February

2/2
New seating chart and semester grades

Review finals and grades, optional conferences during lunch about finals and grades

We will write persuasive essays later this year.
Organize binders- clean out, have a new log sheet, blank paper and room for new readings

New semester

Make sure you have your portfolio here for a self-reflection tomorrow


2/3
Portfolio self-reflection

Global citizenship –a global view
How are people in the world interconnected and interdependent?
How should we understand and respond to the global view?
What is globalization?

Assignment Log
Portfolio self-reflection

2/5
Global citizenship –a global view
How are people in the world interconnected and interdependent?
How should we understand and respond to the global view?
Log 1.1a If the world were a village,
1.1b write in correct answers afterwards and reflect on surprises and realizations on back
http://www.odt.org/popvillage.htm

Begin comparative views of countries in the world- rankings on data
Which countries have a better?
What data can we use to measure and compare countries?
What can we learn about what kind of society we should have in the US from these comparisons?

population
http://www.mapsofworld.com/world-language-map.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependencies_by_population_density

2/8
Global citizenship –a global view
How are people in the world interconnected and interdependent?
How should we understand and respond to the global view?

Facts about global inequality, poverty and what could be possible
Which 3 facts are most important? Why?

Begin comparative views of countries and regions in the world- rankings on data
What data can we use to measure and compare countries?
In which countries do people have better lives?
What can we learn about what kind of society we should have in the US from these comparisons?

2/9 Remember to update your log sheets, organize your binders, file and keep all reading handouts
Date and number readings

Global citizenship –a global view
UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights –
1.3 What does it mean to be human? What is needed to protect, enhance, fully develop these qualities? Subsistence, dignity, luxury

What are UN Human rights? Civil, political, social/cultural, economic rights.
1.4 What rights do we NOT have in the US? Should we have these rights? Why?

2/10 Remember to update your log sheets, organize your binders, file and keep all reading handouts
Date and number readings

Stamp and review HW
Scale of statistical data
Comparative views of countries and regions in the world- rankings on data
What data can we use to measure and compare countries? Human Development Index
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Human_Development_Index
In which countries do people have better lives? NORWAY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4L6-0WRfSA
What can we learn about what kind of society we should have in the US from these comparisons?

UNICEF data- Regions, types, comparisons
http://www.unicef.org/sowc09/
Human development-how do we measure how countries are progressing?
Do self-eval. and turn in logs

2/12 Remember to update your log sheets, organize your binders, file and keep all reading handouts
Date and number readings

Comparative views of countries and regions in the world- rankings on data
What data can we use to measure and compare countries?
other measures and data
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Peace_Index
http://www.happyplanetindex.org/explore/global/index.html

In which countries do people have better lives?
What can we learn about what kind of society we should have in the US from these comparisons?
Human development index - measuring how countries are progressing

UN Millennium Development Goals
1.6 What might be the causes of poverty in the world?
What might be the solutions to the problem of global poverty?

The debate about NAFTA
Do self-eval., keep log sheets and turn in logs

Assignment Log
Portfolio self-reflection
Log 1.1 Global Village?
Log 1.2 Global Poverty Facts
Log 1.3 Human Rights
HW Log 1.4 Human Rights in the US
Log 1.5 UNICEF data analysis
Log 1.6 Possible causes and solutions to global poverty

2/16 Remember to update your log sheets, organize your binders, file and keep all reading handouts
Date and number readings, TURN IN LATE LOGS
Tutor time – Wed 9:15 am

Is free trade beneficial or harmful? Who should have “freedom”? What should people be “free” to do?
Regional organization- for North America
Terms - Capital, tariffs, unions, collective, market, trade deficit, quota, maquiladora
Role play on NAFTA- 1993 North American Free Trade Agreement
Roles – 1 Maquiladora worker, 2 Green Giant Corp, 3 poor farmer, 4 Martin’s jeans worker, 5 wealthy farmer, 6 Environmentalist, 7 US NAFTA coalition
Read roles and underline key ideas, identify anything you don’t understand and then ask for help
Discuss roles and conference questions in groups, agree on best responses and write in logs
Speeches and 2 debate questions on opposing positions to each conference question

Agenda
2/17 Remember to update your log sheets, organize your binders, file and keep all reading handouts
Date and number readings, TURN IN LATE LOGS

Is free trade beneficial or harmful? Who should have “freedom”? What should people be “free” to do?
Regional organization- for North America
Terms - subsidies
Role play on NAFTA- 1993 North American Free Trade Agreement
Roles – 1 Maquiladora worker, 2 Green Giant Corp, 3 poor farmer, 4 Martin’s jeans worker, 5 wealthy farmer, 6 Environmentalist, 7 US NAFTA coalition
Meet other groups, negotiate and form alliances
Speeches and 2 debate questions on opposing positions to each conference question

2/19 Remember to update your log sheets, organize your binders, file and keep all reading handouts
Date and number readings, TURN IN LATE LOGS

Is free trade beneficial or harmful? Who should have “freedom”? What should people be “free” to do?
Regional organization- for North America
Role play on NAFTA- 1993 North American Free Trade Agreement
Roles – 1 Maquiladora worker, 2 Green Giant Corp, 3 poor farmer, 4 Martin’s jeans worker, 5 wealthy farmer, 6 Environmentalist, 7 US NAFTA coalition

Predict consequences: who will benefit from NAFTA? How? Who will not benefit? How?
Compare predictions with real outcomes
Terms – subsidies, privatization
Beyond NAFTA- Should we expand free trade?
Outsourcing and globalization since NAFTA

HW find 10 items at home and list the item and country where it was made

2/24 Remember to update your log sheets, organize your binders, file and keep all reading handouts
Date and number readings

How are we affected by globalization and free trade? Is globalization a solution or cause of global inequality?
Are My Hands Clean? Song about clothes in the age of globalization- looking beyond the tags
Globalization and sweatshops reading and questions
Comparative advantage
All logs due on Fri, Progress reports next week


2/26 Remember to update your log sheets, organize your binders, file and keep all reading handouts
Date and number readings

All logs due, do self-eval and attach log sheets, Progress reports next week

Are sweatshops and aid from the US solutions to Haiti’s (and poor countries’) problems?
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/social_issues/jan-june10/haiti_01-11.html
Why has Haiti been so poor?
History of Haiti and US involvement – video news segment
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttqexOlqhWM&feature=related
Reading on history of Haiti


Assignment Log
Log 2.1 NAFTA Conference questions
HW Log 2.2 speeches or debate questions
Log 2.3 T chart predictions and results of NAFTA
HW Log 2.4 10 items
Log 2.5 Patterns in global labor
HW Log 2.6 Globalization and Sweatshops