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

Meth situation in Wisconsin

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

• Restoring Civil Public Discourse

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.