Q Follow and use the structure when answering these questions (this is a part of your grade) Reading Notes Assignment - (refer to instruction in syllabus) read assigned pages in the “Democracy in 21st Century America” (PDF) book and the articles for this unit. Take notes on all of the assigned readings. Then, in an extended memo format using the format provided below: 1. Summarize & Explain (in about 400 words+) in an overview of a couple of The High-lights of what the Major Points of Knowledge or what you understand now (ideas or concepts or facts and/or what you think it all means), which you gained from the book readings for this unit. Do this using one paragraph summary narratives (with additional bullet points - IF NEEDED - using whole sentences to illustrate the highlights). 2. Then, Summarize & Outline (in about 400 words+) the Major Skills or points of Critical Political Thinking (ways to think about political questions and how to see & understand social & political phenomenon that affect your life in your world) – do this using bullet points with whole sentences (NOT just one or two words) - to illustrate the key thinking skills you seek to highlight, 3. Finally, in about two or three paragraphs (about 600 words+); make a Conclusion with Commentary explicitly using ideas you take away from reading the articles to suggest how these (with in text citations) and ideas from the book, offer “us” (you) lessons we should all learn from what you have read and thought about, as to how the material in this unit section relates to the following explicit question(s): Regarding the question: what is “politics?” Recall that according to: Harold Laswell, David Easton, Otto Von Bismarck, Aristotle, and Robert Brem; who all agree with the Greek Athenian political leader Pericles (430 B.C.E.), who argued: "Just because you do not take an interest in politics, does not mean politics does not take an interest in you;" 1) Take a moment and reflect on how government and politics affects your life. List six ways in which politics impacts your life. What is power and in what ways do you have power in your life? What type of power do you possess? In ways do you exercise this power (or not)? 2) Now reflect on how the appeal made by Civil Rights leader John Lewis (see readings and video for Unit 1) impacts your thinking about why you are here in this class and what you believe you should be doing to make the world better in the 21st century.