American Government: Purpose and Form of Government (1.2)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government

Essential Questions:

• What is the purpose of government?
• What are the different kinds of government?
• What are the characteristics of different kinds of government?

Engage:

• What Should a Government Do? Watch the Hurricane Ike video and do the After a Natural Disaster activity.

Explore:

• Take Me To Your Leader (2) Read the passage and do State: Vocabulary Chart worksheet.
• A Social Contract (3) Read the passage and do Hobbes vs. Locke: Venn Diagram worksheet.
• The American Experiment (4) Read the passage.
• What Is the Purpose? (5) Read the passage. Watch the videos. Do the Preamble Matching activity. 
• Defining a Government (6) Read the passage and do Forms of Government: Main Idea Web worksheet.
• To Rule with an Iron Fist (7) Read the passage and create a chart similar to the Types of Government graphic organizer. Fill out the chart for the section on Monarchy.
• Other Forms of Authoritarian Rule (8) Read the passage and fill out the chart for the sections on Oligarchy, Dictatorship, and Totalitarian State.
• Direct vs. Indirect Democracy (9) Read the passage and fill out the chart for the sections direct Democracy and Indirect Democracy.
• By the People, for the People (10) Read the passage and fill out the chart for the sections Unitary Government, Confederate Government, and Federal Government.
• Types of Government (11) Read the passage and fill out the chart for the sections Presidential Government and Parliamentary Government. 

Elaborate:

• Governments and Freedom: Investigation (3) Read the map and answer the questions.

Evaluate:

• Read the Review carefully.
• Assessment