Course Description

Civics Literacy is a semester-long course that allows students to examine the ways in which power and responsibility are both shared and limited by the U.S. Constitution and how the judicial, legal, and political systems of North Carolina and the United States embody the founding principles of government. Students in this course will analyze and evaluate the extent to which the American system of government guarantees, protects, and upholds the rights of citizens. Civics Literacy counts as one social studies credit towards graduation.  Daily lessons will consist of short lectures, video clips, discussion, cooperative learning, as well as individual and group research.