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Work with a partner, each needs 1 paper.
 Imagine 2 families. One family has very strict
parents. The other has very lenient parents.
 How will life be different in the 2 homes?
For parents, for children, for neighbors?
 What are positive and negative effects for each?
 1 partner writes STRICT, the other LENIENT
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Think, discuss and write together. We will
share our thoughts in 10 minutes.
4th Six-Weeks World Geography Pre-AP - ESPN
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It’s all about POWER, AUTHORITY and CONTROL
 “Politics is the process of allocating limited resources”
 We only have so much stuff, and everybody wants it.
 How will we decide who gets what?
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Government and Law
 Usually what we think of when we hear “politics”
 There are many sources of authority and control in
everyone's lives… such as…
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Did we always have government?
 Early humans, early societies
 The first civilizations
 Costs and benefits
 Experimenting with forms
Characteristics:
 Individual freedom
 Compromise
 Majority rule with
minority rights
 Equality before the law
 Fundamental dignity and
worth of the individual
 Private property rights
 Due process of law
 Voting
Characteristics:
 Lack of Individual freedom
 Lack of compromise between
rulers and others
 Autocratic rule with limited or
non-existent minority rights
 Lack of equality before law
 Limited value for the worth of the
individual
 Limited private property rights or
private property in the hands of a
powerful ruling class
 Human rights violations and no
due process
 Restricted or non-existent voting
CONSTITUTIONAL,
DEMOCRATIC
TOTALITARIAN,
NON-DEMOCRATIC
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Political [government] systems allow people to live and work together by
establishing rules and laws, however, these systems often change over time.
Physical features and human processes lead to the formation of boundaries and
other political divisions
The process of creating and drawing political boundaries [creating countries] can
lead to conflict as nations fight to exert and maintain control over territory.
Human and physical factors influence power and control creating conflict and war
and a struggle for control of natural resources.
Groups/countries often develop economic and/or political unity for collective
benefit.
Personal viewpoints and understandings lead to ethnic and national identities
that make war, genocide and terrorism possible.
Migration, trade, war, innovation and diffusion often lead to change over time in a
community/nation as people interact with one another in cooperative and
conflicting ways.
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BRAINSTORM: Think about our own dominant
political system: the US government
 What works well, what doesn’t?
 What are the sources of problems?
 How could it be better?
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WRITE: a paragraph to show me your thinking
and writing skills.