8/20/07: Get Parent Contact Form Signed
8/26/07: Look up and write the definition of the following terms:
Unitary
Oligarchy
Confederate
Authoritarian
Totalitarian
Absolute Monarchy
Dictatorship
Federal
system
Democracy
Presidential democracy
Representative democracy
Parliamentary democracy
Direct democracy
8/30 and 8/31: Read Chapter 1, section 3 from the Text.
- Answer Questions 1, 3, & 4 (page 24)
9/4 & 9/5: Define the following Terms:
command economy
mixed economy
traditional economy
market economy
economic resources
scarcity
goods
and services
trade off
opportunity cost
economic wants
9/6/07: Complete the Forms of Government Review Packet
Due: A Day - Monday, Sept. 10
B Day - Tuesday Sept. 11
9/13 and 14: Read Chapter 1, section 4
Answer questions 1 - 5 on page 30
9/17 and 18: Write a poem/song/story using the vocab from the Government Decision Making Packet (see the
Important Documents section)
9/19 and 20: Study for a quiz on Scarcity, Opportunity Cost, and Trade-offs
10/1 & 10/2: Read Chapter 3, section 1 of your text. Answer questions 1-5 at the end of the section.
10/8 &10/9: Print or copy the Principles of Democracy vocabulary list from the Documents section of this
site (found here ). Find and article from a newspaper or printed from an online paper (like www.washingtonpost.com or www.nytimes.com ) Write a paragraph summary. Bring the article in and be ready to share what the article is about.
