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CitizenshipText Dependent Response

Part 1: Interact with the Prompt

Describe the role of an effective citizen in a democratic society.

  1. Circle the directive words in the prompt such as analyze, describe, argue, etc.
  2. Underline what you are being asked to do.

Part 2: Organize Your Thoughts
Introduction
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Ideas to help explain the background or topic.
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Body Paragraph 1
The first role of an effective citizen is ______
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The means that ______
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Body Paragraph 2
The second rold of an effective citizen is ______
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This means that ______
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Body Paragraph 3
The third role of an effective citizen is ______
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According to ______, (insert quote here)______
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The means that ______
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Conclusion
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Describe why this is important:
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Leave the reader with something to think about: ______
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Part 3: Write your response
After you complete your graphic organizer, type up your response. It should be 5 paragraphs (Introduction, body, and conclusion) and include all parts of the graphic organizer.
You may look back at your documents and the questions that you answered while you write your essay.
Document 1
Speech made by Pericles, as recorded by Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, 431 B.C.E.
“Our constitution is called a democracy because power is not in the hands of a minority but of the whole people. When it is a question of settling private disputes, everyone is equal before the law; when it is a question of putting one person before another in positions of public
responsibility, what counts is not membership of a particular class, but the actual ability which the man possesses. No one...is kept [out of the government] because of poverty. And, just as our political life is free and open, so isour day – to-day life in our relations with each other.”
Identify three rights of Athenian citizens outlined in the quote above.
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Document 2
An artist’s depiction of the Roman Senate in action and a photo of the U.S. House of Representatives.
What is the relationship between a citizen and their representative?
The relationship between a citizen and their representative is that the ______elects the ______through the process of ______. The ______then votes for laws so that everyone has a ______in the ______.
One right and one responsibility of an effective citizen from the pictures above are: ______
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According to ______, Ancient Rome or modern example)______
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This connects to modern day citizenship because ______
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Document 3
The Declaration of Independence [excerpt], 1776.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed...
What is the relationship between government and the people?
According to this document, the relationship between the government and the people is that the ______gets its power from the ______.

One role of an effective citizen is______

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This connects to modern day citizenship because ______

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Document 4

Theodore Roosevelt, US President from 1901-1909

"The Roman Republic fell, not because of the ambition of Caesar or Augustus, but because it had already long ceased to be in any real sense a republic at all. When the sturdy Roman plebeian, who lived by his own labor, who voted without reward according to his own convictions, and who with his fellows formed in war the terrible Roman legion, had been changed into an idle creature who craved nothing in life save the gratification of a thirst for vapid excitement, who was fed by the state, and who directly or indirectly sold his vote to the highest bidder, then the end of the republic was at hand, and nothing could save it. The laws were the same as they had been, but the people behind the laws had changed, and so the laws counted for nothing.”

According to the document above, what happens when citizens no longer fulfill their civic duties? ______

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This connects to modern day citizenship because ______

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Document 5

Photograph taken Tuesday, November 13th, 2012 by John Sleezer of the Kansas City Star.

How has the definition of citizenship changed over time? ______

One role of an effective citizen is______

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According to the picture ______, (insert quote here)______

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This connects to modern day citizenship because ______

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