENT STYLE
https://www.quia.com/quiz/5235570.html
AP Govt--Chapter 1 Study of American Government
https://www.quia.com/quiz/1641306.html
Useful links
Last updated  2018/06/07 09:05:48 EDTHits  2590