1.  Work with a partner, each needs 1 paper.  Imagine 2 families. One family has very strict parents. The other has very lenient parents.  How will life be different in the 2 homes? For parents, for children, for neighbors?  What are positive and negative effects for each?  1 partner writes STRICT, the other LENIENT  Think, discuss and write together. We will share our thoughts in 10 minutes.

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3.  It’s all about POWER, AUTHORITY and CONTROL  “Politics is the process of allocating limited resources”  We only have so much stuff, and everybody wants it.  How will we decide who gets what?  Government and Law  Usually what we think of when we hear “politics”  There are many sources of authority and control in everyone's lives… such as…

4.  Did we always have government?  Early humans, early societies  The first civilizations  Costs and benefits  Experimenting with forms

5. CONSTITUTIONAL, DEMOCRATIC TOTALITARIAN, NON-DEMOCRATIC Characteristics:  Individual freedom  Compromise  Majority rule with minority rights  Equality before the law  Fundamental dignity and worth of the individual  Private property rights  Due process of law  Voting Characteristics:  Lack of Individual freedom  Lack of compromise between rulers and others  Autocratic rule with limited or non-existent minority rights  Lack of equality before law  Limited value for the worth of the individual  Limited private property rights or private property in the hands of a powerful ruling class  Human rights violations and no due process  Restricted or non-existent voting

6.  Political [government] systems allow people to live and work together by establishing rules and laws, however, these systems often change over time.  Physical features and human processes lead to the formation of boundaries and other political divisions  The process of creating and drawing political boundaries [creating countries] can lead to conflict as nations fight to exert and maintain control over territory.  Human and physical factors influence power and control creating conflict and war and a struggle for control of natural resources.  Groups/countries often develop economic and/or political unity for collective benefit.  Personal viewpoints and understandings lead to ethnic and national identities that make war, genocide and terrorism possible.  Migration, trade, war, innovation and diffusion often lead to change over time in a community/nation as people interact with one another in cooperative and conflicting ways.

7.  BRAINSTORM: Think about our own dominant political system: the US government  What works well, what doesn’t?  What are the sources of problems?  How could it be better?  WRITE: a paragraph to show me your thinking and writing skills.