Milestones Social Studies Lee County Elementary School Janie Deas

US Supreme Court Building Identify the influence of Greek architecture (columns on the Parthenon, U. S. Supreme Court building), law, and the Olympic Games on the present. US Supreme Court Building Greek Parthenon

The Olympics: The Olympic Games started in ancient Greece The Olympics: The Olympic Games started in ancient Greece. The participants were the city-states of Ancient Greece and their colonies. The Olympic Games were held every 4 years in honor of Zeus, the king god. The prizes for winning the Olympic Games in Greece were fame, and glory along with having statues of the winners erected and sometimes even having the winners faces put on coins. Today we still celebrate the Olympic Games, and many things are similar such as the olive leaf crowns and opening and closing celebrations. Olympics Scholastic: History of Modern Olympic Games

Explain the ancient Athenians’ idea that a community should choose its own leaders. Compare and contrast Athens as a direct democracy with the United States as a representative democracy.

Representative Democracy Democracy: The Greeks created the world’s first democracy. Athens started out as a monarchy and then advanced to a democracy. The government consisted of over 6,000 assembly members all of whom were adult male citizens. The assembly voted on issues throughout Athens, and passed laws. The required number of votes to pass a law was simply the majority but in order to banish or exile someone 6,000 votes were needed. Today we still use a democracy but now instead of using a direct democracy we use a representative democracy where the citizens democratically vote on who should make the decisions in the country, while in Greece a direct democracy was used and the citizens actually voted on the decision rather than choosing which people to make the decision. Direct Democracy Representative Democracy Democracy

Locate Greece on a world map. Boot GREECE

Identify major rivers of the United States of America: Mississippi, Ohio, Rio Grande, Colorado, Hudson.

Identify major mountain ranges of the United States of America: Appalachian, Rocky.

Locate the Equator, Prime Meridian, and lines of latitude and longitude on a globe. Equator- divides the earth into Northern and Southern Hemispheres

Prime Meridian- divides the earth into Western and Eastern Hemispheres.

Latitude and Longitude Lines of Latitude Lines of Longitude BrainPop! http://www.mrdowling.com/601-grid.html

The Three Branches of Government BrainPopJr.- State and Local Govt. BrainPopJr.- Branches of Government

Explain why in the United States there is a separation of power between branches of government and levels of government. By creating three branches of government, the delegates built a "check and balance" system into the Constitution. This system was built so that no one branch of our government could become too powerful. Each branch is restrained by the other two in several ways. For example, the president may veto a law passed by Congress. Congress can override that veto with a vote of two-thirds of both houses. Another example is that the Supreme Court may check Congress by declaring a law unconstitutional. The power is balanced by the fact that members of the Supreme Court are appointed by the president. Those appointments have to be approved by Congress.

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Name the three levels of government (national, state, local) and the three branches in each (executive, legislative, judicial), including the names of the legislative branch (Congress, General Assembly, county commission or city council).

Fill out Graphic Organizer State an example of the responsibilities of each level and branch of government. Fill out Graphic Organizer

Governments provide certain types of goods and services in a market economy, and pay for these through taxes and will describe services such as schools, libraries, roads, police/fire protection, and military. Taxes

Describe the four types of productive resources: Natural (land), Human (labor), Capital (capital goods), and Entrepreneurship (used to create goods and services) Productive Resources - Info and Quiz

Describe the interdependence of consumers and producers of goods and services. Describe how goods and services are allocated by price in the marketplace. Explain that some things are made locally, some elsewhere in the country, and some in other countries. Explain that most countries create their own currency for use as money. Money BrainPopJr. Needs and Wants BrainPopJr. Goods and Services Supply and Demand

The student will describe the costs and benefits of personal spending and saving choices. Budgets BrainPopJr. Saving and Spending

Paul Revere INDEPENDENCE Boston, Massachusetts Paul Revere was a silversmith in the time of the American Revolution, and is well remembered for his patriotic actions and involvement in the American Revolution. The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere Probably what most people know him for, the famous “Midnight Ride” of Paul Revere, occurred on the night of April 18 or early morning of April 19, 1775. Revere, along with two other messengers were sent to warn John Hancock and Samuel Adams of the movements of the British Army. Revere set out to accomplish his task, and along the way he risked himself by warning other patriots, and encouraging them to spread the message that the British were coming. Several of those Revere warned also rode on horseback to deliver warnings of their own. This meant that during the night nearly 40 riders were spreading the message of the movement of the British army, and preparing the patriots to fight. The reason this midnight ride is so well remembered is because of the magnitude of the message, and the results of it being delivered properly. Causes of American Revolution Boston, Massachusetts INDEPENDENCE

Frederick Douglass CIVIL RIGHTS Frederick Douglass (Biography.com 3min.) Frederick Douglass was born into slavery on February 1818?, in Tuckahoe, Maryland. In 1838 he fled. After speaking at a 1841 antislavery convention he felt impelled to write his autobiography in 1845. While speaking abroad, Douglass helped to win many supporters for abolition and for humanitarian reform. During the Civil War Douglass became a consultant to President Abraham Lincoln. BrainPop! CIVIL RIGHTS

Susan B. Anthony WOMEN’S RIGHTS Rochester, New York Susan B. Anthony was a prominent civil rights leader during the women's suffrage movement of the 1800s. She become involved in the anti-slavery movement, but it was in doing that work that she encountered gender inequality. With Elizabeth Cady Stanton, she began her work for women's right to vote. Anthony established a weekly paper called Revolution,co-founded the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA), and gave many lectures in the US and Europe. Anthony was tireless in her efforts, giving speeches around the country to convince others to support a woman's right to vote. She even took matters into her own hands in 1872 when she voted in the presidential election illegally. Anthony was arrested and tried unsuccessfully to fight the charges. She ended up being fined $100 - a fine she never paid. When Anthony died on March 13, 1906, women still did not have the right to vote. It wasn't until 1920, 14 years after her death, that the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, giving all adult women the right to vote, was passed. In recognition of her dedication and hard work, the U.S. Treasury Department put Anthony's portrait on one dollar coins in 1979, making her the first woman to be so honored. Susan B. Anthony (Biography.com 3 min.) Rochester, New York BrainPopJr. Women's Suffrage WOMEN’S RIGHTS

EDUCATION Mary McLeod Bethune Educator and civil and women's rights activist. Born July 10, 1875 in Mayesville, South Carolina. A child of former slaves, she began her life picking cotton, but a scholarship to Scotia Seminary in North Carolina in 1888 launched her long and distinguished career as educator and activist. Believing that education provided the key to racial advancement, she founded the Daytona Normal and Industrial Institute, Florida (1904), which through her persistent direction as president (1904–42) became Bethune-Cookman College (1929). Civil Rights EDUCATION

New Deal World War II Franklin D. Roosevelt Franklin D. Roosevelt (Biography.com 47 min.) Born January 30, 1882, in Hyde Park, New York, Franklin D. Roosevelt was stricken with polio in 1921. He became the 32nd president in 1933, and was the only president to be elected four times. Roosevelt led the United States through the Great Depression and World War II, and greatly expanded the powers of the federal government through a series of programs and reforms known as the New Deal. He died in 1945. Great Depression New Deal BrainPop! New Deal World War II

United Nations Human Rights Eleanor Roosevelt Born October 11, 1884, in New York City, Eleanor Roosevelt (niece of Theodore Roosevelt) was a shy child who grew up to be one of the most outspoken women in the White House. She married Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1905. During her husband's presidency, Eleanor gave press conferences and wrote a newspaper column. After his death, she served at the UN working for human rights and women's issues. Although she had already won international respect and admiration in her role as First Lady to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt’s work on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights would become her greatest legacy. She was without doubt, the most influential member of the UN’s Commission on Human Rights. Unlike most other members of the Commission, Mrs. Roosevelt was neither a scholar nor an expert on international law. Her enthusiasm for her work at the United Nations was rooted in her humanitarian convictions and her steady faith in human dignity and worth. Although she often joked that she was out of place among so many academics, her intellect and compassion were great assets, and proved to be of crucial importance in the composition of a direct and straightforward Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Eleanor Roosevelt (Biography.com 4 min.) BrainPop! United Nations United Nations Human Rights

Civil Rights Thurgood Marshall Thurgood Marshall (Biography.com 2 min.) Thurgood Marshall was an American jurist and the first African American to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States. Before becoming a judge, he was a lawyer who was best remembered for his high success rate in arguing before the Supreme Court and for the victory in Brown v. Board of Education. He was nominated to the court by President Lyndon Johnson in 1967. Brown vs. Board of Education Civil Rights

Great Society Voting Rights Lyndon B. Johnson Lyndon B. Johnson was born August 27, 1908. He was elected vice president of the United States in 1960, and became the 36th president when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. During his administration he signed into law the Civil Rights Act, initiated major social service programs, and bore the brunt of national opposition to his vast expansion of American involvement in the Vietnam War. Great Society Voting Rights

César Chávez Workers’ Rights Born Cesario Estrada Chavez near Yuma, Arizona, on March 31, 1927, Cesar Chavez employed nonviolent means to bring attention to the plight of farmworkers and formed both the NFWA and the United Farm Workers. Chavez dedicated his life to improving the treatment, pay, and working conditions for farm workers. He knew all too well the hardships farm workers faced. When he was young, Chavez and his family had toiled in the fields as migrant farm workers. In early 1968, Chavez called for a national boycott of California table grape growers. Chavez's battle with the grape growers for improved compensation and labor conditions would last for years. At the end, Chavez and his union won several victories for the workers when many growers signed contracts with the union. BrainPop! Workers’ Rights

Cooperation Diligence Courage Leadership Liberty Justice Tolerance Freedom of Conscience and Expression Respect and Acceptance of Authority