CSPAN Assignment

            For this assignment, you will need to catch up on current events and decide what you think are the most pressing events realted to the CSPAN prompt this year.

            The project will have several components—everyone will write her/his own warm ups and mini-essay.

The components:

• • You will follow the news

  • You will research issues that interest you

  • You will write a persuasive essay that addresses the CSPAN topic for this year:

  • Our class website has a Links Page, which should help us do this.

Once you write your essay, you can decide if you want to do this for your final project.

 The homepage for the CSPAN contest: http://www.studentcam.org

CSPAN Question:

"How does the federal government impact your life?"

Explore a federal policy or program that has an impact on you or your community. Evaluate the effectiveness of this policy or program by researching multiple perspectives on it.

CSPAN Topics we were interested in so far

• Climate Change

• Cyber Bullying

• Fracking

• Water Rights

• Immigration policy and amnesty, Deffered Action, DREAM Act

• Privacy, Surveillance

• Minimum Wage, Poverty

• Guns, Violence, Colorado Shooting, Victims

•  Common Core, State vs. Federal, Standards, Curriculum, Tests

•  Arts Funding,

• Educational Priorities 

• Renewable Energy

• Energy Independence, 

•  Labeling, Genetically Modified Foods, FDA, 

• School Lunch Program, Nutritional Standards, 

• Personhood Law

• Farming, agriculture issues

• Women's Health Issues

• Freedom of Religion

• Syria and Chemical Weapons

• Pledge of Allegiance--Congress prays?

• Lawsuits over Energy 

• Prison Reform

• Supreme Court's ruling on Gay Marriage