March

3/1 Remember to update your log sheets, organize your binders, file and keep all reading handouts
Date and number readings, turn in late logs

Are sweatshops and aid from the US solutions to Haiti’s (and poor countries’) problems?
Is globalization a solution or cause of global inequality?
Factories subcontracted to make Disney products in Haiti in 1996
Documentary film- Mickey Mouse Goes to Haiti
What should corporations like Disney do?


3/2 Remember to update your log sheets, organize your binders, file and keep all reading handouts
Date and number readings, turn in late logs

Are sweatshops and aid from the US solutions to Haiti’s (and poor countries’) problems?
Is globalization and free trade a solution or cause of global inequality?

Protests against sweatshops and corporate behavior; corporations’ responses - codes of conduct
Facts about Nike, the industry leader
http://www.nikebiz.com/responsibility/workers_and_factories.html#code_of_conduct
Critical reading- Nike’s Code of Conduct. Is this adequate?
Results of implementing codes of conduct? Example in Malaysia in 2008
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Qzm7MCusGM&fmt=18

3/3 Remember to update your log sheets, organize your binders, file and keep all reading handouts
Date and number readings, turn in late logs

Are sweatshops and aid from the US solutions to poor countries’ problems?
Is globalization and free trade a solution or cause of global inequality?
Protests against corporate brands

Nike’s Code of Conduct. Is this adequate? Update
http://www.nikebiz.com/responsibility/documents/Nike_Code_of_Conduct.pdf
Results of implementing codes of conduct? Example in Malaysia in 2008
Watch Behind the swoosh- Jim Keady’s resistance to Nike sweatshops in Indonesia
3.4 Write Dialogue poems
Perspectives- Keady, CEO, athletes, US worker, American consumer, Code of Conduct contrasted with sweatshop worker
Daily life, hopes, dreams, concerns, fears, code of conduct, resistance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Qzm7MCusGM&fmt=18
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-yxoJkgzJA pt1 and pt2
http://www.educatingforjustice.org/stopnikesweatshops.htm
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/bestcompanies/2008/snapshots/82.html

3/5 Remember to update your log sheets, organize your binders, file and keep all reading handouts
Date and number readings, turn in late logs

Are sweatshops and aid from the US solutions to poor countries’ problems?
Is globalization and free trade a solution or cause of global inequality?
Protests against corporate brands

Share Dialogue poems
What can we do about sweatshops? Article on Resistance and student activism
UW students protest Nike
http://students.washington.edu/uwslap/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LRVrOUokTQ&feature=related

Article on resistance to sweatshops
http://hphs.dist113.org/library/studentresearch/Document%20Library/Globalization/Sweatshop%20-%20Teenage%20Perspective.pdf
How effective is student organizing against sweatshop labor?

3/8 Remember to update your log sheets, organize your binders, file and keep all reading handouts
Date and number readings

Is globalization and free trade a solution or cause of global inequality?
Multinational corporations and the system of corporate capitalism.

Corporations and branding: 3.6 What are corporations? Why do they exist? Do they have too much power? Are they psychopathic?
Excerpt of documentary: The Corporation
Watch firt 23 minutes (parts 1 to first 5 minutes of part 5)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pin8fbdGV9Y&feature=PlayList&p=FA50FBC214A6CE87&index=0&playnext=1
“Legal person” with limited liability, externalities

3/10 Remember to update your log sheets, organize your binders, file and keep all reading handouts
Date and number readings

Is globalization and free trade a solution or cause of global inequality?
Do corporations exploit people and the environment?
Why do individual people make harmful choices in corporations?

Transnational Capital Auction game- Global competition for corporate investment and jobs
What is the effect of this competition? Why is it difficult for countries to raise wages and standards?
Winners and losers- grade chart
questions-homework 1-4 3.7, ALL LOGS DUE TOMORROW
reality- industry advertisement

Assignment Log
Log 3.1 Are Sweatshops the solution?
Log 3.2 Mickey Mouse goes to Haiti
Log 3.3 Nike code of conduct questions
Log 3.4 Nike Dialogue poem
Log 3.5 reflection on student activism
Log 3.6 The corporation pt.1
Log 3.7 Capital auction questions

3/12 Remember to update your log sheets, organize your binders, file and keep all reading handouts
Date and number readings

Is globalization and free trade a solution or cause of global inequality?
Review homework- Do corporations and country leaders exploit people and the environment?
Why do individual people make such harmful choices?
Systemic factor- competition in the market
ALL LOGS DUE, do self-eval., keep log sheets

Role Play on sweatshops- what are the causes of exploitation of people and environment
Multinational corporations, Ruling Elite, Workers, Consumers, System of Profit
Read and highlight roles

Agenda
3/15 Remember to update your log sheets, organize your binders, file and keep all reading handouts
Date and number readings
TURN IN LATE LOGS

Is globalization and free trade a solution or cause of global inequality?
Role Play on sweatshops- what are the causes of exploitation of people and environment
Multinational corporations, Ruling Elite, Workers, Consumers, System of Profit
Read the rest of the roles and related readings, prepare questions and responses, work together to share ideas
Write a diary entry from perspective of a role- who you are, what you do, your thoughts about the allegation against you, who you believe to be responsible, etc.
Share diaries

3/16 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

Is globalization and free trade a solution or cause of global inequality?
Role Play on sweatshops- what are the causes of exploitation of people and environment
Multinational corporations, Ruling Elite, Workers, Consumers, System of Profit

Step out of role and consider all the arguments and facts and write a paragraph on each group and the percentage responsibility they have for exploitation of workers and the environment

3/16 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

Is globalization and free trade a solution or cause of global inequality?
Role Play on sweatshops- what are the causes of exploitation of people and environment
Multinational corporations, Ruling Elite, Workers, Consumers, System of Profit

Step out of role and consider all the arguments and facts and write a paragraph on each group and the percentage responsibility they have for exploitation of workers and the environment

3/17 Remember to update your log sheets, organize your binders, file and keep all reading handouts
Date and number readings
TURN IN LATE LOGS

Is globalization and free trade a solution or cause of global inequality?
Reading- arguments for and against sweatshops
Review articles and arguments
Essay- explore topics and write outline A-D

Forecasting at 2:30

3/29 Remember to update your log sheets, organize your binders, file and keep all reading handouts
Date and number readings
TURN IN forecasting sheets this week

Is globalization and free trade a solution or cause of global inequality? Free trade issues – labor, environment, poverty and inequality, human rights, corporate power, outsourcing, national sovereignty

Work on essays in the library
-expand your outlines with examination, commentary and analysis of specific evidence, quotes and citations
-create transitions between arguments or with thesis to connect your ideas
my.ccsd.net/download/1907517852.doc
-introduction- use interesting facts, question or quote to get attention; give background info to topic; state thesis
Keep track of all your sources for your “Works Cited” page
COMPUTER USE IS ONLY FOR ESSAYS

Agenda
3/30 Remember to update your log sheets, organize your binders, date, number, file and keep all reading handouts
TURN IN forecasting sheets this week, BRING EVERYTHING YOU NEED FOR ESSAYS ALL WEEK
Field Trip- White Bird Dance next Wed., permission slips, 2nd and 4th period classes, lunches
TUTOR TIME- come in with all your stuff including print out of most recent

Is globalization and free trade a solution or cause of global inequality? Free trade issues – labor, environment, poverty and inequality, human rights, corporate power, outsourcing, national sovereignty

Work on essays in the library – USE ESSAY CHECK LIST, MAKE PRECISE AND ACCURATE CLAIMS
-expand your outlines with examination, commentary and analysis of specific evidence, quotes and citations
-create transitions between arguments or with thesis to connect your ideas
-introduction- use interesting facts, question or quote to get attention; give background info to topic; state thesis
Keep track of all your sources for your “Works Cited” page
COMPUTER USE IS ONLY FOR ESSAYS

3/31 Remember to update your log sheets, organize your binders, date, number, file and keep all reading handouts
TURN IN forecasting sheets this week, BRING EVERYTHING YOU NEED FOR ESSAYS ALL WEEK
Field Trip- White Bird Dance next Wed., permission slips, 2nd and 4th period classes, lunches

Is globalization and free trade a solution or cause of global inequality? Free trade issues – labor, environment, poverty and inequality, human rights, corporate power, outsourcing, national sovereignty

Work on essays in the library – USE ESSAY CHECK LIST, MAKE PRECISE AND ACCURATE CLAIMS
-support arguments with details, examples, quotes, data, etc.
-create transitions between arguments or with thesis to connect your ideas
-introduction- use interesting facts, question or quote to get attention; give background info to topic; state thesis
-conclusion- creatively restate thesis, synthesize or review main points, suggest action or something to think about
Keep track of all your sources for your “Works Cited” page
COMPUTER USE IS ONLY FOR ESSAYS

Assignment Log
Log 4.1 debate questions, responses
Log 4.2 role diary
HW Log 4.3 personal “verdict”
Essay outline A-D
HW work on essay
Complete 1st draft due Fri. 4/2
Final Draft due 4/7
Field Trip permission slips