Citizenship Unit Plan Introduction
Citizenship in the United States is taken too lightly. People speak of the rights they are afforded as citizens but neglect the responsibilities that maintain those rights. United States citizenship is a privilege and many people have forgotten that. This unit titled Citizenship: values, rights and responsibilities addresses this issue. This unit looks at topics such as rights and responsibilities afforded to citizens today as well as during 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. Students will also have the opportunity to look at citizenship in great societies that shaped American citizenship such as but not limited to Athens, Rome and Sparta. As a class we will investigate what made people like George Washington and Eleanor Roosevelt “good” citizens as well as why we despise “bad” citizens like Richard Nixon and Nathan Bedford Forrest. This unit culminates in a two-day examination period where the students get to define what they believe to be good citizenship. Students will work in pairs to create a citizenship test they will give to another pair to take and then write an essay on why they believe their test questions represented good citizenship. While the United States has a definition for citizenship, this is not nearly as important as how the United States is defined by its citizens. To understand this, it must first be studied.
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