Day 5: Branches of Government

Answer questions on Pg 307 #1 - 5
Branches of Government (executive, legislative, judicial): different roles PRINT
Handout: Branches of Government

DVD: House of Commons - passing a bill.

Assignment: Private Member Bill. 
In class presentations and typed handout due on Thursday.
Brainstorm ideas tonight.

Day 4: Our parliament

Clip of Nelson Mandela.

Pg 299-301 Cdn political parties and ideology
Purpose of party platforms.
Party memberships
What is patronage?
BC Politics

DVD: Our parliament
Discussing the structure of Federal government

Federal and Provincial Responsibilities: Print

Day 3: Ideologies and how to influence government

Review of political ideologies from yesterday (you should have completed readings from yesterday).

Looking at the beginning of the chapter (overview questions and vocabulary).  Pg 288/289

Handout: What point of view?  Left or Right?  Socialist/Liberal/Conservative

Overview of Pg 291-296: different ways to influence government (brainstorm)

Examples of civil disobedience: clips of Gandhi and Martin Luther King

Day 2: Political ideologies

Current events: Surrey death.  Could this have been prevented?

How does government affect your everyday lives?  A look at your group work from yesterday.

Prescribed Learning Outcomes:PRINT

Overhead notes on political ideologies: PRINT

Worlds smallest political quiz (what is your ideology?)

Read page 297-300.  Write political ideology notes.

Day 1: Welcome to Social Studies 11

Class outlines: please have your parents read and sign.

Pollseverywhere.com - an interactive poll for the class.

Current events this past summer: did you know what happened?

Discuss in groups and write down all ideas regarding the following points:

• What does government do?
• How does a leader come to power?
• Roles that government play? (planning, rules, distribution of roles, basic necessities, economy, etc)