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Citizen Ladder How do you participate?

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Write this down on a blank sheet of paper:“Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.”

- President John F. Kennedy

What does this quote mean to you?


What are the qualities of a “good citizen” in your opinion?

What kinds of citizen participation are there?

Problem Solving Citizen

Community Oriented Citizen

Personally Responsible Citizen

Inactive Citizen


Inactive Citizen Description:

Is not involved in his or her community, does not vote

Sample Action: Does not participate in civic affairs,

complains about government


Personally ResponsibleCitizen

Description: Acts responsibly in his/her

community and works individually to contribute to the community. While they are contributing to a group effort, they are not organizing that group effort.

Sample Action: Contributes food to a food drive,

works and pays taxes, obeys laws, recycles, gives blood, volunteers to lend a hand in times of crises, votes

Inactive Citizen


Community OrientedCitizens

Description: She/he organizes community efforts

to solve problems and assumes leadership positions in these efforts.

Sample Action: Helps to organize a food drive

Inactive Citizen

Personally Responsible

Citizen


Problem Solving Citizens

Inactive Citizen


Citizen

Community Oriented Citizen

Description: She or he researches problems in the

community and develops strategies for change. This person seeks out and addresses social problems, knows about social movements and how to effect systematic change, monitors and influences government, and produced works to change public policy.

Sample Action: Explores why people are hungry and acts to

solve root causes through passing legislation


On your worksheet:1. Give your own description of the

types of civic participation2. Give examples of how citizen

would participate in your community.


Test Your Citizen Knowledge! Each slide is going to have an example

of citizen action. It’s your job to decide what kind of citizen is being described. Once you all make your decision, click on the citizen title to see if you are correct!

Good luck!



Jessica loves animals and has organized a fundraiser to aid a

local animal shelter in their adoption campaign. 150 people attended her fundraiser raising over $5000 dollars to help the

shelter.

Inactive Citizen


Community Oriented

Citizen


Citizen

Ricky hates the new policy in his community restricting how loud you can play music while driving. He thinks the policy is

unnecessary and unfair. He complains about it constantly to

all his friends.

Inactive Citizen


Community Oriented

Citizen


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Sandy is really upset about all of the juvenile crime that has been going on in her community. Through research, she

discovered that the cause of the recent crime increase is that the city recently closed 3

community centers for kids, leading to them not having a place to hang out. She has created a petition, and has a meeting to

present to the City Council about why these centers need to be re-opened in the

community.

Inactive Citizen


Community Oriented

Citizen




Brian’s community was recently hit by a major hurricane. He has been

working very hard to clean up his house. He is also assisting his

neighbors during this difficult time by volunteering to hand out food and

clothes to those who lost their homes.

Inactive Citizen


Community OrientedCitizen




Inactive Citizen


Community Oriented

Citizen


Citizen

Tammy loves to run. She has decided to start a local running

group for kids in her neighborhood who are at risk for getting involved in gang

activity. She sets up the weekly running schedule, organizes the different run groups, and publicizes the

running group in her community.


Inactive Citizen


Community Oriented

Citizen


Citizen

Jake watches the news every morning before he goes to work. He hears all about the

upcoming presidential candidates. He does

not care for any of the candidates, so he has decided not to vote.


Inactive Citizen


Community Oriented

Citizen


Citizen

Mrs. Anderson’s 7th grade class is concerned about the number of

kids in the state are obese. Through research, they have found

that many students don’t get enough physical activity during the

day. They are working with their school board to get more time

allocated to the physical education programs in schools in their

community.


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