Learning Target: Students will know the basic core beliefs of the two major American political parties. Students will be able to make informed decisions about major American political issues.
Circle: For one year, would you rather give up all social media (instagram, snapchat, twitter, etc) or have to eat the same dinner (of your choosing) every night. Would you say that most of your political ideas are shaped by your parents, your own understandings and research, or other?
World Issues Project: Students will have 20 minutes to work on their World Issues Projects.
Quiz: You will be finishing up this quiz to see how liberal or how conservative you are right now. At the end of the unit, you will be taking this quiz again to see if you have changed at all.
https://brainfall.com/quizzes/how-conservative-liberal-are-you/
Classroom Reflection: In Google Classroom you are going to reflect on why you think you believe what you believe. Do your parents tell you what to think? Do you do a lot of research into issues and make opinions for yourself? Where did your opinions on these matters come from?
Political Landscape: We will be looking at congressional districts and how democrats and republicans are generally separated by urban and rural.
Issues We Want to Study: You will be working together in your groups to put a list together of current issues in American Politics that you want to study during this unit. We will then be making a list on the board. Here is a good website to use to find current political issues in America. https://www.isidewith.com/polls
Issues Overview: We will be looking at this article to get a general idea of where each party lies for each issue. https://www.diffen.com/difference/Democrat_vs_Republican
No comments:
Post a Comment