{"id":100,"date":"2014-03-06T23:48:53","date_gmt":"2014-03-07T06:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/edcongress\/?p=100"},"modified":"2014-03-06T23:49:28","modified_gmt":"2014-03-07T06:49:28","slug":"political-parties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/edcongress\/2014\/03\/06\/political-parties\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Parties"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Today we did an overview of political parties in Canada and did some policy shopping to see if any of the parties matched our personal views. \u00a0Here&#8217;s the classwork we did:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>First, we did a brief <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/edcongress\/files\/2014\/03\/PRETEST.doc\">PRETEST<\/a>\u00a0to see what we already know about the Political Parties in Canada.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>1. Background &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/edcongress\/files\/2014\/03\/Political-Parties-Blog.pdf\">Political Parties Blog<\/a>. Peruse PDF (class slides) for basic info, compare with what you already know<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>2. Open up &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/edcongress\/files\/2014\/03\/Compare-the-party-platforms.pdf\">Compare the party platforms<\/a>s&#8221;<\/div>\n<div>3. Open up the &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/edcongress\/files\/2014\/03\/Political-Parties-Blog.pdf\">Political Parties Blog<\/a>&#8221; and fill out. Choose what you think are the best policies and say why.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0(Tip: If you work on computer, you can copy &amp; paste a policy you like in the first column, type the name of the party, then type your own reason in the &#8220;why&#8221; box. Usually people find they may agree with different parties on different issues, but get an idea of which one they overall agree with &#8211; or disagree with! )<\/div>\n<div>4. Send back to me when you are done for marks today \ud83d\ude42<\/div>\n<div>5. Homework: pp 302-309, 4 Qs on page 309 (Block D handed in 2 already)<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we did an overview of political parties in Canada and did some policy shopping to see if any of the parties matched our personal views. \u00a0Here&#8217;s the classwork we did: First, we did a brief PRETEST\u00a0to see what we already know about the Political Parties in Canada. 1. Background &#8211; Political Parties Blog. Peruse [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16070,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5780],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-info"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/edcongress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/edcongress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/edcongress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/edcongress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16070"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/edcongress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/edcongress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/edcongress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions\/106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/edcongress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/edcongress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/edcongress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}