Missouri Alone in Resisting Prescription Drug Database
JULY 20, 2014 (nytimes.com)
Week 17 Drugs, Reproduction & Other Social Issues
Wednesday/Thursday
Watch The House I live In
Please complete this survey indicating three issue/topic preferences for your final project. You’ll need to sign in with your school e-mail/gmail account.
Friday/Monday
Discuss case studies that implicate a woman’s reproductive capacity.
Week 15: Drug-related issues
Monday
LMC workday to finalize group presentations
Tuesday
Wrap up death penalty work with the Senate hearing. How can you pass legislation that satisfies a range of constituents?
Wednesday & Thursday
Group presentations: Drinking Age, Drug Legalization, PEDs in Sports
Friday
Frontline: The Meth Epidemic
Week 14: Death Penalty Wrap-up & Drug Issues
Monday:
1. Arguments in favor of the death penalty from the book
Debating the Death Penalty: Should America Have Capital Punishment? The Experts on Both Sides Make Their Case; Hugo Adam Bedau (Editor), Paul G. Cassell (Editor)
effective representation | just punishment | logical support for deterrence | firsthand reports | racism |
2. Gallery walk for our marriage posters.
3. How reliable are eyewitnesses? (60 minutes) This is the part 2 of the story that looks at why eyewitness testimony is not reliable.
As time permits…Listen/read one of the oral arguments from one of these SCOTUS cases. What are the disagreements about specifically when it comes to processing capital punishment cases?
Tuesday/Wednesday
Use the West High access to Lexis-Nexis in our LMC to select your group’s readings. (if this link doesn’t work, choose Lexis-Nexis from the LMC page and navigate to your topic)
1. Drinking Age
- Alcohol-how it works and its effect on the body
- procon site
- Room for Debate
- 60 Minutes segment
- Choose Responsibly
- MADD
- Opposing Viewpoints (if this link doesn’t work, choose Opposing Viewpoints from the LMC page and navigate to your topic)
- SIRS Researcher: Binge Drinking (if this link doesn’t work, choose SIRS researcher from the LMC page and navigate to your topic)
2. Legalization of Marijuana
- How marijuana impacts the body
- procon site
- Room for debate
- Medical Marijuana
- 60 Minutes episode
- balanced politics
- Contradictory Marijuana Laws
- NORML
- Office of National Drug Control Policy
- Opposing Viewpoints (if this link doesn’t work, choose Opposing Viewpoints from the LMC page and navigate to your topic)
- SIRS Researcher (if this link doesn’t work, choose SIRS researcher from the LMC page and navigate to your topic)
- Huffington Post
3. Drug Use in Sports
- How steroids impact the body
- procon site
- Let steroids into the hall of fame? (nytimes)
- Opposing Viewpoints (if this link doesn’t work, choose Opposing Viewpoints from the LMC page and navigate to your topic)
- Doping in sports documentary
- Performance Enhancing Drugs background and history (cnn.com)
- Doping in Sports (SIRS) (if this link doesn’t work, choose SIRS researcher from the LMC page and navigate to your topic)
Thursday/Friday
1. Living Room Conversations: finding common ground
2. Writing a death penalty bill for Wisconsin.
- recent legislative activity in Wisconsin
- crimes that would be punishable by death other than murder
- WI 2006 referendum
Monday
Senate hearing to try to pass legislation on the death penalty for Wisconsin.
Week 12-13: Death Penalty
Monday:
1. Death Penalty Sort.
2. What questions do we want to look into? What terms are important?
Tuesday & Wednesday: LMC Days:
1. Preliminary vocabulary:
2. Imminent death penalty issues (npr.org). Contrast this with the BBC perspective on the issue.
3. Individual State data
- Here is the map indicating which states allow the death penalty.
- Capital crimes by states
- What are the aggravating factors for different states? What are the mitigating factors for different states?
- What are the murder rates for states?
- Number of executions (check the race data as well)
4. What are the issues surrounding the death penalty? You will be assigned ONE of these to research in detail. Be prepared to be the resident expert on your topic. Collect data, statistics, quotes, cases, statutes, etc. associated with your issue.
- arbitrariness
- clemency
- costs
- deterrence
- federal death penalty
- foreign nationals
- innocence
- intellectual disability
- international
- juveniles
- life without parole
- mental illness
- Native Americans
- race
- representation
- US military
- victims
- women
- lethal injection
5. Listen to at least one of these songs about the death penalty in its entirety. How do the lyrics address the death penalty? Write down two lines from the songs giving an indication as to the opinion the artist is trying to get across.
6. What are the pro-con arguments for the death penalty? Here is another pro site and here is another con site.
7. Other topics we asked about in class on Monday
- demographics of those on death row
- historical executions
- juveniles and the death penalty
- federal capital crimes
Thursday
Discuss the research found during the LMC background work.
Listen to George Ryan’s 2003 commutation speech.
Friday
Monday:
Current Events roundtable
Tuesday/Wednesday
- Finish current events and Deadline documentary.
- How reliable are eyewitnesses? (60 minutes) This is the part 2 of the story that looks at why eyewitness testimony is not reliable.
Week 10-Marriage & LGBTQ Issues
Monday:
1. Jigsaw what state-level initiatives have been surrounding marriage.
2. Read 2 the following articles surrounding marriage equality:
- How the “Responsible Procreation Argument…”
- The Future of Marriage: Why the Inevitable is Not…
- Gay Couples Choosing not to Marry
- Behind Gay Marriage Momentum, Regional Gaps Persist
We’ll have a discussion on these articles on Friday.
Tuesday:
Gay-Straight Alliance presentation
Wednesday:
1. Just an FYI…today is the day the Supreme Court hears the Town of Greece v. Galloway case. Here is the Oyez “deep-dive” on the case. Here is the press briefing released on C-SPAN from this morning.
2. Supreme Court cases
- Loving v Virginia 40 years later (Read/listen to the oral argument in the case)
- What are the Landmark cases surrounding same sex marriage?
- Supreme Court cases : Windsor and Perry
- Gay Marriage in law and pop culture;
3. Look through the Pew Research group’s data on attitudes towards same-sex marriage.
http://features.pewforum.org/same-sex-marriage-attitudes/index.php
Which groups have changed most significantly? Which groups have changed least?
Current Events—really current!! Add these stories to your perspectives data-table.
- Illinois passes marriage equality bill
- Employment Non-discrimination Act (ENDA) is a bill that would prohibit discrimination in the workplace on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity.
- ENDA is dumb politics
- ENDA Makes progress in the Senate (CBS News) Fox News version
- Gay in the Office-timeline of federal employment laws
What are the state and federal benefits given to married couples?
- Federal benefits for marital couples;
- Getting federal benefits to gay couples;
- Fact sheets-practical benefits
Friday
How does learning multiple perspectives influence your own? Line-up discussion. (1 on 1)
“It Gets Better” by the Pixar employees
Family Research Institute of Wisconsin video, 2005 (on DVD)
- current flier from the Wisconsin Family Council
Monday-Tuesday
Visual Representation of Same-sex marriage perspectives
Week 9: Same-Sex Marriage
Monday
Opening written reflection: What are the range of perspectives that exist surrounding same-sex marriage? How have you learned/heard about them? What is your thinking regarding same-sex marriage? How would your parents answer that same question?
- I am your Reason to Support Marriage Equality & Marriage Rally in Madison, 2010
- The text of the adopted amendment, which became Article XIII, Section 13 of the WI state constitution, reads:
- Only a marriage between one man and one woman shall be valid or recognized as a marriage in this state. A legal status identical or substantially similar to that of marriage for unmarried individuals shall not be valid or recognized in this state.
- The text of the adopted amendment, which became Article XIII, Section 13 of the WI state constitution, reads:
- Views on Homosexuality in 1967 as told by Mike Wallace of CBS
- The Global Divide on Homosexuality
- How is the media covering stories around same-sex marriage?
- Background excerpts from procon.org
Tuesday & Wednesday (10/29-30)
Modern History of the gay rights movement in the US: American Experience: Stonewall Uprising
Thursday 10/31
Collecting perspectives…
1. Mike Huckabee on the Daily Show
Friday 11/1
1. Where do states stand on same-sex marriage laws?
2. Do some in-depth research on two regions of the US regarding laws and ballot initiatives.
- Same-sex marriage news (explores what’s happening in different states)
- What state-level initiatives surrounding LGBTQ issues have been attempted over the past 40 years?
Week 8: Debates on Guns
Monday
Police Officer Corey Saffold from the Madison Police Department will be visiting class to discuss guns from his perspective and to answer student questions.
Tuesday
Team preparation for debates. Remember you may break into caucuses to develop different proposals or unite around a single one.
Wednesday
Debate format: each side will be given a chance to support and defend a proposal (affirmative) and to challenge a proposal (negative.) We’ll be tag-team debating so all members of your team should be prepared to speak.
Week 7: What evidence supports and refutes gun control?
Monday:
Where are we at with the evidence we have collected so far? We’ll be aggregating some of the data from the readings we’ve been looking at. What are the possible perspectives and arguments on gun control? Where are we at in terms of evidence for these arguments? What data and evidence are we missing?
Gun laws in California (nytimes.com)
Tuesday:
What argument do the producers of Living for 32 make? What does Colin Goddard argue should be done about guns?
Wednesday
Background reading from procon.org
Evidence collection for your position:
- Why our Gun Debate is off-target (Wall Street Journal, 2013)
- Second Thoughts on the Second Amendment (The Atlantic)
- The False Promise of Gun Control (The Atlantic, 1994)
- The Story of a Gun (The Atlantic, 1993)
- Online Ads are the latest way…(salon.com, 2013)
- Twelve Facts about Guns and Mass Shootings (Washington Post)
- Gun laws in California (nytimes.com)
- Do Gun Control Laws Control Guns? (National Review)
- Stand your Ground Laws:
- Zimmerman is acquitted (nytimes.com)
- Jury Acquits Zimmerman of All Charges (wsj.com)
- SYG is race biased:
West High Databases (These are directly oppositional….easy to get at the specific arguments for your side…)
Thursday & Friday
Prepare for the debate. (in LMC)
Week 6: Guns in America
Tuesday:
1. What are the controversial questions surrounding guns in America? If you only knew __________, then you’d believe ________________ about guns. Write a preliminary paragraph about your perspective on gun ownership in America.
2. Small groups will generate the related topics and information we need to know in order to process those questions. We’ll include a look at the people/groups likely to have different perspectives.
3. Read background reading from procon.org
4. Group time for reading: how do these readings contribute to our understanding of the topic?
- Why our Gun Debate is off-target (Wall Street Journal, 2013)
- Second Thoughts on the Second Amendment (The Atlantic)
- The False Promise of Gun Control (The Atlantic, 1994)
- The Story of a Gun (The Atlantic, 1993)
- Online Ads are the latest way…(salon.com, 2013)
- Twelve Facts about Guns and Mass Shootings (Washington Post)
Wednesday
1. Group reading and report out. Use poster paper to collect arguments and evidence.
2. Begin watching After Newton: Guns in America. Use a t-chart to capture notes from the film and questions that it raises. Consider the categories: argument and evidence
Thursday and Friday
What types of evidence are individuals and groups using to support their arguments? Where do we stand at this point about whether gun ownership should be restricted?
We’ll be looking at a bit of the history behind gun legislation and the arguments in favor of and against gun control. We’ll be using the Issues and Controversies database from the LMC.
Extra Resources:
Political cartoons about guns
Doherty for Social Issues 