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Learning Goal One: Political Systems

Remember that I am looking for you to identify your country's type of political system as one of the 10 we learned. Use the resources below to accomplish that.



Link for the world fact book. The section on each country's government is very useful. https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/up.html

On the library research page, you can use Culture Grams, WorldandI, or Ebsco Host to help look for the government description and articles about your country's government.

The user name for Ebsco and WorldandI is "hmslibrary" and the password is "go4it"

For Culture Grams use "caiu4esl" for the user name and the password is "cgrams"

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You may also use the internet to search for information and articles. If you do, remember to use key words in your search strategies (country's name, leader's name, government, etc.) and remember to use only reliable sources. If you are not sure, check with me.

Learning Goal Two: Determining the Development of Nations

Remember that you completed the Ranking Developing Nations Project. Use the categories and characteristics you used before. You might want to use the green text book, the CIA World Fact book (link above), or the Upfront magazine we used in class.

http://upfront.scholastic.com/issues/12_10_12/book

Learning Goal Three: Economic Systems

The type of economic system for your country can be found on the Heritage website I have posted below. You may however, understand the description on Wikipedia more easily. I don't usually tell students to use Wikipedia, but for economic systems, I think it is fine. Use either site.

http://www.heritage.org/index/country

Once you have identified the type of economic system, look in your notes for the positives and negatives for that system to help complete the paragraph.

Learning Goal 4: World Religions

Culture Grams on the library resource page is an excellent place to go to find out what the major religions are in your country. Remember that a link to get there is posted above on this page and the user name and password are also listed. Below are some other resources you can use.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/

To find articles, because you all have different countries, you will need to research your individual country. The key to finding what you want is to use key words and not complete sentences. So, if you use a search engine like google, start simple with your "country's name" and "religion." You will probably get sites that have information about your country's religion(s) so you may need to add the next item you're looking for "culture." By adding + signs you can get results with these words together. Once you have results, you need to take a few minutes and read what the search has found you. It may not be the very first article that comes up, but with a little patience you can find an article that gives some information on how religion influences culture in your country.