Download the lesson plan here: http://everyday-democracy.org/resources/civic-engagement-lesson-plan-parts-1-and-2
Lesson Plan 1 is an introduction to "civic health" and its connection to "great citizenship." It helps students learn about how ordinary citizens in Connecticut participate in the public arena by volunteering, voting, donating, working with neighbors and public officials, learning about and engaging on issues, attending public events and hearings, etc. They also get to reflect on what are some of the attributes of "great citizenship," examine their own communities and civic health in Connecticut, and understand the importance of civic participation for making communities and our society better for all.
Lesson Plan 2 is an introduction to Chapter 3 in Eric Liu's book "The Gardens of Democracy," which discusses the attributes and value of "great citizenship" for our society and democracy. Students will be able to reflect on and model "great citizenship" in their schools, neighborhoods, and pubic life. By allowing students to explore their connections to others at their schools and communities and adopting a different way of thinking about collective responsibility, this learning can be transformative and imbued with civic agency.
Lesson 1
Philippine Politics and Governance
Grade 11
What is Political Science?
What is Politics?
Why study Politics?
What is government?
What is governance?
What is the difference between political science and politics?
Lesson 1
Philippine Politics and Governance
Grade 11
What is Political Science?
What is Politics?
Why study Politics?
What is government?
What is governance?
What is the difference between political science and politics?
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Lesson Plan 3 helps teachers engage their students on "living citizenship" through classroom and personal civic engagement activities by the students using a "civics scorecard" that helps them explore different ways to become "great citizens." The "scorecard" activity allows students to learn more about "civic health" through actual civic participation in their schools and communities.
Download the lesson plan here: http://everyday-democracy.org/resources/civic-engagement-lesson-plan-part-3
This is the Power Point delivered at the 50th Annual California Council of the Social Sciences by Jim Bentley, CA 03 District Coordinator for Project Citizen.
For further information regarding Project Citizen, please visit the Center for Civic Education's website at www.civiced.org
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Lesson Plan 3 helps teachers engage their students on "living citizenship" through classroom and personal civic engagement activities by the students using a "civics scorecard" that helps them explore different ways to become "great citizens." The "scorecard" activity allows students to learn more about "civic health" through actual civic participation in their schools and communities.
Download the lesson plan here: http://everyday-democracy.org/resources/civic-engagement-lesson-plan-part-3
This is the Power Point delivered at the 50th Annual California Council of the Social Sciences by Jim Bentley, CA 03 District Coordinator for Project Citizen.
For further information regarding Project Citizen, please visit the Center for Civic Education's website at www.civiced.org
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14 PEER RESPONSES DUE IN 16 HOURS - EACH SET OF 2 HAS ITS OWN INSTRUCTIONS
Long Term Planning
Respond to at least two classmates’ postings.
ROSEMARY’S POST:
Of the eight instructional unit types introduced in this chapter, choose one, describe it, and tell why it is your preferred choice.
I will be using a project/problem-based learning unit. With this instructional unit, the students will play detective and help them become engaged in learning. The instructional unit focuses on the students, and more specifically, students working together in smaller groups. Hansen, Buczynski, & Puckett (2015) states, “PBL typically group students into teams to respond to real-world questions, problems, or challenges through an extended inquiry process and then to construct a presentation to share their product or findings.”
Using the formatting for a PBL unit plan provided in table 7.1 in your textbook, outline your own PBL unit.
Name of Project:
Identify the Thirteen Colonies
Subject/Course/Grade Level:
Social Studies/6-8th grade
Unit Duration & Timeline:
3-4 weeks
Teacher Team Members:
Teachers, Librarians, Parents, etc.
Goals & Objectives Necessary to Accomplish the Goals:
The student will demonstrate knowledge of the colonies and the factors that shaped colonial North America.
Similarities and differences between colonial economies, politics, and ways of life.
Physical and human characteristics of national colonial regions.
Verbally identify 3 motives for exploring the colonial regions, e.g., religion, expansion, trade, and wealth, with 80% accuracy.
Distinguish between New England, Middle, and Southern Colonies by coloring and identifying the colonial regions on a 100% map.
Understand the emergence of significant regional differences in the colonies by completing a bulleted graphic organizer based on lecture notes with 90% accuracy.
Given a graphic organizer, students will contrast the economies of the three major colonial regions: New England, Middle, and Southern with 80% accuracy.
Given a graphic organizer, students will compare geography’s impact on the three major colonial regions’ economies. Understand how settlers’ backgrounds influenced their values, priorities, and daily lives.
Create a historical fiction blog or infogram or digital (postcard) that identifies a colonial region’s unique traits and describes life in that region. Students projects will include:
Three reasons why you moved to the colonial region.
Two reasons why you did not settle in the other region.
Writing that is free of spelling and grammatical errors.
A colorful image depicting at least one of the colonial region’s best features.
Standards/CCSS/21st Century Competencies:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.6-8.8
Distinguish among fact, opinion, and reasoned judgment in a text.
Project Summary:
Students will be working together in three or four groups to research the Thirteen Colonies and how they came to be. Each team or group will choose a colony from t.
Lincoln asked whether a nation devoted to the values of liberty, equ.docxgauthierleppington
Lincoln asked whether a nation devoted to the values of liberty, equality, justice and opportunity "so conceived…can long endure."
In these words, he told us a truth about our democracy - that its survival is never guaranteed, and that its success demands wisdom, action and even vigilance from American citizens.
This begs the question: What does it mean to be an American citizen? Or posed in another fashion, what are the responsibilities of citizenship in a democracy?
Based on the discussions we’ve had in class, and based on your readings, your focus on those responsibilities – and attributes, should be evolving and becoming more focused. If this grand democratic experiment known as the United States is to succeed, what needs to happen, and what role are you playing, or will you play?
So with that as a primer, this paper is meant as a vehicle for the student to express their own ideas on the role of citizens in a democracy. Papers should not be more than four pages in length – typed and double spaced, and should reflect an analysis and synthesis of the readings, lectures, and discussions that took place during Part One of the course.
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Dr. William Allan Kritsonis earned his BA in 1969 from Central Washington University, Ellensburg, Washington. In 1971, he earned his M.Ed. from Seattle Pacific University. In 1976, he earned his PhD from the University of Iowa. In 1981, he was a Visiting Scholar at Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, and in 1987 was a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University, Palo Alto, California.
In June 2008, Dr. Kritsonis received the Doctor of Humane Letters, School of Graduate Studies from Southern Christian University. The ceremony was held at the Hilton Hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana.
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Inherent in the concept of citizenship is the exchange wherein citiz.docxJeniceStuckeyoo
Inherent in the concept of citizenship is the exchange wherein citizens give allegiance to a nation and receive protection offered by that nation. Citizens therefore have certain privileges in the eyes of the nation, such as the right to vote, to pay taxes, and to refuse certain actions, such as reciting the Pledge of Allegiance because it refers to God. There are benefits and entitlements that the citizen can demand from the government. These rights are balanced by responsibilities, such as upholding the law, participating in government, and engaging in the same privileges previously mentioned.
In this unit, issues of the middle class, the welfare state, and what constitutes citizenship will be examined based on the concept of citizen rights.
Reference
Orwell, G. (1945).
Animal Farm
. New York, NY: Harcourt Brace & Company.
Objectives
Identify common public values in the constructs of the welfare state and the middle class and assess the universality of these public values across local, regional, and global boundaries.
Analyze and explain your views on whether a welfare state is appropriate and whether it can add public values in a diverse society.
Examine the role of trust in public values and public perception of the welfare state.
Evaluate the role of the middle class in creating public value in society.
Examine the role of trust in public values and public perception of the middle class.
Demonstrate effective academic writing.
In the Kivisto and Faist text,
Citizenship: Discourse, Theory, and Transnational Prospects
, read Chapter 3, "Erosion," pages 49–74.
Research
Locate at least three peer-reviewed articles on the middle class. The articles should have a major focus on comparing and contrasting the middle class of the United States with that of other countries. You will use these resources in The Middle Class discussion later in this unit.
PLEASE UPLOAD ARTICLES
Using peer-reviewed sources, find definitions for the terms
citizen rights
,
welfare state
, and
exclusionism
. You will need your findings for The Welfare State discussion later in this unit.
PROJECT PHASE 1 - ASSIGNMENT
In this preliminary paper, you will identify a global issue or problem that has global, multicultural, and diversity ramifications, and can be addressed through public administration. This issue should require analysis of cultural values and their impact on decision making and communications, as well as public engagement and participation.
Your choice should be driven by the various sources of information that you have engaged with thus far in the course. You should cite sources of information you located through the Global Issue Resources multimedia piece (AGOA, U.S. State Department, GAO, and United Nations) and from course readings and other multimedia presentations. In addition, you may supplement this material with peer-reviewed sources online or in print.
You will explain the issue and detail the rationale for your selection based on the literatu.
Connecticut Civic Ambassadors are everyday people who care about and engage others in their communities by creating opportunities for civic participation that strengthens our state’s “Civic Health.” Civic Health is determined by how well diverse groups of residents work together and with government to solve public problems to strengthen their communities. Read more below on how you can be an agent of change in your own community by joining the team.
A comprehensive guide designed to help you recruit people to your community change effort, work with the media, master social media, and tell your story in many different formats along the way.
Ripple Effects Mapping Tip Sheet for Evaluating Community Engagement Everyday Democracy
Community Engagement and Dialogue to Change strategies can lead to many positive changes in your community. However, direct impacts can be tough to track. Ripple Effects Mapping (REM) allows you, along with local leaders and others in your community, to assess impacts from your Dialogue to
Change efforts. It allows you to visually document the impacts your efforts have had on individuals, on your community, and on institutions and systems over time. These are tips for rolling out a Ripple Effects Mapping process:
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Includes an Evaluation Capacity Self-Assessment Tool,
Sample Community Engagement Logic Model, Logic Model Template, Data Collection and Planning Template and Ripple Mapping Tip Sheet
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The Wondertwins, famed veteran hip-hop dance duo from Boston, perform their newest piece, BLACK. BLACK explores the traumatizing effects of police violence towards the black community by incorporating dance with historic and contemporary audio and video clips. Post-show dialogue will be facilitated by Everyday Democracy and the Connecticut Collaborative on Poverty, Criminal Justice and Race.
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This is a brief guide developed for Stand Against Racism Day, 2019. The guide helps communities discuss immigration and how it connects to racial equity.
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Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
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The empire's roots lie in the city of Rome, founded, according to legend, by Romulus in 753 BCE. Over centuries, Rome evolved from a small settlement to a formidable republic, characterized by a complex political system with elected officials and checks on power. However, internal strife, class conflicts, and military ambitions paved the way for the end of the Republic. Julius Caesar’s dictatorship and subsequent assassination in 44 BCE created a power vacuum, leading to a civil war. Octavian, later Augustus, emerged victorious, heralding the Roman Empire’s birth.
Under Augustus, the empire experienced the Pax Romana, a 200-year period of relative peace and stability. Augustus reformed the military, established efficient administrative systems, and initiated grand construction projects. The empire's borders expanded, encompassing territories from Britain to Egypt and from Spain to the Euphrates. Roman legions, renowned for their discipline and engineering prowess, secured and maintained these vast territories, building roads, fortifications, and cities that facilitated control and integration.
The Roman Empire’s society was hierarchical, with a rigid class system. At the top were the patricians, wealthy elites who held significant political power. Below them were the plebeians, free citizens with limited political influence, and the vast numbers of slaves who formed the backbone of the economy. The family unit was central, governed by the paterfamilias, the male head who held absolute authority.
Culturally, the Romans were eclectic, absorbing and adapting elements from the civilizations they encountered, particularly the Greeks. Roman art, literature, and philosophy reflected this synthesis, creating a rich cultural tapestry. Latin, the Roman language, became the lingua franca of the Western world, influencing numerous modern languages.
Roman architecture and engineering achievements were monumental. They perfected the arch, vault, and dome, constructing enduring structures like the Colosseum, Pantheon, and aqueducts. These engineering marvels not only showcased Roman ingenuity but also served practical purposes, from public entertainment to water supply.
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This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
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2.
Activity 3: Evaluating the data
Again, while on groups of four, as
students to examine and discuss the data
from the 2016 Connecticut Civic Health
Index Report.
Questions:
1. Are any characteristics/behavior of
citizenship identified in the report
the same or similar to those you
identified?
2. What percentage of adult
Connecticut citizens exhibited those
characteristics or behaviors in the
report?
3. How does the data compare to your
predictions?
4. Are there indicators of great
citizenship identified in the report?
5. Are there any indicators in the
report that you did not include in
your lists?
6. Do you think those are important
indicators of great citizenship?
Why or why not?
Class Discussion
Assessment: Students will be assessed on their participation (both actively listening and
contributing ideas) in pair, small group and full class discussion.
Homework: To extend students’ thinking
about citizenship, assign them to read
Chapter 3 “Great Citizenship – Society
Becomes How You Behave” from Eric Liu’s
book The Gardens of Democracy for
tomorrow’s class.
As a class, discuss the students’ conclusions.
Questions:
1. What are the most important
characteristics of good citizenship?
Make a master list.
2. How do Connecticut adults measure up
as active, involved citizens?
3. What advice would students give to
adults of our state about how to be
better citizens?
4. Are there specific actions that citizens
can take that would improve the quality
of life for all in our state?
5. Although they are not yet adults,
students too are citizens. What can they,
as students, do to be better citizens and
improve the quality of life in
Connecticut?
Conclusion: connecting “great
citizenship,” “civic health,” and Economic
Resilience for Stronger Communities
Share with the students data and
information from the NCoC studies “Civic
Health and Unemployment” and “Civic
Health and Unemployment II: the Case
Builds” on how strong civic health (civic
participation) makes communities more
resilient and vibrant.
LESSON PLAN 1
3.
Considering “great citizenship” through a
Discussion on The Gardens of Democracy
Subject: Government
Topic: Citizenship and Civic Engagement
Grade: 11th
Time: One or two regular block classes
Learning Objectives:
Students will:
Identify characteristics of a good
citizen.
Evaluate Eric Liu’s ideas about
citizenship from Chapter 3 of
The Gardens of Democracy.
Write a letter to the editor
encouraging state residents to be
more actively involved citizens.
Materials:
3 x5 index cards
Cut 12 strips of paper each with a
question for the extended class
discussion. Number each slip.
The Gardens of Democracy Ch. 3
Compelling question: How would the quality of life for everyone in Connecticut improve if
residents were more actively involved citizens?
Introductory Activity
Hand each student a 3” x 5” card as they
enter class and ask them to write:
1. Their name
2. One idea about citizenship from their
homework reading (Chapter 3 “Great
Citizenship – Society Becomes How
You Behave” from Eric Liu’s book The
Gardens of Democracy) that they
found particularly interesting.
3. One question they would like to ask
Mr. Liu regarding his ideas about
citizenship.
Using students’ ideas and questions
written on their cards, lead a class
discussion about Eric Liu’s ideas of
democracy and citizenship.
Activity 2: Class Discussion
LESSON PLAN 2
5. 8. Mr. Liu quotes Robert Putnam, “Bridging social capital is better than bonding. Great
citizens build bridges between unacquainted realms, more than reinforcing bonds
among people already close.” Can you give examples of people you know, perhaps
friends, who build bridges between people or groups they are not like or not close to in
addition to just bonding with people they are like or are close to?
9. What is Dunbar’s number and how is it related to society? How does Mr. Liu relate this
to citizenship?
10. What are examples of courtesy? Why does Mr. Liu feel this is an essential element of
citizenship?
11. Why does Mr. Liu feel trust is essential to good citizenship?
12. What is the message of the illustration titled “Counter‐intuition: yielding = advance” on
page 71 How does this relate to Mr. Liu’s ideas about citizenship?
Remind students that yesterday they worked in groups to create lists of characteristics or
behaviors that they thought good citizens exhibited. Then they looked at the Connecticut
Citizenship Health Survey that included many indicators related to citizenship and the
percentage of Connecticut citizens who demonstrated those characteristics. Last night they
read a chapter from The Gardens of Democracy that included some other ideas about
citizenship and today they discussed those ideas in class.
1. Ask students to work with their original partners to write a letter to the editor of a state
newspaper identifying what they see as the most important elements of good
citizenship and encouraging our state’s residents to become better, more actively
involved citizens.
Ask students to include how this would improve the quality of life for everyone in the
state. Explain that you intend to mail the most convincing and well written letters to
newspapers for possible publication.
2. For extra credit, suggest that student pairs create a Twitter tweet that summarizes the
most important ideas from their letters to the editor. Since tweets are limited to 140
characters, students will need to select critical points from their letters and be judicious
in their use of words to convey their ideas.
Activity 3: Taking Action (A Letter to the Editor)
LESSON PLAN 2