Circle: What is your favorite restaurant you've ever been to?
Conservative vs Liberal: You will take 5-7 minutes to write down in your groups everything you know about conservatives and liberals. These could be stereotypes, these could be core beliefs, and these could be which way they tend to swing on issues. We will then be making a list up on the board.
Here is a great infographic that shows some basic differences. https://informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/left-vs-right-us/
Right vs Left Video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_k_k-bHigM
Right vs Left Chart: https://www.diffen.com/difference/Democrat_vs_Republican
Quiz: You will be taking this quiz to see how liberal or how conservative you are right now. At the end of the unit, you will be taking this quiz again to see if you have changed at all.
https://brainfall.com/quizzes/how-conservative-liberal-are-you/
Congressional Districts: We will be talking about how congressional districts work, how the electoral college works, and the physical landscape of our two main parties in America. Do you think we should do create a new system to replace the electoral college?https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/07/30/presenting-the-least-misleading-map-of-the-2016-election/
Issues We Want to Study: You will be working together in your groups to put a list together of current issues in American Politics that you want to study during this unit. We will then be making a list on the board. Here is a good website to use to find current political issues in America. https://www.isidewith.com/polls
Reflection: On a piece of paper you are going to reflect on why you think you believe what you believe. Do your parents tell you what to think? Do you do a lot of research into issues and make opinions for yourself? Where did your opinions on these matters come from?
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