We also got textbooks for the 10th, 11th and 12th graders. Please keep your book at home in a safe, dry place where you can use it weekly, and turn it in to the bookroom at the end of the year. The textbooks are going to take the place of packets, to save paper and keep all the information together in one spot: a book!
Homework:
1. 9th graders: The Five Themes of Geography, and Thought Questions on Movement, and Humans and Environments.
2. 10th graders: Modern World History; Read pg. 186-201, and use to answer ?s 1-8 on pg. 194, and ?s 1-9 on pg. 200.
3. 11th graders: The Americans; Read pgs. 31-53, and answer ?s 1-5 on pg. 38, and ?s 1-4 on page 53.
4. 12th graders: We The People; Read pages 35-42, and answer ?s 1-4 and ?s 1-8 on page 42. Read pages 43-56, and answer every ? you see in a blue box throughout the chapter.
We talked about life in a State of Nature, and answered the questions and then filled in the notes of the following handout, an in class activity:
Humanities, History: Classwork, 10/3 Name: ______________________________
Answer the following questions thoughtfully: (Full credit given only for thoughtful answers!)
Imagine that our class has crashed onto a deserted island. We find ourselves safe, and have plenty of resources, but we must work together to survive.
State of Nature: a condition in which there is no government.
1. What would be some advantages to living in a state of nature?
2. What would be some disadvantages to living in a state of nature?
3. What rights, if any, might you expect to have in a state of nature?
4. What might people who are stronger or smarter than others try to do? Why?
5. What might people who are weaker or less skilled try to do? Why?
6. What would life be like/feel like?
7. What are some things the people could do to protect their lives, liberty, or property?
8. List five rights you think that are essential to everyone in our island?
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Thinkers Notes:
Aristotle: Children are born _______________________, but learn to be ____________________. Humans have _____________ to learn to separate right and wrong.
Government= People exercising reason join together in _________________ through their understanding that the common good is ____________ important than individual good. Without government, people become _________________ and __________________.
Descartes: All men have the ability to reason. People can settle differences through compromise.
John Locke: People have reason, and the natural ability to ____________ _______________ and look after the well being of society. Believed in Freedom of ___________________, and was ____________________slavery.
Government= Formed to protect the rights to ________________, _____________________, and ________________________.
If government is not protecting these rights, or abusing it’s power, the people have _________ ___________________
to rebel and ___________ _______ __________ government.
Thomas Hobbes: People are naturally _________________________. People ____________ be trusted to govern themselves.
Government= ________________ ___________________ is best to protect people from their own ___________________________ and _____________. Democracy would ___________________ ________________.
Jean Jacques Rousseau: People are born _______________. In a State of Nature, people would live _________________ and _________________________. For Rousseau, a State of Nature is ________________, as modern nations _________________ the individual with luxury, corruption, and greed.
Government= _________________ ________________________ only, like the _________________ system of small, local ____________________.
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