Community+Service+Learning

**What is a citizen?**

 * __Active Citizen__**
 * A citizen is a legal member of a nation who follows the law of that nation.
 * person who is part of a community and contributes to making the community better
 * part of their community in a positive way
 * vote
 * over-throw government


 * you could be a citizen in a bad way
 * don't always follow the rules of the nation, don't have to contribute to make the community better

Homework from 10|14 - 1. When you think about your community, how does it make you feel (proud, angry, happy, etc.)? What about the resources? What about the problems?

2. How can some of the problems be addressed with some of the resources?

3. What makes something a community?

4. Did we see similar problems/resources in different communties?

10|21

11|4 Single-Party State a single-party state is a when place has one who makes up all the rules and all the other people who live there can't do or say anything without permission but can argue about the rule even though the dictator might not listen

a government with one person who makes the laws with no help

strength - people have a fear of their dictator so there would be a less chance of someone doing something bad weakness - population can't make decisions and they are very unhappy

Representative Democracy - when people vote for people who make laws for them strength - there are a lot of different opinions to vote on weakness - not everyone agrees on the new law

Direct Democracy - when all the people in the country have an equal say in the chooses that are made strength - everyone can express their opinions, it makes people feel important weakness - there's lots of disagreements and it takes a long time to make a deicision

Theocracy - when a government is ruled by a god and supervised by a counsil strength - they don't have to make any decisions for themselves because God makes them weakness - people treated it more like a religion than a government so they worshipped it

Representative Democracy is best.

11|15 -call 911 if I see a crime -write an article about the crimes that have been happening in Malden and send it to the local newspaper, print it out and put it in my neighbors' mailboxes, or post it on facebook -start a "stop the violence" club at school

12|15 Do now - I think that some of the issues we should consider working on are bullying, crime, and other issues related to that because bullying is a really big crime in most schools these days and it seems to be happening more often.

-violence -stealing -bullying -school budget

I think that stealing will probably be the issues that we work on since it is a really big thing that happens in our school and everywhere in the world every day.

Outcomes - -people will get greater punishments for stealing -there will be more survalance around to look out for stealing -all the teachers will take part in checking around their rooms for kids trying to steal -kids will not grow up to be thieves. -influence people to take pride in what they have -hallway patrols -build more TRUST -set examples to stop the cycle of theft -awarness to look stuff up -stronger locks -awareness of why it's bad to steal -punishment for stealing -education/awareness to prevent stealing -ensure everyone has a lock & locker -