1. Reminders: 5 MINUTES TO STUDY! 7 Continents 5 Oceans
Phones: I will take it and you will get it at the end of the day (2:40). First and second time I take a note of it. Third time you get referred to administration and your parents are involved. If you are in 7th period. First and second times you are required to write a 400 word minimum (1 – 1.5 pages) “essay” on the topic of my choice
Tardies: 3 are free, 4 you clean up after lunch.
7 Continents
5 Oceans
PROPER Name for “Antarctic Ocean” is Southern Ocean
6 Types of governments
Your definition of government
Super secret bonus question

2. When you finish: NO PHONES Read Homework for another class Draw Rest
Check with me about any missed work or assignments

3. Taking Cornell Notes (one option of note taking – PAGE 21)
Brief introduction

5. How and why did democracy develop?
The Path to Democracy​: Origins and philosophy of government​
*Essential Question:
How and why did democracy develop? 

6. SYB #3 pg. 14 What is democracy? What countries have democracy today?
How do we know if a country truly is a democracy? What characteristics must it have?

7. Democracy=People Rule (people/citizens have the power in government)
Characteristics of democracy:
Individual Liberty - Freedom​
Free Elections - everyone gets one vote​
Competing political parties - people have choices​
Majority rule with minority rights - peoples rights cannot be taken away just because they don’t agree with the government

8. So then what is democracy?!
Why do you think that for most of human history governments were not organized democratically?

9. First signs of democracy
The worlds first democracy was seen during the height(golden era) of Athens, Greece. (  BCE)​
Philosophers emerged, challenging the way people thought about the world.

10. Philosophers seek for truth - lots of questions and uncertainty! ​
Use logic and reason to investigate universe, society and morality​
Universe is put together orderly and is subject to unchanging laws​
People can understand these laws through logic and reason​

11. Greek Philosophers: Socrates, Plato and Aristotle
Lay the ground work for western philosophy

12. Plato set forth his vision of a perfect society​
Plato (360BCE) student of Socrates.​
Examined the nature of the world. REVOLUTIONARY FOR HIS TIME! ​
Wrote The Republic​
Wanted a society governed not by the richest and most powerful but by the wisest. ​
Philosopher Kings​
What type of Government is this?​

13. Myth of the Cave