So my internet on my laptop is being stupid so I'm doin this on my cell phone :) just wanted to put that out there.. ha.
1. Students will understand the main political and economic systems of the world.
- Monarchy: when one person is the head of the entire state.
- Absolute Monarchy: they make all the important decisions. they have complete control over the government and their people.
- Consitutional Monarchy: the person shares their power with the congress or a house of representatives.
- Communism (Practice & Theory) :
Practice:
- There is no poverty and there is no upper class.
- Everything is equal and nothing is shared.
- All people have land and factories.
Theory:
- Step 1: The rich, get even richer. The poor, get even more poor.
- Step 2: The poor would become angry with the rich, and they rich would revolt against them. This causes the government to slowly begin to disappear.
- Step 3: Everyone would end up being equal because the poor would take over the country.
- Democracy ( Direct & Representitive ) :
-Democracy: A government held by the people.
-Direct Democracy: The citizens make the decisoin in the person, anyone who wants to participate may do so.
-Representitive Democracy: elected people will represent the citizens of a community. people try to agree with eachother to determin what will happen while electing the representitives.
- Dictatorship & Anarchy:
-Dicatorship: the government is ruled by one person, the people did not have a say on who.
-Anarchy: there is no government to really speak of, there is a lot of chaos and the government usually fails when it is an anarchy.
- Capitialism:
- it is a socio-economic system in which private ownership means profit to the owner.
- Socialism:
-a theory that is economic & political that thinks that making an object, distributing, and exchanging of an object should be done all together as a community.
2. Students will understand the differences between the major political parties in the United States.
- Democrats & Republicans:
-Democrats: they are more liberal. they are mostly based off the Constiution.
-Republicans: they are more conservative. they are mostly based off the Bible.
-Example: Republicans want to pray in school. Democrats are against this because they think that religion and education need to be seperated.
3. Students will understand the causes and effects of global warming.
- Global Warming: Global warming is when the earths temperature heats up. It happens when greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide, water vapor, nitrous oxide, and menthane) trap heat and light from the sun in the earths atmosphere, which increases the temperature. This hurts many people, animals, and plants. Many cannot take the change, so they die.
4. Students will understand the causes and effects of overpopulation.
- Overpopulation: Overpopulation is when there are too many people for the carrying capacity. This causes space issues and also hunger problems. This could eventually cause human existence to be no more.
5. Students will understand the impact of globalization.
- Globalization: Globalization is when countries join together economically, through education, polictics and society, and viewing themselves not only through their national identity, but also of the world as a whole.
7. Students will be able to explain their understanding of recent current events(Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Darfur, Rwanda, Somalia, North/South Korea). Need to know 4/7.
- North/South Korea: North Korea bombed South Korea. So now there is alot od tension inbetween the two contries.
Rwanda: There was a war between the Hutu's and Tutsi's. In just 100 days, the Hutu's took over and killed 800,000 tutsis. Thats about 8000 people a day. :(
Somalia: The country is a complete mess. There is no government and people are killed everyday. People there arereally poor and pirates surround the waters by it.
Afghanistan: The Al Qaeda attacked the US and so it caused 911 and now we attacked them and declared war.
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