Does anybody here know of a good, fairly brief, easily accessible resource (preferably online, preferably free) for teaching a short course in Catholic homeschool (Grades 9-12) on the principles and practices of good citizenship?
We just finished Fr Bourmaud's (SSPX), requiescat in pace, short book from Angelus Press on Catholic social doctrine, but I am now looking for a kind of list of "best practices" for the Catholic young man or woman entering into majority, and into civic society. Much of this is probably intuitive vest-pocket knowledge, and not even necessarily specific to Catholicism --- vote, pay your taxes, inform yourself on civic issues, go to town meetings, run for local offices such as school board or county council if you feel so called, and so on. It can also extend to such everyday things as keeping up your property, working for the common good, not littering, obeying speed limits and "rules of the road", again, things that are pretty intuitive for any citizen who doesn't wish merely to live as a slug, leech, or parasite on the larger social order.
All I need is kind of a "bluffer's guide" or Cliff Notes-type summary, suitable for three or four class sessions. This is part of a half-credit Grade 9 government course, in which we have covered, so far, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution (both read in their entirety and discussed at length), the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights (at my son's request, and I was quite explicit that this was a secular, Masonic-like docuмent and assertion of various rights, as opposed to natural and divine positive law), the history of the civil rights movement, and, as I noted, traditional Catholic social teaching.
Any ideas or suggestions welcomed.