Economics and Income Distribution
3/28 Homework is to read and annotate first half of "A Generation Hobbled By The Soaring Cost of College". In preparation for the Socratic Seminar, come up with questions you want to ask in the margins of the article.
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3/29 and 30: Homework is to finish reading and annotating "A Generation Hobbled By The Soaring Cost of College" in preparation for the Socratic Seminar. You will need to come up with at least three questions you want to ask during the seminar. Remember, you will be turning in the article as proof that you read and engaged with the text.
Additional resource on loans: http://www.nytimes.com/ref/timestopics/topics_studentloans.html
3/31: Today we studied how student loans/debt are impacting the U.S economy. If absent please read http://www.businessinsider.com/3-charts-explain-the-effect-of-student-loans-on-the-economy-2015-5 and annotate in preparation for the seminar. Also, watch the following videos:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/b/a831615a-f7be-4139-b524-639399b06d9a
http://www.nytimes.com/video/business/100000001545874/business-day-live-student-debt.html
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4/10 New packet, Read taxes in packet, pg 1-2 and take the Kahoot Quiz- see me for link if you were absent and need to make it up.
Read "Top Earners Doubled Share of Nation's Income, Study Finds" pgs 3-4.
4/11 Watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPKKQnijnsM Wealth Inequality in America
5 minutes shows the ideal, perceived, and real income distribution of Americans. Makes it really clear.
4/11 Read Krugman "Confronting Inequality" pgs 6-13 and respond to Seminar Discussions (attached). Seminar on block day
4/12 & 13 Seminar today: speed dating format. Read counter position: "You Shouldn't Tax the Rich" and "The Income Gap is Exaggerated" to prepare for a debate. Link to Quizlet vocabulary https://quizlet.com/_3cf6r3
4/14: We assigned the final film project. Continue Watching film and review technique for Rhetoric in class. Inequality for All - film and discussion. Homework is to read "Taxing the Rich Won't Solve Inequality" pgs 21-22 Do your current events post, due Monday.
4/17: Debate today "Should we tax the rich?" (attached). Work on Film Critique.
Read packet 22-33 "How Scandinavian Countries Pay for their Government Spending
4/19: Vocabulary quiz and Concord Coalition federal budgeting simulation: http://www.concordcoalition.org/act/tools/federal-budget-challenge ; exit slip at Socrative https://b.socrative.com/login/student/. The room name is 8SJFNHBQP. Homework is to tweet on an environmental issue.
Film Critiques selection due May 19, 2017
Sunday 4/23 Bellingham Unitarian Fellowship
1207 Ellsworth St, Bellingham, Washington 98225
4-6pm
Event details:
4 youth from Seattle that are a part of the Our Children's Trust lawsuit that has sued the WA Dept. of Ecology for inadequate protection for their future will be in Bellingham to discuss the power of voices of the youth for climate advocacy. This will be an extraordinary afternoon. Bring your friends, share this with families you know...we have much to learn and be inspired by the youth of today!!! The youth will talk about the power young people have to change the world, and how more young people can join the movement to save their tomorrows. To learn more, here are some recent articles: