Monday December 14, 2015

Notes:
-If you are failing this class and need support, leave right now and make an appointment with your counselor to add a learning lab in place of a study hall.

Quiz: Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong


Circle:
Should  qualified women be allowed to fight in combat?

Unit: Should we go to war with ISIS? [Parts of this unit will be put into the daily agenda]
Learning Target: By the end of the unit, you will be able use various print and media sources to form an opinion on a complex issue in order to make a reasoned decision.
Essential Question: What should we understand before we go to war?
Description: This unit will be broken down into a series of sub-units with their own questions. With your group, you will be researching and answering questions that will help you decide whether going to war with ISIS is the right thing to do.
Sub-units & Questions

Geography
Learning Target: Given a blank map of the middle, you'll be able to label it.
Group Activity: See how many countries you can identify and label on a map of the Middle East.
Individual: Blank map of the middle east.  You will be identifying the countries currently involved with ISIS.  These will be colored in and labeled.
Map should include:
Allies of the US
Areas under ISIS control
Country's Name
Country's Major Religion

Polling
Question: What do people in the world, the United States and the World think we should do?
Resources: 
-As a group, spend some time discovering reliable polling data on public opinion in the world and the United States
-As a group, interview 3 staff members about their opinions about what we should do.
-Enter your responses here.

The Things They Carried
"Sweetheart of Song Tra Bong"
Work together to find text that answers the question, "What does this story say about what war does to people?"