Goal for the day: To think about local and state solutions to climate change and immigration reform
Most of this day was spent preparing for seminar and doing homework on your senators.
I started showing an excerpt from Years of Living Dangerously featuring a debate between two Republicans that we've seen in other episodes: Bob Inglis, who believes in climate change and is pushing a revenue neutral carbon tax, and James Taylor, the lobbyist who works for the Heartland Institute.
I passed out handouts explaining the Senator Sports Card assignment. The first handout was a worksheet explaining the Summative point totals for the Model Senate project (sports card, bill, and floor speech). The back of this sheet included specific instructions from Matt about how to put together the sports card. The only difference for our class is that the sports card is worth 30 points instead of 15 so that all the numbers in the rubric will be doubled. The card is due on the Monday after break! I then passed around examples, and answered questions.
I then showed half of Episode 5 from Years of Living Dangerously on the struggle of Democratic governor of Washington to come up with a bipartisan climate action plan and the pivotal vote by the Whatcom County Commissioners on whether to approve an export terminal for coal shipments to Asia. I wanted to show this for two reasons: the episode exposes differences on the Democratic side about how to address climate change AND it shows how these issues can play out politically at the local level. Here in La Plata County, the issue is methane leaks and regulation of the oil and gas industry.
After this, we briefly discussed takeaways from the episode and students had a few minutes to write these down in packet 3. We then took a break.
After break, it was work time unless you were in with me doing a seminar for Honors.
Homework due Friday, November 21st
Prepare for seminar and add any additional notes to packet 3. I'll collect these packets tomorrow.
Most of this day was spent preparing for seminar and doing homework on your senators.
I started showing an excerpt from Years of Living Dangerously featuring a debate between two Republicans that we've seen in other episodes: Bob Inglis, who believes in climate change and is pushing a revenue neutral carbon tax, and James Taylor, the lobbyist who works for the Heartland Institute.
I passed out handouts explaining the Senator Sports Card assignment. The first handout was a worksheet explaining the Summative point totals for the Model Senate project (sports card, bill, and floor speech). The back of this sheet included specific instructions from Matt about how to put together the sports card. The only difference for our class is that the sports card is worth 30 points instead of 15 so that all the numbers in the rubric will be doubled. The card is due on the Monday after break! I then passed around examples, and answered questions.
I then showed half of Episode 5 from Years of Living Dangerously on the struggle of Democratic governor of Washington to come up with a bipartisan climate action plan and the pivotal vote by the Whatcom County Commissioners on whether to approve an export terminal for coal shipments to Asia. I wanted to show this for two reasons: the episode exposes differences on the Democratic side about how to address climate change AND it shows how these issues can play out politically at the local level. Here in La Plata County, the issue is methane leaks and regulation of the oil and gas industry.
After this, we briefly discussed takeaways from the episode and students had a few minutes to write these down in packet 3. We then took a break.
After break, it was work time unless you were in with me doing a seminar for Honors.
Homework due Friday, November 21st
Prepare for seminar and add any additional notes to packet 3. I'll collect these packets tomorrow.