Author:
KYLE STERN
Subject:
Social Studies, Civics and Economics
Material Type:
Lesson
Level:
High School
Tags:
  • Civic and Government
  • Civics and Economics
  • Government
  • Graphic Novel
  • Marvel
  • Read Aloud
  • Readers Theater
  • License:
    Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial
    Language:
    English
    Media Formats:
    Downloadable docs

    Education Standards

    Government Regulation: Marvel's Civil War

    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.
     
    I then provide the students the handout. The guiding essential question at the top of the handout is: How is regulation both bad and good for a nation’s economic and political freedoms?
     
    After everything is setup we then begin reading. Because of lack of time in class and limited copies we do break up the book and only cover certain sections of it.
    The sections go as follows:
    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

     
    This is supposed to follow different possible segments we have seen taken place when it comes to regulation. Clearly this is not what happens every time, but each segment does have a real-world mirror. We do open class discussion for identifying the real-world scenarios.
     

    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.