1. Students will understand the main political and economic systems of the world.
Economic:
1. Socialism- government owns and controls businesses.
2. Capitalism- The people owns and controls the businesses.
3. Mixed Economy- A mix of both socialism and capitalism were the people and government own and run the businesses.
Political:
4. Direct Democracy- no government majority rule and the people make their own decissions.
5. Representative Democracy- The people elect a representative to make decisions for them.
6. Absolute Monarchy- ruled by a king or queen they have all the power.
7. Constitutional Monarchy- Ruled by king or queen but they have to follow the constitution.
8. Dictatorship- ruled by one person that has all the power.
9. Theory of communism- Karl Marks had a theory that there was no lower middle or upper classes that everyone was equal.
10. Practice of communism- government controls everything.
11. Anarchy- there is no goverment at all only place with it is somalia.
12. oligarchy- only a few people rule.
2. Students will understand the differences between the major political parties in the United States.
Republicans are conservative: They believe in many things like the trickle down theory, laissez faire- A French word that means to leave it alone, and rugged individualism- where the government thinks that they should just fend for themselves.
Favor: Military spending, Death penalty, and prayer in school, Lowering taxes
Democrats are Liberal: Believe in enviornmental laws, increase taxes, and private affairs.
Favor: Abortion, Flag burning, Gun possesion, race laws, gay rights.
3. Students will understand the causes and effects of global warming.
Causes:
Possibly caused by humans. We produce a lot of green house gases and co2. And we also are the cause of polution. Another cause could be natural. Because the earth cools and heats up adn now its heating up again.
Effects: The earth is getting warmer and it will cause the ice to melt and could cause flooding in certain parts of the world and it is making life for certain animals harder because food is scarce.
4. Students will understand the causes and effects of overpopulation.
The causes of over population is that woman are having a lot of babys in some parts of the world like africa and somalia becasue they dont have a lot of like birth control or medicine to prevent them from getting pregnant so thats making resources and food run out and also the Birth Rate go up and the death rate.
Effects: is that the earth is getting full and we dont know how much it can fit and another is that it will cause more polution and deforistation because they are going to need a place to live.
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).
Iraq- We went into war with iraq to find sudam hussain because we believed they had or were developing wepons of mass destruction. They didnt have any, and now it was announced the war is over and all the troops should be out sometime in December.
Afganistan- it all started after 9/11 we wanted to find al-qaeda and Osama Bin Laden and until the job is done. and we are still there today but Osama Bin Laden was killed this year.
Iran- there presidant Ahamdinejad really hated isreal and thought they should be wipped off the face of the earth. they also have nuclear power but they said they werent using it for wepons so were keeping an eye on them.
Darfur- A genocide has been happening in Darfur. The Government are the bad people they are helping the janjaweed militia. they have been attacking darfur for land and other resources.
Rwanda- What happend was a genocide between the Hutu's and the Tutsi's. the Europeans favored the Tutsi's because they looked more like them. and the Hutu's got really mad and started killing the tutsi's after they shot down their presidants plane. An estimated 800,000 people were killed in just 100 days.
Somalia- there has been an anarchy going on in somalia for a while. there has also been a long drought so they are not getting enough food and thats causeing malnutrition.
Revolutions in north Africa/Middle East- people from different countries are rebelling against their leaders or government because they want to become a democracy and think their leaders have been in power for to long like lybia there leader was Mormar Gadafi but he was killed earlier this year.
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