KNOTT COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS
CURRICULUM FRAMEWORK FOR Business Law GRADE 10-12
Duration: Unit 5-Law of Jobs (4 Weeks) MAP 4.6-4.9
Big Idea: The ways in which agencies are created and the types of authority an agent can possess are discussed; as well as
fiduciary duties of an agent, potential liabilities of principals and agents, and how an agency is terminated. Students will be
educated on three ways the U.S. legal system deals with injuries to employees.
Academic Expectations
2.14
Students understand the democratic principles of justice, equality, responsibility, and freedom and apply them to real-life situations.
2.15
Students can accurately describe various forms of government and analyze issues that relate to the rights and responsibilities of
citizens in a democracy.
Program of Studies: Understandings
Grade 10-12 Enduring Knowledge – Understandings
SS-H-GC-U-1
Students will understand that people form governments to establish order, provide security and
accomplish common goals. Governments in the world vary in terms of their sources of power,
purposes and effectiveness.
SS-H-GC-U-2
Students will understand that the Government of the United States, established by the
Constitution, embodies the purposes, values and principles (e.g., liberty, justice, individual human
dignity, the rules of law) of American representative democracy.
Essential Vocabulary
Agency
Apparent authority
Fiduciary duties
Ratification
Warrant of the
principal’s capacity
Agent
Express authority
Gratuitous duties
Scope of authority
Power of attorney
SS-H-GC-U-3
Students will understand that the Constitution of the United States establishes a government of
limited powers that are shared among different levels and branches. The provisions of the U.S.
Constitution have allowed our government to change over time to meet the changing needs of our
society.
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Program of Studies:
Skills and Concepts
S-H-GC-S-1
Students will demonstrate an
understanding (e.g., illustrate, write,
model, present, debate) of the
nature of government:
a) compare purposes and
sources of power of various
forms of government in the
world, and analyze their
effectiveness in establishing
order, providing security
and accomplishing goals
b) examine conflicts within
and among different
governments and analyze
their impacts on historical
or current events
SS-H-GC-S-5
Students will analyze and
synthesize a variety of information
from print and non-print sources
(e.g., books, documents, articles,
interviews, Internet, film, media) to
research issues, perspectives and
solutions to problems
S-H-GC-S-2
Students will examine issues related
to the intent of the Constitution of
the United States and its
Core Content for
Assessment
DOK
Essential
Questions/
Learning
SS-HS-1.1.1
Targets
Students will compare and
a. The
contrast (purposes, sources of
relationship of
power) various forms of
principal and
government in the world (e.g.,
agent.
monarchy, democracy, republic,
dictatorship) and evaluate how
b. Principals are
effective they have been in
bound by the
establishing order, providing
contracts
security and accomplishing
negotiated by
common goals.
DOK 3 their agents.
SS-HS-1.1.2
c. Apparent
Students will explain and give
authority arises
examples of how democratic
when the
governments preserve and
principal leads the
protect the rights and liberties of
third party to
their constituents through
different sources (e.g., U.N.
believe a person
Charter, Declaration of the Rights has agency
of Man, U.N. Declaration of
authority.
Human Rights, U.S. Constitution).
d. Minors and
DOK 2
agent capacity
SS-HS-1.2.2
Students will interpret the
relationships.
principles of limited government
e. When is agency
(e.g., rule of law, federalism,
authority created?
checks and balances, majority
f. fiduciary duty
rule, protection of minority rights,
of loyalty
separation of powers) and
evaluate how these principles
g. The duty of
protect individual rights and
reasonable care
promote the "common good.”
and skill.
Suggested Activities
How will we teach this
content?
Assessment
How will
students be
assessed
formatively
and
summatively to
find out what
they already
know, and
what they’ve
learned?
2
amendments:
a) explain the principles of
limited government (e.g.,
rule of law, federalism,
checks and balances,
majority rule, protection of
minority rights, separation of
powers) and how effective
these principles are in
protecting individual rights
and promoting the "common
good”
SS-H-GC-S-2
Students will examine issues related
to the intent of the Constitution of
the United States and its
amendments:
a) analyze how powers of
government are distributed and
shared among levels and
branches, and how this
distribution of powers works to
protect the "common good"
(e.g., Congress legislates on
behalf of the people, the
President represents the people
as a nation, the Supreme Court
acts on behalf of the people as
a whole when it interprets the
Constitution)
DOK 3
SS-HS-1.2.1
Students will analyze how powers
of government are distributed and
shared among levels and branches
and evaluate how this distribution
of powers protects the "common
good" (e.g., Congress legislates on
behalf of the people; the President
represents the people as a nation;
the Supreme Court acts on behalf
of the people as a whole when it
interprets the Constitution).
DOK 3
SS-HS-1.2.2
Students will interpret the
principles of limited government
(e.g., rule of law, federalism,
checks and balances, majority
rule, protection of minority rights,
separation of powers) and
evaluate how these principles
protect individual rights and
promote the "common good.”
DOK 3
h. Principal/agent
relationships.
i. Termination of
agencies.
j. Employment
contracts.
k. Difference
between a
independent
contractor and an
employee.
l. Describe the
sources of the
terms in an
employment
contract.
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