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Examination Questions for Prospective Jurors
in a Criminal Case
http://www.courtinfo.ca.gov/
rules/1998/appendix/
standard-24.htm#P799
_66149
Description: Here is a copy of the 1998 California
Court Rules for prospective jurors in a criminal case. See the types of
questions asked before you reach a jury.
Comments: This is an interesting piece of
the judicial process that most students are curious about.
Resource Type: Secondary Text
Graphics Content: High
Jury Duty - Deciding the Facts
http://www.courtinfo.ca.gov/
reference/guide-jury.htm
Description: This is a simple background sheet
on why we need juries, the two types of jury duty and the qualifications
for jury duty in California.
Comments: This is an easy to read jury guide.
Resource Type: Secondary Text
Graphics Content: High
San Francisco Bay Area Volunteer Information
Center
http://www.meer.net/users/
taylor/index.htm
Description: Here is a list of volunteer sites
and descriptions found mainly in San Francisco. It gives insight into the
social responsibilities that are the other side of the coin of citizen
rights in America.
Resource Type: Compilation of Links
Graphics Content: Low
Washington Post Interactive US Citizenship
Test
http://www.washingtonpost
.com/wp-srv/national/
longterm/citizen/
cittest.htm
Description: See the types of questions asked
on the real U.S. Naturalization and Citizenship test. Go to a link to 100
more questions and answers..
Comments: Could you qualify to become a citizen?
Resource Type: Other
Graphics Content: High
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Democracy in America: So You Think You Can
Teach
http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/
activity/democracy/
Is citizen responsibility for the common welfare
a concept meant for another time and another place? With the resolve of
a lion tamer you decide that you are going to stop at nothing until you
have taught each one of your students just what democracy is and the importance
of citizen responsibility to everyone's future.
Author: David MacDonald
Civic Responsibility
http://www.nara.gov
/education/teaching/
robinson/lesson3.html
Based on documents from the Civil Rights Era,
respond to a list of possible scenarios and identify different ways in
which citizens can take an active role in government policy-making.
Author: National Archives and Records Administration
Democracy in America Online
http://pomo.kn.pacbell.com/
wired/democracy/
scrapbook.html
Be a modern de Tocqueville by virtually interviewing
Americans. Discover how perspectives on our country's democracy differ
from group to group, and person to person? Search the sites listed in this
lesson and create an online scrapbook.
Author: Political Science Students
Eighteenth-Century and Twentieth-Century Forms
of Resistance
http://www.history.org/
When unpopular laws are enacted or when unfavorable
actions are taken on the part of a group or a government, there is often
open resistance to the laws or actions. Resistance is demonstrated in many
different forms, including written objections, words to songs, prints and
political cartoons, mob violence, and even war. In this lesson, students
will discuss the various types of resistance used in colonial times and
compare them with the forms of resistance that take place in the twentieth
century. To access this lesson, click on "Teach History" and then "Classroom
Tested Lesson Plans"
Author: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
How Can Citizens Participate?
http://www.civiced.org/
wtp_ms28_sb.html
In this lesson you will learn about one of
the most important rights of citizenship. This is the right to participate
in governing our nation. The lesson will discuss the different ways you
may participate. It will also suggest those things you should think about
in deciding whether or not you should participate.
Author: We the People
How Can You Decide among Competing Responsibilities?
http://www.civiced.org/
fod_elem_resp07_sb.html
Use the concepts of urgency and relative importance
to select the responsibilities most essential to fulfill.
Author: We the People
Rescuers: Those Who Risked Their Lives to Save
Others
http://catalog.socialstudies.com/
c/@Wmpv2OzYB_jKE/Pages/
article.html?article@rescuers
Many people in the Nazi occupied countries
stood idly by as millions of people were rounded up and put to their deaths.
However, some risked their lives to help the victims of Nazi persecution.
Read and view photographs relating to several of these compelling stories
and write reflective essays based on your exploration.
Author: Social Studies School Service
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Have students explain how civil society provides
opportunities for individuals to associate for
social, cultural, religious, economic, and
political purposes, how civil society makes it possible for people, individually
or in association
with others, to bring their influence to bear
on government in ways other than voting and elections.
They should be able to effectively discuss
the historical role of religion and religious diversity.
They should be able to compare the relationship
of government and civil society in constitutional democracies to the relationship
of government and civil society in authoritarian and totalitarian regimes.
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