456 YOUTH AND GOVERNMENT ACCELERATED

The focus of this honors course is to develop awareness of political processes on the Connecticut State level. Course emphasis will be on leadership, speaking, and critical thinking skills and the final course product will be to write a proposal bill to be debated during a mock legislative weekend held at the Connecticut State Capitol. Classroom instruction is held outside of the normal school day schedule. Students who wish to apply must be recommended by their social studies teacher to take this course, with final approval given by the Youth and Government advisors.