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Vocabulary
Day 1
Government: It is a system of people, laws, and organizations that helps run a country, state, or city. The government makes rules to help keep their nation stay safe.
Citizen: A person who is a member of a country and has rights and responsibilities. This means that you have the right to vote. Additionally, you will be responsible to follow the laws.
Civics: This is the study of how government works and how people can be good citizens. This includes learning about the different branches of government, the Constitution, and how to participate in your own community and government
Day 2
Legislative Branch: The part of the government that makes the laws. This branch includes the Senate and the House of Representatives.
Executive Branch: The part of the government that enforces the laws. This branch includes the President and their administration.
Judicial Branch: The part of the government that interprets the laws. This branch includes the Supreme Court and other federal courts.
Checks and Balances: A system in which each branch of the government has some power over the other branches. This helps to prevent any one branch from having too much power.
Senate: One of the two parts of the Legislative Branch. Each state gets two Senators who help make laws for the country.
House of Representatives: The other part of the Legislative Branch. The number of representatives from each state depends on the state's population.
Supreme Court: The highest court in the United States. The Supreme Court's job is to interpret the Constitution and decide if laws are constitutional or not.
Day 6
Election: An election is when people vote to choose who will be in charge of making important decisions, like choosing a leader or making new laws.
Primary election (open & closed): A primary election is when people in a political party vote for who they want to be their candidate in the general election. An open primary allows anyone to vote, regardless of their political affiliation, while a closed primary only allows registered members of that political party to vote.
General election: The general election is when everyone gets to vote for the candidates who were chosen in the primary elections. The candidate who gets the most votes becomes the winner.
Local election: A local election is when people vote for people who will represent their community, like the mayor or city council members.
Presidential election: The presidential election is when people vote for who they want to be the president of the United States.
Special election: A special election is held when there is a vacancy in an elected position that needs to be filled before the regular election.
Ballot: A ballot is a piece of paper or a card that lists all of the candidates running in an election. People use it to vote for the candidate they want.
Representatives: Representatives are people who are elected to speak and make decisions on behalf of the people they represent.
Candidate: A candidate is a person who is running for an elected position in an election.
Voter: A voter is a person who is eligible to vote and who actually goes to the polling station or sends in a mail-in ballot to cast their vote.
Democracy: Democracy is a type of government where the people have a say in how things are run. In a democracy, people have the right to vote and have their voices heard.
Political Party: A political party is a group of people who share similar beliefs about how the government should work. They work together to get their candidates elected.
Affiliated: Being affiliated means being associated or connected with a particular group or organization, like a political party.
Day 11
Public service – a service of general interest is any service intended to address specific needs pertaining to the aggregate members of a community.
Community – a group of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristic in common.
Responsibilities – the state or fact of having a duty to deal with something.
Day 18
Community: A group of people who live or work together in the same area, like a neighborhood or a town.
Involvement: Being part of something and actively participating in it. For example, if you join a club or a team, you are involved in it.
Social change: When people work together to make things better in their community or the world, like fighting for equality or protecting the environment.
Volunteer: Someone who does something to help others or their community without getting paid. For example, volunteering at a food bank or cleaning up a park.
Impact: The effect that something has on someone or something else. For example, a positive impact is when something makes things better, while a negative impact is when something makes things worse.
Milo's Museum by Zetta Elliott - Day 18
Milo’s Museum by Zetta Elliott is a beautifully illustrated, empowering story of a young girl (Milo) who is excited to go on a school field trip to a museum. Her grandfather explains, “Museums hold all the things that people feel are valuable or important.” Imagine how Milo feels when she finds the museum offers little to no representation of African American history. Her follow-up conversations with family members help give language to her frustration (and that of the readers’.) They also inspire her to take matters into her own hands, becoming the curator and docent of her own museum. At the end of the story, Milo changes the name of her museum to “The People’s Museum” when her friends ask her if they could incorporate items from their community into the museum.
"For Which We Stand, How Our Government Works and Why It Matters" by Jeff Foster Day 2
For Which We Stand by Jeff Foster is a book that tells the reader about different parts of our nation's government. It goes through different sections ranging from the nation's backstory to how and why we vote today. The book also provides different visuals and charts to help with understanding all the concepts. The book ends by giving students ideas on how they can get involved in their own communities to be a part of the government. Additionally, readers can look through timelines where they can see moments and movements throughout the governments progress.
“What Can a Citizen Do?” by Dave Eggers Day 1
This is a book about what citizenship—good citizenship—means to you, and to us all: Across the course of several seemingly unrelated but ultimately connected actions by different children, we watch how kids turn a lonely island into a community—and watch a journey from what the world should be to what the world could be.
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