14) September 27, 2018

1. Welcome
2. Create a new blog post.
3. Name it 14) September 27, 2018
4. SEATING CHART
5. Daily Write--History of the American Dream Parts 6, 7, and 8 
1. Part 6: Rising Debt
1. In the 1970's why did Americans rack up "good" debt?
2. What did President Reagan ask Americans to do?  Why?
3. How did Americans react?
2. Part 7: Wall Street Comes to Main Street
1. Why did Americans turn to the stock market?
2. What are money market funds and how did they help Americans enter the stock market?
3. What is a 401(k) and why did companies turn to them?
3. Part 8: Rising Inequality
1. Why did more money begin to go to the top 20%?
2. How did more and more people pay for their desire for the stereotypical American Dream?
6. Daily Write--Local, State, and Federal Government
1. Why do we have government and how is that seen in the infographic linked above?
2. How is the purpose of government shared among the three levels?
3. How is the purpose of government divided between the three levels?
4. How does a bill become a law and how did the election affect that?
7. Daily Write--Branches of Government
1. What are the three branches of government?
2. How does the president affect the congress and the courts?
3. How does the congress affect the president and the courts?
4. How do the courts affect the president and the congress?
8. Daily Write--Evaluating Websites and Discovering Fake News
1. What is currency and how do you find it?
2. What is relevancy and how do you judge it?
3. What is authority and how do you determine it?
4. What is quality and how do you judge it?
5. How do these different standards add up to credibility?
6. Was the first website credible?  Why or why not?
7. How about the second website, how was it better than the first site?
9. Daily Closing
1. What did you learn?
2. How did you learn it? (What did we do and what got you to understand it?)
3. How does it or will it affect you?
4. How can you use it?
10. Pro Points--Shooting An Elephant
1. Who was George Orwell?  Why is that important?
2. What was his job?  Why is that important?
3. What was up with the elephant?
4. How did Orwell react why?
5. What does this story say about the role of government?
11. Pro Points--Was Dr. Seuss a Racist?
1. What was the title of this blog?
2. Who were the kids and why did they bring a flyer to school?
3. How could Dr. Seuss' images be seen as offensive?
4. How and why did their teachers react?
5. How did their dad like Dr. Seuss?
6. What had happened to their great grandparents?
7. How had Dr. Seuss (Theodore Geisel) affected them?
8. How did their dad feel about the teachers and the situation they had been put in?
9. What did their dad say about Dr. Seuss at the end of the email?
10. After reading this blog post and letter, was Dr. Seuss a racist?

13) September 25, 2018

1. Welcome
2. Create a new blog post.
3. Name it 13) September 25, 2018
4. SEATING CHART?!?
5. FINISH Daily Write--Interview Review
1. Data Analysis Table
2. Questions
6. Daily Write--History of the American Dream Parts 3, 4, & 5 
1. Part 3: The G.I. Bill and Roosevelt's Economic Bill of Rights
1. What was the GI Bill of Rights and why did it become law?
2. What did Americans begin to expect if "they played by the rules?"  Why?
3. How did the GI Bill change home ownership for veterans?
4. How did the GI Bill change college attendance for veterans?
5. How the the Gi Bill change expectations for all Americans?
2. Part 4: The American Dream Deferred
1. How did the Federal Housing Authority lock out African-Americans?
2. How did consumption help illustrate the civil rights movement for African-Americans?
3. Part 5:  The Age of Abundance Fades
1. How did the postwar prosperity affect American expectations?
2. What did President Carter ask Americans to do?  Why?
3. How did Americans react?
7. Daily Write--Local, State, and Federal Government
1. Why do we have government and how is that seen in the infographic linked above?
2. How is the purpose of government shared among the three levels?
3. How is the purpose of government divided between the three levels?
4. How does a bill become a law and how did the election affect that?
8. Daily Write--Branches of Government
1. What are the three branches of government?
2. How does the president affect the congress and the courts?
3. How does the congress affect the president and the courts?
4. How do the courts affect the president and the congress?
9. Daily Closing
1. What did you learn?
2. How did you learn it? (What did we do and what got you to understand it?)
3. How does it or will it affect you?
4. How can you use it?
10. Pro Points--Shooting An Elephant
1. Who was George Orwell?  Why is that important?
2. What was his job?  Why is that important?
3. What was up with the elephant?
4. How did Orwell react why?
5. What does this story say about the role of government?

12) September 20, 2018

1. Welcome
2. Create a new blog post.
3. Name it 12) September 20, 2018
4. Daily Write--Interview Review
1. Peruse your notes tables.
2. Use Command-F to search your notes documents.
3. Count the totals.
4. Use the table below.
1. Interview Project Data Analysis Table
1. Copy table.
2. Put it in your folder.
3. Link it to today's blog.
2. How has all of this changed your perspective on economics and finances?
3. How has all of this changed your perspective on government?
4. How has all of this changed your perspective on the American dream?
5. Daily Write--History of the American Dream Intro and Parts 1 & 2
1. How was the American Dream "a plain but revolutionary notion" when it began?
2. How has it evolved and what does it include now?  Why?
3. Part 1: Roots of the American Dream
1. How did the Pilgrims, immigrants, and Tocqueville see the American Dream?
2. When it was first defined in 1931, what did it include?  Why?
3. Why did "a better life" become "an abundant life?"
4. Part 2: The Modern American Dream
1. How did people buy a house in the 1930's?
2. How did the New Deal change how people bought houses?
6. Daily Closing
1. What did you learn?
2. How did you learn it? (What did we do and what got you to understand it?)
3. How does it or will it affect you?
4. How can you use it?
7. Pro Points--Shooting An Elephant
1. Who was George Orwell?  Why is that important?
2. What was his job?  Why is that important?
3. What was up with the elephant?
4. How did Orwell react why?
5. What does this story say about the role of government?

11) September 18, 2018

1. Welcome
2. Create a new blog post.
1. Name it 11) September 18, 2018
3. Interview Project
1. Due Last Week?!?
2. Presentation Rubric
3. Notes Tables
4. Link yours to today's blog
4. Rehearse!
5. Speakers?
1. Kaylie
2. Bryce
3. Breanna
6. Daily Write--Constitution Day Test
7. Why Government?
8. Daily Closing
1. What did you learn?
2. How did you learn it? (What did we do and what got you to understand it?)
3. How does it or will it affect you?
4. How can you use it?
9. Pro Points--Shooting An Elephant
1. Who was George Orwell?  Why is that important?
2. What was his job?  Why is that important?
3. What was up with the elephant?
4. How did Orwell react why?
5. What does this story say about the role of government?

10) September 17, 2018

1. Welcome
2. Create a new blog post.
1. Name it 10) September 17, 2018
3. Interview Project
1. Due Last Week?!?
1. Presentation Rubric
2. Notes Tables
1. Link yours to today's blog
3. Rehearse!
4. Speakers?
1. Bobby
2. Ashton
3. Kaylie
4. Aidan
5. Anija
6. Bryce
7. Audrey
8. Breanna
9. Logan Sch
4. Daily Write--The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
1. What does Tom symbolize?
2. What does Ranse symbolize?
3. What does Hallie symbolize?
4. What is the role of violence in the movie?  Why?
5. What is the role of alcohol in the movie?  Why?
6. How did you like the movie?  Why?
7. What do you think the point of the movie was?  Why?
5. Daily Closing
1. What did you learn?
2. How did you learn it? (What did we do and what got you to understand it?)
3. How does it or will it affect you?
4. How can you use it?

09) September 13, 2018

1. Welcome
2. Create a new blog post.
1. Name it 09) September 13, 2018
3. Interview Project
1. Due Tuesday?!?
1. Presentation Rubric
2. Notes Tables
1. Link yours to today's blog
3. Rehearse!
4. Speakers?
1. Logan Sch
2. Zac
3. Justin
4. Alex
5. Clayton
6. Logan Sm
7. Audrey
8. Carolina
9. Jake
4. Daily Write--The Costs of September 11, 2001?
1. Updated
1. Beside the fact that about 3,000 people died in the attacks, how much money have the attacks cost the United States?
2. Which cost surprised you the most?  Why?
3. When was the visual published?  How have the costs changed since then?  Why?
5. Daily Write--The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
1. What does Tom symbolize?
2. What does Ranse symbolize?
3. What does Hallie symbolize?
4. How did you like the movie?  Why?
5. What do you think the point of the movie was?  Why?
6. Daily Closing
1. What did you learn?
2. How did you learn it? (What did we do and what got you to understand it?)
3. How does it or will it affect you?
4. How can you use it?
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08) September 11, 2018

1. Welcome
2. Create a new blog post.
1. Name it 08) September 11, 2018
3. Interview Project
1. Due Today
1. Presentation Rubric
2. Presentation
1. Name your Google Slides Presentation, Interview Project, Last, First
2. Share it with me so I can edit it.
3. Link it using Interview Preso as text to today's blog post.
3. Notes Tables
1. Make a copy of the Notes Table Google Doc.
2. Name it Interview Notes, Last, First.
3. Share it with me so I can edit it.
4. Link it using Interview Notes as text to today's blog post.
4. Rehearse!
5. Speakers?
1. Logan Sch
2. Josiah
3. Preston
4. Zac
5. Justin
6. Alex
7. Clayton
8. Logan Sm
9. Audrey
4. September 11, 2001?
5. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
6. Daily Closing
1. What did you learn?
2. How did you learn it? (What did we do and what got you to understand it?)
3. How does it or will it affect you?
4. How can you use it?

07) September 6, 2018

Daily Closing 9-4

1. Welcome
2. Create a new blog post.
1. Name it 07) September 6, 2018
3. Guest Speaker?
4. Interview Project
1. Due September 11
1. Presentation Rubric
2. Speakers?
1. Logan Sch
2. Josiah
3. Preston
4. Zac
5. Justin
6. Alex
7. Clayton
8. Logan Sm
9. Audrey
5. Daily Write--Missing/Make Up Work?
1. How do we turn in missing or make up work?
6. Daily Write--The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
1. How and why did Ranse decide to face Liberty?
2. How and why did the doctor and marshal talk to Liberty in the saloon?
3. How did the doctor treat Liberty?
4. How did Hallie treat Ranse?
5. How did Tom react when he saw Hallie treating Ranse?
7. Daily Closing
1. What did you learn?
2. How did you learn it? (What did we do and what got you to understand it?)
3. How does it or will it affect you?
4. How can you use it?

06) September 4, 2018

1. Welcome
2. Create a new blog post.
1. Name it 06) September 4, 2018
3. Interview Project
1. Due September 11
4. Check Your Grades!
1. Open PowerSchool
2. Get Starbursts
5. Daily Write--The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
1. Why did Tom chase down Ranse and how did Ranse like the lesson?
2. Why did Mr. Peabody, Ranse, and Peter dress up and formally introduce themselves when they entered the saloon?
3. What were they voting for, what were the competing interests, and why were they different?
4. Why didn’t Pompey vote?
5. Why did Tom turn down the nomination and why did Liberty show up at the meeting?
6. Why did Mr. Peabody try to deny the nomination?
7. What was the ultimatum that Liberty gave Ranse?  Why?
8. What was Tom’s offer to Ranse?  Why?
9. Why didn’t “isn’t” or “ain’t” matter to Hallie?
10. Why did Liberty trash the newspaper and thrash Mr. Peabody?
6. Daily Closing
1. What did you learn?
2. How did you learn it? (What did we do and what got you to understand it?)
3. How does it or will it affect you?
4. How can you use it?