++Materials Development in Support of Classroom Objectives: Systems of Government

Natia Kvaratskhelia, (Zugdidi 10) Lesson Plan/Powerpoint

Rubric for Student Participation in Task Work

Overall Objective: Students will recognize and differentiate between different models of government (Monarchy v Democracy)

Language Objective: Students will be able to discuss different forms of government (monarchy, democracy) and write about the main principles related to the topic

Class context and needs: secondary students

Materials: several handouts (see powerpoint); projector

Activities: (see powerpoint below): warm up, pair reading, group task, role play, writing and presentation.

Assessment: rubrics for assessing group work; writing a sentence (individual-pair share-present):
I, as the President/King of Georgia will…

The United Nations (for higher and lower-level students), Batumi

For higher-level and older students:
Ready-made lesson for higher-level and older students (reader, comprehension, vocabulary)
Ready-made on-line quiz to complement reader

For lower-level and younger students:
Ready-made lesson for lower-level and younger students

Extension: Discuss the United Nations Human Rights Charter; the Declaration of the Rights of Children; UNICEF; the peace-keeping missions of the United Nations; the governmental structure of the United Nations

Government Systems: A Sample Lesson for Grade 5

From Babi Kenchuashvili in Gori, a lesson plan on government systems for a fifth grade, level 1 (beginner) class.

Monarchy & Democracy: A Sample Lesson for Grade 3

Systems of Government Activity Bank

- Create a country and your own government!!

Online game for higher-level students (7-12 to adult) where students create their own country/nation state, choose a government (from history or current systems or students can create their own) and then interact with other nations in an online game. Students also participate in a world assembly, interact with each other as nation states, and understand crises and challenges that their government will face through role-playing and online interaction. FREE!

From the site: Create a nation according to your political ideas and care for its people. Or deliberately oppress them. It's up to you.

Play NationStates!

- Play "Meet the Ocracies!"

Rearrange prefixes and suffixes for vocabulary (higher-level).

Aristocracy: A form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the principal persons of a state, or in a privileged order; an oligarchy

Autocracy: Government by a single person having unlimited power; despotism (domination through threat of punishment and violence)

Bureaucracy: Administration of a government chiefly through bureaus or departments staffed with non-elected officials

Democracy: Government by the people, exercised either directly or through elected representatives

Gynecocracy: Government by women

Kakistocracy: Government by the least qualified or most unprincipled citizens.

Kleptocracy: A government characterized by rampant greed and corruption

Meritocracy: A group of leaders or officeholders selected on the basis of individual ability or achievement

Monarchy: a government in which power is vested in a king, queen, emperor or empress who can pass power on to his heirs.

Monocracy: Government or rule by a single person; autocracy

Oligarchy: A government in which a few people such as a dominant clan or clique have power

Plantocracy: A ruling class formed of plantation owners, leadership or government by this class of people

Plutocracy: A government or state in which the wealthy rule.

Stratocracy: Government by the armed forces

Technocracy: A government or social system controlled by technicians, especially scientists and technical experts

Theocracy: A government ruled by or subject to religious authority

adapted from the Oxford School Hills District, Maine, teacher. B. Burns

The United Nations Life Index: What makes a good country? Older and higher-level students, Batumi

United Nations Quality of Life Index: These countries were ranked according to education, health, quality of life, economic dynamism, and political environment. (High Income countries only. Middle and Low Income countries were classified separately)

objectives: language: present participles; content: effective governments (45 minutes)

- Warm-up: Develop vocabulary bank on the idea of what makes a good country? Prepare pictures to direct vocabulary. (students in class, people in a hospital, people enjoying life, people at business, people in parliament or congress)
main ideas: education, health, freedom, work, vote

- watch the video - have students list the countries on paper
comprehension - ask your students who was number 6, 14, 12, etc.

- Model the grammar: present participle A good country is having education. A good country is having good health. A good country is having freedom. A good country is being able to vote. Have students give other examples, or for lower-level students, have them read the sentences.

- Watch the video again. Have students in pairs or groups make a list of what makes a good country. After, as a class, in Georgian if necessary, ask your students what made these countries good?

- Assessment: Have students draw or develop a scene from their own good country based on the ideas of education, health, quality of life, freedom and voting. What makes their country so great? Have students present their drawings or plan. If they do not have enough English skills, assist them in Georgian.

++Materials Development in Support of Classroom Objectives: Systems of Government

Gov. Systems, Irma Qiria, Oktomberi (Zugdidi)

Gov. Systems (Irma Qiria, Oktomberi School Zugdidi)

Natia Kvaratskhelia, (Zugdidi 10) Lesson Plan/Powerpoint

The United Nations (for higher and lower-level students), Batumi

Government Systems: A Sample Lesson for Grade 5

Monarchy & Democracy: A Sample Lesson for Grade 3

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