What kind of Government is your family?
Feb 24, 2015 4:07:40 GMT
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Post by ptamom on Feb 24, 2015 4:07:40 GMT
Interesting Social Studies assignment my 9th grader has. The project is called "My Culture". But it is about the subset of culture that is our family.
The student takes a poster board, and divides it into 7 sections. 7 various aspects of our culture are to be represented: Family, Economy, Government, Arts, Traditions, Language, and Education.
All have to be represented visually, no words.
The specific one that interested me most, was Government. My son asked me, "If our family were a Government, what would it be?"
He speculated, "Democracy?" I asked him if he and his sister decided they deserved ice cream tonight, and I was the only parent home, would they get ice cream because their two votes "yes" trumped my vote "no."
So, not Democracy. "Communism?" No. Those kids are not contributing much work to the collective.
"Monarchy?"
I had to think about that one. They certainly don't treat me like a Queen. My husband had to clean the gutters last week, not very Kingly.
"Dictatorship?"
Well, that implies that we do what we want, without consideration of the well being of our "masses." And the well being of our "masses" is always first and foremost in our minds.
So I suggested "Benevolent Monarchy."
We consulted Google images, since this project is supposed to be visual.
This is what we got:
The student takes a poster board, and divides it into 7 sections. 7 various aspects of our culture are to be represented: Family, Economy, Government, Arts, Traditions, Language, and Education.
All have to be represented visually, no words.
The specific one that interested me most, was Government. My son asked me, "If our family were a Government, what would it be?"
He speculated, "Democracy?" I asked him if he and his sister decided they deserved ice cream tonight, and I was the only parent home, would they get ice cream because their two votes "yes" trumped my vote "no."
So, not Democracy. "Communism?" No. Those kids are not contributing much work to the collective.
"Monarchy?"
I had to think about that one. They certainly don't treat me like a Queen. My husband had to clean the gutters last week, not very Kingly.
"Dictatorship?"
Well, that implies that we do what we want, without consideration of the well being of our "masses." And the well being of our "masses" is always first and foremost in our minds.
So I suggested "Benevolent Monarchy."
We consulted Google images, since this project is supposed to be visual.
This is what we got:
