Mr. Nam Political Economy

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/interactive/2019/12/09/world/middleeast/afghanistan-war-cost.html

Bring chromebooks/laptops work on essays also on Th and Mon.

Assignment Log

Essay draft arguments and evidence

Agenda 12/12 https://nampolecon.blogspot.com

Turn in late logs

USE TUTOR TIME FOR MAKE UP WORK AND HELP

National policy Essays - 2^nd 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.

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/

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

Agenda 12/16 https://nampolecon.blogspot.com

Turn in late logs

National policy Essays - 2^nd 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/

https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/mla_style/mla_formatting_and_style_guide/mla_in_text_citations_the_basics.html

Bring chromebooks/laptops on Mon.

Assignment Log

Essay draft

Essays due Dec 18

Agenda 12/18 https://nampolecon.blogspot.com

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?

http://www.electproject.org/home/voter-turnout/demographics

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/05/21/u-s-voter-turnout-trails-most-developed-countries/

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?

https://www.npr.org/2018/09/17/647421039/npr-marist-poll-40-percent-of-americans-think-elections-arent-fair

Assignment Log

Essays due Dec 18

Log 7.1 Voting restrictions past and present

Agenda 12/20 https://nampolecon.blogspot.com

Turn in essays

Voting and representative democracy – Is the US democratic?

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/voting-rights-georgia-wisconsin-trump-2020-election-stacey-abrams-tony-evers-a9250461.html

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.

https://www.bravenewfilms.org/suppressedfacts

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

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/dec/18/wisconsin-rightwing-group-will-voter-purge

https://www.vox.com/videos/2018/11/5/18064808/voter-registrations-disappearing-america-purge

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-locations/southern-u-s-states-have-closed-1200-polling-places-in-recent-years-rights-group-idUSKCN1VV09J

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/06/us/politics/house-voting-rights.html

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/465060-new-poll-shows-crisis-of-confidence-in-us-elections

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/24/us/voting-college-suppression.html

Assignment Log

Essays due Dec 18

Log 7.1 Voting restrictions past and present

Log 7.2 Suppressed

Monday, November 4, 2019

Nov 2019

Agenda 11/4 https://nampolecon.blogspot.com

TURN IN LATE logs 4.1-4.6.

What the federal government does and can do. Regulations and public goods in mixed economies.

What can we learn from European social democracies like Germany?

https://www.salon.com/2010/08/25/german_usa_working_life_ext2010/

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/quality-of-life-rankings

https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/22/us/america-poverty-un-report/index.html

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/05/speedup-americans-working-harder-charts/

https://thinkprogress.org/how-the-zero-weeks-of-paid-maternity-leave-in-the-u-s-compare-globally-a8ba7f36f85b/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vvbnwd-fa0

http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/archives/address_text.html

International perspective - Military vs. Social spending

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/02/how-us-defense-spending-stacks-up-against-the-rest-of-the-world.html

http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20150216-my-taxes-go-where

https://www.vox.com/2015/8/23/9189153/us-defense-spending-international-comparison

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/01/18/chinese-billionaire-jack-ma-says-the-us-wasted-trillions-on-warfare-instead-of-investing-in-infrastructure.html?

https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/08/politics/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-cnntv/index.html

Should the US change its spending on the military for other priorities?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/07/12/what-america-could-do-with-european-levels-military-spending/

https://www.cbpp.org/research/federal-budget/policy-basics-where-do-our-federal-tax-dollars-go

https://www.thebalance.com/u-s-military-budget-components-challenges-growth-3306320

https://www.newsweek.com/us-spent-six-trillion-wars-killed-half-million-1215588

https://www.nationalpriorities.org/interactive-data/trade-offs/

https://theintercept.com/2019/04/17/green-new-deal-short-film-alexandria-ocasio-cortez/

Assignment Log

Portfolio self-evaluation

Log 5.1 Social democracy

Log 5.2 Military spending

Agenda 11/6 https://nampolecon.blogspot.com

TURN IN LATE logs 4.1-4.6. ARRANGE TO MAKE UP SELF-EVALUATION.

How does taxation work? Who should pay? How much? Taxes and Govt Spending– reading and questions

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/20-trillion-of-u-s-debt-visualized-using-stacks-of-100-bills/

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/1/7/18171975/tax-bracket-marginal-cartoon-ocasio-cortez-70-percent

https://www.nationalpriorities.org/interactive-data/taxday/average/2018/or/receipt/

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tax-day-where-the-government-gets-its-money/

https://boingboing.net/2011/07/08/half-of-us-social-pr.html

https://www.usaspending.gov/#/explorer

Historical tax margins and brackets. Add #3 on p.58 - Which structures are most/least fair? Why?

https://www.investors.com/etfs-and-funds/personal-finance/how-tax-reform-impacts-your-tax-bracket-and-rate/

http://visualizingeconomics.com/blog/2012/01/24/comparing-tax-rates

https://www.vox.com/2015/10/26/9469793/tax-brackets

https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/statistics/historical-highest-marginal-income-tax-rates

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/10/06/opinion/income-tax-rate-wealthy.html

Effective tax rates and tax burdens

https://www.mortgagecalculator.org/calcs/marginal-tax-rate-calculator.php

https://www.npr.org/2017/12/19/571754894/charts-see-how-much-of-gop-tax-cuts-will-go-to-the-middle-class

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySTQk6updjQ

Come to tutor time or lunch on Fri for final change to make up Unit 4 assignments

Assignment Log

Portfolio self-evaluation

Log 5.1 Social democracy

Log 5.2 Military spending

Log 5.3 Federal taxing and spending

Agenda 11/8 https://nampolecon.blogspot.com

TURN IN LATE logs 4.1-4.6. ARRANGE TO MAKE UP SELF-EVALUATION

Come to tutor time or lunch to make up Unit 4 assignments and self evaluations

Competing visions on federal budget and deficits– Obama/Democrats (q.4, 8) vs Nava/Republicans (q. 4, 9), an example of a debate from 2011. Disagreements about facts and/or values?

https://www.morningsidecenter.org/teachable-moment/lessons/budget-deficit-debate-2-views-american-values-american-spending

Sanders: beyond more narrow political spectrum- https://www.politicalcompass.org/uselection2012

https://www.politicalcompass.org/uselection2020

https://www.politicalcompass.org/uselection2016

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/2020-daily-trail-markers-sanders-speech-sparks-debate-on-democratic-socialism-2019-06-12/

https://www.rethinkingschools.org/magazine/special-collections/war-terrorism-and-our-classrooms/when-silence-is-betrayal

https://www.pri.org/stories/2014-01-03/new-poll-says-these-nations-are-top-4-threats-world-peace-guess-whos-number-one

Poll by conservative group https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/467684-70-percent-of-millennials-say-theyd-vote-for-a-socialist-poll

Budget process and another potential Govt Shutdown

PARENT CONFERENCES ON MONDAY NOV 25

Assignment Log

Portfolio self-evaluation

Log 5.1 Social democracy

Log 5.2 Military spending

Log 5.3 Federal taxing and spending

Log 5.4 Obama vs Nava

Bring laptops/chromebooks next Wed.

Agenda 11/13 https://nampolecon.blogspot.com
Deficit, debt and a better taxing and spending policy – fiscal policy and the political spectrum https://usdebtclock.org/#

https://wolfstreet.com/2019/06/17/who-bought-the-nearly-1-trillion-of-new-us-government-debt-over-the-past-12-months/

https://wolfstreet.com/2019/08/17/us-gross-national-debt-spiked-363-billion-in-two-weeks-1-trillion-in-12-months-who-bought-these-treasury-securities/

Explore tax plans and ideas - Wealth, income, estate, corporate, health care https://taxjusticenow.org/ https://imgur.com/t/mildly_interesting/xhYCQh4

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/americas-richest-400-families-pay-a-lower-tax-rate-than-the-middle-class/

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fox-news-poll-voters-favor-taxing-the-wealthy-increasing-domestic-spending

https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/15/economy/trump-tax-cuts-impact-economy/index.html

Fiscal ship – play game from your perspective and opposing perspective and see results – read every option and info with arguments for and against them to choose best policies. http://fiscalship.org/faq.php#faq05

Logs due Friday.

Assignment Log

Portfolio self-evaluation

Log 5.1 Social democracy

Log 5.2 Military spending

Log 5.3 Federal taxing and spending

Log 5.4 Obama vs Nava

Log 5.5 Fiscal policy

Agenda 11/15 https://nampolecon.blogspot.com

Tax benefits, exemptions, credits, rebates and deductions – Who pays taxes and who should pay?
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/10-ways-rich-avoid-taxman/

https://www.politifact.com/virginia/statements/2011/feb/01/mark-warner/mark-warner-says-us-tax-breaks-outweigh-income-tax/

https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/money/economy/story/2011-10-06/income-tax-nonpayment/50676912/1

https://www.forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2012/09/19/the-real-truth-behind-the-47-percent-why-arent-these-people-paying-federal-income-taxes/#6ebcf62c2398

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qvqxax/the-irs-is-ignoring-rich-tax-dodgers-and-going-after-the-poor

https://www.vox.com/2018/4/13/17229018/undocumented-immigrants-pay-taxes

Reading and questions on Corporate tax breaks and subsidies

https://itep.org/notadime/

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/03/why-amazon-paid-no-federal-income-tax.html

https://www.businessinsider.com/what-amazon-ceo-jeff-bezos-makes-every-day-hour-minute-2018-10

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-seattle/amazons-1-5-million-political-gambit-backfires-in-seattle-city-council-election-idUSKBN1XL09B

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/jeff-bezos-empire-chart/

https://publicintegrity.org/business/taxes/trumps-tax-cuts/did-billionaires-pay-off-republicans-for-passing-the-trump-tax-bill/

Regressive state and local taxes https://itep.org/whopays/ https://www.ocpp.org/2018/11/15/complete-reporting-worldwide-corporations/

https://sos.oregon.gov/blue-book/Pages/facts/finance-state.aspx

https://www.tax-brackets.org/oregontaxtable

https://www.ocpp.org/2019/01/30/corporations-low-taxes-high-profits/

https://www.ocpp.org/2018/11/02/oregon-regressive-tax-structure

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/education/most-americans-dont-realize-state-funding-for-higher-ed-fell-by-billions

https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/issue-briefs/2019/10/two-decades-of-change-in-federal-and-state-higher-education-funding

Turn in logs 5.1-5.6

Assignment Log

Portfolio self-evaluation

Log 5.1 Social democracy

Log 5.2 Military spending

Log 5.3 Federal taxing and spending

Log 5.4 Obama vs Nava

Log 5.5 Fiscal policy

Log 5.6 Corporate tax breaks

PARENT CONFERENCES ON MONDAY NOV 25 for Mr. Nam

Agenda 11/19 https://nampolecon.blogspot.com

TURN IN LATE LOGS 5.1-5.6

Health Care: Federal and State Fiscal policy, taxing and spending

https://www.axios.com/health-care-spending-2018-hospitals-doctors-drugs-economy-b520930a-0cd9-4c68-9dd1-f31cc08ec264.html

Premium: The purchase price of health insurance, typically paid every month.

Co-payment: The amount an insured person pays for each doctor's visit or procedure. (In the U.S., insurance plans typically do not pay 100% of the cost).

Deductible: Many insurance plans require you to pay an initial set amount of your healthcare costs before the insurance kicks in. Deductibles can range from $100 to $2,000 or more.

Health savings account: Money you are allowed to save in a special account that is not taxed as income. This is helpful for middle or upper income people who have a lot of income to tax.

Tax credit: An amount you are allowed to subtract from the total income tax you owe.

Sometimes tax credits can be provided in advance, before taxes are due.

Medicare: The federal health insurance program that pays health expenses for those over 65 years old. It is paid for by employees and employers through a payroll tax.

Medicaid: A health insurance program for low-income people that is administered by states.

Single-payer: A health insurance system in which the government provides or administers health insurance for everyone.

Should we rely on free market for health care? Obamacare/ACA? Single-payer/Medicare for All?

How does the US system compared to systems in other countries?

Film, questions and discussion: Sick Around the World (2008)

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/sickaroundtheworld/etc/sitemap.html

T.R. Reid http://www.trreid.net/index.htm

http://www.visualcapitalist.com/u-s-healthcare-system-global-outlier-not-good-way/

https://www.newsweek.com/united-states-health-care-rated-worst-637114 https://interactives.commonwealthfund.org/2017/july/mirror-mirror/

Assignment Log

PARENT CONFERENCES ON MONDAY NOV 25 for Mr. Nam

Log 6.1 Sick Around the World

Agenda 11/21 https://nampolecon.blogspot.com

TURN IN LATE UNIT 5 LOGS, USE TUTOR TIME AND LUNCH FOR HELP

Health Care: Federal and State Fiscal policy, taxing and spending – Should we rely on free market for health care?

Struggles with rising Costs

https://www.axios.com/health-care-costs-premiums-deductibles-increasing-428c6244-6dc5-4f5a-94c3-8c6cb89500e9.html

https://www.thedailybeast.com/health-care-americans-borrowed-dollar88b-to-pay-for-medical-attention-last-year-says-survey

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/02/11/691467587/americans-seek-cheaper-meds-in-mexico

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/12/26/678749817/insured-but-indebted-couple-works-5-jobs-to-pay-off-medical-bills

https://www.oregonlive.com/business/2019/03/massive-charges-227000-haunt-woman-after-emergency-out-of-network-ohsu-stay-for-heart-attack.html

Health Care Survey

1. True or false: The basics of Obamacare were first proposed by the conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation.

2. True or false: Obamacare enabled all Americans to receive health insurance.

3. Among nations of the world, what is the U.S. rank for expenditures per person for health care?

a) 6 b) 121 c) 1 d) 27

4. What is the rank of the United States in life expectancy (at birth)?

a) 6 b) 121 c) 1 d) 26

5. What is the difference between Medicaid and Medicare?

a) There is no longer any difference

b) Medicare is mostly for older people; Medicaid mostly for low–income people

c) Medicare is more expensive and covers such things as dental care, and mental health care

d) Medicaid is more expensive and covers such things as eye care and medical devices

e) Under Obamacare, Medicare covers everyone

6. Have you or someone in your family ever had problems getting the healthcare that was needed? With billing?

7. Have you lived in another country or know people in other countries? How does their health care system compare?

8. What is the difference between health care and health insurance?

9. Is healthcare a human right?

Battle for Health Care reading, questions (#2&4), discussion– Trumpcare vs Obamacare vs Single Payer

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/amid-roiling-health-care-debate-the-share-of-uninsured-americans-is-growing

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/takeaway/segments/temporary-ban-trump-health-care-immigration-policy

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/10/14/768731628/trump-is-trying-hard-to-thwart-obamacare-hows-that-going

Review portfolios

Assignment Log

PARENT CONFERENCES ON MONDAY NOV 25 for Mr. Nam

Log 6.1 Sick Around the World

Log 6.2 Health care survey

Log 6.3 Battle for Health care

Friday, October 4, 2019

Oct 2019

Agenda 10/2 https://nampolecon.blogspot.com

Turn in late logs 2.1-2.6.

Climate trial - US Govt, US Consumers, Developing countries, Fossil Fuel Corps, Capitalism

Graded participation – Raise hands to ask/answer questions. Listen and don’t repeat questions or ask to repeat questions. Be prepare if called on to respond. Respond with accurate facts.

12 minutes on each group. If there is time at the end, we will open to any remaining questions for any group.

Jury (absent with no role) - Log 3.1 take notes on each group and prepare to give judgment on role play.

HW- Trial verdict (from your perspective, not your role): Who and what were ultimately and most responsible? How should this guide response to the climate crisis and injustice?

Step out of role and write about the issues, NOT THE ROLE PLAY. Consider criteria for judgment (who/what had most influence, power, gained the most, etc.) and facts about each group’s historical responsibility in causing the climate crisis (not what people said in role play). Include a paragraph on your criteria for judgment. Write at least one paragraph on each group, explaining the percentage of responsibility they should have, with supporting reasoning and evidence. Feel free to do more research but check on reliability of your sources and cite them.

Assignment Log

Log 3.1 Trial prep

Log 3.2 UN Climate Agreements

HW Log 3.3 Trial verdict

Agenda 10/4 https://nampolecon.blogspot.com

Turn in late logs 2.1-2.6.

Debrief climate trial -Who and what were ultimately and most responsible? How should this guide response to the climate crisis and injustice?

A Just Transition – not merely about climate
Politics, the Green New Deal and Carbon Pricing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDcro7dPqpA

Do all 3 questions in reading https://www.morningsidecenter.org/teachable-moment/lessons/what-green-new-deal

https://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/just-transition/4-reasons-trump-cant-stop-the-renewables-revolution-20170920

https://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/the-new-economy/people-power-pushed-the-new-deal

Local govt version of a Green New Deal - Portland Clean Energy Fund

https://news.streetroots.org/2019/07/12/portland-clean-energy-fund-takes-bold-action-climate-justice

https://www.wweek.com/news/state/2019/04/26/oregon-clean-energy-jobs-bill-has-mixed-support-from-environmental-justice-groups/

Assignment Log

Log 3.1 Trial prep

Log 3.2 UN Climate Agreements

HW Log 3.3 Trial verdict
Log 3.4 Green New Deal

Agenda 10/8 https://nampolecon.blogspot.com

Portfolio review – get feedback and help to improve your work before units are due, plan to improve work

Constitutional powers of government– 3 branches of govt, Executive Depts and Independent Agencies

Rollback of environmental regulations under Trump

https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/04/politics/trump-climate-change-policy-rollbacks/index.html

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/climate/trump-environment-rollbacks.html

Revolving doors between govt and lobbyists and conflicts of interest with govt policy

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/06/26/trump-deregulating-nation-toward-disaster

https://www.propublica.org/article/what-we-found-in-trump-administration-drained-swamp-hundreds-of-ex-lobbyists-and-washington-dc-insiders

Climate and constitution – Reading: Democracy, climate and future What is the tension between the past, present and future for democracy? Is this problematic? Explain.

Constitution rights/lawsuit

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/juliana-versus-united-states-climate-change-lawsuit-60-minutes-2019-06-23/

https://www.npr.org/2019/10/07/765091522/the-supreme-court-march-to-the-right-fast-and-furious-or-incremental

Energy policy: subsidized oil production vs renewables https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6_gWPUiKAE

Unit 3 logs due Thurs.

Assignment Log

Log 3.1 Trial prep

Log 3.2 UN Climate Agreements

HW Log 3.3 Trial verdict

Log 3.4 Green New Deal

Log 3.5 Democracy and climate

Agenda 10/10 https://nampolecon.blogspot.com

Impeachment inquiry https://www.morningsidecenter.org/teachable-moment/lessons/impeachment-inquiry-begins

https://www.npr.org/2019/10/09/768540896/who-sets-the-rules-when-is-it-real-and-other-big-questions-on-impeachment

https://www.crf-usa.org/impeachment/high-crimes-and-misdemeanors.html

https://www.npr.org/2019/10/06/767675638/second-whistleblower-with-direct-knowledge-of-ukraine-call-steps-forward-lawyer-

Is there a valid basis for an impeachment inquiry now? Is the Trump administration obstructing justice? Explain.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRtJXnsUYBc&feature=youtu.be

https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/impeachment-inquiry-10-10-2019/index.html

How should we understand and handle different points of view and disagreements about controversial issues?

Bias? Point of View? Beliefs? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Graham%27s_Hierarchy_of_Disagreement.svg

https://cdn.annenbergclassroom.org/wp-content/uploads/student.handout.1.facts_.values.worldviews1.pdf

https://newrepublic.com/article/117521/different-languages-dont-create-different-worldviews

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/09/25/764216567/is-politics-stressing-you-out-heres-how-to-keep-caring-without-losing-your-cool

Turn in logs 3.1-3.6

Assignment Log

Log 3.1 Trial prep

Log 3.2 UN Climate Agreements

HW Log 3.3 Trial verdict

Log 3.4 Green New Deal

Log 3.5 Democracy and climate

Log 3.6 Impeachment

Agenda 10/15 https://nampolecon.blogspot.com

Turn in logs 3.1-3.6

What is constitution? Articles of Confederation? Declaration of Independence? Federalists vs Anti-federalists

Amendments? – purpose and context vs mythology

https://www.thoughtco.com/overview-united-states-government-politics-104673

https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/constitution-transcript

Questions on reading- We the people?

A history of the constitution with a class lens. http://www.isreview.org/issues/16/constitution.shtml

1 How does the plan for government in the constitution compare with Pennsylvania’s and Massachusetts’ state constitutions?

2 Why was Shays’ Rebellion important?

3 How are the framers of the constitution portrayed?

4 What were the major compromises of the framers?

5 How was a Bill of Rights eventually adopted?

Get your textbook and compare with chapter 2, pages 48-58.

https://www.rethinkingschools.org/static/publication/roc2/sla2roc2.pdf

https://time.com/4558510/electoral-college-history-slavery/?xid=tcoshare

https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/01/politics/trump-impeach-this-map-fact-check/index.html

https://observablehq.com/@karimdouieb/try-to-impeach-this-challenge-accepted

https://www.snopes.com/news/2019/10/02/donald-trump-impeach-this-map/

Democracy May Not Exist, but We'll Miss It When It's Gone, Astra Taylor

Consider the Senate. The principle of equal state representation, Alexander Hamilton pointed out in 1788, “contradicts the fundamental maxim of republican government, which requires that the sense of the majority should prevail.” A scant 2 percent of Americans, residing in the nine smallest states, hold the same power in the Senate as the 51 percent who reside in the nine largest; some votes are worth up to sixty-six times more than others, and urban migration trends mean that this problem will only become more extreme. This imbalance partly explains why gun control is such an intractable issue, as the majority of the minority of Americans who live in households that own lethal weapons (over one-third of the population) reside in low-population, high-value-vote states, which helps make amending or restricting the constitutional right to bear arms unreachable. In Senate elections, “one person, one vote” may hold true technically, but not all votes are equal. (page 133)

Assignment Log

Log 4.1 We the people

Agenda 10/18 https://nampolecon.blogspot.com

Turn in logs 3.1-3.6. USE TUTOR TIME AND LUNCH FOR HELP AND MAKE UP WORK.

What are the most important causes of factional conflicts?

James Madison’s Federalist Papers #10 – arguments for the framework of government in 1787 constitution (before amendments) and a blueprint for the future of the US, to get 9 out of 13 states to ratify constitution.

Madison’s views- Cause of factional conflicts and how to deal with it in the constitution and a federal republic with large territory with strong central govt.

Excerpt with questions.

Republican is not same as republic. Democrat is not same as democracy.

Contrast with purpose of govt in Declaration of Independence.

How did we become expand popular sovereignty and more democratic? Not from original constitution –Social movements and protests leading to 13^th, 14^th, 15^th, 17^th, 19^th Amendments and 1965 Voting Rights Act

http://hrlibrary.umn.edu/education/all_amendments_usconst.htm

https://www.whitehousehistory.org/picketing-the-white-house

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_q2Aw464KI

Assignment Log

Log 4.1 We the people

Log 4.2 Federalist Papers

Agenda 10/22 https://nampolecon.blogspot.com

ABSENT/OUTDOOR SCHOOL STUDENTS- CHECK IN ABOUT MISSED WORK

Factions - Inequality in income and wealth

Group activity - How much wealth inequality is there? How should wealth be distributed?

Draw pie charts for the richest 20%, middle 60%, poorest 20%

Concentration of wealth at top - 1%, .1%, and .00025% - Reflection on the reality

https://www.morningsidecenter.org/teachable-moment/lessons/exploring-wealth-inequality-and-proposals-address-it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=QPKKQnijnsM

https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2019/jul/03/bernie-sanders/bernie-sanders-target-saying-3-richest-have-much-w/

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/02/10/study-shows-richest-000025-owns-more-wealth-bottom-150-million-americans

Is political equality compatible with extreme economic inequality? Whose interests gets represented?

Democracy, oligarchy, plutocracy

Interest groups, PACs and lobbying to influence public policy http://www.ushistory.org/gov/5c.asp

For background info, see pages 196-202 in textbook

Money in politics – https://act.represent.us/sign/money-politics-problem/

https://act.represent.us/sign/the-problem

https://www.newsweek.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortezs-corruption-game-speech-now-most-viewed-video-any-1327816?

http://demonocracy.info/infographics/usa/political_spending/2012_elections.html

https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/

Assignment Log

Log 4.1 We the people

Log 4.2 Federalist Papers

Log 4.3 Wealth inequality

Log 4.4 Money in Politics

Agenda 10/24 https://nampolecon.blogspot.com

ABSENT/OUTDOOR SCHOOL STUDENTS- CHECK IN ABOUT MISSED WORK – tutor time and lunch

Ideals of democracy, the black struggle for political equality and the constitution – right to vote?

Draft of 1776 Declaration of Independence https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/declaration-independence-and-debate-over-slavery/

Reconstruction and Race Riots – progress and reaction not remedied until the Civil Rights Movement

https://projects.propublica.org/graphics/vra

http://chnm.gmu.edu/courses/122/recon/reconframe.html

https://www.blackpast.org/special-features/racial-violence-united-states-1660/

1898 election in Wilmington, N Carolina and a White Declaration of Independence

What does Wilmington, before and after the massacre, reveal about the US? Is it merely a freak incident from the past or an example of deep contradictions between ideals in the US and issues we still struggle with today? What does this history inform us about the US as a multiracial democracy?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=share&v=LVQomlXMeek

https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/wilmington-massacre-2/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/02/20/trump-is-warning-coup-us-history-provides-single-example-power-grab-by-white-supremacists/

https://newrepublic.com/article/153772/racial-terror-failed-promise-reconstruction-trump-america

http://core.ecu.edu/umc/wilmington/scans/ticketTwo/whiteDeclaration.pdf

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/north-carolina-voter-id/

https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/30/politics/north-carolina-district-9-ballot-irregularities-indictments/index.html

Logs due Mon

Assignment Log

Log 4.1 We the people

Log 4.2 Federalist Papers

Log 4.3 Wealth inequality

Log 4.4 Money in Politics

Log 4.5 Wilmington

Agenda 10/28 https://nampolecon.blogspot.com

Who are “We the People”? Expansion of constitutional rights through the black freedom struggle and 14^th Amendment – Bill of Rights only applied to federal govt and not states before

http://coloredconventions.org/conventions

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/incorporation_doctrine

https://time.com/5694518/lgbtq-supreme-court-cases/

What is a corporation? Should they have rights as people? https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/corporation.asp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5kHACjrdEY

14^th Amendment, the Supreme Court and rights of corporations vs African Americans

Supreme Court’s interpretation of the constitution

How did the Supreme Court give corporations constitutional rights of persons?

What do you think about these corporate rights, considering how the 14^th Amendment has been applied to African Americans?

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/03/corporations-people-adam-winkler/554852/

https://www.history.com/news/14th-amendment-corporate-personhood-made-corporations-into-people

https://opb.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/bf09.socst.us.const.plessy/plessy-v-ferguson/

https://www.heraldcourier.com/opinion/black-lives-matter-movement-reclaims-the-th-amendment/article_ba60c574-5127-11e5-ab05-3b478b6a6852.html

https://www.democracynow.org/2015/3/13/should_mcdonalds_monsanto_have_the_same

Turn in logs 4.1-4.6

Assignment Log

Log 4.1 We the people

Log 4.2 Federalist Papers

Log 4.3 Wealth inequality

Log 4.4 Money in Politics

Log 4.5 Wilmington

Log 4.6 14^thAmendment

Agenda 10/30 https://nampolecon.blogspot.com

TURN IN LATE WORK logs 4.1-4.6

End of the Quarter Portfolio self-evaluation – assessment. You can use unit 4 too.

Write an informal and honest letter about your work this quarter. Base this on your own judgment not on the grade you received. Review the syllabus and sheet on using supporting details to remember the goals for the course.

1) Review your portfolio and readings and choose several pieces of work that you feel reflects your best work. Find several specific examples from your work that demonstrates (you can also write about how you could improve in those examples):

How you develop a clear understanding of important political and economic issues or ideas/concepts.
How you are able to analyze, synthesize, elaborate on and/or explain ideas with accurate supporting details.
How you read and think about information closely and critically.
How you support your conclusions or opinions with factual claims are that are accurate and precise (specific and not exaggerated or too broadly generalized).

2) Also write about your class participation this quarter. How have you participated in class (role-plays/simulations, discussions, sharing ideas and writing, asking questions, etc.). Provide specific examples of when and how you participated. How did it help thinking and learning for you and other people in class?

3) How have you grown in your skills and understanding of political and economic issues so far? What are things you can do to improve your learning next quarter. Be specific. What specific steps will you take to do this?

OPTIONS FOR HELP AND MAKING UP OLD WORK – WEEKLY LOG CHECK INS DURING LUNCH/TUTOR TIME, SATURDAY SCHOOL, ETC.

Assignment Log

Portfolio self-evaluation