1. Students will understand the main political and economic systems of the world.
Represenitive Democracy When the people of a country elect people to represent them in government or congress. Examples are the United states, Germany, Switzerland, Canada, and the UK.
Dictatorship A ruler or controller by one leader or person with all the power.
Socialism when the government regulates the economy.
Absolute monarchy is where a kind or queen has absolute power
ANARCHY A place that doesn’t have any rule. The only country in the would that has an anarchy is Somalia.
OLIGARCHY a small group government. Small group dominates. Example Russia
DIRECT DEMOCRACY is when the people of a community are in charge and they have meeting to make decisions for the town
Communism Like dictatorship but with multiple people controlling the country
Theory of Communism No middle upper or lower class.
Capitalism people relying on themselves ex-usa
Absolute Monarchy When the king and queen hold all the power
2. Students will understand the differences between the major political parties in the United States.
There are two parties the Democrats and the Republicans. The Democrats are more libral and more young people are on there side. They believe in gay marriage and gay rights, and they have a strong belief that if someone is protesting peacefully they have the right cause of the freedom of speech amendment. The Republicans are more traditional. They are more stict on everything. They believe that a man and a woman should be together, they are agaisnt gay marrige. They believe that there should be prayer in school.
3. Students will understand the causes and effects of global warming.
The cause of it is part of us humans. We produce many greenhouse gases. And part of it might be the the natural effect of the warming of the earth, just like the ice age the earth cooled down by itself. The effect is that the ice will melt and the sea levels will rise and flood the coastal cities. The polar bears in the north and other animals are already having less land and hunting ground. We need to plant more trees to help soak up the CO2.
- Students will understand the causes and effects of overpopulation.
The causes of overpopulation are that there is an increase of births and a decrease in deaths. Some effects of this are there are too many people for too little of space. Another effect is that it increases pollution and deforestation.
- Students will be able to explain their understanding of recent current events.
Iraq and Afghanistan we are pulling troops are all out now. We stayed there until the government was stable. There is a genocide happening in Darfur right now. In 1994 there was a genocide in Rwanda of the Tutsis. The Hutus were trying to kill them off. In Libya and Egypt for example they had revolutions to make there governments a democracy, and after a certain amount of days they eventually over threw there president by protesting.
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