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U.S. Government and Politics Literacy Advantage
Unit 1: The Need to Read
Lesson 1.1: Reading and Vocabulary
Activity 1.1.1: Study - Active Reading
(Documents: Study Sheet)
Learn skills and strategies that will help you be an active reader in this and other courses.
Duration: 45 min
Activity 1.1.2: Quiz - Active Reading
Take a quiz to check your understanding of what you have learned.
Duration: 10 min Scoring: 10 Points Earned: _____
Activity 1.1.3: Study - Building a Vocabulary
Learn how to use words to express a variety of ideas and study a few helpful vocabulary words and tips.
Duration: 30 min
Activity 1.1.4: Quiz - Building a Vocabulary
Lesson 1.2: Getting Started in the Course
Activity 1.2.1: Study - Reading Strategies in the Course
Learn how the eight reading strategies will be useful in this course.
Duration: 30 min
Activity 1.2.2: Quiz - Reading Strategies in the Course
Lesson 1.3: The Need to Read Wrap-Up
Activity 1.3.1: Review - The Need to Read
Get ready for the unit test by reviewing important ideas and skills.
Duration: 30 min
Activity 1.3.2: Test (CST) - The Need to Read
Take a computer-scored test to check what you have learned in this unit.
Activity 1.3.3: Test (TST) - The Need to Read
Take a teacher-scored test to check what you have learned in this unit.
Duration: 30 min Scoring: 20 Points Earned: _____ (optional)
Lesson 1.4: Diagnostic
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Activity 1.4.1: Diag - The Need to Read
Take a diagnostic test that will create a study plan based on your answers.
Unit 2: Principles of Government
Lesson 2.1: The Purposes and Origins of Government
Activity 2.1.1: Discuss - Who Are You?
(Documents: Discussion)
Tell the other students in your class who you are and why you are taking this course.
Duration: 20 min Scoring: 10 Points Earned: In Progress (optional)
Activity 2.1.2: Study - The Purposes of Government
Consider some basic purposes of government.
Duration: 40 min
Activity 2.1.3: Quiz - The Purposes of Government
Activity 2.1.4: Journal - Government in Your Daily Life
(Documents: Journal)
Observe the way government works in your daily life. Which purposes of government do you see in action?
Activity 2.1.5: Checkup - Purposes and Origins of Government
Check your understanding of the lesson.
Duration: 10 min
Lesson 2.2: Power and Government
Activity 2.2.1: Study - Power and the Nation-State
Learn about nation-states the most powerful human institutions on earth.
Duration: 20 min
Activity 2.2.2: Quiz - Power and the Nation-State
Activity 2.2.3: Study - Theories of Power
Consider elite and pluralist theories of power.
Duration: 30 min
Activity 2.2.4: Quiz - Theories of Power
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Activity 2.2.5: Read - Power Reading
(Documents: Reading Guide, Reading Materials)
Read part of Politics Among Nations an important work on power and international politics.
Duration: 20 min
Activity 2.2.6: Quiz - Power Reading
Activity 2.2.7: Practice - Examining Power
(Documents: Practice Assignment)
Examine the way that nation-states use power.
Activity 2.2.8: Checkup - Power and Government
Duration: 10 min
Lesson 2.3: Types of Government
Activity 2.3.1: Study - Types of Government
Learn different ways to group governments.
Duration: 30 min
Activity 2.3.2: Quiz - Types of Government
Activity 2.3.3: Discuss - Indirect Democracy
(Documents: Discussion)
Discuss the difference between government run by a few people and government run by representatives of the
people.
Activity 2.3.4: Checkup - Types of Government
Duration: 10 min
Lesson 2.4: Principles of Government Wrap-Up
Activity 2.4.1: Review - Principles of Government
Get ready for the unit test by reviewing important ideas and skills.
Duration: 30 min
Activity 2.4.2: Test (CST) - Principles of Government
Take a computer-scored test to check what you have learned in this unit.
Activity 2.4.3: Test (TST) - Principles of Government
Take a teacher-scored test to check what you have learned in this unit.

Lesson 2.5: Diagnostic
Activity 2.5.1: Diag - Principles of Government
Take a diagnostic test that will create a study plan based on your answers.
Unit 3: The U.S. Constitution
Lesson 3.1: Origins of American Government
Activity 3.1.1: Study - Enlightenment Ideas
Learn about the ideas that shaped the Constitution.
Duration: 30 min
Activity 3.1.2: Quiz - Enlightenment Ideas
Activity 3.1.3: Journal - Your Favorite Ideas
(Documents: Journal)
Describe the people and ideas that you find most interesting from the Enlightenment.
Activity 3.1.4: Study - Revolutionary Consequences
Learn how the American Revolution changed American governments.
Duration: 30 min
Activity 3.1.5: Quiz - Revolutionary Consequences
Activity 3.1.6: Checkup - Origins of American Government
Duration: 10 min
Lesson 3.2: Creating and Ratifying the Constitution
Activity 3.2.1: Study - The Constitutional Convention
Learn how and why leading Americans met to create a new Constitution.
Duration: 30 min
Activity 3.2.2: Quiz - The Constitutional Convention
Activity 3.2.3: Practice - The Great Compromise
(Documents: Practice Assignment)

Explain why the Great Compromise is so important.
Activity 3.2.