Create Your Own Society Think of 2 3

Create Your Own Society! • Think of 2 -3 basic rules FOR EACH of the following categories… INDIVIDUALLY, think of rules you feel are necessary for the success of a large group (several thousands!) of people living together. BE READY to defend your rules. Remember, you want to create a society where people Would like to live! 1. GOVERNMENT RULES- How are laws to be created and enforced? Who makes the laws, and who enforces them? 2. SOCIAL RULES- What roles will different people play in your society? Examples include age, gender, race, religion, level of wealth. Who has the right to be a citizen in your country, and what is the legal age of adulthood? 3. ECONOMIC RULES- How will the distribution of land, water and energy be decided? How do people buy things, and what does the government provide?

Group Activity- You will be assigned to join a group of classmates. Each Group will be given a piece of poster paper to produce the following work… • List of all Group Members • Written description of 2 -3 Categorical Rules that you all reached through CONSENSUS (kind of like Direct Democracy). Your group will present to the class after the activity is completed.

Activity Follow-up and Review On the same paper where you made your INDIVIDUAL CHOICES answer the following in multiple, complete sentence fashion… 1. Was the process of coming to agreement on rules easy or difficult for your group? Explain why. 2. Were the rules created by various groups mainly similar or mainly different? Why? 3. Explain what you think the point of the activity was. Perspective Precedent Consensus