U1_Assessment 3

Assessment 3

Frayer Model of Democracy

1. Click here to download, save to your Unit 1 Notebook, and complete the Frayer Model of Democracy Chart. 
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2. View the Frayer Model. A Frayer model is a tool to help us understand a complicated concept such as democracy.  
3. Complete the characteristics (of democracy) and definition (of democracy) boxes.
   
   
   • Do the actions of the people described on the websites reflect a belief in the values and principles of democracy? 
     
     
   • Do their actions reflect the ways one goes about solving problems in a democracy?
     

Resources for Inquiry

1. Websites
   
   For more information about democratic and non-democratic places and events, visit the following websites as you complete your model:
   
   
• Volunteer Projects
• Volunteers Spring Clean Alberta Highways
• A Great Idea Takes Flight in Alberta
• Stollery Children's Hospital
• Raising Money for Charity such as Fort McMurray wildfire victims
  



• The United States of America


• Germany




• Ukraine 2013-2014 
  
  
• Orange Revolution - were the Ukraine elections fair and free? Before an election, a candidate was mysteriously poisoned.  Further elections were tampered with causing large citizen protests.



• Beijing, China - Tiananmen Square 1989
  
  
• South China Morning Post: Voices from Tianamen
  
  
• CBC Archives: Tianamen Square
  
  
• Egypt - Arab Spring 2010
  
  
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