Key Concepts in history
Learning point 1: What is political power?
WHY: So that we can compare and contrast the differences between different systems and so that we can evaluate their strengths and weaknesses.
HOW: By researching, analyzing and evaluating 7 different political systems.
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Task 1: Brainstorm and Define the concept
On a mini whiteboard drawn a spider diagram and share your ideas.
Share your ideas with the class.
Task 2: Political systems: Who has the power?
Who is in charge in each government?
How did they get to be a leader? How long does a leader remain in power? Who gets to vote and when? How are laws passed? Which countries in the world follow this system?
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Test your knowledge
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CBBC Newsround | TYPES OF GOVERNMENT | Anarchy
This can happen after a civil war in a country, when a government has been destroyed and rival groups are fighting to take its place. Anarchists are people who believe that government is a bad thing. They say it stops people organising their own lives.
Political Systems - Review
Task 3: Create your own island constitution

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Task 4: Debating Democracy
Thomas Jefferson
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King Louis XIV
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Josef Stalin
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Ayatollah Khamenei
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What does it mean to be free?
Homework Task 1: Creating a convincing argument
TAsk 5: How democratic was Classical greece and ancient Rome?

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Extension learning: Who rules the world in 2019?
Freedom in the World 2019 Map
Challenges to American democracy are testing the stability of its constitutional system and threatening to undermine political rights and civil liberties worldwide, according to Freedom in the World 2019.