1. Welcome to US Government!
Take a syllabus from the front table!
Read through the syllabus and highlight/underline the TWO items you think are most important!

2. Objectives
Students will be able to create a list of rules and regulations for the classroom in order to understand social contract theory.
Students will be able to identify John Locke in order to understand the impact he had on the philosophy and structure of the US government.

3. Agenda Welcome Objectives Syllabus Review
Classwork: Create a Social Contract
Introduction of Government: John Locke

4. Syllabus Review What are we covering in this course?
Why are you taking this course?
What is one of the goals of this course?
How should you behave in this classroom?
What happens if you break a rule in this classroom?
How much is homework worth?
What should you ALWAYS bring to class?
When is coach class?
What is my phone number?
What is my Instagram name?

5. What is a social contract?

6. Social Contract
an implicit agreement among the members of a society to cooperate for social benefits, for example by sacrificing some individual freedom for state protection.
What does this mean? Put this definition in your own words in the notes section of your binder or notebook.

7. Class Contract What should be the rules of this classroom?
Why is it important to have rules?

8. Political Philosophers
The idea of a social contract came from the minds of people like John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, and Jean Jacques Rousseau.

9. John Locke 1632- 1704 English physician and philosopher.
Known as the father of Liberalism.
His political theory of government by the consent of the governed as a means to protect “life, liberty and estate” deeply influenced the United States’ founding documents.
His essays on religious tolerance provided an early model for the separation of church and state.

10. Did we cover everything?
Students will be able to create a list of rules and regulations for the classroom in order to understand social contract theory.
Students will be able to identify John Locke in order to understand the impact he had on the philosophy and structure of the US government.

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For extra credit: Do all three!