Benchmark 3-D:
Understand how to exercise rights and responsibilities as citizens by participating in civic life and using skills that include interacting, monitoring and influencing.
D#2 Performance Standards & Specifications:
Analyze the rights and obligations of citizens in the United States, to include: connections between self-interest, the common good and the essential element of civic virtue, as described in the Federalist Papers, Numbers 5 and 49; obeying the law, serving on juries, paying taxes, voting, registering for selective service and military service.
civic virtue
serving on juries
paying taxes
registering for selective service
Promote General Welfare
Specifications:
●Obligations of the citizens of the United States (i.e., registering for selective service, paying taxes)
●Ideas of serving the public good and protecting self-interests (i.e., jury duty, voting, military service, obeying the law)