How do you participate?
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“Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.”
- President John F. Kennedy
What does this quote mean to you?
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Problem Solving
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Community Oriented
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Inactive Citizen
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Is not involved in his or her community, does not vote
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Does not participate in civic affairs, complains about government
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Acts responsibly in his/her community and works individually to contribute to the community. While they are contributing to a group effort, they are not organizing that group effort.
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Contributes food to a food drive, works and pays taxes, obeys laws, recycles, gives blood, volunteers to lend a hand in times of crises, votes
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She/he organizes community efforts to solve problems and assumes leadership positions in these efforts.
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Helps to organize a food drive
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She or he researches problems in the community and develops strategies for change. This person seeks out and addresses social problems, knows about social movements and how to effect systematic change, monitors and influences government, and produced works to change public policy.
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Explores why people are hungry and acts to solve root causes through passing legislation
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Give your own description of the types of civic participation
Give examples of how citizen would participate in your community.
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Each slide is going to have an example of citizen action. It’s your job to decide what kind of citizen is being described. Once you all make your decision, click on the citizen title to see if you are correct!
Good luck!
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Jessica loves animals and has organized a fundraiser to aid a local animal shelter in their adoption campaign. 150 people attended her fundraiser raising over $5000 dollars to help the shelter.
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Ricky hates the new policy in his community restricting how loud you can play music while driving. He thinks the policy is unnecessary and unfair. He complains about it constantly to all his friends.
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Sandy is really upset about all of the juvenile crime that has been going on in her community. Through research, she discovered that the cause of the recent crime increase is that the city recently closed 3 community centers for kids, leading to them not having a place to hang out. She has created a petition, and has a meeting to present to the City
Council about why these centers need to be re-opened in the community.
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Brian’s community was recently hit by a major hurricane. He has been working very hard to clean up his house. He is also assisting his neighbors during this difficult time by volunteering to hand out food and clothes to those who lost their homes.
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Tammy loves to run. She has decided to start a local running group for kids in her neighborhood who are at risk for getting involved in gang activity. She sets up the weekly running schedule, organizes the different run groups, and publicizes the running group in her community.
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Jake watches the news every morning before he goes to work. He hears all about the upcoming presidential candidates. He does not care for any of the candidates, so he has decided not to vote.
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Mrs. Anderson’s 7 th grade class is concerned about the number of kids in the state are obese. Through research, they have found that many students don’t get enough physical activity during the day. They are working with their school board to get more time allocated to the physical education programs in schools in their community.
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