- New York Times Feature: Inside Death Row
- Inside Death Row Worksheet
EPIC ISSUES
Monday, April 24, 2017
Tuesday, January 31, 2017
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 Project (scroll down for specific directions on the reflection.
Tuesday, January 24, 2017
Wednesday, December 14, 2016
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
Epic Issues - Action Research Project
DUE:
Thursday 12/16 - Action Project - Research Question
Tuesday, November 1, 2016
Past Week's Agenda:
- 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.
- 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].
- 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.
Sunday, October 9, 2016
Responding to Terrorism: Domestic Polices
Agenda 10/3-7:
- Students finished watching Secrets, Torture, and Politics.
- Students wrote a memo to the next president advising them on Enhanced Interrogation Techniques (EITs).
- Students read about US domestic policies in the War on Terror. They answered questions from this worksheet (pgs 26-33).
DUE:
Saturday, October 1, 2016
Methods of Interrogation
Agenda 9/30:
- Students completed sharing their study of different interrogation techniques and discussed whether they felt them to be acceptable in collecting information.
- They began watching the first 10 minutes of the documentary, Secrets, Politics, and Torture.
Secrets, Politics, and Torture:
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