Module 1: Supplemental Resources

Each week you will be provided with at least one supplemental resource to help you put the reading into context. This week, we will start with a wonderful YouTube Ed video collection called Crash Course. You will mostly watch videos from the U.S. Government and Politics series (there may be one or two videos from the U.S. History series as well).

Watch the following video which does what Chapter 1 in the book does: it helps students who might not be too familiar with government and politics and provides them a broad overview of the topic. Captions are available for all videos in this course, so if you have a hard time keeping up, I recommend turning on the captions by clicking 'cc' at the bottom of the video. It may help to see the words on the screen as you try to understand what is being said.