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Presidential Election Update American Government: Stories of a Nation

For the AP® CourseFirst Edition| ©2021 Scott Abernathy; Karen Waples

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American Government: Stories of a Nation was perfectly crafted for the redesigned AP® Course by an AP® teacher in the classroom every day, just like you. Karen Waples knows the challenges you face in teaching this new course...

The hottest book in AP Am GoPo.

American Government: Stories of a Nation was perfectly crafted for the redesigned AP® Course by an AP® teacher in the classroom every day, just like you. Karen Waples knows the challenges you face in teaching this new course, and she wrote this book to address your unique needs. No other primary textbook has an organization so tightly aligned to the course with pedagogy to support the new skills and exam question types. This *Presidential Election Update*, now delivers even more help and support:

  • Elements related to the 2020 presidential election have been updated.
  • The “crisis” chapter now addresses the Covid-19 pandemic.
  • Updated AP®-style questions reflecting recent changes to the exam format.
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Look Inside Look Inside Cover: Presidential Election Update American Government: Stories of a Nation, 1st Edition by Scott Abernathy; Karen Waples

Contains coverage of the 2020 election, the Covid crisis, and AP® skills and practices

The hottest book in AP Am GoPo.

American Government: Stories of a Nation was perfectly crafted for the redesigned AP® Course by an AP® teacher in the classroom every day, just like you. Karen Waples knows the challenges you face in teaching this new course, and she wrote this book to address your unique needs. No other primary textbook has an organization so tightly aligned to the course with pedagogy to support the new skills and exam question types. This *Presidential Election Update*, now delivers even more help and support:

  • Elements related to the 2020 presidential election have been updated.
  • The “crisis” chapter now addresses the Covid-19 pandemic.
  • Updated AP®-style questions reflecting recent changes to the exam format.

Features

What’s in the Update?
As you might expect from a “Presidential Election Updated Edition,” all portions referencing the U.S. President have been updated to reflect the 2020 election information. Moreover, AP®-style questions have been updated to keep pace with changes to the exam format. In addition, some of the stories that frame each chapter have been updated to reflect recent events, for instance, the story in Chapter 7 has been revised to discuss the response of the federal bureaucracy to the Covid-19 pandemic.

What Continues?
Meticulously Aligned to the AP® U.S. Government and Politics Course. Aligning with course pedagogy like Big Ideas and Essential Knowledge statements, this book adheres to the concepts of the College Board’s redesigned course. Each book unit corresponds to the same unit in the course framework. We’ve kept the coverage brief and targeted to make the book and your course more manageable for you and your students.

Simple Modular Organization. Pacing your AP® U.S. Government and Politics Course can be very challenging with so many concepts and skills to teach, usually in only a single semester. To help, we have segmented chapters into 67 sections guided by learning targets. Each section serves as a discrete instructional module—just enough for a single day’s lesson to deliver content, skills, assignments, and assessments in a brief easy-to-use “chunk.” Whether you are a veteran teacher, or just taking on this course as part of your teaching load, these modules will save you hours of planning time.

Integrated AP® Political Science Practices Features. Each chapter includes 2-3 special features to enhance students’ mastery of the course’s Political Science Disciplinary Practices and Reasoning Processes. Each includes instruction, modeling, and practice in the AP® style.

Integrated Public Policy Coverage. Most traditional books relegate public policy to discrete, separate chapters, but the new AP® course integrates policy throughout. In accord with the new course organization, Election Update: American Government: Stories of a Nation for the AP® Course incorporates public policy.  This approach highlights how public policy functions as the application of principles taught in each chapter and how public policies are implemented.

Integrated AP® Exam Practice. At the end of every section, chapter, and unit, you will find AP®-style practice items—multiple choice questions, free response questions, and argumentation questions—that conform to the redesigned AP® exam. These textbook’s questions were written and vetted by AP® teachers deeply familiar with the format of the exam.

Meaningful, Focused Work on the Required Court Cases. The College Board chose fifteen required U.S. Supreme Court cases to highlight the role of the U.S. Supreme Court in interpreting the Constitution and Bill of Rights. In Election Update: American Government: Stories of a Nation for the AP® Course, chapters that align with particular cases introduce a deep reading of the case, point out the importance of the case to the AP® course, and assess students’ knowledge. Argumentation questions introduce pertinent cases and ask students to articulate a thesis, use the cases as evidence, and write an essay.

Deeper Understanding of the Foundational Documents. The revised course focuses on foundational documents like the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution. This book leads students carefully through those foundational documents, quoting them extensively, and summarizing their arguments. In addition to multiple-choice and free-response practice, your students will also learn how to use the foundational documents as evidence in the model argumentation questions where they get practice writing an essay in the style of the new AP® Exam.

A supplemental document reader containing required foundational documents and court cases is also available.

Critical Thinking Assignments to Extend Learning. To add some fun and interesting ideas for taking your class beyond the exam, this book includes Critical Thinking Assignments at the end of each chapter and unit to prompt students to engage with the course concepts in novel and creative ways.

Engaging Narratives That Bring Abstract Concepts to Life. Election Update: American Government: Stories of a Nation for the AP® Course puts an emphasis on practical applications by starting each chapter with a story from the real world showing how the principles of government have real effects that impact real people.

Complete Package to Support Your Instruction. This book comes with a wrap-around Teacher’s Edition, written by veteran AP® teachers and College Board® consultants, who know the course and know the students.

The Teacher’s Resource Materials include everything you need to support your teaching and your students’ learning.  You’ll find it all in the TRM (available as a flash drive, or as resources in the e-book).

The Foundational Documents and Court Cases Reader includes all of the documents and cases required by the College Board®, as well as some frequently taught works that go beyond the course framework. Each document is accompanied by commentary and guided questions, to help students understand these complex texts.

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Scott Abernathy; Karen Waples

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Look Inside Look Inside Cover: Presidential Election Update American Government: Stories of a Nation, 1st Edition by Scott Abernathy; Karen Waples

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Scott Abernathy; Karen Waples

Table of Contents

Unit 1                Democracy and the Constitution
Chapter 1              American Government and Politics: The Stories of Our Nation
Section 1.1            The Fight for Students’ Rights
Section 1.2            American Political Culture
Section 1.3            Competing Theories of Democracy
Section 1.4            Institutions, Systems, and Power
Chapter 2              The Constitution: A New Vision of Government
Section 2.1            The Articles of Confederation
Section 2.2            The Constitutional Convention
Section 2.3            Branches of Government
Section 2.4            Ratification: Federalists versus Antifederalists
Chapter 3              Federalism: Dividing Power between the National Government and the States
Section 3.1            Conflict over Medical Marijuana
Section 3.2            Federalism and the Constitution
Section 3.3            The Dynamic Nature of Federalism
Section 3.4            Modern American Federalism
Section 3.5            The Supreme Court and Modern Federalism
Unit 1 Review
 
Unit 2                The Branches of the Federal Government
Chapter 4              Congress: Representation, Organization, and Legislation
Section 4.1            The Constitution and Congress
Section 4.2            Politics of Congressional Elections
Section 4.3            The Organization of Congress
Section 4.4            “I’m Just a Bill”
Section 4.5            Congress and the Budget
Section 4.6            Challenges of Representation
Chapter 5              The American Presidency: Individuals, Institutions, and Executive Power
Section 5.1            Presidential Power and the War on Terror
Section 5.2            The Constitution and the American Presidency
Section 5.3            Limits on Presidential Power
Section 5.4            The Modern Presidency in Context
Section 5.5            The War on Terror and Presidential Power 
Chapter 6              The Federal Judiciary: Politics, Power, and the “Least Dangerous” Branch
Section 6.1            Judicial Independence from Money and Politics—Or Both
Section 6.2            The Constitution and the Federal Judiciary
Section 6.3            John Marshall and the Power of the Supreme Court
Section 6.4            Organization of the Federal Judiciary
Section 6.5            Judicial Review, Constitutional Interpretation, and Judicial Decision Making
Chapter 7              The Federal Bureaucracy: Putting the Nation’s Laws into Effect
Section 7.1            How the Bureaucracy Is Organized [tentative]
Section 7.2            The Structure of the Modern Federal Bureaucracy
Section 7.3            The Bureaucracy and Policy Making
Section 7.4            Checks on the Bureaucracy
Unit 2 Review
 
Unit 3                Civil Rights and Civil Liberties

Chapter 8              Civil Liberties: Protecting Fundamental Freedoms
Section 8.1            The Constitution and the Bill of Rights
Section 8.2            Selective Incorporation
Section 8.3            The Right of Religious Freedom
Section 8.4            The Right of Expression and the Right to Own Firearms
Section 8.5            The Rights of Defendants
Section 8.6            Privacy and Other Rights
Chapter 9              Civil Rights: What Is Equality?
Section 9.1            Securing Rights for Those with Disabilities
Section 9.2            The Fight against Segregation
Section 9.3            The Civil Rights Movement
Section 9.4            The Fight for Women’s Rights
Unit 3 Review
 
Unit 4                American Political Ideologies and Beliefs
Chapter 10           American Political Culture: What Americans Believe
Section 10.1         Core Political Values
Section 10.2         Political Socialization
Section 10.3         Globalization and American Core Values
Chapter 11           Public Opinion: Measuring Americans’ Opinions
Section 11.1         What Is Public Opinion?
Section 11.2         Trying to Measure Public Opinion Accurately
Section 11.3         The Effects of Public Opinion on Democratic Representation
Chapter 12           Political Ideology
Section 12.1         Party Ideology
Section 12.2         Ideology and Fiscal Policy
Section 12.3         Monetary Policy
Unit 4 Review
 
Unit 5                Political Participation
Chapter 13           Elections and Campaigns:  Candidates and Voters in an Era of Demographic Change
Section 13.1         Forms of Political Participation
Section 13.2         Voting
Section 13.3         Elections and Democratic Representation
Section 13.4         The Politics of Presidential Elections
Section 13. 5        Money and Campaigns
 Chapter 14           Political Parties: The Powers and Limitations of Political Parties [tentative]
Section 14.1         Functions of Political Parties
Section 14.2         The Development of American Political Parties
Section 14.3         Parties and Political Campaigns
Section 14.4         Third Parties
Chapter 15           Interest Groups and Social Movements: Collective Action, Power and Representation
Section 15.1         A Nation of Joiners
Section 15.2         Interest-Group Tactics
Section 15.3         Social Movements
Chapter 16           The Media: New Technologies, Enduring Issues
Section 16.1         The Evolving News Media
Section 16.1         Regulating Content and Ownership
Section 16.1         How the Media Shape American Politics Today
Unit 5 Review
 
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After working as an on-street counselor for homeless adolescents in Boston, Scott received a master of curriculum and instruction and taught fourth and seventh grades in Wisconsin public schools. Hoping to learn more about the underlying systems that drove educational outcomes, Scott completed an M.P.A in domestic policy and then a Ph.D. in Politics from Princeton University. Scott is now an associate professor of political science and a University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Minnesota. He is also the author of School Choice and the Future of American Democracy and No Child Left Behind and the Public Schools, both from University of Michigan Press.


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Formerly a trial attorney, Karen Waples has taught since 1989 and currently teaches AP® Comparative Government and Politics and AP® U.S. Government and Politics at Holy Family High School in Broomfield, Colorado. Karen has served as a reader, table leader, question leader, and exam leader for the AP® Comparative Government and Politics Exam and as a reader for the AP® U.S. Government and Politics and AP® U.S. History Exams. She is an endorsed consultant for the College Board® and leads workshops and institutes throughout the country for both the AP® Comparative Government and Politics course and the AP® U.S. Government and Politics course. Karen was the chair of the College Board® Social Science Academic Advisory Committee and was a member of the Curriculum Re-design Committee for AP® U.S. Government and Politics. She received the Colorado Governor’s Award for Excellence in Education in 1997 and was recognized as a Cherry Creek High School Teacher of the Year in 2002.

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