March 26th, 2015
Warm Up
- What are the 4 ways you can register to vote?
- What do you ALWAYS need when registering to vote?
Learning Objective: Students will understand the requirements for voting.
Success Criteria: Students can explain the importance of voting and how to vote if they're ever homeless or convicted of a crime.
Why vote?
It's about who get's to make the laws we all live by. A king? Just wealthy, white men? Just men? Anyone who has to live under those laws?
Do we all write them together or do we pick people to write the laws for us?
Representative Democracy: we vote for politicians to make the laws for us?
Direct Democracy: everyone writes the laws together and votes on them together (all 300+ million of us)
Do we all write them together or do we pick people to write the laws for us?
Representative v. Direct Democracy
Representative Democracy: we vote for politicians to make the laws for us?
Direct Democracy: everyone writes the laws together and votes on them together (all 300+ million of us)
Everyone didn't always have a say in our laws.
So, why vote?
What happens if we show apathy and stop paying attention, stop voting, and let others pick our representatives to government?
Only by paying attention, becoming critical thinkers who are active in our government can we keep a democracy and our say in what the laws will and will not be.
In your groups complete pages 8 & 9 of your packets to learn about voting as a convicted criminal and voting while homeless. You do not need your books today.
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