{"id":4838,"date":"2021-09-27T11:46:30","date_gmt":"2021-09-27T15:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/materamabilis.org\/ma\/?page_id=4838"},"modified":"2025-07-14T10:05:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T14:05:17","slug":"high-school-government-economics-and-civics","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/materamabilis.org\/ma\/high-school-level-5-6\/high-school-government-economics-and-civics\/","title":{"rendered":"High School Government, Economics, and Civics"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span style=\"color: #c4a990;\">Level 5 &amp; 6 Government, Economics, Civics<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>All previous versions of lesson plans can be found on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/materamabilis.org\/ma\/archived-lesson-plans\/\">Archived Lesson Plans<\/a>\u00a0page.<\/p>\n<div class=\"scbb-content-box scbb-rounded-corners\" style=\"background-color: #f8f6f0\">\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"color: #c4a990\">government, economics, and civics course catalog\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><strong>American Government and Economics<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>American Government and Economics is a four-year course introducing students to American Government, Economics, and Civics. If a student completes all four of the courses, we recommend awarding 0.5 credit in Economics, 1.0 credit in American Government, and 1.0 credit in Civics.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/materamabilis.org\/ma\/high-school-level-5-6\/high-school-government-level-5-year-1-course\/\">American Government and Economics I<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/materamabilis.org\/ma\/high-school-level-5-6\/high-school-government-economics-and-civics\/high-school-government-level-5-year-2-course\/\">American Government and Economics II<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/materamabilis.org\/ma\/high-school-level-5-6\/high-school-government-economics-and-civics\/high-school-government-level-6-year-1-course\/\">American Government and Economics III<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/materamabilis.org\/ma\/high-school-level-5-6\/high-school-government-economics-and-civics\/high-school-government-level-6-year-2-course\/\">American Government and Economics IV<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Lesson plans by book for each portion of American Government and Economics I-IV\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/materamabilis.org\/ma\/high-school-level-5-6\/high-school-government-economics-and-civics\/high-school-economics-lesson-plans-by-book\/\">Introduction to Economics<\/a> (0.5 credit over four years)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/materamabilis.org\/ma\/high-school-level-5-6\/high-school-government-economics-and-civics\/high-school-government-lesson-plans-by-book\/\">American Government<\/a> (1.0 credit over four years)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/materamabilis.org\/ma\/high-school-level-5-6\/high-school-government-economics-and-civics\/high-school-civics-lesson-plans-by-book\/\">Civics with Plutarch<\/a> (1.0 credit over four years)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Alternative &#8211; American Government (Half Credit)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This half credit American Government course is a good choice for students who do not want or need a full year of government. It is still a challenging course with a focus on primary source readings, but those readings are broken up into shorter assignments and supported with a few additional texts to put them in historical context.<\/p>\n<p>Students should not take this course if they are using the American Government and Economics I-IV above as most of the primary source readings are the same.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/materamabilis.org\/ma\/high-school-level-5-6\/high-school-government-economics-and-civics\/high-school-government-american-government\/\">American Government<\/a> (0.5 credit)\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/materamabilis.org\/ma\/high-school-level-5-6\/high-school-government-economics-and-civics\/high-school-government-american-government\/american-government-half-credit-lesson-plans-by-book\/\">Lesson plans by book for the half credit American Government course<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Financial Literacy &amp; Society<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Financial Literacy &amp; Society is a course designed to provide personal financial literacy with additional studies in how financial choices impact society.<\/p>\n<p>It may be taken in addition to the American Government and Economics I-IV above, though you would want to substitute something else for <em>Centesimus Annus<\/em> as it appears in both sets of lesson plans.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/materamabilis.org\/ma\/high-school-level-5-6\/high-school-government-economics-and-civics\/high-school-financial-literacy-and-society\/\">Financial Literacy &amp; Society<\/a> (0.5 credit)\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/materamabilis.org\/ma\/high-school-level-5-6\/high-school-government-economics-and-civics\/high-school-financial-literacy-and-society\/financial-literacy-and-society-lesson-plans-by-book\/\">Lesson plans by book for Financial Literacy &amp; Society<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Level 5 &amp; 6 Government, Economics, Civics All previous versions of lesson plans can be found on the\u00a0Archived Lesson Plans\u00a0page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":4576,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":{"0":"post-4838","1":"page","2":"type-page","3":"status-publish","5":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/materamabilis.org\/ma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/materamabilis.org\/ma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/materamabilis.org\/ma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/materamabilis.org\/ma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/materamabilis.org\/ma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4838"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"http:\/\/materamabilis.org\/ma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6315,"href":"http:\/\/materamabilis.org\/ma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4838\/revisions\/6315"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/materamabilis.org\/ma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/materamabilis.org\/ma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}