pending update......
SUMMER READING
Cheng, Nien. LIFE AND DEATH IN SHANGHAI. New York: Penguin Books, 1988.
(paperback)
This is a memoir of the life during the Cultural Revolution. It won't teach
you WHAT you need to know about China, it'll just give you an idea about why
you ought to "give a rip" about knowing it!
Motivational Preview: When Nien Cheng overhears her servant asking a member
of the Red Guard, "Do you beat your teachers often," the answer
is "Naw.....Only when they try to make us do things like READ BOOKS!"
Tues., Apr. 1, 2008
ASSIGNMENTS:
1. Go to www.frontline.org. Choose "Watch Online." Select 2006 "TANK MAN."
View. Explore website. (See bottom link on AP COMPARATIVE LINKS page.)
2. Study review material for China test.
3. Begin reading Mexico:
A. Background on LDCs
B. Sodaro, Ch. 21 (pp. 628-659)
C. REVIEW HANDOUT: China
4. Check email for relevant links.
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OOPS......I'm back. SORRY TO BE OUT OF TOUCH SO LONG. Web Problems,
however, have been ameliorated.
Thurs. (3/13/08)
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ASSIGNMENTS:
1. Russia test on the day of our return.
2. Check email for
A. Links on VIKTOR BOUT, THE MERCHANT OF DEATH
B. BONUS: another PEW News IQ Test
C. Anything else interesting I might send you!
3. Holiday reading focus - CHINA.
A. Sodaro (text), Ch. 20, pp. 579-627
B. Review Material - "GOV. & POLITICS IN CHINA" (handout)
C. SUPPLEMENTAL HANDOUTS:
1.) RUSSIA - The Hunt for OLIGARCHS (FP)
2.) Charts
a. structure - Party, Gov., PLA (army)
b. poitical figures, radicals vs. gradualists, major protests
and demonstrations, GMD vs. CCP, and USSR v. PRC
3.) ARTICLES:
a. "Asian Values" from the JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
b. IMAGINE CHINA (series from HARVARD INTERNATIONAL REVIEW) -
Read & write a very brief summary of each article in packet.
IN CLASS:
FOCUS: RUSSIAN JEOPARDY
OBJ: Review!
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Mon. - 1/29/08)
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1. Read Sodaro, Ch. 15 (Britain)
2. Read and highlight study notes (handout).
IN CLASS:
FOCUS: The Mother of Parliaments
OBJ: Introduce British Institutions
Watch "Order! Order" Video.
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Thurs. - 1/24/08
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ASSIGNMENTS: (Sorry...time ran out in class. I'll hand out the review
stuff
next class meeting.)Read (FOCUS: ADVANCED DEMOCRACIES - Britain and the
European Union (Political Institutions; Citizens, Society, and the State;
Public Policy, Political and Economic Change)....
1. Sodaro, Ch 5: "The State and It's Institutions"
2. Sodaro, Ch. 8: "Democracy: How Does It Work? State Institutions and
Electoral Systems"
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FOCUS: DEMOCRACY & CAPITALISM - International Financial Institutions
OBJ. ID and recognize functions.
In Class:
1. Finish Benjamin Barber video.
2. Discuss Handouts (international economics)
3. Play HEADLINE BINGO
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Tues. - 1/22/08
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FINISH YOUR READINGS (Fukuyama, Huntington, Barber + Sodaro 7 & 9, and CB
Briefing Paper on Democritization + International Trade Packet!!!!!!!!!!!
In class:
DO NOW: Watch ANTI-GLOBALIZATION SLIDE SHOW w/ music from the No-WTO COMBO
FOCUS: VIEWPOINTS ON GLOBALIZATION
OBJ: Identify and explain various viewpoints and rationales.
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Handouts:
1. Viewpoint spectrum - globalization
2. Power List - Charts
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1. "Rigged Rules" from OxFam (maketradefair.org)
http://www.maketradefair.org/en/index.php?file=issues_dumping.htm#
2. POWERPOINT PRES & DISCUSSION: Globalization and Neoliberalism (Rutgers)
3. DVD - Moyers's 2004 NOW interview with Benjamin Barber
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Thurs. - 1/17/08
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1. Read Democritization Briefing Paper from College Board.
2. Read Sodaro, Ch. 7 and 9
3. Read Benjamin Barber's "Jihad v. McWorld" (See emailed link for
download.)
4. Now, here's a BONUS opportunity for you.........Barber discusses some of
the big ideas in his latest book, CONSUMED, on the December 21, 2007
broadcast of NOW (PBS).
Watch and listen as Bill Moyers sits down with author and professor Benjamin
Barber to discuss how he believes capitalism threatens American democracy by
clicking here! Then write a 10-15 sentence paragraph explaining what Barber
means by "PRIVATIZING PROFIT AND SOCIALIZING RISK" and what he thinks the
ramifications of doing it are.
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IN CLASS:
1. Test.
2. Go over test.
3. Finish Episode #1 COMMANDING HEIGHTS
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Tues. - 1/15/08
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MULTIPLE CHOICE TEST and IDs on INTRO next time!
Read the International Trade Packet
IN CLASS:
1. Continue Episode #1: COMMANDING HEIGHTS
2. Complete lec. & discussion of INTRO.
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FRI. 1/11/08
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ASSIGNMENTS:
1. Read handout & do chart on international financial instutions in order
to
prep. for BINGO next week.
2. TEST on INTRO. coming THURS.
3. Read Fukuyama and Huntington when you get the chance.
HANOUTS:
1. International Institutions/Alphabet Soup & CHART
2. Readings: (Big Thinkers and Big Ideas)
A. Fukuyama: "The End of History"
B. Huntington: "The Clash of Civilizations"
IN CLASS:
FOCUS: POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC CHANGE (See emailed INTRO--test next week)
OBJ:
1. ID and describe types of change.
2. ID and contrast attitudes toward change.
3. ID, explain, and evaluate THREE TRENDS.
VIDEO FOCUS: COMMANDING HEIGHTS - Episode 1 "The Battle of Ideas" (up to
Keith Joseph)
OBJ:
1. Explain advent & appeal of nanny state ("womb to tomb")
2. Characterize INDIAN model of government and economy.
3. Characterize the Chicago School of economics.
4. ID and explain impact of STAGFLATION.
5. Define and explain "the British disease" ("sick man of Europe")
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WED. 1/9/07
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ASSIGNMENTS:
1. Read Sodaro, Ch. 13: "Political Economy"
2. Read at least "Bretton Woods" at rear of IT & GD handout
3. Check AP CG Links page for streaming video link: FAREED ZAKARIA. Watch!
4. Skim rest of Viewing Guide
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HANDOUTS:
1. 2006 Free Response Test, Sample answers #1, & critique.
2. Course outline.
3. Sample MC questions.
4. USAD "International Trade and Global Development"
5. Viewing Guide: COMMANDING HEIGHTS
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FOCUS: COURSE OUTLINE & FREE RESPONSE TEST FORMAT
OBJ: Familiarize!
IN CLASS:
1. Go over free response format, acutal ID item, sample answer, rubric, &
critique.
2. Lec. & Discussion: Course outline & Woods's INTRO TO APCG by topic.
Highlight
FOCUS: COMMANDING HEIGHTS - Episode 1 "The Battle of Ideas" (up to Great
Depression)
OBJ.:
1. ID source & explain meaning of title.
2. Keynes and von Hayak:
A. ID & explain big ideas & schools of thought
B. ID big books
C. Explain & evaluate impact of each.
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Monday 1/7/08
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ASSIGNMENTS:
1. FINISH HOLIDAY ASSIGNMENTS IF YOU HAVEN'T! (EMAILED!) Links are posted
on AP CG links page.
A. Print copy of course outline from College Board Website. Place in
notebook. See links page.
B. Open, print, read, highlight, and place in notebook the emailed
"Introduction to Comparative Government and Politics." Note the
important terms and concepts at the end.
C. Read Ch. 1 & 2 in Sodaro's COMPARATIVE POLITICS: A GLOBAL INTRO.
Note key terms, p. 27 (add WTO & IMF) and p. 52 (add reactionary and
radical)
D. Learn about "The Prisoner's Dilemma (Appendix, pp. 5204) firsthand
by playing three successivly more complex versions of it at the
emailed websites. (They are also listed on the links page at
http://schoolnotes.com/39110/shiversecon.html
E. View or review (Ole Miss fall field trip) Thomas Friedman's ten
world "flattners" by listening to his speech at MIT WORLD. (See
links page) .......or read the book!
F. Geography bonus
2. Bring downloaded stuff!
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HANDOUTS:
1. 3 charts (countries & political spectrum)
2. Col. Bd. piece on CIVIL SOCIETY (potty read)
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FOCUS: Introduction to AP Comparative Government
OBJ:
1. Welcome
2. Find out whacha' already know!
IN CLASS:
PLAY TRIVIA CHALLENGE! (PPT) VISUAL LITERACY!
