15) October 1, 2018

1. Welcome
2. Create a new blog post.
3. Seating Chart!
4. Name it 15) October 1, 2018
5. FAFSA Workshop
1. Wednesday, October 10 from 6:30 to 8:30 in Room 303
6. LINK Branches of Government Notes from Thursday!
7. Daily Write--Kavanaugh Nomination
1. Why is the FBI investigating the allegations against Judge Kavanaugh?
2. Why did Senator Flake ask for an investigation?
3. Why did Senator Harris say it was a failure?
4. What was the letter read by Senator Durbin and why did he read it, and how was it received by Senator Grassley?
5. Why did Senator Graham say "this has never been about the truth?"
6. Why did Senator Klobuchar question the bravery of the committee?
7. What happens now?
8. How has President Trump reacted to the investigation and delay?
9. Why does it seem that Senator Flake asked for the investigation?
10. How is the election playing a role in all of this?
11. How is President Trump dealing with the Senators?
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 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?
10. 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?
11. 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. 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?