Monday, December 2, 2019

Dec 2019


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



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
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.
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.
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.
Bring chromebooks/laptops on Mon.

Assignment Log
Essay draft
Essays due Dec 18

Turn in essays
Voting and representative democracy – Is the US democratic?
What will happen on May 19, 2020 in Oregon? Requirements to participate? Nov 3 2020?
Create a historical timeline of voting participation

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?
Documentary- Suppressed: Fight to Vote https://www.bravenewfilms.org/suppressed
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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