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Grade 6 State Goal 14 State Goal 14: Understand political systems, with an emphasis on the United States. 1 ILLINOIS LEARNING STANDARDS: STATE GOAL 14: GRADE 6 LEARNING STANDARD/OUTCOME SAMPLE ASSESSMENT CONNECTIONS Critical to Understand and Master at Choose two countries that have Language Arts: In small groups, Grade 6: political systems that are different from discuss the pros and cons of different 6.14.01 the political systems of the United political systems. Support your Compare information you already States. Make a Venn diagram viewpoint with reasons and examples. know about political systems of the comparing and contrasting the different United States to political systems of political systems. other countries. (14A) 6.14.02 Working in pairs, debate whether Technology: Use the Internet or library Explain the importance of governments national, state, or local governments resources to research images of other having written constitutions. (14A) could exist without written constitutions government constitutions and charters. or charters. Establish pro and con Create a display that shows how other arguments, and present your debate to countries’ governments operate and your classmates. govern. Share your display with classmates. 6.14.03 Use the Internet or library resources to Math: Use the Internet or library Describe how social classes were research America during the resources to research population data generally formed and how they Jacksonian era. Write a paragraph to from different years in United States influenced public policy in their nations. describe how voting laws changed history. Use this data to make pie (14D) during that time and how those graphs, showing how the population changes affected the social classes was divided into different social and government of United States. classes during different times in history. 2 ILLINOIS LEARNING STANDARDS: STATE GOAL 14: GRADE 6 LEARNING STANDARD/OUTCOME SAMPLE ASSESSMENT CONNECTIONS Theater: In small groups, write scenes 6.14.04 Choose one responsibility that people about citizens participating in Evaluate the benefits of citizen have as citizens of a community Then, government, such as voting or participation in a social system. (14D) write a paragraph that evaluates what speaking at a ward meeting. Act out would happen if citizens did participate your scenes for the class. in their community to meet that responsibility. 3 ILLINOIS LEARNING STANDARDS: STATE GOAL 14: GRADE 6 LEARNING STANDARD/OUTCOME SAMPLE ASSESSMENT CONNECTIONS 6.14.05 Use the Internet to find websites, such Math: Use the Internet or library Identify a political tradition or custom in as www.HistoryForKids.org, that have resources to research the population of the United States, which had its origin information about the government of Athens at the time of Pericles. Use a in another country (e.g., representative ancient Greece and Rome. Make a list pie graph to identify the percentages of government). (14E) of political traditions or customs from eligible voters. Who made up the that time. Then, write a summary of remaining non-voting citizens of your research and identify an American Athens? Add their population political tradition or custom that percentages to your graph, too. originated in ancient Greece or Rome. Discuss how the graph shows contradictions between the ideas and statements of Pericles and the actual population who were actually eligible to vote. Language Arts: Make a Venn diagram to compare and contrast views on democracy held by Plato and Pericles. Work with a partner to summarize how Greek philosophy influenced the development of many political ideas and practices in the United States. 4 ILLINOIS LEARNING STANDARDS: STATE GOAL 14: GRADE 6 LEARNING STANDARD/OUTCOME SAMPLE ASSESSMENT CONNECTIONS 6.14.06 Use the Internet or library resources to Religion: Use the Internet or library Identify how civilizations contributed to research documents by leaders such resources to research how early the development of human rights as Cyrus the Great or Kublai Khan, that civilizations used religion as a basis for recognition. (14F) were important to the progression of recognizing human rights. human rights issues. Then, make a time line of documents important to the development of human rights. 6.14.07 Use the Internet or library resources to Music: Write a song that describes Describe conflicts over the rights and research current civil rights conflicts how people around the world can work freedom of individuals and groups around the world. Summarize your together to peacefully solve their throughout the world. (14F) findings in a cause-and-effect chart differences. that describes these conflicts. Significant to Develop at Grade 6: View copies of the Declaration of Religion: As a class. Identify and 6.14.09 Independence, the Northwest analyze religious references in the Summarize the main points in Ordinance, and the Preamble of the Declaration of Independence, the constitutional documents. (14A) United States Constitution. Then, write Northwest Ordinance, and the a paragraph that summarizes each Preamble of the United States document. Constitution. 5 ILLINOIS LEARNING STANDARDS: STATE GOAL 14: GRADE 6 LEARNING STANDARD/OUTCOME SAMPLE ASSESSMENT CONNECTIONS 6.14.10 Write an essay that explains why it is Religion: What roles do different Explain the roles of citizens in important in a republic, such as the people play in the operation of your choosing leaders in the United States United States, that all eligible citizens parish? How are they all part of the and in other nations around the world. exercise their right to vote. Include same mission? Explain how service to (14C) what might happen if one group of the Church is both similar to and citizens did not exercise its rights to different from civil service work. vote. 6.14.11 Use the Internet or library resources to Math: Use research to make statistical Make a map showing one United research the voting history and charts about voting districts in your States voting district, and explain the population of a voting district. community. Using statistics, show the features that contributed to creating Summarize your findings in a report results of the last election in a chart. the boundaries of each voting district. and present to the class. Then transfer those results to a map. (14C) 6.14.12 Use the Internet or library resources to Technology: Make a video Analyze actions taken by the United research the Civil Rights movement in documentary about the Americans with States and other nations’ governments the United States. Make a list of the Disabilities Act and how it has to improve the lives of oppressed actions taken by the government improved people’s lives. people. (14D) during the Civil Rights movement. Then explain how the Civil Rights movement influenced government policies. 6 ILLINOIS LEARNING STANDARDS: STATE GOAL 14: GRADE 6 LEARNING STANDARD/OUTCOME SAMPLE ASSESSMENT CONNECTIONS 6.14.13 Make a list of historical events in Language Arts: Choose a civil rights Identify events in which people have which people have fought for leader you have learned about in had to fight for equality. (14F) equality. Then, make a sequence class. Imagine that you have the chart that shows the order of events opportunity to interview this leader. that led to changes in ideas and Write a list of questions you might ask political practices. For example, Rosa this person. Using your knowledge of Parks inspired the Montgomery, this person, imagine what his or her Alabama bus boycott. Her arrest led answers might be. to protests in other states. Useful to Work on at Grade 6: Use the Internet or library resources Art: Make a world map of the world 6.14.14 to research how international that identifies the countries that are Describe the leadership role of the organizations, such as the United members of the United Nations United States in international Nations, the North Atlantic Treaty Security Council, the North Atlantic organizations, such as the United Organization Treaty Organization Treaty Organization, and the Nations, the North Atlantic Treaty (NATO), or the International International Monetary Fund. Organization (NATO), and the Monetary Fund (IMF) help make the International Monetary Fund (IMF). world a safer place. Then, write a (14E) paragraph that summarizes your research. 7 ILLINOIS LEARNING STANDARDS: STATE GOAL 14: GRADE 6 LEARNING STANDARD/OUTCOME SAMPLE ASSESSMENT CONNECTIONS 6.14.15 Use the Internet or library resources Language Arts: Use the Internet or Explain the costs and benefits of a to research international library resources to research recent treaty the United States has signed organizations, such as NATO. Make treaties that the United States has with another nation or international a list of the costs and benefits to the signed with other nations. Write a organization. (14E) United States as a result of being a paragraph that summarizes the member of these organizations. treaty. Then, write a paragraph that summarizes the costs and benefits of the treaty to the United States. 8 Grade 6 State Goal 15 State Goal 15: Understand economic systems, with an emphasis on the United States. 9 ILLINOIS LEARNING STANDARDS: STATE GOAL 15: GRADE 6 LEARNING STANDARD/OUTCOME SAMPLE ASSESSMENT CONNECTIONS Critical to Understand and Master Write an essay that analyzes the Art: Prepare an exhibit that illustrates at Grade 6: costs and benefits of the United how free enterprise in the United 6.15.01 States’ free enterprise system to States answers the questions of what Analyze the free enterprise economy producers and to consumers. will be produced, how it will of the United States. (15A) produced, and who the consumers are. Write captions that explain how the exhibit represents the features of a free enterprise system. 6.15.02 Make a list of the six economic goals Language Arts: As a class, review the Describe the six economic goals of of the United States.