Lesson Report-Advancing-May 8th

Dear Advancing Classmates,
What do you think of the process how modern democracy failed to achieve its original and fundamental objectives and turned into fascism, dictatorship or chaos?
Political systems seem to be so vulnerable that could go wrong  easily, don't they?
We all need to be aware of such weakness and make sure to participate in the system as much as we can.
Read & Write  Pair Review HW 5-8 sentences to respond to the question. =>
My Global Learning
Prep Reading-3  What is Democracy?
Task-1 Identify and underline the main ideas of each topic and paragraph. Then read the subtitle of the topic and the underlined main ideas for broad comprehension of the lecture and the message.
Task-2 Imagine you were a student of a country that had been ruled by a dictator since even before you were born, but has recently been liberalized by the military force of a mighty democratic country of other races, religion and language, and listened to this lecture by a professor from the mighty country.
1. What question would you ask this professor?
2. Write your response to this lecture within 60 words.
Discussion-2 What Makes Democracy Work or Collapse ?
Review Prep Reading-3: Four basic elements that consists Democracy by Larry Diamond of Stanford Univ
1. A political system for choosing and replacing the government through free and fair elections.
2. The active participation of the people, as citizens, in politics and civic life.
3. Protection of the human rights of all citizens.
4. A rule of law, in which the laws and procedures apply equally to all citizens.
Plan to write an essay about responsibilities of democracy.
- Review the class and Plan to write what you learned, thought on Modern Democracy and Elections.
- Choose two or three essential responsibilities of democracy.
- Organize the supporting points for each main point.
Write an essay => email by May 12th.
1. Introduce your essay in two or three sentences.
2. Write a paragraph in three to five sentences for each responsibility of democracy.
3. Conclude your essay in two or three sentences