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9th grade · Social Studies · Unit 7 of 10

Taking Part

Speak up, check facts, decide together

What your child practices

Ways to take part before and after 18, volunteering and civil society, petitions and peaceful protest, deliberating about tensions in our democracy, and checking news for reliability.

California Content Standards learning standard: 12.2.4; 12.3.1; 12.3.2; 12.10 · civic-mindedness, how civil society lets people associate and influence government, and tensions within our constitutional democracy

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    What is a petition?

    • A law
    • A court case
    • A tax
    • A written request to a government, signed by many people

  2. Question 2

    What is the first thing to check about a viral post on a political issue?

    • Its colors
    • Who made it and whether reliable sources confirm it
    • How many likes it has
    • Its length

  3. Question 3

    Why might two reliable sources report different numbers on the same event?

    • Numbers never matter
    • It's always a typo
    • They used different data or times, so you should check how each was gathered
    • One must be lying

  4. Question 4

    What is a stakeholder in a community issue?

    • A kind of fence
    • Only reporters
    • Anyone affected by the issue or its outcome
    • Only the mayor

  5. Question 5

    What is lateral reading?

    • Reading only one site
    • Leaving a site to see what other sources say about it
    • Reading sideways
    • Skimming headlines

  6. Question 6

    Which is a peaceful way to protest a law?

    • Threatening officials
    • A permitted march or rally
    • Ignoring all laws
    • Damaging property

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