Transcript EU - 10

1. Objective (READ)
SWBAT explain the conditions in Europe before the
European Union.
2. Question of the Day. (WRITE)
3. Warm-up (ANSWER)
1. What statistical data could you use to determine if
a country is developed or developing?
2. What are the benefits of being in a club or on a
team?
1. Objective (READ) – Day 2
SWBAT explain how the EU changed Europe.
2. Question of the Day. (WRITE)
3. Warm-up (ANSWER)
1. What was Europe like before the European
Union?
2. What are the benefits of having a high GDP
1. Objective (READ) – Day 3
SWBAT explain how Europe changed politically after
the EU formed.
2. Question of the Day. (WRITE)
3. Warm-up (ANSWER)
1. What is the European Union?
2. What economic policy that European Union put in
do you think was the best? Explain why.
Warm-up Day 2
1) What are the benefits of having a high GDP?
2) Will a country with a High GDP have a high or
low standard of living?
A. Money = power
B. A country with a high GDP has either high net exports (exportsimports) wherein it is has a good performance in trade, high FDI
(foreign direct investment) from private firms outside the country,
high consumption (its citizens are able to spend and acquire goods),
and high government spending either for technological
advancement, labor development, and infrastructure.
European Union
SWBAT explain how the EU has
changed Europe economically,
politically, socially.
Table of Contents
Date
Title
Lesson #
**EUROPE**
11/4
Colonization
37
11/8
Conflict
38
11/12
East vs. West
39
11/15
European Union
40
1. Create a new page and title it “European Union”
2. Label it number 40
Europe before the European Union
Clip Questions:
A) True/False  All of Europe was unified
during World War II.
B) Explain whether you agree or disagree
with the statement above. Justify your
response with details and examples from
the clip.
Before the EU
ECONOMIC
1. High tariffs
(taxes) on imported
goods
2. Many different
currencies
3. Countries
competed
economically
Before the EU
POLITICAL
1) Wars and
conflict between
nations and
different ethnic
groups
2) Nationalism –
extreme pride in
one’s country
Before the EU
SOCIAL
1) Countries solved social problems by themselves
- pollution, health care, overfishing
Before the EU - Processing
Setup:
- Turn to the next blank page in your notebook.
- Turn your notebook horizontally.
- Divide your page in half.
Directions:
- Draw a picture (or write a diary entry) of Europe
before the EU
- You must include evidence showing what it was
like economically, politically, and socially.
Directions:
- Copy the questions
below on the back of
your chart.
- Answer them as we
introduce the European
Union.
Key Questions:
1. What is the EU?
2. How is the EU like a
club?
3. Why would a country
want to join the EU?
What is the European Union?
USE TO
ANSWER THE
• The European Union is a group of countries KEY
whose governments work together.
QUESTIONS
• It's a bit like a club. To join you have to agree to follow the
rules and in return you get certain benefits.
• Each country has to pay money to be a member. They
mostly do this through taxes.
• The EU uses the money to change the way people live and
do business in Europe.
• Countries join because they think that they will benefit from
the changes the EU makes.
5 THINGS THE EU DOES
1. Promote economic and social progress.
Help people earn enough money and get
treated fairly.
USE TO
ANSWER THE
KEY
QUESTIONS
2. Speak for the European Union on the international scene.
By working as a group the EU hopes that Europe’s opinion will
be heard more by other countries.
3. Introduce European citizenship.
Anyone from a member state is a citizen of the EU and gets
four special rights.
4. Develop Europe as an area of freedom, security and
justice.
Help Europeans to live in safety, without the threat of war.
5. Maintain and build on established EU law.
Make laws that protect peoples’ rights.
Europe after
the EU Economic
1. EURO – The
common currency of
the European Union
COPY
BOX
Europe after the EU
ECONOMIC
2. TRADE BLOC – a group
of countries working
together to increase
their competitiveness
worldwide.
COPY
BOX
Gross Domestic Product of the Top Four
Economic Powers, 2002
READ
ONLY
The EU’s influence is
Japan
almost equal to which
major economic power?
China
Spain
EU
Germany
France
UK
Italy
Other EU
nations
US
0
5
GDP (in trillions of US dollars)
10
Trade Bloc Examples:
• EU nations purchase coal together to get a
good deal
• EU nations hire workers from developing READ
ONLY
Eastern European nations to meet the
demands of their worker shortage
• TASK - Create real-life example where the
EU is acting as a trade bloc.
Europe After the EU
ECONOMIC
3. Common Market – EU makes policies that keep prices
down, increase jobs, and make more money
Policy Examples:
- Hiring policies
- Immigration
policies
- Trade bloc
- Euro: common
currency
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BOX
ECONOMIC
4. Open borders – people, goods, and workers
move freely thru EU nations
AFTER the EU - Page
Setup:
- Turn to the page we previously divided in
half.
Directions:
1. Draw a picture that includes evidence of
TWO of the ECONOMIC changes in
Europe after the creation of the EU
Europe After the EU
POLITICAL
1. Members must be a democracy, must protect
civil rights.
COPENHAGEN CRITERIA:
• Membership criteria require that the candidate
country must have achieved…
READ
ONLY
1) ...stability of institutions guaranteeing
democracy, the rule of law, human rights and
respect for and protection of minorities;
2) …the existence of a functioning market
economy (free enterprise) as well as the capacity
to cope with competitive pressure and market
forces within the Union;
3) …the ability to take on the obligations of
membership including adherence to the aims of
political, economic & monetary union.
Europe After the EU
POLITICAL
2. Members lose some autonomy (self control, power)
Member nations lose control of the following:
A) the establishing of the competition rules necessary for
the functioning of the common market
B) monetary policy for the Member States whose currency
is the euro
C) the conservation of marine biological resources under
the common fisheries policy
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BOX
AFTER the EU - Page
Setup:
- Turn to the page we previously divided in
half.
Directions:
1. Draw a picture that includes evidence of
ONE of the POLITICAL changes in Europe
after the creation of the EU
Europe After the EU
SOCIAL
1. Increased diversity causes ethnic conflicts: anti-immigrants,
hate crimes, anti-Semitism
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BOX
SOCIAL
2. European Identity - a sense of pride toward Europe as a
whole, rather than one’s own country.
COPY
BOX
Anti-Immigration Clip
1) Make a list of examples of ethnocentrism
that you see on the clip.
2) Do you think the EU’s policy of open
borders is good or bad? Explain your
answer.
SOCIAL
3) Humanitarian Aid –
help provided to nations
during a crisis.
COPY
BOX
AFTER the EU - Page
Setup:
- Turn to the page we previously divided in
half.
Directions:
1. Draw a picture that includes evidence of
TWO of the SOCIAL changes in Europe
after the creation of the EU
AFTER the EU - Processing
Setup:
- Turn to the page we previously divided in half.
Directions:
- Draw a picture (or write a diary entry) of Europe
AFTER the creation of the EU
- You must include evidence showing what it was
like economically, politically, and socially.