1. Today: Perfect Paragraphs, Democracy and Change
9/6/13 BR: What are some ways people can change things? (remember to hand in your bellringers!)
Today: Perfect Paragraphs, Democracy and Change

2. Analyze a “perfect paragraph”
With a partner, on a piece of paper.. (half sheet for each)
What is the topic of the piece?
What is the answer?
What evidence supports the author?
Do you agree or disagree with the author? Why?

3. Exchange Perfect Paragraphs
Read and label each of the 5 parts
Share perfect paragraphs
Rewrite, correct as necessary.

4. What is democracy? Vocabulary Journal #3 Democracy:
“A government that vests power in the people”
“A government of the people, by the people, and for the people”
“A government by the people, exercised either directly or through elected representatives”
“A political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them ….

5. Examples of democracy in the U.S.
Voting..

6. Democracy in Action
This course will stress the ways that democracy happens (taking action, like the examples you mentioned)

7. Do we matter?
Even though most people say we’re a democracy (even though we’re actually a republic) and a democracy needs people to work, most people feel powerless, don’t pay attention, or don’t care about politics because they don’t think people matter.
How can we be a democracy then?
How democratic are we? (complete handout)

8. Change 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

9. Young people can..
..end wars. Student groups such as Students for a Democratic Society exerted pressure that helped bring an end to the Vietnam War. ..change school policies. Students lobbied and testified at the Chicago School Board and got the Board to require that sex education be taught in all Chicago Public Schools. ..change the way huge corporations do business Student groups across the country have gotten Taco Bell and McDonald’s closed on their campuses and in their neighborhoods to protest unfair wages they pay their farm workers (esp. tomato farmers)

10. Young people can..
..fix mistakes of older people A group of Students brought attention to the 1964 murder of 3 civil rights workers. Their work led to a new trial in 2004 in which the ringleader of the murders was tried and found guilty of murder. ..What else?

11. Change?
“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” -Barack Obama “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” -Mahatma Gandhi “If you feel you are powerless, then you are.” -Anonymous “None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.” -Gothe

12. Homework: Tuesday Write a “perfect paragraph” #1 : Change
#2 : Young people really can’t make a difference in the world today/Young people really can make a difference in the world today
#3:
#4:
#5: