WELCOME TO PARTICIPATION IN GOVERNMENT - A 12TH GRADE UNIT
CaLifornia state content standards
12.6 Students evaluate issues regarding campaigns for national, state, and local elective offices.
1. Analyze the origin, development, and role of political parties, noting those occasional periods in which there was only one major party or were more than two major parties.
2. Discuss the history of the nomination process for presidential candidates and the increasing importance of primaries in general elections.
3. Evaluate the roles of polls, campaign advertising, and the controversies over campaign funding.
4. Describe the means that citizens use to participate in the political process (e.g., voting, campaigning, lobbying, filing a legal challenge, demonstrating, petitioning, picketing, running for political office).
5. Discuss the features of direct democracy in numerous states (e.g., the process of referendums, recall elections).
6. Analyze trends in voter turnout; the causes and effects of reapportionment and redistricting, with special attention to spatial districting and the rights of minorities; and the function of the Electoral College.
1. Analyze the origin, development, and role of political parties, noting those occasional periods in which there was only one major party or were more than two major parties.
2. Discuss the history of the nomination process for presidential candidates and the increasing importance of primaries in general elections.
3. Evaluate the roles of polls, campaign advertising, and the controversies over campaign funding.
4. Describe the means that citizens use to participate in the political process (e.g., voting, campaigning, lobbying, filing a legal challenge, demonstrating, petitioning, picketing, running for political office).
5. Discuss the features of direct democracy in numerous states (e.g., the process of referendums, recall elections).
6. Analyze trends in voter turnout; the causes and effects of reapportionment and redistricting, with special attention to spatial districting and the rights of minorities; and the function of the Electoral College.
common core state standards
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.12.4
Analyze how an author uses and refines the meaning of a key term or terms over the course of a text.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.11-12.6
Determine an author's point of view or purpose in a text in which the rhetoric is particularly effective, analyzing how style and content contribute to the power, persuasiveness or beauty of the text.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.11-12.9
Analyze seventeenth-, eighteenth-, and nineteenth-century foundational U.S. documents of historical and literary significance for their themes, purposes, and rhetorical features.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.12.3.e Provide a conclusion that follows from and reflects on what is experienced, observed, or resolved over the course of the narrative.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.12.4 Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.12.7 Conduct short as well as more sustained research projects to answer a question (including a self-generated question) or solve a problem; narrow or broaden the inquiry when appropriate; synthesize multiple sources on the subject, demonstrating understanding of the subject under investigation.CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.11-12.10 Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of tasks, purposes, and audiences.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.12.10
Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of tasks, purposes, and audiences.
Analyze how an author uses and refines the meaning of a key term or terms over the course of a text.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.11-12.6
Determine an author's point of view or purpose in a text in which the rhetoric is particularly effective, analyzing how style and content contribute to the power, persuasiveness or beauty of the text.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.11-12.9
Analyze seventeenth-, eighteenth-, and nineteenth-century foundational U.S. documents of historical and literary significance for their themes, purposes, and rhetorical features.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.12.3.e Provide a conclusion that follows from and reflects on what is experienced, observed, or resolved over the course of the narrative.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.12.4 Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.12.7 Conduct short as well as more sustained research projects to answer a question (including a self-generated question) or solve a problem; narrow or broaden the inquiry when appropriate; synthesize multiple sources on the subject, demonstrating understanding of the subject under investigation.CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.11-12.10 Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of tasks, purposes, and audiences.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.12.10
Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of tasks, purposes, and audiences.
essential historical questions
What is a multiparty system and how has does it affect governing?
How are parties organized on the national, state, and local levels?
How are primaries and processes at a national nominating convention conducted as a method of choosing a candidate?
What are the basic elements of a presidential campaign?
What did each of the voting rights amendments achieve?
How are parties organized on the national, state, and local levels?
How are primaries and processes at a national nominating convention conducted as a method of choosing a candidate?
What are the basic elements of a presidential campaign?
What did each of the voting rights amendments achieve?
big ideas
Plenty of minor political parties throughout American history have challenged the two major political parties, yet none have been successful.
The political party organization is not a hierarchy, but it does have different levels in determining their respective political candidates.
Although controversial, primaries and nominating conventions are democratic methods of selecting candidates.
There is a growing amount of campaign spending in presidential and congressional elections.
African Americans and women still faced obstacles laws and amendments that were meant to increase their voting rights yet it is adults 18-20 who faced voter discrimination most recently.
The political party organization is not a hierarchy, but it does have different levels in determining their respective political candidates.
Although controversial, primaries and nominating conventions are democratic methods of selecting candidates.
There is a growing amount of campaign spending in presidential and congressional elections.
African Americans and women still faced obstacles laws and amendments that were meant to increase their voting rights yet it is adults 18-20 who faced voter discrimination most recently.
unit goals
Students will become aware of the role political parties play in decisions made by government.
Students will determine the roles the Republican and Democratic Parties play during their political operations and processes of the government.
Students will investigate the processes political candidates go through during and after the national nomination convention.
Students will explore the strategic decisions political parties and candidates make during each campaign.
Students will learn the long, difficult steps of extending the right to vote for all adult citizens.
Students will determine the roles the Republican and Democratic Parties play during their political operations and processes of the government.
Students will investigate the processes political candidates go through during and after the national nomination convention.
Students will explore the strategic decisions political parties and candidates make during each campaign.
Students will learn the long, difficult steps of extending the right to vote for all adult citizens.
assessment plan
1. Students will be completing their guided notes to expand their knowledge on the role of political parties.
2. Students will produce a graphic organizer to understand hierarchical roles of political parties.
3. Students will engage in a game to analyze a presidential candidate and to advocate for them in their groups.
4. Students will prepare for a discussion that deals with the role of money in politics.
5. Students will answer questions for multiple primary source documents to investigate details of them.
2. Students will produce a graphic organizer to understand hierarchical roles of political parties.
3. Students will engage in a game to analyze a presidential candidate and to advocate for them in their groups.
4. Students will prepare for a discussion that deals with the role of money in politics.
5. Students will answer questions for multiple primary source documents to investigate details of them.