Inside Death Row

Open two tabs:

• New York Times Feature: Inside Death Row
• Inside Death Row Worksheet

Action Research Projects

Make sure your turn in your briefing paper and reflections. The presentation will count as the first grade for second semester.

Action Research Project (scroll down for specific directions on the reflection.

Action Research Presentations:

Thursday 1/26:
Coco
Hailey
Claire
Maggie
Sophia
Eli
Skyler

Monday 1/30:
Theo
Lizbeth
Leigh
Griffin
Alex
Meshach
Dominic
Cedar
Nick
Lina
Ian

Wednesday 2/1:
Nina
Arina
Brie
Sophie
Saiming
Linnea
Jackson
Chloe
Lauren
Blythe

Action Research Project

Last class I introduced the Action Research Project. Students will be working on this project over the new few weeks. Below is the description and component parts of the project.

Epic Issues - Action Research Project 

DUE:
Thursday 12/16 - Action Project - Research Question

Past Week's Agenda:

1. Students participated in a simulation of a Senate Committee meeting. Different advocacy groups made recommendations to the committee about different policies for fighting the war on terror.
2. Students worked on developing their own policy options and debated how well their policies would work in several scenarios of terrorist attack [see below]. Students then drafted a letter to a member of the Senate subcommittee on counterterrorism [see slides below].
3. Afterwards students worked in small groups on short persuasive presentations on one of the Multnomah County ballot measures. They used the League of Women Voters guide to plan. 

DUE: Letter to Senator recommending a policy for fighting terrorism.

Responding to Terrorism: Domestic Polices

Agenda 10/3-7:

1. Students finished watching Secrets, Torture, and Politics.
2. Students wrote a memo to the next president advising them on Enhanced Interrogation Techniques (EITs).
3. Students read about US domestic policies in the War on Terror. They answered questions from this worksheet (pgs 26-33).

DUE:

Memo to the President

Methods of Interrogation

Agenda 9/30:

1. Students completed sharing their study of different interrogation techniques and discussed whether they felt them to be acceptable in collecting information.
2. They began watching the first 10 minutes of the documentary, Secrets, Politics, and Torture.

Secrets, Politics, and Torture: