Tuesday, September 9, 2025

1.3 Why We Have Laws 📜

Today's class was led by a guest teacher.
🎯 Learning Targets
  • Explain how laws help bring order to society
  • Describe how laws protect safety, property, and individual freedoms
  • Explore ways that laws protect society as a whole
  • Define the common purpose of laws
  • Analyze the link between laws and morals
⏰ What We Did
  • Took notes on Lesson 1, Part 3
  • Used notes to answer the following questions in complete sentences:
  1. Define laws, morals, and civil disobedience.
  2. Describe four of the main reasons we have laws.
  3. Give one example of a law that protects both the individual and society as a whole.
  4. Explain how laws are related to morals.
  5. Synthesize Choose a law that you consider to be particularly important and predict what would happen if that law no longer existed.
⚙️ Resources
💻 Homework
  • Finish Lesson 1, Part 3 review questions, if necessary (due W 10 Sep)