1. Students will understand the main political and economic systems of the world.
- Anarchy [not having govement], Dictatorship [one person controlling an entire country, usually evil], Direct Democracy [having someone represent you], Absolute Monarchy [ruled by a king or queen with unlimited power] Comunism [no one owns anything everybody owns it] .
2. Students will understand the differences between the major political parties in the United States.
- Republican- More religious, thinks people should have to work harder for their money(no free handouts), more conservative, and doesnt want things to change. Wants lower taxes. Believes people should help themselves and not rely on goverment. Believes in Trickle down Theory.
- Trickle down theory is basically where the wealthy end up helping the economy but dont like raise taxes or anything because .
- Democrat- More liberal, want to help poorer people, pro choice, for gay marriage, more open to changes, opposes going into someones individual life, favor an active role for goverment in society, believes involvement will help the quality of our lives, willing to increase taxes for support programs.
- Republicans against- gay marriage because they believe its a sacred bond between a man and a woman, abortion because they think its killing someone,
- Democrats against- Flag burning,
3. Students will understand the causes and effects of global warming.
- Natural cause- Temps heat up then cool down then heat up, they say its a natural thing.
- Human cause- C02 polution is what scientist think. Higher C02 higher tempatures. Temps increasing a couple degrees.
- Major temp changes in the poles
- Polar bears are affected by it
- Sometimes leads to genocide
4. Students will understand the causes and effects of overpopulation.
- Less food and water, natrual resources, deforestation, over crowding, lack of good housing, lack of good jobs, leads to poverty, higher crime rates, more polution, more garbage.
- 1. change our technology
2. stop consuming so many resources
3. stop the rapid growth of our population - People are having a lot of babies
- Some countries dont have birth control
- Woman not educated
- Men are "dominant" in some other countries
- When more babies die more babies are born {They keep having babies cause theres a high death rate of babies}
- In other countries they keep trying til they get a boy
5. Students will understand the impact of globalization. Do not do.
6. Students will be able to locate major countries of the world.
7. Students will be able to explain their understanding of recent current events(Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Darfur, Rwanda, Somalia, Revolutions in North Africa/Middle East).
- Afghanistan- Went in 2001. Bush lost focus and went on to Iraq. Obama became president and started to focus on Afghanistan again. Osama bin laden was leader of alquida. Taliban goverment of Afghanistan got them weapons or whatever.
- Iraq- Bush sent troops over their because they believed Sudam had weapons but they really didnt. Then they tried setting up a democracy up over theirand now they are all out of there.
- Iran- Believe theyre developing nuclear weapons, iran saying its used for energy. President Ahmadiyjad made some crazy statements, which included one about how the Holocaust never happened
- Rawanda- 1994 hutus and tutsis were having problems the hutus presidents plane was shot down and they blammed the tutsis for it. Hutus didnt like the tutsis in the first place because Europeans liked them more. Hutus started the whole genocide. Everything stopped and UN brought peace keeping groups over, and tutsis are in power now.
- Darfur-
- Somalia-
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