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Legal Roles and Responsibilities

Design an information pamphlet to identify the five most important legal roles and responsibilities of Canadian citizens.


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Specific Outcomes

This critical challenge may address these outcomes:

Specific Outcome 9.1.2 - Students will appreciate the various effects of government policies on citizenship and on Canadian society (C, I, PADM)
Specific Outcome 9.1.3 - Students will appreciate how emerging issues impact quality of life, citizenship and identity in Canada (C, I, PADM)
Specific Outcome 9.1.5.1 - How do citizens and organizations participate in Canada's justice system (i.e., jury duty, knowing the law, advocacy, John Howard Society, Elizabeth Fry Society)? (C, PADM)
Specific Outcome 9.1.5.2 - What are citizens' legal roles and their responsibilities? (C, PADM)
Specific Outcome 9.1.5.3 - What is the intention of the Youth Criminal Justice Act? (C, PADM)
Specific Outcome 9.S.1.2 - Students will evaluate, critically, ideas, information and positions from multiple perspectives
Specific Outcome 9.S.1.3 - Students will demonstrate the ability to analyze current affairs from multiple perspectives
Specific Outcome 9.S.7.1 - Students will reflect on changes of perspective or opinion based on information gathered and research conducted
Specific Outcome 9.S.7.2 - Students will integrate and synthesize concepts to provide an informed point of view on a research question or an issue
Specific Outcome 9.S.7.3 - Students will develop a position supported by information gathered during research
Specific Outcome 9.S.7.4 - Students will draw conclusions based upon research and evidence
Specific Outcome  9.S.7.6 - Students will organize and synthesize researched information
Specific Outcome  9.S.8.1 - Students will communicate in a persuasive and engaging manner through speeches, multimedia presentations and written and oral reports, taking particular audiences and purposes into consideration
C Citizenship
ER Economics and Resources
CC Culture and Community
I Identity
LPP The Land: Places and People
GC Global Connections
TCC Time, Continuity and Change
PADM Power, Authority, and Decision Making
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