1. Students will understand the main political and economic systems of the world.
-Monarchy: when one person, such as a king or queen, makes all of the decisions for a country
-Democracy:when the people as a whole help make the decisions for a country, or they elect representatives to represent them in their decisions
-Communism:where the people don't have a lot of power or freedoms and the government makes all of the important decisions
-Theory of Communism:a plan for a complete and total utopia; a perfect society
-Capitalism: where people own their own businesses
-Socialism: where the government controls the businesses
2. Students will understand the differences between the major political parties in the United States.
-Democratic: believe more in pro-choice where women can have their own choice in having an abortion or not, more supportive of gay marraige--going with the laws of the state and country instead of by the church, support flag burning
-Republicans: believe in pro-life where abortion should not be allowed, follow the more religious laws when it comes to gay marraige, against flag burning
3. Students will understand the causes and effects of global warming.
-Causes: methane gas, carbon dioxide, greenhouse effect, and air and water pollution
-Effects: ice caps melting, diseases such as cancer and other life threatening illnesses (especially in china), water levels rising, and, quite possibly, major cities and even countries ending up underwater.
4. Students will understand the causes and effects of overpopulation.
-Causes: people having too many babies, and health care that increases the life span of children that need help to live
-Effects: running out of resources, deforestation, and species destruction
5. Students will understand the impact of globalization.
-basically the world is shrinking due to internet and other technologies that bring the world closer to our backyard. we watched the Thomas Friedman video on how the world is "flattening out" and "shrinking" to where the world is more accessable.
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).
-Iraq: found Saddam Hussein and had him killed, we invaded Iraq thinking that we were only going to be there for a short while, but our troops are still there fighting for our country. It was thought that there were weapons of mass destruction hidden somewhere in Iraq, but there were no mass weapons to be found.
-Afghanistan: after 9/11, we had a bone to pick with the Al Qaeda leader, Osama Bin Laden, and their terrorist group. we invaded in search of Osama, but he would always retreat to new places and he wouldn't be seen for a while. We just recently killed Osama after 10 years of a hard fight between us and the Al Qaeda clan.
-Darfur: the government lost control and the country has split up into clans that are attacking each other
-Rwanda: after the Tutsi minority group were being attacked by the Hutu, millions of people were slain from the Hutu's revenge from the Tutsis once ruling over them.
-Somalia: the country has been in a failed state, which means the government has lost all control of the people, the citizens do as they please, and there is basically now an anarchy society.
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