Civics and Government Emergency Sub Plans - 5 Days No Prep Print and Go

Five days of substitute-ready civics and U.S. government in one no-prep download. Your substitute probably cannot teach the content, and nothing here asks them to. Each day is an original nonfiction reading with every answer on the handout, then a page that checks its own answers, and a run sheet tells the substitute what to hand out. You come back to a complete set of answer keys and a class that kept working.

WHAT'S INCLUDED

• Sub & Teacher Notes run sheet (what to hand out each day, what to print, and why the substitute does not need to grade anything)
• 5 days of student work, two pages per day (70 questions total)
• 5 original nonfiction readings written for this packet, one per day
• 5 complete answer keys, one per day
• Single 17-page PDF: run sheet and student pages first (pages 1-11), an "Answer Keys" divider on page 12, then the keys (pages 13-17) -- print pages 1-11 to hand out the whole week without printing the keys
• PDF bookmarks for one-click navigation by day
• US Letter, low-ink, two-sided printable

WHY A SUBSTITUTE CAN ACTUALLY RUN THIS

• Every question is answered by the reading on the same handout, so a stuck student re-reads the passage instead of asking the sub a subject question
• Every second page checks itself -- answers pair off, spell out a phrase, or fall into a sequence, so a wrong answer is caught by the student, not adjudicated by the sub
• Every day has an "if you finish early" challenge, so nobody runs out of work
• No device, textbook, login, or internet needed

THE 5 DAYS

1. Foundations of American Government -- types of government, the social-contract thinkers, the founding documents, and federalism (14 questions, answer match)
2. Congress and How a Bill Becomes Law -- the two chambers, committees, the path of a bill, and the power of the purse (14 questions, sequence path)
3. The Executive Branch and the Federal Courts -- presidential powers, the bureaucracy, judicial review, and landmark cases (14 questions, word decoder)
4. Rights, Liberties, and Who They Protect -- the Bill of Rights, due process, the Civil War amendments, and the civil-rights movement (14 questions, answer match)
5. Elections, Parties, and the Informed Citizen -- the Electoral College, parties and interest groups, media literacy, and state and local government (14 questions, word decoder)

Each day stands alone, so they can run in any order or be pulled one at a time.

PERFECT FOR

• Emergency and planned substitute days in U.S. Government and Civics (grades 8-12)
• Planned absences, professional development days, and testing weeks when you are pulled to proctor
• Review before a test, the first week of school, or the day before a break
• Homeschool families working through U.S. Government and Civics

STANDARDS TOUCHED

CCSS ELA/Literacy in History & Social Studies: RH.6-8.1, RH.6-8.4 and RH.9-10.4 on the readings and questions, and WHST.9-10.1 on the Day 5 extension prompt. RH.*.1 is earned by the quote-anchored question each day, RH.*.4 by the daily vocabulary-in-context question, and WHST.9-10.1 by a short argument that defends a claim and answers the strongest objection to it. No state standards and no C3 codes.

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