Leadership Choices
This leadership trait means the ability to make choices and take action, even when your options are limited.
Agency
This activist used her voice to advocate for girls' education as a human right.
Malala Yousafzai
This strategy uses peaceful resistance instead of violence to challenge injustice.
Nonviolence
These are basic freedoms and protections that belong to every person.
Human rights
This is the deeper reason a problem keeps happening, not just the visible effect.
Root cause
A student admits a mistake even though friends pressure them to hide it. Which leadership trait are they showing?
Integrity
This activist uses urgent climate language to push people from awareness to action.
Greta Thunberg
This strategy means peacefully refusing to follow certain laws or rules to show that they are unjust.
Civil disobedience
This word means the unfair or cruel use of power over a group of people.
Oppression
A person or group affected by an issue or involved in solving it is called this.
Stakeholder
In 'Thank You, Ma'am,' Mrs. Jones shows leadership by doing these two things at the same time.
Holding Roger accountable and showing care or guidance
This strategy means supporting or arguing in favor of a cause or policy.
Advocacy
Gandhi argued that activists could resist this without treating individual people as enemies.
An unjust system or British imperial rule
Elie Wiesel, Romeo Dallaire, and Nadia Murad all show that this matters after injustice.
Testimony
Students are often late because a bus route is unreliable and unaffordable. The lateness is a symptom; what is the root cause?
Unreliable or unaffordable transportation access
In the Oregon Trail simulation, this kind of learning happened when students made choices, faced outcomes, and adjusted future decisions.
Learning from consequences
Why can urgent language be useful in activism?
It can make people feel that an issue needs immediate attention and action.
Mandela argued that government repression and blocked legal options pushed the ANC toward this.
A different strategy or changing tactics
Why is testimony powerful but not enough by itself?
It preserves truth and can move people, but communities and institutions must also act to prevent or stop injustice.
Name two things students should do when using sources to research a community issue.
Use credible sources, paraphrase accurately, track sources, and use quotation marks for direct quotes.
Explain how agency, integrity, and responsibility can work together when there is pressure and no perfect option.
Agency helps someone choose action, integrity keeps the choice honest, and responsibility helps them consider how the choice affects others.
Give one reason urgent activist language might not persuade every audience.
Some audiences may feel attacked, overwhelmed, defensive, or may need a clearer plan before they act.
How were Gandhi and Mandela similar and different as leaders against oppression?
Both challenged oppression, but Gandhi emphasized nonviolent resistance while Mandela argued that different conditions under apartheid required changed tactics.
This term describes a major organization or system with power in a community, such as a government, school, or court.
Institution
Why can listening to stakeholders make a solution stronger before people try to put it into action?
Stakeholders reveal needs, effects, barriers, and ideas that help make the solution more realistic and fair.