AP Comparative Study Aids

 

 



First student to post a quality inference using the chart above to compare the U.S (even though the US is NOT a CP 6 country) and the UK and EU area with the political culture of the welfare state will win a "major (not really) award," in class on Monday.

More importantly, here are some great AP Comparative Review sites (thanks, U.S. Gov't Teachers Blog):

Rebecca Small's "Conceptual Terms" which my students all have learned and will review

Scribd's AP Comparisons.  This is a great site if you want a quick review of major topics such as type of government, corruption, elections, ethnic conflict, social cleavages, and more.  If you look at the right side of the page you will see summaries for each country.  Russia, Iran, China (but not updated for Xi), Nigeria (Mexico and GB not there and EU is really weak)

Andrew Conneen's students' overview of each country (this is really good, but now two years old so Russia has some changes as does Iran). 

Ethel Woods' overview of each country (again be warned that this is a few years old)

Hauss's multiple choice questions from his previous edition

Quizlet also has some great flashcards.  The best way to search them is to write "AP Comparative Name of country" into the Quizlet search engine.  The top search items is usually quite good. 

Starting the Final Push: Links for all of U.S. to review

 

This will be the first of several review posts collected by the Political Warrior:

Dan Larsen and Andrew Conneen do a great C-SPAN AP US Government review each year a few days before the AP exam.  Larsen is a question leader at AP Government.  Above is their 2013 review and here are the other past ones. 

You can watch this year's edition on Saturday May 10th from 9:15 to 10 AM EST on CSPAN.

(From US Government Teachers Blog)
Found this great AP Government review guide online (can't remember where and if you know, please tell me so I can give credit where it is due).  It is imposing as it is very lengthy.

Posted on Wolak's Google Docs Page (under
AP Gov. 2013-14) it is tailored down to 12 pages (minus courts, civil liberties and rights).  They are both done thematically and have boxes for easy answers.

AP US GOPO Review Guide

I would have been OK with it...

 

 

Book: Secret Service eyed Mr. Met

 

Go Cubs! Politico reports on the story of the Mets' mascot that Bill Clinton's Secret Service men scared his baseball's off.

 

BTW, AP US TERM-ament South Region (the Presidency) No. 5 seed White House Office. Secret Service staff is among the 1,800 that work in the White House Office.



Sociology Flipped Assignment: The Poor in America

 

 

For Sociology, by Monday, when we will also also test on Stratification read the linked article below:

 

The Poor in America 2012: In need of help

 

And answer in the comment section:

 

3- Pick three direct quotes from the article and explain what they mean to you.

 

2- With direct support from the text, compare/contrast two people, places or policies mentioned in the article.

 

1- Summarize your one take-away from the article (what is the main idea, or significance?).

 

Study Guide for Monday's Test:

 

American Social Class System                                                

 

n  Blue Collar

n  White Collar

n  Bright Collar

n  New Collar

Pink Collar

(Characteristics of)

 

Meritocracy

Social Mobility

Caste System v. Class System

Achieved Status

Ascribed Status

Karl Marx views

n  Bourgeoisie

n  Proletariat

n  Class Consciousness

Communitarian/Individualist Capitalism (where is there less Stratification)

Communism

Socialism

Poverty Threshold

Cycle of Poverty

Homelessness (in Suburbs)

Roger & Me (reading on test)

Welfare

 

 



The Rest of the Story...

Dialectical Journal, "Who Speaks for Iran?" due Thursday.

Larger electorate (815m) than U.S., E.U. combined

India used to be, but is no longer one of the AP comparative 6 countries. Still, several themes can be taken out of the breaking news where the world's most populous democracy goes to the polls this week.

So with a chance to connect to some of your ethnic family and political culure, we're taking it.

For Wednesday (posted here by the end of the day):

Read The Economist's India's New Voters and:

3 - Define the following three terms: Westminster-style system; seminal; "born-frees"

2 - Explain a comparison and a contrasting fact or trend with India and one of the other CP 6 countries of case study. Use textual support.

1 - What is your one take-away summary from the article.

Iran cleric warns of takeover attempt on Assembly of Experts

Do they Tweet? I doubt it, but this made social media noise last week. Could Change becoming to the group that picks the Supreme Leader? And if so, why?

Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati has alerted listeners to a planned takeover of the Assembly of Experts, the body that chooses and monitors the activities of the supreme leader.

An Expert Takeover Coming to Tehran?

 

 

How Iran is Ruled