CI 4.2

• Lord of the Flies extract from story or film
• Discovering Democracy 'Law' (DDL) pages 40–2, DD Activities 1 and 2
  (See 'Year 8 SOSE: Individual work plan for 'Law' – Lord of the Flies')
• worksheets from Jacaranda SOSE 2 and other print sources
• students design their own set of rules, rights and responsibilities as a class and the consequences (ie justice)

How did different societies rule themselves?

• Ancient Babylonian law, DDL pages 43–4
• Roman law, DDL page 45
• Traditional law, DDL pages 50–2

How did Australia's Indigenous people rule themselves?

How did this change when Europeans arrived?

CI 5.1

CI 4.1

Detailed examination of Indigenous Australia's traditional law:

• Elders
• clashes of black and white
• rights in the country upon European arrival – whose law was lived by?
• Battle Mountain: history of the war between the local Kalkadoon people and invading pastoralists

CI 4.1

How does the law work?

• levels of government within that community
• local police
• Magistrates Court – court procedures – how does a court work?
• the place of customary law, DDL pages 50–2
• visit a court
• participate in a mock trial

SRP 4.1 4.4

TCC 6.5

A modern perspective, DDL pages 46–50, 52–7

• common law
• the parliamentary process
• constitutional law
• the Mabo decision