2015-16 CWP Scope and Sequence
1. Introduction to the stock market and sign up and buy stocks in a Mock Stock Market
 Terms Definition search/crossword- need to develop (on stock market website)
2. Government Unit
 Reason for and structure of the Constitution- Separation of Powers
 Preamble Rewrite
 Constitutional Scavenger Hunt (Article, Section, Clause)
 Purpose for and Study of Key BOR’s and other Amendments
 Student poster on Checks and Balances- need to develop
 Student Rewrite of BOR and Preamble?- need to develop
 Intro of Landmark court cases- EX’s Plessy and Brown
 Landmark case research and presentation
 Legal system- due process, probable cause- rubber hits the road
 Mock Trial
 Analysis of a Mock case involving murder or self-defense- to be developed, might end
up being a mock trial itself
3. Lawmaking process
 Walk through verbally
 Students write down four possibilities using the same format as the Constitutional
scavenger hunt. Pres. Signs, Veto Override, Pocket Veto
 Other forms of lawmaking- initiative, recall and referendum- often local examples
 Students write a law and has to make it through committee for a vote by the class- need
to develop
 Relate this to current bills in our state or Washington DC
 Unit Assessment
 CE on this
 Mock state voting- online
4. Political Parties
 Initial survey
 Overview of the differences between D’ and R’s
 Political Party Platform and Planks research
 Editorial Page
 Unit Assessment
 Self-Evaluation of political party preference- Essay
5. Hot Coffee
 tort reform
 PAC’s
 Blame Game (?)
 Unit Assessment
 CE on this
6. Citizenship
 Duties, Rights and Responsibilities- some done but still in need of development
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 Letter to editor or politician (Right of Petition)
 Unit Assessment
Climate Change
 Inconvenient Truth
 Counter video- suggestions?
 For and against Climate Change research- Kranich? Need to develop?
 CE on this topic
Alternative Energy
 Various videos
 Research and Presentation
China Unit
 Map Study
 Peoples Republic of Capitalism/China Rising- Selections from each
 Joined at the Hip
 Is Walmart Good for America
 60 Minutes- Ghost Cities
 Unit Assessment- In development
 Current Event on China
 By 2016 more on China’s stronger presence in the region
Overpopulation and Women’s Rights
 People Bomb
 Pennies a day
 Discussion of current issues- ISIS, Sharia Law etc
 CE on this
 Population solution essay
Tax Unit
 Federal Reserve System- Need some supporting curriculum
 Poster on fed Reserve
 Federal Budget- Mandatory and discretionary spending
 Current tax system and different ideas between D’s and R’s
 Investing for retirement- IRA’s and the Rule of 72
 1040EZ and 1040 Tax Scenarios
 Vocabulary and computational test
Economics Unit (Under development)
 Supply and Demand curves
 Elastic and Inelastic demand
 Oil Futures Simulation
 Masters of Money video and questions
 Unit Assessment
 Stock Market- this will be covered over the course of the year as the students make
their two week stock trades- winner announced at the end of each semester
 Unit Assessment
Personal Economics
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 Needs vs Wants
 Teenage Advertising- role in the economy- Pier’s stuff- develop my own also
 Living on your own assignment
 Balancing a Checkbook
Genocide
 Eight Stages of Genocide packet
 Ghosts of Rwanda
 Worse Than War
 Research or CE on contemporary genocide
North Korea
 Map Study
 NK History
 Inside North Korea
 Selections from other video/Youtube
 NK Test
Middle East Unit
 Regional map
 Founding of Israel Project
 6 day War video and Q’s
 Research on Islam
 In Memoriam
 Why the Hate- with Essay
 Current Examination of major ME issues
 Unit Assessment
Teen Well Being
 Examples from past presentations
 Research and Presentation
Comprehensive final on enduring understandings- Study guide will be modified each year
according to the adjustments in the curriculum related to current US and world events
**This is a fluid list depending on world events- I assume Russia and Cuba might make the
official list BUT they will receive coverage as part of the breaking news/icebreaker segment of
class.