UNIT 2: COMPARATIVE GOVERNMENT

Unit 2.1: Comparative Government, Past and Present

Lesson 0: Unit Study Guide

Students will be able to:

  • Use key terms and main questions to evaluate their understanding of each topic in this unit.

  • Create a criss-cross puzzle (focusing on significance clues for each term) of the main terms in the unit

Key Terms, People, and Places: see study guide

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Lesson 1: From Ancient Greece to Feudal Europe

Students will be able to:

  • List key accomplishments of ancient Greeks and Romans.

  • Describe the importance of Christianity and feudalism to life in the Middle Ages.

  • Trace the effect of Christianity on life in the Middle Ages.

  • Experience the role of peasants, vassals, nobles, and the king under the Feudal system to discover from where the kings got their power and authority.

Key Terms, People, and Places: Middle Ages, democracy, policy, empire, Pax Romana, Serf, feudalism, power, authority, manor, nobles, vassals

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Assignments:

  • Pop Quiz (in schoology)

Lesson 2: Renaissance

Students will be able to:

  • Explain how government changed during the time of Renaissance and Age of Revolutions.

Key Terms, People, and Places: renaissance, humanism, monarch, absolute monarch, revolution, colony

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Assignments:

  • Answer: How did government change during the time of Renaissance and Age of Revolutions?

Lesson 3: World (actually European) Timeline

Students will be able to:

  • Construct a timeline of major eras in European History to understand the chronology of major events.

Key Terms, People, and Places: chronology, Ancient Times, Fall of Rome (west), Middle Ages, Renaissance, Age of Revolutions, Industrial Revolution, Magna Carta, Feudalism

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Assignments:

  • Pop Quiz (in Schoology)

Lesson 4: European Regions and Their Countries

Students will be able to:

  • Create a political reference map of European regions and their countries to know their locations.

Key Terms, People, and Places: Political Map, Region

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Lesson 5: Industrial Revolution

Students will be able to:

  • Explain how Industrial Revolution changed government.

Key Terms, People, and Places: Industrial Revolution, rural, urban, textile, cottage industry, factory

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Assignments:

  • Atlas Worksheet

Lesson 6: Great Britain A Democratic Tradition

Students will be able to:

  • Explain how democracy grew in Great Britain

Key Terms, People, and Places: Great Britain, democracy, King John, Magna Carta, Parliament, Representatives, Buckingham Palace, Queen Elizabeth II, constitutional monarchy

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Lesson 6: Who Rules

Students will be able to:

  • Identify major forms of government.

  • Compare and contrast the major features of different forms of government.

  • Analyze examples of real-world governments.

Key Terms, People, and Places: government, power, authority, autocracy, monarchy, dictatorship, democracy, representative democracy, direct democracy, oligarchy, junta, theocracy, anarchy

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Unit 2.2: Russia as a Case Study

Lesson 1: Introduction to Unit 2.2 Russia as a Case Study

Students will be able to:

  • Identify at least 3 reasons why study Russia as a case study.

  • 1.Begin to think about ways that our study about Russia can help us understand the world around us.

Key Terms, People, and Places: policy, power, authority, communism, Soviet Union, Velvet Revolution

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Assignments:

  • Atlas Work: Russia and Its Neighbors

Lesson 2: Czars of Russia

Students will be able to:

  • Put listening skills into practice:

    • to learn about Russia's long history of the Czars

    • to identify what caused the opposition (resistance or hostility) to the czarist government

Key Terms, People, and Places: Czar, Romanov, serf, revolt, Bloody Sunday, duma, Ivan the Terrible, Michael Romanov, Peter the Great, Catherine the Great, Alexander II, Nicholas II,

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Lesson 3: Imperial Russia VISUALIZATION

Students will be able to:

    • Read and visualize Russia to explain:

      • How did the Czars of Russia rule (what was similar about their rule)?

      • What caused the opposition to the czars?

Key Terms, People, and Places: Czar, Romanov, serf, revolt, Bloody Sunday, duma, Ivan the Terrible, Michael Romanov, Peter the Great, Catherine the Great, Alexander II, Nicholas II,

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Lesson 4: Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union

Students will be able to:

      • Identify and place major events in the rise and fall of USSR in the correct chronological order:

      • Identify major people and events of USSR to: Explain how and why did communism rise in the Soviet Union?

Key Terms, People, and Places: czar, Nicholas II, communism, Russian Revolution, Vladimir Lenin, Civil War, Josef Stalin, Cold War, WWII, Mikhail Gorbachev

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Assignments:

  • Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union READING NOTES

  • Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union QUIZ

  • Map Test: Map of Former Soviet Union

Lesson 5: Cold War

Students will be able to:

  • Examine the When, Why, What, How of the Cold War.

  • Explain how the story of the 1980 U.S. hockey team relates to the Cold War.

Key Terms, People, and Places: U.S., Soviet Union (USSR), Cold War, arms race, race to space, iron curtain

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Lesson 6: Russia: Friend, Enemy, or Frenemy?

Students will be able to:

Key Terms, People, and Places:

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Assignments:

  • See 2 assignments in Jeffco Schoology (answer core question and quiz)