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8. Learning Pathway: Current Events

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    Building Democracy For All is designed so that teachers and students can follow different learning pathways as they explore the material in the book. Rather than proceeding sequentially through the standards, the learning pathways invite a thematic approach. Other learning pathways include Student Rights, Influential Women, Black Lives Matter, Media Literacy, and Election 2020.

    Latest Addition to the Book

    The coronavirus pandemic has caused massive unemployment throughout the country. New material has been added to Topic 4.3 (ENGAGE) to frame the debate about whether the United States should adopt Universal Basic Income or Guaranteed Employment as national policies.

    Current Events Choice Board

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    Building Democracy for All Chapters

    Topic 1: The Philosophical Foundations of the United States Political System

    Topic 2: The Development of United States Government

    Photograph of a number of cut logs set in a rocky depression in a forest.

    Forestry by Free-Photos from Pixabay

    Topic 3: Institutions of United States Government

    Topic 4: The Rights and Responsibilities of Citizens

    Photograph from 2018, showing two women from the League of Women Voters of California placing mail-in ballots into mail drop-off boxes.

    Vote by Mail by League of Women Voters of California LWVC

    Topic 5: The Constitution, Amendments, and Supreme Court Decisions

    Topic 6: The Structure of Massachusetts State and Local Government

    Photograph of a woman reading a text on a tablet device.

    Person Reading Tablet by coyot from Pixabay

    Topic 7: Freedom of the Press and News/Media Literacy