Government & Civics

2009-2010

 
 
Welcome to our class website Students enrolled in this course will use this site to access assignment downloads, readings and course related links throughout the semester. See your teacher for downloads page passwords. Current Unit of Study: Media Literacy In an effort to be effective consumers of news and information, we will complete several assignments and activities designed to understand bias and how “news” is processed. Go to the assignments/downloads page to access the following assignments: • The Media Primer(reading) • Article Analysis To learn more visit these sites: The Newseum, Freedom Forum, What is your Political Ideology? Here are several interactive online “quizzes” for you to have fun with. Remember, this is just for fun and in no way should the results influence your opinions and beliefs! Here are a few of the “better” ones: You need only to complete the first three for the class assignment. Pew Research Center: 2005 Political Typology Politopia (this one is unique!) World’s Smallest Political Quiz (the Libertarian quiz) many more . . . Elections Be an educated voter. Use the links on the left to research the issues and candidates on this year’s ballot. A great place to start is Washington Voter, a site created by the state chapter of the League of Women Voters. The County Auditor’s site is essential for local information and Project Vote Smart is exceptional for general voter knowledge and for researching the positions of candidates. Red States, Blue States Read the election 2000 USA Today article that coined the terms. view voting maps: 2000 by county, 2004 by county, 2004 cartograms State Government Use the links on the menu to the left to access everything you need to know about Washington State Government and the issues and candidates in state and local elections. For the most comprehensive coverage of State issues from across the country go to Stateline.org The Foundations of American Democracy coming soon ../Downloads/Civicsdownloads.html../Downloads/Civicsdownloads.htmlhttp://www.newseum.org/http://www.freedomforum.org/http://typology.people-press.org/typology/http://www.politopia.com/http://www.theadvocates.org/quiz.htmlhttp://www.fzc.dk/thomas/politica.htmhttp://www.washingtonvoter.org/http://www.washingtonvoter.org/http://www.co.thurston.wa.us/auditor/http://www.vote-smart.org/index.htmhttp://www.vote-smart.org/index.htmhttp://www.usatoday.com/news/vote2000/pres84.htmCivics_files/counties-2000.gifCivics_files/counties-2004.gifhttp://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/http://www.stateline.org/live/shapeimage_1_link_0shapeimage_1_link_1shapeimage_1_link_2shapeimage_1_link_3shapeimage_1_link_4shapeimage_1_link_5shapeimage_1_link_6shapeimage_1_link_7shapeimage_1_link_8shapeimage_1_link_9shapeimage_1_link_10shapeimage_1_link_11shapeimage_1_link_12shapeimage_1_link_13shapeimage_1_link_14shapeimage_1_link_15shapeimage_1_link_16shapeimage_1_link_17

Instructor: Mike Schaefer

Olympia High School

Olympia, Washington


Contact me:

Room #: 508

Phone: 596-7323

Voice mail: 596-7218

Email: mschaefer@osd.wednet.edu



Assignments (downloads)

Homework:



Culminating Project / CAP

  1. •OHS CP Homepage

  2. •CP Formal Proposal Requirements

  3. •Log Entry Template

  4. •Log Entry handwritten form (recommended)

  5. •Cover Page Template


Links

Course Tools

• Class Guidelines

• MLA Citations Guide

• easybib.com (auto citations)


Get Involved

• Do Something


Voter information sites

• Register to vote

• Washington Sec. of State

• Politics 1

• Project Vote Smart

• Rock the Vote

• P 2008

• Factcheck.org


Polling information

• pollingreport.com

• Real Clear Politics

• Rasmussen Reports

• Fivethirtyeight


Political Parties

• Democrats

• Republicans

• Libertarians

• The Green Party

• The Reform Party


Washington State sites

• Access Washington (State Gov.)

• Washington Voter

• Thurston County Auditor

• Washington Votes


City of Olympia

• City website


Political Cartoons

• Horsey - Seattle P. I.

• Daryl Cagle’s Today’s Best

• politicalcartoons.com

• comics.com Editoons


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