#civics lesson

[azeutreciathewicked]

This was posted four years ago, but we all need to watch this today.

Please pass this on to anyone who believes that they shouldn't vote.

[mikeyisbrooklyn]

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Idk if this was an actual question or just a rant but iirc the founding fathers did not put so many direct stipulations that would apply towards prohibiting criminals in office because

1) They believed that if the time occurred for a change of rules or needed clarification, we would simply do so, and

2) They did not think there would be a time in our country where a criminal could ever get that far, nor did they think anyone in their right mind would elect such a person

A majority of the founding fathers’ oversight was that they genuinely could not fathom a nation that would allow such corruption running amok because it was still fresh on their minds why that was a Bad Thing™️. Many of them weren’t that insightful (though a few did consider that there could be problems in the future, they just hoped we would take care of it and uh…yeah)

I like how indicting Trump did fuck all at the end. Functional democracy

[fiadhaisteach]

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[tigergingicat]

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Too many people today don't understand these basics.

[palatinewolfsblog]

Be awake!

(A short story about common sense and civil courage.)

Young law students are gathered in a lecture room of their university.

Ready to learn their first lesson - and it's gonna be a true life lesson.

The professor enters and takes a look around.

"You there, second desk. Blue jacket. What is your name?" he asks a student.

"My name is Alexis."

"Please leave my lecture room. I don't want to see you at one of my lectures ever again."

Everyone is quiet.

The student is irritated.

"I don't understand."

"I am not going to ask a second time. Thank you."

The student packs her things, gets up silently and leaves the hall.

The other students are speechless too.

Quite shaken not to say shocked.

They stare at the professor who looks at them attentively.

"Why are there laws?" he asks the group.

Still, nobody dares to speak.

Everyone looks at the others.

"What are laws for?" the professor asks again.

"Social order." someone says hesitantly.

"To protect a person's personal rights." Another student says.

A third replies.

"So that you can rely on the state."

The professor is not satisfied.

"Justice!" calls out a student.

The professor gives her a warm, encouraging smile.

"Thank you very much. Did I behave unfairly towards your classmate earlier?"

Everyone nods.

"Indeed I did. Why didn't anyone protest?

Why didn't any of you try to stop me?

Why didn't you want to prevent this injustice?" he asks.

Silence.

"What you just learned you wouldn't have understood in 1,000 hours of lectures if you hadn't lived it.

You didn't say anything just because you weren't affected yourself.

This attitude speaks against you and against life. You think as long as it doesn't concern you, it's none of your business.

I'm telling you, if you don't say anything today and don't bring about justice, then one day you too will experience injustice and no one will stand before you.

Justice lives through us all.

We have to fight for it. In life and at work, we often live next to each other instead of with each other.

We console ourselves that the problems of others are none of our business.

We go home and are glad that we were spared. But it's also about standing up for others.

Every day an injustice happens in business, in sports or on the tram.

Relying on someone to sort it out is not enough. It is our duty to be there for others.

Speaking for others when they cannot.

I am here to teach you the power of your voice.

I want you to learn criticial thinking

to empower you to stand up for what is right even if it means going against what everyone else is doing.

Let's begin."

Based upon a post by Joerg Storm and a short film by Chiara Gizzi.

[rotzaprachim]

the lesson of the 20th century is that dictatorships are popular and can sprout up anywhere given the right social circumstances (usually economic and social upheaval) and that absolutely no culture, religion (including atheism), or economic system is free from them. There’s always another way to hang someone

[cereshazelnut]

making lessons in school as humans!

(also they havent had a ref sheet. maybe i need help for this)

[feyres-divorce-lawyer]

hamilton proves two things: you haven’t lived until you’ve heard leslie odom jr.’s voice and lmm would fucking thrive on wild n’ out

[inspired-lesson-plans]

Social Studies, grades 5+, United States Civics

Objective:

Students will explore the history, significance, and changes of the Pledge of Allegiance while understanding its role in American culture and civic life, then consider their own values but composing their own version of the Pledge.

Do Now (5 min):

Students, without using any reference, have 60-90 seconds to try and define the following words:

Allegiance, Flag, United, Republic, Indivisible

Then, watch the following cartoon

Class Discussion (5 min):

Who among us didn't actually know what "allegiance" means? Any other words anyone was confused about?

Did you find the cartoon funny? What's the joy in picking on the Pledge of Allegiance?

Why do you think we actually do the Pledge of Allegiance? And why in school?

Direct Instruction: (20-30 min)

Present these slides that I worked really hard on for way too many hours.

Higher Order Learning: (10 min)

Students work independently or in small groups to compose a new, revised Pledge that reflects current social issues instead of late 19th century concerns over National Division and Immigration.

My Example:

I Pledge to support the People of America, diverse and principled, united by the Flag.

[doubleca5t]

the lesson I'm taking away from this election is not that the Democrats need to become more left wing or more right wing but moreso that they need to find a way to cater their rhetoric towards people who genuinly have no idea what is going on. the target audience for every speech and political appearance should be someone who doesn't know what the three branches of government are because they were drawing a Cool S during high school civics

[asegbolu]

Civic Education SS 1 First Term Lesson Notes Week 12: Examination of the Topics Covered

Here’s a detailed lesson note for Week 12 (Examination of the Topics Covered) for Civic Education SS 1, including exam instructions, objective questions, theory questions, true or false statements, and fill-in-the-gap questions. The content is designed to be clear and readable for students. Civic Education SS 1 First Term Lesson Notes Week 12: Examination of the Topics Covered Examination…

[compassionmattersmost]

Voices from History Are Whispering to Us, Still

To Hold Steady and Seek the Wisdom They Once Prayed For As I begin to read and reflect on the birth of our nation, I find myself drawn to The Debate on the Constitution, edited by Bernard Bailyn. In this remarkable collection, voices from the founding era come alive through letters, speeches, and passionate exchanges over the very principles that would shape America’s future. My journey through…

[gravitascivics]

TEACHING STRATEGIES FOR CONSUMER GOVERNMENT

Picking up on a topic this blog has been addressing since the posting, “Practical Turn” (March 19, 2024),[1] this posting continues its promotion of a consumer government approach to civics education.  To remind readers, the adoption of that approach is seen as an initial step toward a civics curriculum based on a liberated federalism construct which features a more local, interactive role for students with their government. 

It would do this by encouraging a sense, among the citizenry, of a partnership in which each citizen has an emotional stake in advancing the common good – a tangible commitment.  To make the case for this adoption, the ensuing postings chose as a pedagogic model, the jurisprudential model,[2] by which to develop decision-making, value clarifying lessons that could be designed for this consumer government course of study. 

This choice was not meant to be mandatory, but as a responsible option to illustrate what could be done in developing suitable lesson plans to achieve the overall goals outlined earlier in this blog.  This chosen model calls on students to make value judgments on controversial issues and this blog’s promotion opens its options to non-value conflict situations.  Another variance is that what is being promoted, unlike the original model, opens instructional options beyond exclusively employing inquiry-based lessons. 

Other lesson strategies can be employed especially if lessons do not address controversial topics.  Finally, the option promoted here analyzes a variety of problem situations as they might be related to governmental actions and/or problems at different geographical levels or locations.  Those levels, as described earlier, range from the immediate environment of students to the global settings, but at each level they can and do affect the local political environments of those students.

Strategies and materials to be successful, they must be particularly sensitive to the fact that a large portion of the students for which this approach would be used, would be from a non-college-bound population.  Experience shows, by making the curriculum relevant, practical, and less abstract, these less academically motivated or disposed students will find resulting lessons as more useful.

To augment this attribute, strategies must maintain low abstraction content.  Relations between inquiry activities, for example, and problem areas need to be presented in as natural a manner as possible.  Readings should be short and lesson exercises limited in scope, but as the course progresses, a cumulative effect toward sophistication should be built in and encouraged among students.

And with those thoughts, this promotion has two more areas of concern – ideas regarding evaluation of instructional strategies and evaluation of the proposed curricular change.  These two topics will be what the next two postings will address.  Again, if readers, who have not done so, wish to read up on the totality of this rationale for consumer government, they can, using the archive feature of this blog, begin with the above cited posting, “A Practical Turn.”

[1] URL:  https://gravitascivics.blogspot.com/2024_03_17_archive.html.

[2] Fred M. Newman and Donald W. Oliver, Clarifying Public Controversy:  An Approach to Teaching Social Studies (Boston, MA:  Little, Brown and Company, 1970).  An earlier version can be found in Donald W. Oliver and James P. Shaver, Teaching Public Issues in the High School (Boston, MA:  Houghton Mifflin Company, 1966).

[slowtumbling]

Opinionated Crap

In these early days of spring, on most mornings, I walked out to the carport to find our cars covered in bird crap. I’m pretty sure I know the culprit. It’s the same juvenile robin that was attacking our big picture windows a couple of weeks ago who now has decided to move on to accosting other reflections of itself. So our cars are covered with white stinky streaks smeared with beak and claws…

[casuallyodd]

Weird it hasn’t happened! Since The White House makes laws (it does not) and the House of Representatives is under Democratic control to help move that along (it is not), you'd think that'd be fine. Ah, well with the large majority the Democrats have in the Senate (nope, only have control because of independents caucusing with them), perhaps it can get done that way.

It's not like Biden had proposals on how to lower prescription drug costs and that Republicans have rejected it.

President Biden plans to urge Congress to focus on cost-saving ideas for prescription drugs in his State of the Union address Thursday night, including capping out-of-pocket prescription drug costs for all Americans and allowing the federal government to negotiate the prices of widely used medications.

These two proposals expand on actions taken in the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act, which allowed Medicare for the first time to negotiate the price of 20 expensive drugs used by many Americans with diabetes, arthritis and heart disease. The federal government is negotiating this week with pharmaceutical companies on the prices of the first 10 drugs, and companies are expected to submit counteroffers soon.

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In his speech, the president is expected to call on Congress to extend the $2,000 cap on out-of-pocket prescription drug costs — which is currently scheduled to go into effect for senior citizens in 2025 — to all Americans with private insurance. Both ideas from Mr. Biden will require substantial congressional action at a time when Congress struggles with passing an annual budget. Congress also remains narrowly divided, and while the president is expected to call for bipartisanship to expand these health care savings, the Biden White House repeatedly notes that no Republican voted for the 2022 measure.

Oh, no. That's right, Democrats failed to get it done, because they don't have control of the House and a filibuster proof majority in the Senate, which means I should only complain about Democrats not doing things and make no acknowledgement of the power Republicans hold. And to further teach Democrats a lesson, I'll withhold my vote. Thus when they are out of power, they'll know they failed because of this. And then I won't have to learn. how the US government works.

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