Lesson 3: Advocacy and Lobbying
Duration of Days: 1
Lesson Objective
Students will distinguish between advocacy and lobbying and analyze effective advocacy strategies.
How can individuals and groups influence public policy and bring about social change?
Advocacy, lobbying, public policy, grassroots movements, special interest groups.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.11-12.8, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.11-12.4, National Council for the Social Studies: C3.D2.Civ.4.9-12
Understanding persuasive arguments, analyzing rhetoric, interpreting political strategies.
Description: Case study analysis and guest speaker interaction (if possible).
Purpose: To equip students with knowledge of advocacy tools.
DOK Level: 3 (Analyzing), 4 (Evaluating).
Current advocacy campaigns, local lobbying efforts, case studies of successful social movements.
That lobbying is inherently corrupt, that individual advocacy is ineffective.
Case studies with varying levels of complexity.
Role-playing scenarios of advocacy meetings.
Research projects on specific advocacy groups.
- Participation in case study analysis and guest speaker discussion.
- Written summary of an advocacy group.