Lesson on Friday, January 26, 2018b

Aim: How are values of freedom, equality and order, and political participation in America

Bell Ringer: Current Events (10 min)

Objectives:

7.6. Evaluate the relationship between the values of freedom, equality and order, and political participation in American democracy.

7.7 Identify the purposes elections serve and explain the relationship between elections and majoritarian and pluralist models of democracy. 

Agenda:

1. Complete "Initiative Process Elections" (10/15 min)

7.6 LET'S DISCUSS: 

Participation and Freedom

2. "..we should not worry about low voter turnout because citizens should have the freedom not to vote as well as to vote." 

3. "..the individual vote may be the weakest - and the least important - means of exerting political influence." 

Participation and Equality

4. "..one person, one vote - cancel differences in resources among individuals."

Participation and Order

5. "..the right to vote was extended to eighteen-year-olds not because young people demanded it but because 'public officials believed suffrage expansion to be a means of institutionalizing youths' participation in politics, which would, in turn, curb disorder.'"

7.7 

6. Read page 200

7. Journal 41 - In terms of participation, would you lean more towards a majoritarian or pluralistic approach? Explain (10 min)

8. Chapter 7 Vocabulary Quiz (rest of class)

9. Grade Journals 11-40 (3 grades)



Home Learning: 

1. Journal 42 - Describe the four Party Functions described in Chapter 8. 

2. How the Republican Party went from Lincoln to Trump:
https://youtu.be/s8VOM8ET1WU

3. History of American Political Parties
https://youtu.be/2L7SzikqM5A