AP Comparative Gov. & Politics
Winter Term, 2015/2016
Russia
Unit 3: Russia and China
We study former and current (sort of) communist regimes.Unit 3 Vocabulary and Reading Guidelines are linked HERE
Study Resources:
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•For practice on FRQs, use the AP Central site to access past FRQs from the AP Exam from 2006-2015. This site gives scoring keys and authentic examples of student answers. It’s a goldmine! Online at: AP Central at: http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/members/exam/exam_information/2087.html
Activities
•This is what you call perfect timing - a PBS NewsHour story on the U.S. response to Russian aggression in Eastern Europe: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/could-a-nato-build-up-in-europe-reignite-the-cold-war/
•Next, we finish the video from yesterday on Black October, the traumatic standoff between Boris Yeltsin and the Russian Parliament in 1993: Black October on RT:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnkCu7N-J0M
•And, we’ll look at Pussy Riot’s protest against the Putin govt., a news report that includes Putin’s response, and a new video by the band in which it vilifies the prosecutor of Moscow.
The 2012 protest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1s-ZN2yZzWw
An RT report on the response to the band’s protest in the church: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xbqxMkrkhc
Tu, 2/9/16
