WHAT IS DEMOCRACY, AFTER ALL?
Activity I	Athenian Democracy
Task: Visual that demos ± of Greek Democratic Institutions between 5th/4th centuries BC
RC1: Pericle’s funeral oration [Athenian definition of democracy]
RC2: Maps: Greek settlements and physical
RC3: Map: Greek city states [focus on Athens]; citizen categories
RC4: Concept map: Ecclesia Assembly roles and rules
RC5: Concept map: Boule - Council of 500 roles and rules
RC6: Criticism of democracy; Athens/U.S. democracy comparison	Activity II	British Parliament
Task: Print ad to convince us that British democracy is best of all.
RC1: Magna Carta – 1217 – limits king’s powers
RC2: Model Parliament – 1295 – broadened citizen base
RC3: Petition of Rights – 1628 – ALL citizens subject to law
RC4: Glorious Revolution [Wm. Of orange] & English Bill of Rights
RC5: Parliamentary reforms [19th/20th centuries] – suffrage expansion
RC6: British parliament today	
Activity III	The Enlightenment
Task: Skit: modern issue from perspective of R, L, M, Hobbes
RC1: Hobbes
RC2: Locke
RC3: Rousseau
RC4: Montesquieu
RC5: Social issues of the 17th/18th centuries
RC6: political cartoons
RC7:  more political cartoons	Activity IV	Bill of Rights
Task: Mobile: 3 favorite amendments
RC1: Bill of rights 1 – 10; guaranteed rights & freedoms
RC2: Rights definitions/descriptions: ±, natural, legal human
RC3: Chart: federal system, separation of powers/checks & balances
RC4: Summary: Enlightenment connection to US constitution
RC5: U.S. suffrage evolution
RC6: Overview: a tradition of democracy	
Activity V	French Revolution
Task Debate: End justify the means? [violence to gain democracy]
RC1: Description: the 3 estates
RC2: Pre-revolution conditions
RC3: Timeline: the moderate phase 1789 – 1790
RC4: Declaration of the Rights of man and Citizen
RC5: Timeline: the radical phase 1791-1795
RC6: Timeline: the institutionalizing phase 1795 - 1815	Activity VI	Simon Bolivar
Task: Poem/rap/song by SB encouraging revolution in Latin America
RC1: Timeline: Discovery by Europe to freedom 1492 – 1830
RC2: Maps: 1790 and 1844
RC3: Spanish society and class structure
RC4: Cause/effects of wars of independence
RC5: SB’s Angostura Speech
RC6: SB’s ideas of government	
Activity VII	South Africa
Task: TV: SA’s challenges/solutions today
RC1: timeline: European rule 1652 – 1948
RC2:  Maps/charts: pre/post apartheid’s populations
RC3: timeline: apartheid and resistance
RC4: Apartheid’s end/S.A. constitution
RC5: S.A. Bill of Rights
RC6: Overview: after Apartheid