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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?
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Problem Solving Citizens
Inactive Citizen
Personally Responsible
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
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On your worksheet:1. Give your own description of the
types of civic participation2. Give examples of how citizen
would participate in your community.
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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!
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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
Problem Solving Citizen
Community Oriented
Citizen
Personally Responsible
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
Problem Solving Citizen
Community Oriented
Citizen
Personally Responsible
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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
Problem Solving Citizen
Community Oriented
Citizen
Personally Responsible
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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
Problem Solving Citizen
Community OrientedCitizen
Personally Responsible
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Inactive Citizen
Problem Solving Citizen
Community Oriented
Citizen
Personally Responsible
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.
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Inactive Citizen
Problem Solving Citizen
Community Oriented
Citizen
Personally Responsible
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.
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Inactive Citizen
Problem Solving Citizen
Community Oriented
Citizen
Personally Responsible
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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