1. Students will understand the main political and economic systems of the
world.
Capitalism: When people own and control buisnesses.
Socialism: When the government controls.
Democracy: When the government controls the country, but the people have a say as to what goes on. Such as elections.
Monarchy (absolute): When a country is ruled by a King or Queen who rule based on their own decisions.
Monarchy (constiutional): When a country is ruled by a King or Queen who follow a constitution.
Theory of Communism: A perfect soceity. (Utopia)
2. Students will understand the differences between the major
political parties in the United States.
Democrat: Do not support gay marriage. Believe in womens rights. Support flag burning. Pro-choice.
Republican: Support gay marriage. Lean more toward religion. Very against flag burning. Pro-life.
3. Students will understand the
causes and effects of global warming.
Causes: There is pollution in the air and in the water that cause it. The greenhouse effect also contributes to global warming. Also, carbon dioxide.
Effects: People dying or getting very sick. And there is the possibility that some countries or cities could end up going underwater because of the water levels rising.
4. Students will understand the
causes and effects of overpopulation.
Causes: People are having too many babies. Also, teens are becoming unsafe while sexually active which is causing the teen pregnancy rate to go up.
Effects: We are going to run out of room, and there are crazy solutions in some places such as China. We could also end up running out resources to meet the living needs of people.
5. Students will understand the
impact of globalization.
The world is becoming to almost get smaller. Because of the impact from Internet and Technologies. They are bringing the countries closer together, causes us to be more communicative. This makes us more educated about places around the world. Almost coming together as one. We watched the video on this.
6. Students will be able to locate major
countries of the world.
Don't have to do.
7. Students will be able to explain their
understanding of recent current events(Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Darfur, Rwanda,
Somalia).
Iran: We invaded Iran because we thought they had nuclear weapons. And their leader is Ahmadidejad and we don't like him because he thinks that the Holocaust was a myth and he also thinks that Isreal should be wiped off the face of the earth.
Iraq: We thought that they had weapons of mass destruction, so we invaded. We didn't plan to be there very long, but we still have some troops in the country. Over time, Saddam Hussein had ended up dying.
Afghanistan: The al-Qaeda attacked the US on 9/11. After the attack, we invaded them and after many years of fighting, our Seals just recently shot and killed Osama Bin Laden. He had an underwater burial in the US so that no shrines of him could be made.
Darfur: The country basically lost its government and there has been fighting and chaos since then.
Rwanda: The Ttsi minority group is getting destroyed by the Hutu majority. The Hutu's are attacking, capturing, beating, and killing the Tutsis. The government there no longer has control, they are anarchy basically. So the people do as they please, causing more chaos.
Somailia: Somalia is a failed state, and an anarchy. There is no order or control. The country has gone into a big mess.
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