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Day 4 · Law-making and the three armsYear 11 Legal Studies · T1 W1–2 · Day 4 lesson

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Year 11 / Legal Studies / Term 1 / Weeks 01 02

Part of the full two-week lesson sequence. Check the pack guide and taught point before teaching.

Open for this lesson: Pack guide · Daily routes · Worked swaps · Fresh learner checks · Aids and text routes.

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Target: describe a Queensland bill pathway and separate legislative, executive and judicial functions. Prepare: Cards B/D and three arms.

  1. Launch · 2 min. Ask which institution debates Card B's proposed bill and whether the security volunteer can pass it.
  2. Model · 4 min. Draw a Queensland-only sequence: proposal, introduction/scrutiny/debate, Legislative Assembly passage, assent, commencement. Then label parliament as legislative, government administration as executive and courts as judicial. Ministers sit in parliament, so personnel overlap.
  3. Guided reading · 5 min. Teams find the two unjustified jumps in Card B's poster: proposal treated as enacted; an operator-notice duty treated as a criminal offence. Neither is supplied.
  4. Practice route · 7 min. Select Day 4 route. Sequence the steps and explain which arm might make, administer or interpret an actual law.
  5. Audit · 4 min. Compare “Parliament applies penalties in each case” with courts' role. Correct it without claiming all court actions make new law.
  6. Exit · 3 min. “Does assent always mean a provision operates that instant?” Key: check commencement; it may be later.