TURN IN LATE UNIT 5 LOGS
Health Care: Federal and
State Fiscal policy, taxing and spending – Mixer
activity on experiences of the US health care system
Market failure - Rationing and opaque pricing mechanism
Medicare for All: Nurses
and Doctors – short film on expanding and improving Medicare
Essays
- 2nd quarter assessment 40 points due Dec 18.
Assignment Log
Log 6.1 Sick Around the World
Log
6.2 Healthcare survey
Log
6.3 Battle for Healthcare
Log
6.4 Healthcare mixer
Bring chromebooks/laptops next
week to work on essays
Health Care: Federal and
State Fiscal policy, taxing and spending
Roleplay Debate on improving Healthcare and
Comparing healthcare systems
Roles: Doctors, Wealthy, Self-employed, Uninsured,
Sick
#5 How can we
reduce and control the high cost of healthcare and get better outcomes?
Essays
- 2nd quarter assessment 40 points due Dec 18. – bring chromebooks
next week
Assignment Log
Log 6.1 Sick Around the World
Log
6.2 Healthcare survey
Log
6.3 Battle for Healthcare
Log 6.4 Healthcare mixer
Bring chromebooks/laptops next
week to work on essays
Log
6.5 Healthcare roleplay
Roleplay Debate on improving Healthcare and
Comparing healthcare systems
Roles: Doctors, Wealthy, Self-employed, Uninsured,
Sick
Health Care: Federal and
State Fiscal policy, taxing and spending –
Would Medicare for All/Single Payer save billions
or cost billions more? Who would pay? Would it be worth the costs?
Your
own perspective-#5 How can we reduce and
control the high cost of healthcare and get better outcomes?
Turn in Logs 6.1-6.6
Essays
- 2nd quarter assessment 40 points due Dec 18. – bring chromebooks
next week
Assignment Log
Log 6.1 Sick Around the World
Log
6.2 Healthcare survey
Log
6.3 Battle for Healthcare
Log 6.4 Healthcare mixer
Log 6.5 Healthcare roleplay
Log
6.6 Healthcare reform
Bring chromebooks/laptops
next week to work on essays
Turn in logs 6.1-6.6
Review portfolios – Unit 5
may be helpful for your essays
National policy Essays
- 2nd quarter assessment 40 points due Dec 18.
Skip the research journals for now. Only research
journal 2 is due Dec 20.
What are our national policy
priorities? What should government
do in contrast to what it does guided
by the budget?
Identify the core problems
and solutions to form your thesis statement in broad terms.
Focus on arguments and
evidence for essay. Start with a provisional thesis statement.
What can government do? Alternatives,
international comparisons, polls, etc.
Move to counter-arguments and
refutation and finish with intro/context and conclusion with any modification
of thesis that may be needed.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/09/world/asia/afghanistan-war-documents.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/09/world/asia/afghanistan-war-documents.html
Bring
chromebooks/laptops work on essays also on Th and Mon.
Assignment Log
Essay
draft arguments and evidence
Turn in late logs
USE TUTOR TIME FOR MAKE UP WORK AND HELP
National policy Essays
- 2nd quarter assessment 40 points
Skip the research journals for now.
What are our national policy
priorities? What should government
do in contrast to what it does guided
by the budget?
Identify the core problems
and solutions to form your thesis statement in broad terms.
Healthcare, education, housing, energy/climate/environment, transportation, etc.
Healthcare, education, housing, energy/climate/environment, transportation, etc.
Focus on arguments and
evidence for essay. Start with a provisional thesis statement.
What can government do?
Alternatives, international comparisons, polls, etc.
https://www.people-press.org/2019/04/11/little-public-support-for-reductions-in-federal-spending/
https://theintercept.com/2019/12/10/ndaa-congress-defense-bill/
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/11/us/politics/trump-budget.html
https://www.nationalpriorities.org/budget-basics/federal-budget-101/
https://theintercept.com/2019/12/10/ndaa-congress-defense-bill/
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/11/us/politics/trump-budget.html
https://www.nationalpriorities.org/budget-basics/federal-budget-101/
Move to counter-arguments and
refutation and finish with intro/context and conclusion with any modification
of thesis that may be needed.
Try to have a rough draft to revise by Monday.
Bring
chromebooks/laptops on Mon.
Assignment Log
Essay
draft
Essays
due Dec 18
Turn in late logs
National policy Essays
- 2nd quarter assessment 40 points – due Wed
Bring
finished printed essays to class.
Research journal assignments canceled.
Use rubric to guide
revisions. Don’t worry about length but balance scope and depth of issues and
evidence.
Work on organization with
clear transitions connecting each paragraph to main argument in thesis or
sub-arguments.
Make sure you have MLA
parenthetical citations in the body of the essay with a works cited page at the
end.
https://www.easybib.com/guides/citation-guides/mla-format/how-to-cite-a-parenthetical-citations-mla/
Bring
chromebooks/laptops on Mon.
Assignment Log
Essay
draft
Essays
due Dec 18
Turn in essays
Voting and representative
democracy – Is the US democratic?
Constitution and history of
voting in
the US from 1789 to the present -
PAST- Historically, how has voting been legally restricted?
How has voting been restricted by other means?
Voting
today: Who participates most and least? Why people do or do not participate?
PRESENT- Why
are Republicans accused of restricting voting rights? https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/03/us/politics/voting-suppression-elections.html
What is
the Republican response to allegations of vote suppression? What do you think?
Assignment Log
Essays due Dec 18
Log 7.1 Voting
restrictions past and present
Turn in essays
Voting and representative
democracy – Is the US democratic?
How is voting being made more difficult for some
voters in Georgia? What effect has it had?
Polling place closures, registration processing, voter
purges, missing absentee ballots, wait times, voter ID issues
Republicans vs NAACP, ACLU, Common Cause, Democrats,
etc.
Republican Secretary of State Brian Kemp in charge of
elections, ran for Governor against Democrat Stacey Abrams
Changes to the 1965 Voting
Rights Act and attempts to restore it
Assignment Log
Essays due Dec 18
Log 7.1 Voting restrictions past and present
Log
7.2 Suppressed
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