Citizenship Politics Strand Mr.

Ducklow Political Ideology

Where do I stand on the Issues? Am I a Liberal? A Conservative? Neither? For this activity, you are going to make some initial predictions about your political ideology. After writing your pre-thoughts on your political ideology, you will take a series of tests designed to give you an idea of your political ideology/philosophy.

1. Predict your political ideology. Click the link (political ideology) above if you need an explanation of political ideology. What do you base your prediction on? Elaborate as much as you can.

2. Go to the following web-page: http://www.ontheissues.org/Quiz/Quiz2010.asp?quiz=Pres2012

"Political Philosophy" Quiz (This is the bottom quiz, not the first quiz).
A. STOP!: Click on the B. Take the Quiz. If you are not sure what the issue is about, you can click the links to understand the issue so that you may accurately answer it.

C. When you finish the quiz, you will get a series of results. Cut and paste these results into your word document. Save all the results as you will use these later for a summative assessment.

D. Compare and contrast your initial predictions with your quiz results. To what extent do you agree or disagree with the results? Why?

E. If you would have been eligible to vote in the 2012 Presidential election, who do you think you would have voted for?

F. Go back to the Quiz http://www.ontheissues.org/Quiz/Quiz2010.asp?quiz=Pres2012.

take the first quiz (2012 Presidential Speculation). Cut and paste your results into your word document.
This time, results. Do your quiz results match your answer to E? React to the results. 3. Go to the following web-page http://www.people-press.org/typology/quiz/

Evaluate the

A. After you have taken the quiz, cut and paste the results into this documentyour results will appear in a box. Analyze these results.

4. Self Reflection. Analyze the results of the various quizzes you just took. React to what you learned about yourself through these quizzes. How accurate do you think they are? Explain

Be sure to save your results into your home directory. You will need these for one of the summatives. You will be asked to print this later, so BE SURE TO SAVE YOUR RESULTS!