Lesson 5: 3.4- Government & Economy in Latin America Guided Notes
Duration of Days: 2
Lesson Objective
Students will be able to describe the current political and economic systems in Latin America.
Students will be able to analyze how Latin America has been affected by dictatorships and reliance on the primary sector of the economy.
Students will be able to track the efforts to change the government systems and economies in Latin America.
How have democracy and economic diversification affected Latin America?
secondary sector, authoritarian, raw materials, communism, commercial farming, primary sector, infrastructure, command economy, dictatorship, tertiary sector, free trade
CIV 6-7.3 - Compare historical and contemporary means of changing societies and promoting the common good.
ECO 6-7.7 - Explain the benefits and the costs of trade policies to individuals, businesses, and society.
Planning instruction to cognitively engage students in the content. DOK 3 Strategic Reasoning
The Core Interactive Text provides reading at the appropriate level of text complexity for grades 6–8. These readings can be completed with or without scaffolding from graphic organizers and reading tools.
The Reading Passages—The Disappeared, Fidel Castro, and The Border—provide informational texts at the appropriate level of text complexity for grades 6–8. These readings are accompanied by selected and constructed response questions that can gauge student comprehension.
Chromebook, Google Classroom, Section 3.4 Government & Economy of Latin America Slides