Government Student Work Packet

Email all assignments to: maryg@careertech.us

Students are required to complete .5 credits of government classes. There are several ways for a student to satisfy this requirement at Career Tech High School. Students can use Jantzen’s “Government for Everybody” for a quarter credit by completing each part. Students can take a class on Plato for one quarter credit. Occasionally a student can do a research paper for government credit. This packet details the two quarter credits available through Jantzen’s Government for Everybody text. To sum up:

Students must complete any two of the following three classes:

Political Science on Plato plus two short writing assignments per teacher........................... .25 credits

Jantzen’s Government for Everybody Chapters 1-10 (pages 1 – 229).............................. .25 credits

Jantzen’s Government for Everybody Chapters 11-22 (pages 230 – 539)........................ .25 credits

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· Students will read and respond to Jantzen’s Government for Everybody. Students will complete all reviews in each chapter.

· When answering the problems in section A of the chapter quizzes, you do not need to write out the question, just the answers. You must use complete sentences, unless the question calls for you to simply fill in the blanks.

· Sections B and C of the chapter quizzes usually require a solid paragraph of approximately five sentences, filled with supporting details. Do not skimp!

· Work for the entire class can be emailed in at the end in one big packet. It is highly advisable however that you email your teacher the first few chapter quizzes to ensure that you are doing acceptable work. If the work is not acceptable, it will be emailed back to you for rewriting, so it is better to know up front if your work is acceptable.

· Student work that will earn an A or B grade is characterized by the following: accurate and correct; detailed; answers questions completely and thoroughly; uses complete sentences.

· Student work will be assessed using the sState Reading Scoring Guide and the State Writing Scoring Guides. These scoring guides are the ones that are used to score the reading and writing samples for the CIM. All assignments must be completed in order to earn credit for the course. All assignments must be completed to the satisfaction of the teacher in order to be accepted for grading (i.e. Expect to be involved in editing for proper grammar, mechanics, format, spelling, adequate length, appropriate content, etc.).