18) October 9, 2018

1. Welcome
2. Create a new blog post.
3. Name it 18) October 9, 2018
4. End of the Quarter--October 19
5. Showcase--Election Guide
1. Tuesday, October 23, 4:00-8:00
6. FAFSA Workshop
1. Wednesday, October 10 from 6:30 to 8:30 in Room 303
7. Daily Write--Register to Vote
1. Register to vote or pre-register to vote if you're not 18.
2. Please screenshot your approval screen and insert into today's blog post.
3. If you're already registered, take a picture of the card you got last week and insert it into today's blog post or use this link to check your registration.
8. Thursday's 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. FINISH 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 Write--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?
11. 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?
12. Pro Points--History of the American Dream Parts 9 and 10 
1. Part 9: The Housing Boom
1. Why are homes good investments?
2. How did the Clinton Administration help homes become a better investment?
3. What is leverage and how and why did Americans treat their homes as wealth and what did that allow them to do?
4. Why did Wall Street get involved?
13. 1. Part 10: A New American Dream?
    1. How has the Great Recession of 2008 compared to the Great Depression of the 1930's?
    2. How has President Obama tried to reassure and rally Americans?
    3. Why do Americans have faith in individualism, progress, and the American Dream?
    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?