Civics Binder Contents, 2024 - 2025 📚

In Civics, a one-inch three-ring binder serves as the main instructional tool of this course, in lieu of a standard textbook. It is each student's responsibility to maintain the binder's contents by completing all assigned tasks and placing them in order within the corresponding tabs.

Front of Binder

• Civics Syllabus

Assignments Tab

• Gummy Bear Governments (A-0)
• Finding Your Political Ideology (A-1)
• Meet the Candidates (A-2)
• Voter Participation in National Elections (A-3)
• 18-Year-Olds and the Vote; Voting and Elections (A-4)
• Identifying Propaganda Techniques (A-5)
• Running for Office; Making Decisions (A-6)
• The Electoral College: Myth and Reality (A-7)
• How Thomas Jefferson Got the Job; America's Political Heritage (A-8)
• Examining the Declaration - The Introduction and Preamble (A-9)
• Examining the Declaration - The Indictment A | B | C | D | E (A-10)
• Examining the Declaration - The Denunciation and Conclusion (A-11)
• Compromise and the Constitution (A-12)
• We the People? or We the States? (A-13)
• The Supreme Law of the Land (A-14)
• Identifying Causes and Effects; The Bill of Rights (A-15)
• The Bill of Rights (A-16)
• The Legislative Branch (A-17)
• Who's Who in Congress (A-18)
• Studying a Bill (A-19)
• How a Bill Becomes a Law: Reading a Diagram (A-20)
• Sequencing (A-21)
• Presidential Trivia (A-22)
• The Roles of the President (A-23)
• The Federal Bureaucracy (A-24)
• The Branches in Foreign Policy (A-25)
• A Foreign Policy Issue; Predicting Consequences (A-26)
• Free Trade vs. Protectionism (A-27)
• Bringing a Case to Court (A-28)
• The Judicial Branch (A-29)
• The Northwest Ordinances of 1785 and 1787 (A-30)
• Governor as Chief Executive (A-31)
• State Governments (A-32)
• Comparing Forms of Local Government (A-33)
• Financing State Government (A-34)
• Law and Order Expenditures (A-35)
• Becoming a Citizen (A-36)

Instructional Notes Tab

• Civics ✮ Lesson 1 Instructional Notes
• Civics ✮ Lesson 2 Instructional Notes
• Civics ✮ Lesson 3 Instructional Notes
• Civics ✮ Lesson 4 Instructional Notes
• Civics ✮ Lesson 5 Instructional Notes
• Civics ✮ Lesson 6 Instructional Notes
• Civics ✮ Lesson 7 Instructional Notes
• Civics ✮ Lesson 8 Instructional Notes
• Civics ✮ Lesson 9 Instructional Notes
• Civics ✮ Lesson 10 Instructional Notes
• Civics ✮ Lesson 11 Instructional Notes
• Civics ✮ Lesson 12 Instructional Notes
• Civics ✮ Lesson 13 Instructional Notes
• Civics ✮ Lesson 14 Instructional Notes

Handouts Tab

• The American Ideological Left and Right (H-1)
• The Electoral College: How the President is Elected (H-2)
• The Preamble Lyrics (H-3)
• Checks and Balances of the Federal Government (H-4)
• How a Bill Becomes a Law (H-5)
• Federal and State Court Systems (H-6)
• The Justices of the United States Supreme Court (H-7)
• Powers of Federalism (H-8)

Lesson Reviews Tab

• Civics ✮ Lesson 1 Lesson Review (LR-1)
• Civics ✮ Lesson 2 Lesson Review (LR-2)
• Civics ✮ Lesson 3 Lesson Review (LR-3)
• Civics ✮ Lesson 4 Lesson Review (LR-4)
• Civics ✮ Lesson 5 Lesson Review (LR-5)
• Civics ✮ Lesson 6 Lesson Review (LR-6)
• Civics ✮ Lesson 7 Lesson Review (LR-7)
• Civics ✮ Lesson 8 Lesson Review (LR-8)
• Civics ✮ Lesson 9 Lesson Review (LR-9)
• Civics ✮ Lesson 10 Lesson Review (LR-10)
• Civics ✮ Lesson 11 Lesson Review (LR-11)
• Civics ✮ Lesson 12 Lesson Review (LR-12)
• Civics ✮ Lesson 13 Lesson Review (LR-13)
• Civics ✮ Lesson 14 Lesson Review (LR-14)

Quizzes Tab

• Civics ✮ Lesson 1 Quiz (Q-1)
• Civics ✮ Lesson 2 Quiz (Q-2)
• Civics ✮ Lesson 3 Quiz (Q-3)
• Civics ✮ Lesson 4 Quiz (Q-4)
• Civics ✮ Lesson 5 Quiz (Q-5)
• Civics ✮ The Preamble Quiz (Q-6)
• Civics ✮ Lesson 6 Quiz (Q-7)
• Civics ✮ Lesson 7 Quiz (Q-8)
• Civics ✮ Lesson 8 Quiz (Q-9)
• Civics ✮ Lesson 9 Quiz (Q-10)
• Civics ✮ Lesson 10 Quiz (Q-11)
• Civics ✮ Lesson 11 Quiz (Q-12)
• Civics ✮ Lesson 12 Quiz (Q-13)
• Civics ✮ Lesson 13 Quiz (Q-14)
• Civics ✮ Lesson 14 Quiz (Q-15)