Community+Service+Learning

-A citizen is a person who lives in a country and has the right to be there.
 * What is a citizen?**

Main Idea- the triangular trade carried slaves, cashed crops, and manufactured goods for money

10/12/10 Summarize the Sugar Act in 2 lines or less: Taxes on sugar were raised to get more money and pay all debts.

Get The Gist: 1. The British Colonies 2. Were being taxed double the amount. 3. The British colonies didn't like taxes so they caused riots.

This document should be used to support the British because they needed the money to pay off their debt, and the only way to get that money was by taxing the colonists.

-The English were in debt and wanted to convince the colonists that they needed help because they were a part of the English. -signed the Mayflower compact to follow rules -Unless there was a crime, a free man can't be taxed. -Colonists were paying taxes to British without having an elected representative.

What do you think a community is? -A community is the builddling and people, and things happening in an area.

What community do you most identify with and why? -My church group, because I'm constantly with them and we have many things in common.

Community- **The Church's Teenagers** Problems- Jealousy, parents, secrets. Resources- get-togethers, friendships, companionship

Questions: a. When you think about your community, how does it make you feel? -It makes me feel happy to be a part of something. I love the resources because I know it's something that's always going to be there. The problems could be dealt with. b. How can some of the problems be addressed with the resources? -We could become stronger with the resources and deal with the problems in an educated manner. c. What makes something a community? -People coming together that value the same thoughts. d. Did we see similar problems/resources in different communities? -Yes, because lots of teenagers encounter the same problems.

10/15/10 Explain what is meant by point of view. -Point of view is the way you see something; someone's opinions; their way of thinking; perspective

10/21/10



11/4/10 A Single-Party State is a government where one person makes the laws, with no help from anyone else. strength : The people has a fear of the dictator so they wont riot or go against him.
 * Single-Party State.**

weakness: People don't have a say on what rules or laws are made and can't vote.

Everyone can have an equal say in the choices that are made. strength: A lot of opinions are heard. weakness: Lots of disagreement.
 * Direct Democracy.**

A God is seemed as the leader. strength: God makes the decisions so the group of people don't have to. weakness: Theocracy is more of a religion than a democracy.
 * Theocracy.**

When people vote for certain people to represent their views. strength: Many different opinions to go by and make decisions off of. weakness: Not everyone agrees with the decisions made by the representative.
 * Representative Democracy.**

Representative democracy is better because it's more organized and only has 3 people leading everyone else, but the people can vote.

11/15/10 To stop this, I will write a letter to the newspaper editor telling him to spread the word and end this crime. If he takes too long, I will go down there myself and make sure he writes it. If that doesn't work, I will make a facebook group informing everyone with things most people don't know about.

Do Now 12/15/10 What are some of the issues that you think we should consider trying to work on? Why? -I think we should really work on the littering issue. Global warming has become such a big deal and our environment is in great danger. I think we should so everything we could to stop it as much as we can. Not throwing stuff on the floor or the street may sound easy but usually people dont even think about how much it hurts the environment. we should pick up anything we see and just not throw anything on the ground to begin with.

-bullying- older kids thinking they're better than younger ones -school budget- more fundraisers -paying attention- there should be a limit of time because people get tired and distracted -drop outs- come up with something that make people want to stay in school -teen pregnancy- something should be done about how many teens are ruining their lives because of preganancy -grades- people need to bring them up -domestic violence- people who buy animals should sign a contract saying they will treat the animals with care -vandalism- there should be harder punishment for this -stealing -violence -ID theft -homework -discrimination -disruptions -drugs -student involvement -racism -school activities -joining groups/sports -keeping school clean -gangs -revenue -air pollution

school budget outcome- we would have more money than we do now stealing outcome- people wouldnt complain about their stuff going missing

people wont be thieves. other people will have trust.. less deaths. we would be more of a community.

-influence people to take pride in what they have -hallway patrols -build more trust -set examples to stop the cycles of theft -awareness to lock stuff up -stronger lockes -making people aware of why its bad to steal -punishment for stealing -education/awareness -each locker having a lock -safety
 * Period 7 Outcomes**