KNOTT COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS

CURRICULUM FRAMEWORK FOR Business Law GRADE 10-12

Duration: Unit 2-Fundamentals of Contracts (8 Weeks) MAP 2.1-2.8
Big Idea: Students will be able to explain how contractual offers are created and ended and how acceptances are created. Students will then begin to explore the conditions that may make a contract voidable due to lack of genuine agreement. Students will understand their contractual rights, as well as understand the consequences of a breach of contract. Students will be able to list different ways in which contracts can be terminated.
Academic Expectations
2.14 Students understand the democratic principles of justice, equality, responsibility, and freedom and apply them to real-life situations.
2.15 Students can accurately describe various forms of government and analyze issues that relate to the rights and responsibilities of citizens in a democracy.
Program of Studies: Understandings
Grade 10-12 Enduring Knowledge – Understandings
SS-H-GC-U-1
Students will understand that people form governments to establish order, provide security and accomplish common goals. Governments in the world vary in terms of their sources of power, purposes and effectiveness.
SS-H-GC-U-2
Students will understand that the Government of the United States, established by the Constitution, embodies the purposes, values and principles (e.g., liberty, justice, individual human dignity, the rules of law) of American representative democracy.
SS-H-GC-U-3
Students will understand that the Constitution of the United States establishes a government of limited powers that are shared among different levels and branches. The provisions of the U.S. Constitution have allowed our government to change over time to meet the changing needs of our society.
/ Essential Vocabulary
Acceptance / Bilateral contract
Contract / Counteroffer
Firm offer / Mirror image rule
Offer / Offeree
Offeror / revocation
Program of Studies:
Skills and Concepts
S-H-GC-S-1
Students will demonstrate an understanding (e.g., illustrate, write, model, present, debate) of the nature of government:
a)  compare purposes and sources of power of various forms of government in the world, and analyze their effectiveness in establishing order, providing security and accomplishing goals
b)  examine conflicts within and among different governments and analyze their impacts on historical or current events
SS-H-GC-S-5
Students will analyze and synthesize a variety of information from print and non-print sources (e.g., books, documents, articles, interviews, Internet, film, media) to research issues, perspectives and solutions to problems
S-H-GC-S-2
Students will examine issues related to the intent of the Constitution of the United States and its amendments:
a)  explain the principles of limited government (e.g., rule of law, federalism, checks and balances, majority rule, protection of minority rights, separation of powers) and how effective these principles are in protecting individual rights and promoting the "common good”
SS-H-GC-S-2
Students will examine issues related to the intent of the Constitution of the United States and its amendments:
a)  analyze how powers of government are distributed and shared among levels and branches, and how this distribution of powers works to protect the "common good" (e.g., Congress legislates on behalf of the people, the President represents the people as a nation, the Supreme Court acts on behalf of the people as a whole when it interprets the Constitution) / Core Content for
Assessment
DOK

SS-HS-1.1.1

Students will compare and contrast (purposes, sources of power) various forms of government in the world (e.g., monarchy, democracy, republic, dictatorship) and evaluate how effective they have been in establishing order, providing security and accomplishing common goals.

DOK 3

SS-HS-1.1.2

Students will explain and give examples of how democratic governments preserve and protect the rights and liberties of their constituents through different sources (e.g., U.N. Charter, Declaration of the Rights of Man, U.N. Declaration of Human Rights, U.S. Constitution).

DOK 2
SS-HS-1.2.2
Students will interpret the principles of limited government (e.g., rule of law, federalism, checks and balances, majority rule, protection of minority rights, separation of powers) and evaluate how these principles protect individual rights and promote the "common good.”
DOK 3

SS-HS-1.2.1

Students will analyze how powers of government are distributed and shared among levels and branches and evaluate how this distribution of powers protects the "common good" (e.g., Congress legislates on behalf of the people; the President represents the people as a nation; the Supreme Court acts on behalf of the people as a whole when it interprets the Constitution).

DOK 3

SS-HS-1.2.2

Students will interpret the principles of limited government (e.g., rule of law, federalism, checks and balances, majority rule, protection of minority rights, separation of powers) and evaluate how these principles protect individual rights and promote the "common good.”

DOK 3 / Essential Questions/
Learning Targets
a. When and how are contracts voidable?
b. How is our economy related to contracts?
c. Determine who is the offeror and offeree in contractual negotiation.
d. What are ways in which an offer can be ended?
e. How does acceptance occur?
f. what is genuine assent?
g. Describe unilateral mistake.
h. What is misrepresentation?
i. Explain consideration.
j. How binding is a promise?
k. what is forbearance? / Suggested Activities
How will we teach this content? / Assessment
How will students be assessed formatively and summatively to find out what they already know, and what they’ve learned?

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