Governance establishes structures of power and authority in
order to provide order and stability. Civic efficacy
requires understanding rights and responsibilities, ethical
behavior, and the role of citizens within their community,
nation, and world.
Be aware that every community
has some form of governance.
Community pride
I
Describe how governments
establish order, provide security, and manage conflict.
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I
Know that communities have
different laws depending on the needs and problems of their
community.
D
Recognize people who make laws
and people who enforce them in Tennessee.
I
Identify ways that public
officials are selected, including election and appointment.
I
Distinguish among local,
state, and national government and identify representative
leaders at these levels such as mayor, governor, and
president.
D
Identify characteristics of
good citizenship such as establishing beliefs in justice,
truth, equality, and responsibility for the common good.
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Explain how Native Americans governed their communities.
I
Give
examples of how government did or did not provide for needs
and wants of people, establish order and security, and
manage conflict.
A
Recognize
how groups work cooperatively to accomplish goals and
encourage change (i.e., American Revolution, founding of
Tennessee, the failure of the Articles of Confederation, and
colonies).
Compare the systems of government of early European
colonists.
A
Examine the events that
contributed to the outbreak of the American Revolution
(i.e., taxation, judicial process, lack of representations,
and quartering of troops).
Identify examples of representative government in the
American colonies, including the Mayflower Compact, Iroquois
League, and the Virginia House of Burgesses.
I
Identify the purposes and explain the importance of the
creation of Tennessee’s colonial government, and the
Tennessee Constitution.
I
Explain the purposes of the United States Constitution as
identified in the Preamble to the Constitution.
Analyze the post-Civil War amendments to the United States
Constitution.
D
Identify examples of rights and responsibilities of
citizens.
I
Examine the influence of public opinion on personal
decision-making and government policy on public issues.
I
Explain how public
policies and citizen behaviors may or may not reflect the
stated ideals of a democratic republican form of government.
D
Explain how to contact elected and appointed leaders in
state and local governments.
D
Identify key ideals of
the United States’ democratic republican form of government
such as individual human dignity, liberty, justice,
equality, and the rule of law, and discuss their application
in specific situations.
D
Recognize and interpret how the "common good" can be
strengthened through various forms of citizen action.
D
Use knowledge of facts
and concepts drawn from history along with elements of
historical inquiry to inform decision making and action
taking on public issues.
D
Explain selected patriotic symbols and landmarks such as the
Statue of Liberty, the White House, and political symbols
such as the donkey and the elephant.
A
Recognize personal, religious, and national celebrations of
various American cultures (i.e., Independence Day, Columbus
Day, Native American or American Indian Day, Martin Luther
King, Jr. Day, Veteran's Day, Memorial Day, or
Thanksgiving).
Explain how individuals can participate in civic affairs and
political parties at the national level.
I
Identify leaders in the
national governments, including the president and selected
members of Congress, and their political parties and
describe how they are elected.
Recognize types of government (i.e., formal/informal,
monarchy, direct/indirect democracy, republics, and
theocracy).
D
Describe the purpose of governance and how its powers are
acquired, used, and justified.
D
Analyze the necessity of establishing and enforcing the rule
of law.
D
Originate models of lower to higher forms of social and
political orders.
A
Recognize the steps that give rise to complex governmental
organizations (i.e., nomadic, farming, village, city,
city-states, and states).
M
Identify written laws handed down from ancient
civilizations.
A
Identify
the development of written laws (i.e., Hammurabi’s Code,
Justinian Code, and Magna Carta).
D
Explore the development of citizenship and government in
ancient civilizations.
D
Explain and apply
concepts such as power, role, status, justice and influence
to the examination of persistent issues and social problems.
A
Recognize the roles assigned to individuals in various
societies (i.e., caste systems, feudal systems, city-state
systems, and class systems).
D
Recognize the
relationship between a places’s physical, political, and
cultural characteristics and the type of government that
emerges in that place.
D
Identify natural resources that are necessary to the
survival of a civilization.
D
Differentiate between rights and privileges of the
individual.
A
Compare and contrast the lives of individual citizens in
various governmental organizations (i.e., monarchial
systems, feudal systems, caste systems, and democratic
systems-Greek).
D
Consider how cooperation and conflict affects the
dissemination of resources, rights, and privileges.
Recognize world
political regions locally, regionally, and globally.
A
Using
a map key, locate various governance systems.
A
Identify political leaders from selected contemporary
settings (i.e., United States, India, Canada, Mexico, Great
Britain, Russia, and China).
M
Explain the purposes and
structure of various systems of governance.
A
Define
the different types of governments (i.e., democracy,
autocracy, oligarchy, monarchy, and dictatorship).
M
Compare different
political systems with that of the United States and identify
political leaders from selected contemporary settings.
A
Recognize how the boundaries of congressional districts
change in the state of Tennessee (i.e., statutory
requirements, population shifts, and political power
shifts).
A
Differentiate between the rights, roles, and state of the
individual in relation to the general welfare in various
regions of the world.
M
Explain the relationship
between a place’s physical, political, and cultural
characteristics and the type of government that arises in
that place.
D
Identify international
and multinational organizations of cooperation.
D
Describe the current
struggles over energy resources and how different
governments resolve these problems.
D
Describe conditions and
motivations that contribute to conflict, cooperation, and
interdependence among groups, societies, and nations.
A
Recognize the causes, consequences, and possible solutions
applied by governing bodies to persistent global issue using
a narrative (i.e., health, security, resource allocation,
economic development, and environmental quality).
D
Explore governmental
responses to environmental issues such as air pollution,
watershed management, water pollution and solid waste,
including hazardous and toxic waste.
D
Describe ideas and
mechanisms governments develop to meet needs and wants of
citizens, regulate territory, manage conflict, and establish
order and security.
Analyze the necessity of
establishing and enforcing the rule of law.
D
Analyze and explain
ideas and governmental mechanisms to meet needs and wants of
citizens, regulate territory, manage conflict, and establish
order and security.
D
Explain and apply
concepts such as power, role, status, justice, and influence
to the examination of persistent issues and social problems.
D
Describe the purpose of
government and how its powers are acquired, used, and
justified.
D
Distinguish basic
differences between democracy and other forms of government
in other regions of the world.
D
Identify and explain the
roles of formal and informal political actors in influencing
and shaping public policy and decision-making.
D
Analyze the influence of
diverse forms of public opinion on the development of public
policy and decision-making.
D
Relate a people’s
location, population, production and consumption to the
function of their government.
D
Identify models of lower
to higher forms of political order.
D
Describe the ways
nations and organizations respond to forces of unity and
diversity affecting order and security.
D
Differentiate between
rights and privileges of the individual.
D
Consider how cooperation
and conflict affect the dissemination of resources, rights,
and privileges.
D
Explain conditions,
actions, and motivations that contribute to conflict and
cooperation within and among states, regions, and nations.
D
Describe and analyze the
role advancements in technology have played in conflict
resolution.
D
Define the differences
between the individual and the state.
D
Identify and interpret
sources and examples of the rights and responsibilities of
citizens.
D
Describe the importance
of individual rights, such as free speech and press, in a
democratic society.
A
Recognize the rights and responsibilities of individuals
throughout the development of the United States.
D
Evaluate the role of
government in balancing the rights of individuals versus the
common good.
A
Identify the rights, responsibilities, and privileges of a
member of the United States of America (i.e., Declaration of
Independence, Articles of Confederation, Constitution, and
Bill of Rights).
A
Identify the purposes and structures of various systems of
governance (i.e., Federalism, Confederation, Republic,
Democracy, Executive, Legislative, and Judicial).
A
Recognize the purpose of government and how its powers are
acquired, used, and justified.
D
Identify and describe
the basic features of the political system in the early
United States, and identify representative leaders from
various levels and branches of government.
A
Identify how conditions, actions, and motivations
contributed to conflict and cooperation between states,
regions, and nations.
D
Analyze the
effectiveness of selected public policies and citizen
behaviors in realizing the stated ideals of a democratic
republican form of government.
D
Explain how the
Constitution is applied in every day life.
A
Recognize the rights guaranteed in the Bill of Rights.
D
Apply the Constitution
to individual court cases.
A
Recognize the impact of major court decisions have had on
American life, (i.e., Marbury vs. Madison, McCulloch vs.
Maryland, and Dred Scott vs. Sandford).
D
Analyze the United
States Constitution in principle and practice.
D
Compare and contrast the
ways the Constitution balances the "individual" versus the
"state."
D
Identify how the
Tennessee Constitution reflects the principles represented
in the Constitution.
D
Identify the influences
of ideas from the United States Constitution on the
Tennessee Constitution.
D
Identify civic
responsibilities of Tennessee and United States citizens.
D
Describe the structure
and functions of government at municipal, county, and state
levels.
D
Identify how the
different points of view of political parties and interest
groups have affected important Tennessee and national
issues.
D
Analyze the
contributions of Tennessee political leaders within the
national scene.
A
Identify the role of institutions in furthering both
continuity and change (i.e., governments, churches,
families, schools, and communities).
A
Recognize how groups and institutions work together to meet
common needs.
A
Recognize how a right must be interpreted to balance
individual rights with the need for order (i.e., freedom of
speech, freedom of religion, and trial by jury).
