A Chart of Government Vocab created by the gentlemen at CitizenU. These words should be know independently and together. The CitizenU guys have great Youtube playlists connected with this idea. Making Government Tenable and Check Mix
Blizzard Bag Assignments
Day One: Complete two News Assigns. Read two news articles. Write up the following information about each. The Title, Source, Date, Main Idea, Sources of information in the article, was there any detectable bias? If so, for what/whom? How did you determine the bias? Did you learn anything from the article? What did you learn? Did the article leave any unanswered questions or were there holes in the information presented?
Day Two: Go to YouTube.com, search for a video related to the topic we covered in class the previous day or week. Write down the information that was presented, if included news clips, primary sources, or all secondary source, if the video seem biased at all, and your overall opinion of the video. You should watch a video or combination of videos that total 20 minutes in length. Day Three: Go to YouTube.com, search for a video related to the topic we covered in class the previous day or week. Write down the information that was presented, if included news clips, primary sources, or all secondary source, if the video seem biased at all, and your overall opinion of the video. You should watch a video or combination of videos that total 20 minutes in length. *If you cannot access youtube, go to google video or yahoo video. *If video cannot be accessed do a search for the topic and articles. For example: Congressional Committees Articles.