Learning Target: I can form my own opinion about who might be Joe Biden's vice presidential running mate in 2020?
Warm Up: Directions: After looking at today's political cartoon students should ask themselves what things should be considered when picking a potential vice president.
Political Cartoon: Any doofus can be vice president
Opening: Directions: The students will watch the video of our opening meeting.
The links show in the video of opening meeting are included below. Students may look at them if they wish. However, students are not required to do anything with these links.
Video: Opening Meeting
Work Session: Directions: The students will 1) watch video with questions, "Top 10 women Biden may choose for VP" and then 2) write a discussion post about who you think Joe Biden should and will have as a vice presidential running mate in 2020. After you have written your discussion post and thought through all of the reasoning 3) submit your answer to the survey question.
Enrichment and Remediation: Directions: The articles linked to below are written versions of the video. These articles mention a few additional people who aren't in the video. Feel free to use it or not as you wish. The video and the articles linked to below are all by the same person. If you would like to get the perspective of additional people in the media, there are several other articles on the internet that you can find with a simple Google search.
1) Video: Top 10 women Biden may choose for VP - CNN The Point with Chris Cillizza April 16 2020
Article: The Top 10 women Joe Biden might choose as his VP - CNN March 27, 2020
Article: The Top 10 women Joe Biden might choose as his VP - CNN April 9, 2020
Article: The Top 10 women Joe Biden might choose as his VP - CNN April 16, 2020
2) Discussion Post: Joe Biden's Potential Running Mate
3) Survey: Joe Biden's Potential Running Mate
Standard(s): MA6.CN.1 Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding.
a. Identify and build media arts skills that support a variety of career options, higher order thinking, problem-solving, creativity, cultural experiences, and historical events in a global learning context.
MA6.CN.2 Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art.
a. Identify and describe trends in the media arts and communicate how the issues of time, place, and culture are reflected to increase innovation and quality of work (e.g. bridging cultural differences, interdisciplinary study, differing perspectives).
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