You earn class credit for voter registration. Be sure to sign up to register to vote! www.vote.wa.gov
Jan 30: Welcome! Agree to Disagree statements, read and sign syllabus, add one thing you are excited to learn about in this class. Please add yourself to our class REMIND! go to https://www.remind.com/join/ilovecwp or Text @ilovecwp to 81010
Jan 31: Model Current Events Presentation, Discuss social contract and Plato's Crito. Privilege exercise. postponed:
online current event forum. Homework: post to online current event forum. Please remember to read +have parent/guardian read and sign syllabus.
Feb 1 & 2 : Go over Franti song lyrics. Watch John Oliver clip on prisons. Incarceration Pre-Quiz. Homework:Read the first article in the packet by Adam Liptak.
Feb 3: In class, we are continuing to watch the film The House I Live In and discussing it. IF you miss class, you can view a make-up with me/ on Netflix. You get a grade for your participation in discussion.
Homework: Read 1.5 Million Black Men, Missing From Daily Life from your Incarceration Packet. Why is this? What is the impact?
Surprise, surprise.... One whole week of school missed due to snow!
Feb 13 : Prepare the vocabulary for “Incarceration and Social Inequality” reading. please scroll to the bottom of this page for sub-pages and attachments. Here are Vocabulary cards made by Lauren Mudd, https://quizlet.com/120366886/justice-incarceration-social-inequality-flash-cards. Twitter #1 due...extended to due 2/20
Feb 14: Read packet article, David Brooks from the NYT, "The Prison Problem"
Feb 15 : In class, we are continuing to watch the film The House I Live In and discussing it. IF you miss class, you can view it as a make-up with me/ on Netflix. You get a grade for your participation in discussion. Read the INTRO of our Seminar discussion article, "Incarceration and Social Inequality". We are planning to hold a seminar discussion, so take notes of interesting ideas, powerful lines of text in the reading, bring questions for discussion or areas for clarification. Feel free to mark on the reading. It is yours to keep.
Feb 16 & 17 : Finish film as needed and debrief. Optional: read Section II of the Seminar Article; however Socratic Seminar has been post-poned 2/28 and March 1/2. Work on the vocabulary. Flash cards:
Quizlet - CWP Incarceration & Social Inequality Flashcards or Try these: https://quizlet.com/120366886/justice-incarceration-social-inequality-flash-cards/
Bellingham Human Rights Film Festival: choose one of the free films screening in our community and attend. Get proof of attendance for class credit.
http://bhrff.webs.com/BHRFF17%20Program%20Final.pdf
Alternatives to Incarceration: Guest Speakers Week
No School Monday, President's Day.
2/21 and 2/22-23 Daniel with the Whatcom Dispute Resolution Center to talk restorative justice, mediation and communication/conflict practices in our own lives.
Homework is to read interview with Marshall Rosenberg on Non-violent Communication and read the handout, "Keeping Kids From Crime".
2/23 MOVIE NIGHT @ Sehome BHRFF, 7pm Little Theater "Do Not Resist"
2/ 24 Guest Speaker: local attorney, Andrew Subin on Youth Rights and the law. Read Debate article, Michelle ALexander or AR Ward: Begin preparation for Structured Academic Controversy (debate) on Michelle Alexander. Take the Pro or Con side and complete your first reading for homework. Don't forget to TWEET your weekly current events in time for Monday's class. Tweet #2 due 2/27
Bellingham Human Rights Film Festival: choose one of the free films screening in our community and attend. Get proof of attendance for class credit.
http://bhrff.webs.com/BHRFF17%20Program%20Final.pdf
2/ 27 Monday's class: Continue preparation for Structured Academic Controversy (debate) on Michelle Alexander. Take the Pro or Con side and complete the worksheet to prepare for the debate.Read opposing article for SAC (debate) on Michelle Alexander and commence debate. Finish debate and complete corresponding worksheet.
Homework: Read Part II the statistics from the Incarceration Reading, and continue to work on the vocabulary; Tuesday.
2/28: Vocabulary Test today.Read section III, take notes on the sheet. Prepare questions. Continue preparation for seminar next class. Assign and discuss Socratic seminar.
Ha, ha tricked you! Snow day again today!
3/1 and 3/2 Vocabulary Test today.Read section III, take notes on the sheet. Prepare questions. Continue preparation for seminar next class. Finish debate and complete corresponding worksheet. W
3/3 Sub today. Read section III, take notes on the sheet. Prepare questions. Continue preparation for seminar next class. Don't forget to post to current events.
3/6 Guest Speaker: Protest Music.
3/7 We discussed grading for Socratic Seminars. Seminar today over sections II and III = Socratic Seminar today. Read conclusion.
3/8 & 3/9 Conclude Seminar today (section IV). Once your group has completed the seminar, you can start working on your section summaries with reflections. Along with your annotated article, Self-scoring sheet, reflections and summaries due.
Bonus/ Extra Credit Here is an interesting video by the Atlantic,
"Angola for Life" http://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/404305/angola-prison-documentary/ (13 minutes) about prison reform.
Extra Credit story on an undercover reporter who worked for 4 months as a private prison guard
Optional (bonus points) reading, on Sweden's prisons, the assignment is attached at bottom.
OR listen to incarceration newscasts from "The Takeway" (Sept 21 and 22nd) and write up summary/reflection of newscasts. http://www.thetakeaway.org/
Class Civic Engagement Credit: Attend Whatcom County Teen Court the second Wednesday of every month at 6:00 pm on the 3rd floor of the Whatcom County Courthouse.
More Bonus Credit options: read and annotate this article, http://www.nbcnews.com/specials/geographyofpoverty-big-city
IGNORE THIS!!! I cut it out for our guest speakers week!
Homework is to read next article in packet
(Where have all the burglars gone?). Review the 9 reasons given for the fall in crime. Which do you find most compelling? : Expert jigsaw on "Where have all the burglars gone". Ordering reasons for fall of crime.
: Non-violent Communication: in class Read the article interview, “Beyond Good & Evil” an interview with Marshall Rosenburg. (attached) Select text to comment on and write your questions, thoughts/ ideas for an in-class seminar discussion. Participation mandatory for credit. If you don’t get enough time to share in class, you can turn in your written prepared comments for credit. If you were absent, read it and write a summary reflection. Homework is to read in new NVC packet, "The needs at the Roots of Feelings"
: Trigger scenario w/partner in non violent communication. Read in packet, "Empathy". Be able to define/describe empathyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Evwgu369Jw
3 min. RSA showing empathy- good one use this with the class defintion, discussion of empathy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-vHSXo23TE High school version of Empathy glasses- perspectacles In class, we watched this video and reflected on it. You should watch it and add your reflection YOU TUBE cartoon drawing of the history of the world through communication and association with groups moving towards empathy based global consciousness. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7AWnfFRc7g&feature=relmfu After watching the video clip, please answer: Reflection question: What did the video clip show? ([what was] the point you got from it?)