Do NowImagine you have found the Delorian and have been transported to the year 3125. When you get there you find a totally different world, everything seems strange to you. You are shocked however, that the only thing people want to know about you is what this form of government known as Democracy was, how will you answer??????

Standard

8.12a.2 Compare and contrast democratic and non-democratic forms of government (e.g. oligarchy, monarchy, democracy, dictatorship, republic, aristocracy, autocracy, confederation, presidential government, parliamentary government)

Oligarchy- noun, plural -chies.

1. a form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique; government by the few.

Monarchy

supreme power or sovereignty held by a single person.

Republic

a state in which the supreme power rests in the body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by representatives chosen directly or indirectly by them.

Autocracy

government in which one person possesses unlimited power

Dictatorship

supreme power or sovereignty held by a single person.

Aristocracy a class of persons holding exceptional rank and

privileges, especially the hereditary nobility. government by those considered to be the best or

most able people in the state. any class or group considered to be superior, as

through education, ability, wealth, or social prestige.

Confederation

The act of forming into or becoming part of a confederacy.

The state of being confederated. A group of confederates, especially

of states or nations, united for a common purpose; a league.

Presidential Government

a system of government in which the president is constitutionally independent of the legislature

Parliamentary Government a system of government having the

real executive power vested in a cabinet composed of members of the legislature who are individually and collectively responsible to the legislature

Democracy????

Categorize each form of government based on if they are democratic or non-democratic?

Looking at your chart discuss your thoughts around this question:

Can democracy exist on a spectrum? (are there levels of democracy?)

-Think Pair Share-

Do Now

How does K’naan view realism?

Practice

You are tutoring at an elementary school and one of the students asks you to explain the difference between direct democracy and representative democracy.

Jigsaw Elements of DemocracyIn your groups answer as many of the

questions from your category (on page 15) as you can.

Sovereignty

Rule by the people- the population has ultimate power.

“All power to the people”

Requires high participation

Equality

Everybody has the same political rights

Political power does not equal political equality

One person one vote

Not judging/limiting based on color, religion, intellectual ability etc

Can be manipulated– example education gap, wealth gap, etc.

LibertyPeoples rights are protected by the governmentExample would be freedom of speechLibertarian utopia

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Group share- How healthy is our democracy?

Do Now

In one or two paragraphs discuss the three elements of a functioning, healthy, democracy and why they are important.

Democracy Matters are Frightening in Our Times What was difficult about the reading? What did you find useful about the

reading?

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Summarize what we have read to this point

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DescribeOligarchyRepresentative DemocracyAristocracyRepublicDemocracyPolitical SovereigntyPolitical EqualityPolitical Liberty

Vocabulary

Salvific- having the intent or power to save or redeem

Example:

Vocabulary

Perpetration- to bring about or carry out (especially in deceit or crime)

Example:

Vocabulary

Paranoia- a tendency on the part of an individual or group toward excessive or irrational suspiciousness and distrustfulness of others

Example:

Vocabulary

Myopic- Lack of discernment or long-range perspective in thinking or planning

Example:

Vocabulary

Perimeters- The outer limits of an area

Example: The perimeters are too narrow.

Unpacking the Reading

Threats to Democracy according to the

reading:

Free market fundamentalismAggressive militarismEscalating authoritarianism

SO…..WHAT ARE THESE???????????????

Free-market Fundamentalism

What the text says Questions Inference (what does it mean)

“It yields an obscene level of wealth inequality, along with its corollary of intensified class hostility and hatred.”

Why are people ok with obscene levels of wealth inequality? Do people know that class hatred will be bad for everybody?

That free- market policies don’t work and are bad for the common good.

“In short, the dangerous dogma of free-market fundamentalism turns our attention away from schools to prisons, from workers’ conditions to profit margins, from health clinics to high-tech facial surgeries…”

Does this mean that people are more concerned with prison than school?

What are our priorities as a country?

The country is focused on the wrong things and this is being perpetrated by free- market fundamentalism.

“… as if freedom were reducible to simply having material toys…”

Do Now Self Determination- 1. Determination of one's

own fate or course of action without compulsion; free will.2. Freedom of the people of a given area to determine their own political status; independence, Autonomy.

In one or two paragraphs analyze what/if Amiri Baraka is saying about American democracy?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ziRjhAgTO8

Aggressive MilitarismWhat text says Questions Inferences (what

does it mean)“This dogma posits military might as salvific in a world in which he who has the most and biggest weapons is the most moral and masculine, hence worthy of policing others”

Why does masculinity matter?

Is this machiavelianism manifested?

Power dictates if you can control others not morality

America has the final say in global actions.

More weapons more power

“It guarantees a perennial resorting to the immoral and base manner of settling conflict , namely, the perpetration of the very sick and cowardly terrorism it claims to contain and eliminate”

Do we ever see an end to war?

Can there ever be an end to war?

Do we want peace?

Constantly resorts back to conflict.

Repeat the way they do things.

Keep using the same excuse to justify our actions.

War on terror guarantees terror. War begets War

Eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind

“Violence is readily deployed by those who cloak themselves in innocence- those unwilling to examine themselves and uninterested in counting the number of innocent victims they kill.”

People who look at other peoples problems instead of looking at their own.

People are selfish.

Those who use violence have the most to gain.

That we look at other countries problems and hide our own.

People care about the image not how they get things done.

Ends justify the means

Escalating Authoritarianism

What the text says Questions Inferences (what does it mean)

“This dogma is rooted in our understandable paranoia toward potential terrorists, our traditional fear of too many liberties, and our deep distrust of one another”

Will people ever get over the paranoia?

If we are paranoid with one thing, how can we pay attention to another.

America doesn’t trust other countries.People are to cynical of others. Government has too much power. (Patriot Act, National Security, Terror-Industrial- Complex)Government and the media make people paranoid.

“The loosening of legal protection and slow closing of meaningful access to the oversight of government activities- measures deemed necessary in the myopic view of many- are justified by the notion that safety trumps liberty and security dictates the perimeters of freedom”

Is this true?

Are we more safe because of the patriot act?

Who is on my side?

We need to give up liberty to stay safe?

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Liberty,

Sovereignty,

Equality

Free market, Militaris

m, Authoritarianism

In a paragraph start to explain the effects each arrow has on the quality of our democracy.

Democracy

Do Now

The Declaration of Independence states:

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”

In a paragraph describe how this makes you feel.

Standard

8.12a.3 Analyze the political theories and arguments contained within the Declaration of Independence

Analyzing the DeclarationIn small groups analyze the arguments

put forward in the Declaration of Independence. Look for how issues of Liberty, Equality, Sovereignty, Militarism, Free Market Fundamentalism, and Authoritarianism are dealt with.

Assessment

On Thursday we will be assessing for standard 8.12a.2 Compare and contrast democratic and non-democratic forms of government (e.g. oligarchy, monarchy, democracy, dictatorship, republic, aristocracy, autocracy, confederation, presidential government, parliamentary government)

Study tonight and Wednesday!!!

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See me to panic about assignment and assessment!

Do Now

Review forms of government pay attention to what makes for a democratic government and what makes for an undemocratic form.

Assessment

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