Essential Questions:
-What does colonization mean?
-What can we infer about the values and beliefs of settlers?
-What makes a settlement succeed?
-What makes a settlement succeed?
Themes: Just today:
-What are the key views and aspects that identify someone's political philosophy?
-What are political parties and what is the real difference between different political ideologies?
-Why do we have a two-party system?
Themes: Political ideologies, Presidential Candidates and The Race to become President in 2016,
1. We begin a conversation on Conservatives and Liberals? We are going to take a peak at the political spectrum today and continue expanding it today.
2. Do Now - Quick Image recall on differences between Liberals and Conservatives:
3. Video Resources on Political Ideologies:
TED TALK Video: Jonathan Haidt: The moral roots of liberals and conservatives
4. Student Friendly Links
#1 - September Issue of UpFront Magazine - Focus on the November Presidential Election
5. Conservative and Liberal Jobs in America - from the Washington Post:
6. Who are the Candidates running for President in 2016
-The Polls - RealClearPolitics
-Your guide to the 2016 presidential candidates - The Washington Examiner
1. Yes, please see Google Classroom.
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U.S. HISTORY II - Period 3:
Essential Questions:
-How do historical events, places, and people influence the perception of the world around us?
-What does it mean to be an American?
-Was American expansion overseas justified?
-Did the press cause the Spanish-American War?
-Was the acquisition of the Panama Canal Zone and act of justifiable imperialism?
-Does the need for self-defense give the US the right to interfere in the affairs of Latin America? (Think about the Roosevelt Corollary, "Dollar Diplomacy," and "Watchful Waiting")
Just today:
-What are the key views and aspects that identify someone's political philosophy?
-What are political parties and what is the real difference between different political ideologies?
-Why do we have a two-party system?
Themes: Political ideologies, Presidential Candidates and The Race to become President in 2016,
1. We begin a conversation on Conservatives and Liberals? We are going to take a peak at the political spectrum today and continue expanding it today.
2. Do Now - Quick Image recall on differences between Liberals and Conservatives:
3. Video Resources on Political Ideologies:
TED TALK Video: Jonathan Haidt: The moral roots of liberals and conservatives
4. Student Friendly Links
#1 - September Issue of UpFront Magazine - Focus on the November Presidential Election
5. Conservative and Liberal Jobs in America - from the Washington Post:
6. Who are the Candidates running for President in 2016
-The Polls - RealClearPolitics
-Your guide to the 2016 presidential candidates - The Washington Examiner
Homework:
1. Yes, check Google Classroom.
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International Studies - Period 4
Essential Questions:
1. Does the world need the United Nations? Why or why not?
2. Should we enforce the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in countries not our own? If so, how? If not, why?
3. Is the world safer today with the United Nations than it was in 1945?
4. Is the United Nations an effective peace-keeping organization?
5. What should be done to improve the effectiveness of the United Nations?
Themes: Humanitarianism, United Nations
1. Here is a World Map. We will begin to examine the United Nations using the UN Website and a UN slideshow.
2. UN Headquarters:
3. Ban-Ki-Moon - Secretary-General of the United Nations
4. Brief History of the United Nations:
5. Human Rights - What are Human Rights?
6. United Nation Resources:
United Nations History
United Nations Multimedia Room
United Nations School bus Virtual Field Trip
United Nations Research Guide A-Z on EVERYTHING you can imagine!
United Nations Peacekeeping Missions
University of California organized a UN resources guide - Honestly, the BEST and more ORGANIZED I have seen yet on how to research issues concerning the United Nations.
1. Yes, check Google Classroom.
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