Welcome to American Studies II = History/Government
Daily Entries
Expect to have Entry Questions most days. Record these into your notebooks and include the Entry Number and Date!!
I collect entries before every quiz. these are our daily grade and by the end of a quarter or semester account for a lot of points!!
Assignments will also be posted on these pages under the dates they are assigned.
How much of the time do you think you can trust the government to do what is right?
Just about always
Most of the time
Some of the time
Hardly ever
Entry 1 - 9/4/2024 - TCI book Chapter 1, page 1
What is power?
Identify the Five sources of power?
Define: Mandate of Heaven, Divine Right of Kings, Social Contract Theory
Why did the English colonists create the Mayflower Compact?
Entry 2 - 9/5/2024 - TCI book Pg 19
What is the difference between a direct democracy and a representative democracy?
What is the difference between an absolute monarchy and constitutional monarchy?
Explain Karl Marx’s goals for creating his communist society?
How is Fascism different from communism?
9/6/2024 - Assignment
Create your own country project
On your own or you are able to work in groups no larger than 3
Entry 3 - 9/10/2024 - TCI book CH. 3 Pg 37
Define: Rule of Law, Limited Government, Individual Rights, Separation of Powers, Popular Sovereignty, Constitutionalism, Majority Rule
What influenced early colonial ideas about government?
How did Thomas Aquinas influence the idea of natural law?
How did the Magna Carta change life for English citizens?
Monday - 9/16/2024
Projects are due
Week 2 review - write your answers on to a separate sheet of paper
What was the Enlightenment?
The Enlightenment was an intellectual movement in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries that sought to improve society through fact-based reason and inquiry. The Enlightenment reshaped the ways people understood issues such as liberty, equality, and individual rights.
Today those ideas serve as the cornerstone of the world’s strongest democracies.
Thomas Hobbes
John Locke
Baron de Montesquieu
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Mary Wollstonecraft
Enlightenment Thinkers
9/19/2024 Assignment - Enlightenment Poster
Friday - 9/20/2024
Vocab word Assignment - Use the Frayer model template below to define, use in a sentence, synonym, etc.. the following terms:
Unalienable Rights
Sovereignty
Rule of Law
Representative government
Limited government