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Gov and Honors Gov

Gov: Campaigns and Elections

     Campaigns and Elections Quiz    

   Congress Pre-Test

Honors Gov: Executive Branch

     Executive Branch Quiz    

Foreign Policy

Set against the frenetic, unforgiving streets of Pakistan, TERROR’S CHILDREN presents poignant stories of the aftermath of war. Pakistani filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, documents the lives of Afghan refugee children who have crossed the border into Pakistan. Her camera goes where no one had ever filmed before, revealing young girls and boys forced to bear the responsibilities of grown men and women, but who are, at heart, still just kids.

Honors Gov: The Fed

“The Eye of the Storm” describes the Fed’s role in the U.S. Banking system and the Fed’s response to Hurricane Andrew.

Power transition at Federal Reserve could influence dynamics of taper debate

The Federal Reserve is amid an unprecedented changing of the guard that could influence the dynamics of the debate over its controversial stimulus program.

• What is the issue?
• Why is it important?
• Who is involved?
• Where is the issue taking place?
• What are the multiple perspectives around the issue?
• Why is the issue important to Americans?

Gov: Current Events

Republicans moving to overhaul 2016 primary process

Republican National Convention group has been hashing out plan to condense nominating calendar, punish states that upend voting order, and potentially move the convention to  earlier in the summer.

Godspeed To The RNC Folks Trying To De-Suckify The 2016 Primary

There’s a lot of silly drama when states try to move up in the primary calendar, there are far too many debates, and the whole thing is just absurdly long.

• What is the issue?
• Why is it important?
• Who is involved?
• Where is the issue taking place?
• What are the multiple perspectives around the issue?
• Why is the issue important to Americans?

Gov: General Election

     Students represent states and are no longer members of a particular party. Therefore, they can choose a candidate from either party based on their own beliefs about the campaign issues and which candidates would be better for the offices of president and vice president.

During the campaigning session, the presidential and vice presidential nominees and their campaigners will crisscross the nation to meet voters. Candidate teams should consider and discuss this question. Which states should we focus on in our campaign, and why? Candidate teams will have 15 minutes for this campaign session. Presidential and vice presidential nominees can visit as many states as they want, together or separately, to encourage those states to vote for them. When a nominee makes a campaign stop, he or she can talk to multiple states in the area. No state can stop a nominee as he or she is traveling. A nominee is free to visit the states he or she chooses and may visit some states more than once or not at all.

At the end of the campaign session, students voted one candidate for the office of president and vice president. The percentage of the vote that each presidential/vice presidential candidate received was quickly calculate and the outcome of the popular vote was revealed to the class. The candidate students voted for in the popular vote happens to be the candidate who received the majority of votes in the state they represented. Therefore, that candidate will receive all the electoral votes from that state. Their electoral votes was tallied them and the candidate receiving the majority of electoral votes was announced as the winner.