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PENNSYLVANIA CONTENT STANDARDS CIVICS AND GOVERNMENT (Word Document)


5.2. Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship

Pennsylvania's public schools shall teach, challenge and support every student to realize his or her maximum potential and to acquire the knowledge and skills needed to . . .

5.2.9. GRADE 9
  1. Contrast the essential rights and responsibilities of citizens in systems of government.
    • Autocracy
    • Democracy
    • Oligarchy
    • Republic
  2. Analyze citizens' rights and responsibilities in local, state and national government
    3. .
  3. Analyze skills used to resolve conflicts in society and government.
  4. Analyze political leadership and public service in a republican form of government.
  5. Explain the importance of the political process to competent and responsible participation in civic life.
  6. Analyze the consequences of violating laws of Pennsylvania compared to those of the United States.
  7. Analyze political and civic participation in government and society.
5.2.12. GRADE 12
  1. Evaluate an individual's civic rights, responsibilities and duties in various governments.
  2. Evaluate citizens' participation in government and civic life.
  3. Interpret the causes of conflict in society and analyze techniques to resolve those conflicts.
  4. Evaluate political leadership and public service in a republican form of government.
  5. Analyze how participation in civic and political life leads to the attainment of individual and public goals.
  6. Evaluate how individual rights may conflict with or support the common good.
  7. Evaluate what makes a competent and responsible citizen.
5.3 - How Government Works Pennsylvania's public schools shall teach, challenge and support every student to realize his or her maximum potential and to acquire the knowledge and skills needed to . . .

5.3.9. GRADE 9

  1. Explain the structure, organization and operation of the local, state, and national governments including domestic and national policy-making.
  2. Compare the responsibilities and powers of the three branches within the national government.
  3. Explain how a bill becomes a law on a federal, state, and local level.
  4. Explain how independent government agencies create, amend and enforce regulatory policies.
    • Local (e.g., Zoning Board)
    • State (e.g., Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission)
    • National (e.g., Federal Communications Commission)
  5. Explain how citizens participate in choosing their leaders through political parties, campaigns and elections.
  6. Explain the election process.
    • Voter registration
    • Primary Elections
    • Caucuses
    • Political party conventions
    • General Elections
    • Electoral College
  7. Explain how the government protects individual rights.
    • Equal protection
    • Habeas Corpus
    • Right Against Self Incrimination
    • Double Jeopardy
    • Right of Appeal
    • Due Process
  8. Analyze how interest groups provide opportunities for citizens to participate in the political process.
  9. Analyze how and why government raises money to pay for its operation and services.
  10. Analyze the importance of freedom of the press.
  11. Identify and explain systems of government.
    • Autocracy
    • Democracy
    • Oligarchy
    • Republic
5.3.12. GRADE 12
  1. Analyze and evaluate the structure, organization and operation of the local, state, and national governments including domestic and national policy-making.
  2. Analyze the responsibilities and powers of the national government.
  3. Evaluate the process of how a bill becomes the law on a federal, state, and local levels.
  4. Evaluate how independent government agencies create, amend and enforce regulations.
  5. Evaluate the roles of political parties in election campaigns.
  6. Evaluate the elements of the election process.
  7. Evaluate how the government protects or curtails individual rights and analyze the impact of supporting or opposing those rights.
  8. Evaluate the impact of interest groups on the political process.
  9. Evaluate how and why government raises money to pay for its operations and services.
  10. Evaluate the role of media in political life in the United States and explain the role of the media in setting the public agenda.
  11. Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of various systems of government.
    • Autocracy
    • Democracy
    • Oligarchy
    • Republic