1. The challenge of ruling
Forming a Government

2. directions Open up your spiral notebook Write today’s date (8/20/15)
Write the title of today’s lesson (The Challenge of Ruling), the Essential Question, and Action Statement

3. Pre-activity
Essential Question: What are the major forms of government?
Action Statement: In collaboration with the class, I will form of a government based on collective consensus of the rules and responsibilities that will create order in our class.

4. REVIEW
Find your Q & A sheet from yesterday relating to the text on Jared Diamond’s Gun, Germs, and Steel
Complete the assignment [5 min]
Think-Pair-Share
National Geographic Video Clip

5. PRIMARY AND Secondary sources
Read the handout together
Analyze a primary source document using the Long Document Analysis Form
Think-Pair-Share
Watch Video on Historical Thinking
Course Website/Syllabus

6. PRE-ACTIVITY
Then list at least three types of rule you would want to establish if you were stranded on a desert island with members of this class.
Essential Question: What are the major forms of government?
Action Statement: In collaboration with the class, I will form of a government based on collective consensus of the rules and responsibilities that will create order in our class.

7. examples for types of rule
Monarchy (rule by a king or queen)
Aristocracy (rule by nobles)
Oligarchy (rule by wealth elite)
Theocracy (Rule by religious leaders)
Democracy (rule by the people)
Anarchy (rule by no one)

8. rulebook Choose a name for your island and create a corresponding flag
Decide who in the class will perform the following duties:
Hunting/gathering, cooking, fishing, making shelter, caring for the sick
Decide how your community will determine if someone is guilty of breaking the rules
Decide what, if any, will be the punishment for rule breakers
Identify any other rules you wish to have for your community
Determine how you will make additional rules in the future and who will make them

9. debriefing How did you feel during the course of this activity? Why?
How did you feel when the activity stopped? Why?
Give an example during the activity when a majority of the class agreed upon a decision. What are some advantages and disadvantages to everybody having a say in the decision?
Give an example when one person made decisions, or tried to make decisions, for the entire class. What are some advantages and disadvantages to one person making the decisions?
Based on this experience, do you think people can be trusted to govern themselves? Explain your answer.