- Author:
- KYLE STERN
- Subject:
- Social Studies, Civics and Economics
- Material Type:
- Lesson
- Level:
- High School
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- License:
- Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial
- Language:
- English
- Media Formats:
- Downloadable docs
Education Standards
10 Minute Teacher Podcast: Episode 133
Gov't Regulation Dual Entry Log
Government Regulation: Marvel's Civil War
Overview
Lesson Plan for teaching government regulation through Marvel's Civil War
Instructions
We initially start with some vocabulary into the lesson. Specifically, we go into the definitions for civil war and allegory. We also spend a brief bit (20 mins max) of time going over what goes into a comic and who has what roles when designing and scripting. At the end (last 5 mins of the 20) we go over the background of Mark Millar and discuss possible bias (i.e. him being a Scotsman and the view of the crown and lack the autonomy for Scotland.)
In my class, I have always done this readers theater style, so I do allow students to volunteer or assign them roles from Civil War. We have slightly small class sizes for Civics & Econ so often times students do double up on roles.The Catalyst: Issue 1 pages 1- 8
Media Coverage: Issue 1 pages 13 - 15
Congressional Committee/Interest Groups: Issue 1 pages 18 - 20 & 32 - 33 (This section I may often cut for time purposes, but it does show an example of the government and interest groups coming together)
Initial Enforcement: Issue 1 pages 21 - 30
Move of Goodwill: Issue 2 pages 19 - 22
Outreach: Issue 3 pages 1 - 6
Big Business Regulation: Issue 3 pages 21 - 22 (Brief preview of what's to come and makes for a good cliffhanger if you need to move on for the day/run out of time) Issue 4 pages 1 - 11
Streamlining of Regulation: Issue 6 pages 1 -3
Protest of Regulation : Issue 7 pages 17 to end
At the end of all of it, I have them reflect with TPEQEA/TPEEA paragraphs answering our essential question.
10 Minute Teacher Podcast
Transcript and link added below
Handout
Dual Entry Log used for Government Regulation lesson.