# Curriculum Map — Grade 11 Government, Law & Economics Honors

| Week | Unit | Topic | Essential Question | Principal Standards |
|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Unit 1 · Foundations of Constitutional Government | Civic Inquiry and Constitutional Citizenship | What habits allow citizens to investigate public questions without surrendering accuracy, independence, or respect? | SS.912.CG.2.2, SS.912.CG.2.3, SS.912.CG.2.4 |
| 2 | Unit 1 · Foundations of Constitutional Government | Philosophical Foundations of Government | Which ideas about human nature, rights, law, and power most influenced American constitutional government? | SS.912.CG.1.1, SS.912.CG.1.2, SS.912.CG.1.4 |
| 3 | Unit 1 · Foundations of Constitutional Government | Declaration, Revolution, and the Articles | How did the principles used to justify independence create both a standard for government and a problem for the new nation? | SS.912.CG.1.1, SS.912.CG.1.2, SS.912.CG.1.4 |
| 4 | Unit 1 · Foundations of Constitutional Government | Constitutional Convention and Ratification | How did compromise make constitutional government possible, and what costs or unresolved conflicts did those compromises create? | SS.912.CG.1.3, SS.912.CG.1.4, SS.912.CG.1.5 |
| 5 | Unit 1 · Foundations of Constitutional Government | Constitutional Architecture | How does constitutional structure attempt to make government energetic enough to govern but limited enough to preserve liberty? | SS.912.CG.1.5, SS.912.CG.3.3, SS.912.CG.3.4 |
| 6 | Unit 2 · Institutions, Rights, and Participation | Federalism in Practice | When should a public problem be addressed nationally, by states, locally, or through shared authority? | SS.912.CG.3.6, SS.912.CG.3.12, SS.912.CG.2.12 |
| 7 | Unit 2 · Institutions, Rights, and Participation | Congress and Representation | How well does Congress translate a diverse public into law, representation, oversight, and national priorities? | SS.912.CG.3.3, SS.912.CG.2.8, SS.912.CG.2.12 |
| 8 | Unit 2 · Institutions, Rights, and Participation | The Presidency and Executive Power | How should executive energy be balanced with legal limits, legislative authority, and democratic accountability? | SS.912.CG.3.4, SS.912.CG.1.5, SS.912.CG.2.5 |
| 9 | Unit 2 · Institutions, Rights, and Participation | Administration, Agencies, and Regulation | How can expert administration remain effective, transparent, lawful, and accountable to elected government and the public? | SS.912.CG.3.5, SS.912.CG.3.3, SS.912.CG.3.4 |
| 10 | Unit 2 · Institutions, Rights, and Participation | Courts, Judicial Review, and Legal Reasoning | What gives courts authority to interpret law, and how should judges justify decisions that affect public power and individual rights? | SS.912.CG.3.10, SS.912.CG.3.11, SS.912.CG.1.5 |
| 11 | Unit 3 · Liberty, Equality, and Democratic Participation | Civil Liberties: Expression, Press, Religion, and Assembly | How should constitutional government protect expression and conscience while addressing harm, order, and competing rights? | SS.912.CG.2.5, SS.912.CG.3.11, SS.912.CG.2.13 |
| 12 | Unit 3 · Liberty, Equality, and Democratic Participation | Due Process, Privacy, and Criminal Procedure | How should legal procedure protect liberty and fairness while enabling government to investigate, prosecute, and prevent harm? | SS.912.CG.2.5, SS.912.CG.3.11, SS.912.CG.1.5 |
| 13 | Unit 3 · Liberty, Equality, and Democratic Participation | Civil Rights and Equal Protection | How has constitutional equality expanded, and why does equal protection remain contested in law and public policy? | SS.912.CG.2.6, SS.912.CG.3.11, SS.912.CG.2.4 |
| 14 | Unit 4 · Elections, Media, and Civic Action | Parties, Ideologies, and Public Opinion | How do citizens organize political differences, and what makes public-opinion evidence reliable or misleading? | SS.912.CG.2.8, SS.912.CG.2.11, SS.912.CG.2.12 |
| 15 | Unit 4 · Elections, Media, and Civic Action | Elections, Voting, and Florida Ballot Literacy | How do election rules convert participation into public authority, and how can citizens evaluate whether the process is accessible, secure, and representative? | SS.912.CG.2.3, SS.912.CG.2.9, SS.912.CG.2.10 |
| 16 | Unit 4 · Elections, Media, and Civic Action | Interest Groups, Media, and Political Communication | How do organized interests and communication systems shape which issues receive attention and which policies become possible? | SS.912.CG.2.8, SS.912.CG.2.11, SS.912.CG.2.12 |
| 17 | Unit 5 · Comparative Government and Civic Synthesis | Comparative Political Systems and Foreign Policy | What institutional evidence distinguishes constitutional democracy from authoritarian rule, and how should those differences shape foreign policy? | SS.912.CG.3.1, SS.912.CG.4.2, SS.912.CG.4.3 |
| 18 | Unit 5 · Comparative Government and Civic Synthesis | Civic Literacy Synthesis and Government Capstone | Can a student use founding principles, institutional knowledge, landmark cases, evidence, and civil discourse to evaluate a real public question? | SS.912.CG.1.4, SS.912.CG.1.5, SS.912.CG.2.4 |
| 19 | Unit 6 · Microeconomic Foundations | Economic Reasoning: Scarcity, Choice, and Incentives | How can economic reasoning clarify tradeoffs without pretending that every value can be reduced to money? | SS.912.E.1.1, SS.912.E.1.2, SS.912.E.2.1 |
| 20 | Unit 6 · Microeconomic Foundations | Production, Specialization, and Comparative Advantage | Why can specialization and trade create gains even when one producer is more productive at everything? | SS.912.E.1.1, SS.912.E.1.2, SS.912.E.3.2 |
| 21 | Unit 6 · Microeconomic Foundations | Supply, Demand, and Market Equilibrium | How do decentralized choices create market prices, and when does a price fail to communicate the full social cost or value? | SS.912.E.1.4, SS.912.E.2.4, D1.5.9-12 |
| 22 | Unit 6 · Microeconomic Foundations | Elasticity, Taxes, Controls, and Economic Welfare | Why do the same price change or tax burden affect different markets and people so differently? | SS.912.E.1.4, SS.912.E.2.4, SS.912.E.2.8 |
| 23 | Unit 7 · Firms, Labor, and Market Structure | Firms, Costs, Entrepreneurship, and Competition | How do firms decide what to produce, how much to produce, and whether to enter or leave a market? | SS.912.E.1.5, SS.912.E.1.7, SS.912.E.2.3 |
| 24 | Unit 7 · Firms, Labor, and Market Structure | Market Structures, Monopoly, and Antitrust | When does firm size reflect productive success, and when does market power reduce competition, innovation, or consumer welfare? | SS.912.E.1.6, SS.912.E.1.8, SS.912.E.2.6 |
| 25 | Unit 7 · Firms, Labor, and Market Structure | Labor Markets, Wages, and Human Capital | What determines wages, and how do education, bargaining power, discrimination, technology, and policy shape labor-market outcomes? | SS.912.E.1.9, SS.912.E.2.5, SS.912.E.2.3 |
| 26 | Unit 8 · Government and the National Economy | Externalities, Public Goods, and Collective Action | When do private choices create public costs or benefits that justify collective action? | SS.912.E.2.11, SS.912.E.3.4, SS.912.E.2.2 |
| 27 | Unit 8 · Government and the National Economy | Taxes, Public Spending, and Government Budgets | How should government raise and spend money when every tax and budget choice distributes burdens, benefits, risk, and opportunity? | SS.912.E.2.8, SS.912.E.2.9, SS.912.E.1.10 |
| 28 | Unit 8 · Government and the National Economy | Measuring an Economy: GDP, Productivity, and Living Standards | What can economic indicators reveal about well-being, and what important conditions remain invisible in a single number? | SS.912.E.2.1, SS.912.E.2.5, SS.912.E.3.5 |
| 29 | Unit 8 · Government and the National Economy | Inflation, Unemployment, and the Business Cycle | How can policymakers respond to inflation and unemployment when causes, timing, and tradeoffs differ across economic episodes? | SS.912.E.1.12, SS.912.E.2.7, SS.912.E.3.1 |
| 30 | Unit 9 · Macroeconomic Policy and the Global Economy | Money, Banking, and the Financial System | Why does a modern economy need trusted money and financial institutions, and what failures can turn finance into a public crisis? | SS.912.E.1.13, SS.912.E.1.14, SS.912.E.2.10 |
| 31 | Unit 9 · Macroeconomic Policy and the Global Economy | The Federal Reserve and Monetary Policy | How does monetary policy influence inflation, employment, credit, and financial conditions without directly controlling every price or loan? | SS.912.E.1.11, SS.912.E.2.10, SS.912.E.1.12 |
| 32 | Unit 9 · Macroeconomic Policy and the Global Economy | Fiscal Policy, Deficits, and Public Debt | When should government borrow to stabilize or invest, and when do deficits create unacceptable fiscal, inflation, or intergenerational risk? | SS.912.E.1.10, SS.912.E.2.9, SS.912.E.2.1 |
| 33 | Unit 9 · Macroeconomic Policy and the Global Economy | International Trade, Exchange Rates, and Global Interdependence | How should nations balance gains from global exchange with security, labor, environmental, and adjustment concerns? | SS.912.E.3.2, SS.912.E.3.3, SS.912.E.3.5 |
| 34 | Unit 10 · Policy Analysis and Economic Synthesis | Economic Systems and Political Economy | How do societies combine markets, public authority, property, planning, and social provision to answer economic questions? | SS.912.E.1.3, SS.912.E.3.5, SS.912.E.3.6 |
| 35 | Unit 10 · Policy Analysis and Economic Synthesis | Public Policy Laboratory | How can students design a lawful, evidence-based policy without hiding uncertainty, tradeoffs, distribution, or implementation risk? | SS.912.E.2.2, SS.912.CG.2.4, SS.912.CG.2.12 |
| 36 | Unit 10 · Policy Analysis and Economic Synthesis | Economic and Civic Capstone | Can a student integrate constitutional authority, economic reasoning, data, stakeholder evidence, and civic responsibility into one defensible public recommendation? | SS.912.E.2.2, SS.912.E.2.12, SS.912.CG.2.4 |