Unit Two Table of Contents |
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Activity One
This concept development activity provides students with an opportunity to investigate the implications of using particular philosophical positions to interpret human behaviour and to guide one's own response to world events and situations. The activity also gives the students an appreciation of a number of different philosophical positions.
Activity Two
The concept application lesson will increase students' understanding of the operations of a market economy through the technique of roleplaying. Students will investigate the challenges facing governments during the Great Depression of the 1930s.
Activity Three
This concept application activity permits students to identify the critical attributes of totalitarian and democratic forms of government. The activity allows students to develop criteria to determine the allocation of individual and collective rights.
Activity Four
This concept application activity allows students to gain an awareness of the pervasive control exercised by totalitarian regimes. The students will participate in a simulation in which they are citizens of a totalitarian regime.
Activity Five
This concept development activity provides students with an opportunity to compare and contrast totalitarian and democratic decision making. The comparison of the two decision- making styles will involve using the skills of dialectical reasoning. The lesson also involves students in group and debating activities.
Activity Six
This simulation will increase students' understanding of the critical attributes of totalitarianism and of the methods totalitarian leaders use to obtain and retain public support.
Activity Seven
This concept application activity provides students with an opportunity to use an historical situation and to apply the skills of dialectical reasoning and drawing inferences based on available information. The targeted issues are Italian aggression against Ethiopia in the , the reaction of the League of Nations and the implications of the situation for the immediately following years.
Activity Eight
This concept application activity provides students with an opportunity to use the dialectical-thinking process in an historical situation. The activity also involves simulation activity and group work and the skills associated with these activities. The particular historical event coincides with the beginning of World War II.
Activity Nine
This activity could be used to review and reinforce the students' knowledge about the events and personalities of the time period covered by this unit. This concept application activity allows students to investigate the factors and values that influenced national and international decision making, and the consequences of those decisions during the years following World War I. Students will use that analysis to evaluate decision making in contemporary times.