19) October 11, 2018

1. Welcome
2. Create a new blog post.
3. Name it 19) October 11, 2018
4. End of Quarter--October 19
5. Showcase--Election Guide
1. Tuesday, October 23, 4:00-8:00
6. Check your grades!
1. Open Powerschool
2. Get Starbursts!
7. Daily Write--Register to Vote
1. See Tuesday's Blog
8. Daily Write--Pew Center for the People and the Press Political Typology Survey
1. Where do you fit?
2. How accurate is your label?  Why?
3. How did you like the questions in general?  How could they have been better?
4. Were there any answers you would like to change?  If so, why?  If not, why not?
5. Were there any particular questions that were hard to answer with the choices they gave?  Which ones were they?  Why were they hard?
9. Daily Write--I Side With 
1. Who do you side with?  Why?
2. Do you agree or disagree with the survey?  Why?
3. How did this survey compare to the other survey?
4. Did you like these questions better or worse than the other survey?  Why?
5. How did these issues compare to the major issues we have covered so far?
6. How did you end up on your ideology?  Why?
7. Do you agree or disagree with your ideology?  Why?
8. How did you rate on the themes?  Why?
9. Did the themes make sense?  If so, do they help?  If not, why not?
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?
14. 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?