HOA Period 6 - Reconstruction Presentations

The links below should take you to the presentations and review sheets made by your classmates.  Please contact me directly if one of the links does not work.

Presidential and Congressional Reconstruction Plans

• presentation
• review sheet

Goals, Methods and Results of Southern Resistance

• presentation
• review sheet

Economic Successes and Failures of Reconstruction

• presentation
• review sheet

Political Successes and Failures of Reconstruction

• presentation
• review sheet

Social Success and Failures of Reconstruction

• presentation
• review sheet

African Americans in the New South

• presentation
• review sheet

HOA Period 5 - Reconstruction Presentations

The links below should take you to the presentations and review sheets made by your classmates.  Please contact me directly if one of the links does not work.

Presidential and Congressional Reconstruction Plans

• presentation
• review sheet

Goals, Methods and Results of Southern Resistance

• presentation
• review sheet

Economic Successes and Failures of Reconstruction

• presentation
• review sheet

Political Successes and Failures of Reconstruction

• presentation
• review sheet

Social Success and Failures of Reconstruction

• presentation
• review sheet

African Americans in the New South

• presentation
• review sheet

HOA: Past Paper 3 Questions

Here's a link to a list of Paper 3 questions from the past 15 years on the Civil War and Reconstruction.  Remember to use only those that are relevant to your topic area for your Reconstruction project.

Note: you must be logged in to APS GoogleDrive to view the document.

Helpful AP Gov Links [REPOSTED 3/12]

The links listed below should help you start your research for your 3rd quarter project.

• The U.S. House of Representatives
• Printable maps of the 112th Congressional districts
• THOMAS: legislative information from the Library of Congress
• Fast Facts for Congress, as supplied by the U.S. Census Bureau
• The Hill: a newspaper dedicated to the goings-on of the Capitol
• Politico's news section on Congress
• National Republican Congressional Committee
• Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
• WhoRunsGov.com - a new site from the Washington Post

These links listed above should provide more than enough information to help get you on your way to becoming an expert on your member of Congress.

APGov: 3rd Qtr. Project Assignments

Here's the list so far:
Daphne - Nancy Pelosi (D)
Jasmine - Barbara Lee (D)
Marie - Steny Hoyer (D)
Ayesha - Mike Thompson (D)
Gabby - Anna Eshoo (D)
Alicia - George Miller (D)
Isaac - Jim Moran (D)
Anudari - John Boehner (R)
Max - John Dingell (D)
Hamede - Niki Tsongas (D)
Emily R. - John Lewis (D)
Matthew - Don Young (R)
Kieran - Tom Rooney (R)
Harmony - Jack Kingston (R)
Emily P.B. - Michele Bachman (R)
Munkhsar - Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R)
Matias - Dan Benishek (R)
Cameron - Robert Aderholt (R)
Maya - Mike Coffman (R)
Sydney - Paul Ryan (R)

APGov: Representative Requests

Submit your 3 requests for 3rd Quarter Project Representatives on the form below or by clicking here.

Congress Project Rubric and Project Description

The rubric for the congress project can be viewed by clicking here.  The project description can be view by clicking this link.

APGov: 3rd Quarter Project Assignments

Click here for a spreadsheet of students' assigned Member of Congress.  The assigned congressman/woman is designated in BOLD.  If there is no Member of Congress in bold next to your name, this means that none of your choices were available.  Submit new choices.

3rd Quarter Project Registration

Here are the rules:
1.  There are a fixed ratio of Republicans and Democrats required for each class (it's about 3:2).
2.  You must request at least one Democrat and at least one Republican.
3.  Members of Congress will be assigned on a first come, first served basis.
4.  A list of assigned Representatives will be posted on Room3011 Monday morning.

Register below or by clicking this link.

APGov: Interest Group Assignments

Interest group assignments can be checked through GoogleDocs by clicking here.  Students were assigned their first pick for interest group in as many cases as possible.

APGov: Interest Group Project

A description of the second quarter project can be found by clicking here.  The rubric for the project has also been posted, and it can be found by clicking here.

Period 3: Today's Assignment

This activity will require some cooperation with your 1st Quarter Project partners for the later steps, so make sure that you're sitting close to your partners.  Today you'll be completing some basic computing tasks that will get you started on your project (if you haven't started already) and prepare you for other assignments in class.  Ready?  Here we go!

1. Navigate to gmail.com in a separate browser tab or window.
2. You will need a gmail account this year for your APGov class.  If you already have a gmail account, you can skip ahead to step 5.
3. Select the button labeled "Create an Account" in the upper right hand corner of the window.
4. Complete the form to obtain an email account.  Your email account should be in the format of FIRSTNAME.LASTNAME.2014@gmail.com.  If it is not in this format you will be required to make another new email address.  CHOOSE A PASSWORD YOU WILL REMEMBER - YOU WILL BE USING THIS ACCOUNT ALL YEAR!
5. Once you've created the account, open your gmail and send an email to both of my email accounts:
1. mccarthyroom3011@gmail.com
2. jeffrey.mccarthy@apsva.us
6. Now send an email to your project partners and have them reply to it.  When you receive their email add them to your contact list by clicking the triangle next to "reply" and selecting "Add 'NAME' to contacts list".  Make sure that you've added all your partners to your contact list.
7. You've now created an email address, shared it with me, and added your partners to your contact list.  Great!  Moving on...
8. Now go to docs.google.com
9. Have one member of your group select "Create" from the left side of the window, and then "presentation".  This should open a new window with a blank slideshow presentation.
10. Now have that member select "Share" from the top right corner of the screen.  It will open a new window.  At the bottom of that new window, you can choose to "Add people" to your document.  Add your partners by typing in their gmail addresses.  Now add my mccarthyroom3011@gmail.com as well.
11. Check to make sure that everyone in your group has access to this presentation.  If not, go back to step 8 and try again.
12. The presentation that you just opened will be the presentation file that you share in class in two weeks.  Every member of your group will be able to edit it at any time.  You will not need a flash drive in order to share it with the class or with me.
13. Now you can start working on your research.  I'd suggest that you try a few internet searches through Room3011's custom-made search engine.  You can find it by scrolling down the sidebar on the right until you find the link labeled "APGov Internet Search"

Period 1: Today's Assignment

This activity will require some cooperation with your 1st Quarter Project partners for the later steps, so make sure that you're sitting close to your partners.  Today you'll be completing some basic computing tasks that will get you started on your project (if you haven't started already) and prepare you for other assignments in class.  Ready?  Here we go!

1. Navigate to gmail.com in a separate browser tab or window.
2. You will need a gmail account this year for your APGov class.  If you already have a gmail account, you can skip ahead to step 5.
3. Select the button labeled "Create an Account" in the upper right hand corner of the window.
4. Complete the form to obtain an email account.  Your email account should be in the format of FIRSTNAME.LASTNAME.2014@gmail.com.  If it is not in this format you will be required to make another new email address.  CHOOSE A PASSWORD YOU WILL REMEMBER - YOU WILL BE USING THIS ACCOUNT ALL YEAR!
5. Once you've created the account, open your gmail and send an email to both of my email accounts:
1. mccarthyroom3011@gmail.com
2. jeffrey.mccarthy@apsva.us
6. Now send an email to your project partners and have them reply to it.  When you receive their email add them to your contact list by clicking the triangle next to "reply" and selecting "Add 'NAME' to contacts list".  Make sure that you've added all your partners to your contact list.
7. You've now created an email address, shared it with me, and added your partners to your contact list.  Great!  Moving on...
8. Now go to docs.google.com
9. Have one member of your group select "Create" from the left side of the window, and then "presentation".  This should open a new window with a blank slideshow presentation.
10. Now have that member select "Share" from the top right corner of the screen.  It will open a new window.  At the bottom of that new window, you can choose to "Add people" to your document.  Add your partners by typing in their gmail addresses.  Now add my mccarthyroom3011@gmail.com as well.
11. Check to make sure that everyone in your group has access to this presentation.  If not, go back to step 8 and try again.
12. The presentation that you just opened will be the presentation file that you share in class in two weeks.  Every member of your group will be able to edit it at any time.  You will not need a flash drive in order to share it with the class or with me.
13. Now you can start working on your research.  I'd suggest that you try a few internet searches through Room3011's custom-made search engine.  You can find it by scrolling down the sidebar on the right until you find the link labeled "APGov Internet Search"
14. Any questions?  You can try contacting me through twitter (@Room3011) or by leaving a comment on this blog post, but I'm at a doctor's appointment so I might not be able to reply.

Enjoy the Pep Rally and have a great weekend!

APGov - First Quarter Project

You can download the project description by clicking here.

You can download the partner assignments by clicking here.

APGov - Member of Congress Assignments

An up-to-date spreadsheet of assigned Members of Congress can be found by clicking here.  If you have not yet chosen a Member of Congress, you must pick a Republican.

Documents for the 3rd Quarter Project

APGov - Extra Credit Opportunity

Arlington Public Schools is holding a student forum this Thursday from 4:30-6:00pm in the W-L cafeteria as part of the development process of the APS Strategic Plan for 2011-2017.  At this forum, APS officials will be soliciting student feedback and advice for how to improve Arlington County Schools.  The Strategic Plan will provide the overall blueprint to guide APS decision-making for the next five years.

Any student that participates in this forum from my APGov classes will receive 2 extra points on their Interest Group Project rubric (it is a 50 point rubric).  Please participate in the forum only if you've already completed your project.

APGov: Resources for Using the Turabian Style of Citation

• Turabian Guide published by the University of California Library
• The Turabian Quick Guide by the University of Chicago Press

APGov - Interest Group Assignments

I'm looking forward to these presentations.  You all picked some really interesting groups!

APGov - Interest Group Project

A description of the second quarter Interest Group Project can be downloaded by clicking here.  The rubric for the project can be downloaded by clicking here.