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Warm Up Activity

Warm Up Activity. Work with a partner, each needs 1 paper. Imagine 2 families. One family has very strict parents. The other has very lenient parents. How will life be different in the 2 homes? For parents, for children, for neighbors? What are positive and negative effects for each?

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Warm Up Activity

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  1. Warm Up Activity • Work with a partner, each needs 1 paper. • Imagine 2 families. One family has very strict parents. The other has very lenient parents. • How will life be different in the 2 homes? For parents, for children, for neighbors? • What are positive and negative effects for each? • 1 partner writes STRICT, the other LENIENT • Think, discuss and write together. We will share our thoughts in 10 minutes.

  2. 4th Six-Weeks World Geography Pre-AP - ESPN POLITICAL SYSTEMS

  3. Politics • It’s all about POWER, AUTHORITY and CONTROL • “Politics is the process of allocating limited resources” • We only have so much stuff, and everybody wants it. • How will we decide who gets what? • Government and Law • Usually what we think of when we hear “politics” • There are many sources of authority and control in everyone's lives… such as…

  4. Government • Did we always have government? • Early humans, early societies • The first civilizations • Costs and benefits • Experimenting with forms

  5. Totalitarian, Non-democratic Limited Government vs. Unlimited Constitutional, Democratic Characteristics: Individual freedom Compromise Majority rule with minority rights Equality before the law Fundamental dignity and worth of the individual Private property rights Due process of law Voting Characteristics: Lack of Individual freedom Lack of compromise between rulers and others Autocratic rule with limited or non-existent minority rights Lack of equality before law Limited value for the worth of the individual Limited private property rights or private property in the hands of a powerful ruling class Human rights violations and no due process Restricted or non-existent voting

  6. Essential Understandings for Unit 4 • Political [government] systems allow people to live and work together by establishing rules and laws, however, these systems often change over time. • Physical features and human processes lead to the formation of boundaries and other political divisions • The process of creating and drawing political boundaries [creating countries] can lead to conflict as nations fight to exert and maintain control over territory. • Human and physical factors influence power and control creating conflict and war and a struggle for control of natural resources. • Groups/countries often develop economic and/or political unity for collective benefit. • Personal viewpoints and understandings lead to ethnic and national identities that make war, genocide and terrorism possible. • Migration, trade, war, innovation and diffusion often lead to change over time in a community/nation as people interact with one another in cooperative and conflicting ways.

  7. In-Class Assignment • BRAINSTORM: Think about our own dominant political system: the US government • What works well, what doesn’t? • What are the sources of problems? • How could it be better? • WRITE: a paragraph to show me your thinking and writing skills.

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