Essential Question: How can government  influence the way we live?

Enduring Understanding: Governments provide services that affect everyone's daily life.

Knowledge Focus

In this unit, students will read informational texts and fictional stories about the interactions between citizens and government. They will build schema around the following concepts:  

Social Studies

• Local, state, and federal governments have unique functions but often work together to protect and provide for citizens.

• Citizens and government interact in civic affairs at the local, state, and federal levels.

Literature

• Characters in stories, similar to people in the real world, hold positions in their fictional societies. Some characters have more power than others. The interactions between these characters help develop the story line and can also build social awareness.