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Lesson 1: Choosing a Civics Project
In this lesson students will explore the issues they focused on individually with their Project Soapbox speeches and use a protocol to decide as a class on their joint civics project for the year.
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Common Core State Standards (CCSS)
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.11-12.1
Initiate and participate effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grades 11-12 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively.
College, Career, and Civic Life Framework (C3)
D4.7.9-12.
Assess options for individual and collective action to address local, regional, and global problems by engaging in self-reflection, strategy identification, and complex causal reasoning.
D2.CIV.2.9-12.
Analyze the role of citizens in the U.S. political system, with attention to various theories of democracy, changes in Americans’ participation over time, and alternative models from other countries, past and present.
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