About This Lesson
ESSENTIAL QUESTION:
WHAT, THEN, IS AMERICAN ‘IDENTITY SOCIALISM’?
OBJECTIVES:
SWBAT analyze, evaluate, source and annotate excerpted primary and secondary source (complex text, videos, images, articles) toward skill building for the AP Government and Politics Exam.
BOOKS:
D’Souza, Dinesh (2020) United States of Socialism: Who’s Behind It. Why It’s Evil. How To Stop It. NEWYORK: St. Martin’s Publishing Group (Pgs. 1-32)
Dempsey, Martin (Retired General) No Time For Spectators: The Lessons That Mattered Most From West Point to The West Wing. USA: Mission Day (Pgs. 184, 191, 205)
VIDEO CLIP:
This Isn’t Your Grandpa’s Socialism With Dinesh D’Souza (Jimmy At The Crossroads) (31:32 mins)
IMAGE INTERPRETATION:
The Political Pendulum
https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Political_Pendulum.html?id=MDcKywEACAAJ&source=kp_cover
ARTICLE:
Why Fascists Fail – Michael Hirsch 7/21/2000
Foreign Policy Magazine
https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/07/21/2020-election-trump-biden-fascism-autocrat/
A.P. STANDARDS:
https://apstudents.collegeboard.org/courses/ap-united-states-government-and-politics(2020)
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