Funding Planned Parenthood

Links to Articles of various viewpoints on funding Planned Parenthood. 

History of Planned Parenthood - see wikipedia

Polls show Americans support funding Planned Parenthood while passing a 20-week abortion ban

Pro/Con: Should Congress stop federal funding of Planned Parenthood? No: It would irresponsibly hurt needy women

Pro/Con: Should Congress stop federal funding of Planned Parenthood? - YES IT SHOULD

Long Island Paper - Pro/con: Planned Parenthood

Political Attacks on Planned Parenthood are a threat to Women's Health

Planned Parenthood  Making a Killing

Last Week of Classes January 23 thru 27

All Work due by January 27
I. 
     A.  Student Survey ! - click on this link to take the Student Survey

      B.   Complete your Community Service Reflection - click here  Log of Hours , Questions/ Template / Writing Guide  a need community click here for updated opportunities. 

     B.    Arguementative Essay - with links to info. 

     D - did you complete your research paper - review .   Research Paper  Checklist 

     E.  Be sure to get your Senior Quote to Ms. Wonders. ! 

II.- If you can help a neighbor  with these assignments lets get everyone passing  !
Schedule of Events.  Monday,  January 23rd  Government Class
Tuesday - Regents Day
Weds. - Regents Day
Thursday - Regents Day
Friday - Last Government Class
Monday January 30th - Day off for Students , Grading Day for Teachers.

III.  News Headlines  (Cabinet Confirmations, Alternative Facts, Women's March's on Washington, A New Era For Gambia ) (From NYTimes);
Presidential - " Today, senators are to vote on whether to confirm Representative Mike Pompeo of Kansas to lead the C.I.A. and Rex W. Tillerson for secretary of state.;

“Alternative facts.”  That was the phrase Kellyanne Conway, counselor to Mr. Trump, used on Sunday to describe Mr. Spicer’s false statements about attendance at the inauguration and Mr. Trump’s remarks regarding U.S. intelligence agencies.

Women’s marches on Washington and beyond.  Hundreds of thousands of people protested in the capital on Saturday, and many more demonstrated in other cities around the U.S. and the world. Here is a photographic roundup of the events. Organizers are now seeking to turn the marchers’ resolve into political action."  

A new era for Gambia.  Gambians who fled the country in recent weeks during a standoff between Yahya Jammeh, the longtime president, and his democratically-elected successor, Adama Barrow have started to return, after Mr. Jammeh stepped aside on Saturday and went into exile.to read more go to  https://nyti.ms/2jPXJcd

And finally on Google.Com today they are featuring- :Edward Verne Roberts was an American activist. He was the first student with severe disabilities to attend the University of California, Berkeley.

IV: Reflection - Ticket Out the Door.

1. ) What is current event is of most interest to you? Did you click on the link to read more about Current Events?



2.) What did you work on in class?




3.)  What do you have left to do for Government ? What is the biggest obstacle / barrier that is keeping from completing your assignments?

Flint, Michigan Water Crisis

List of Articles to use for Flint Water Crisis and is Clean Water a right or a privilege.


Lead-Laced Water In Flint: A Step-By-Step Look At The Makings Of A Crisis (with Audio) 

How Flint Water Crisis emerged

The Racist Roots of Flint's Water Crisis

How water crisis in Flint, Mich., became federal state of emergency

Dakota Pipeline - what you need to know

Link to Video summary of Dakota Pipeline Story - from Washington Post


Trump reverse Dakota and Keystone Pipeline agreements - Washington Post

Do Laptops, computers help learning?

Leave your laptops at the Classroom Doors

Building a Wall along Mexican Border

NPR Story


Southern Border Wall: Campaign Slogan Meets Reality - 

References to Climate Change dissappear from White House Website

1:34 PM

January 20 by Steven Mufson and Brady Dennis

References to climate change disappear from White House website

The energy page on the new White House website, which went up within moments of Friday’s inauguration, reiterates the priorities Trump had voiced during the campaign, from focusing on “energy independence” to promising to scale back the reach of the Environmental Protection Agency.
It also appeared to remove any reference to combating climate change, a topic that had been featured prominently on the White House site under President Barack Obama. The page that once detailed the potential consequences of climate change and the Obama administration’s efforts to address it vanished on Friday just as President Trump was sworn in. It now redirected to a broken link: “The requested page ‘/energy/climate-change’ could not be found.”

In its place, listed among the top issues of the Trump administration, was a page entitled, “An America First Energy Plan.”

The incoming administration vows to eliminate “harmful and unnecessary policies” such as the Climate Action Plan and the Waters of the United States rule. The first represents a variety of efforts President Obama pursued to reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, while the second is a rule issued by the Environmental Protection Agency to protect not only the largest waterways but smaller tributaries that others believe should fall under the jurisdiction of states rather than the federal government.

The new White House site says that Trump would “refocus the EPA on its essential mission of protecting our air and water.”

It also says the incoming president will pursue “clean coal technology,” a reference to efforts to remove carbon dioxide emissions from coal-burning plants and bury those emissions in the ground to use them for enhance oil recovery. The Obama Energy Department has already been funding a variety of projects in this area, though without nearby enhanced oil recovery projects, the technology is not economic. Trump’s White House site says the new administration would aim at “reviving America’s coal industry.”  - from Washington Post Website - front page at 1:44, on Jan 20, 2017

Movie about Fake News - Wag the Dog

Movie from 1997 about Fake News





Also see movie Network

From Headline to Photograph, a Fake News Masterpiece

excerpt from reading: 

In a raucous election year defined by made-up stories, Mr. Harris was a home-grown, self-taught practitioner, a boutique operator with no ties to Russian spy agencies or Macedonian fabrication factories. As Mr. Trump takes office this week, the beneficiary of at least a modest electoral boost from a flood of fakery, Mr. Harris and his ersatz-news website, ChristianTimesNewspaper.com, make for an illuminating tale.

Contacted by a reporter who had discovered an electronic clue that revealed his secret authorship of ChristianTimesNewspaper.com, he was wary at first, chagrined to be unmasked. - read more by going here

Raising Brook Trout and Eels

Trout in the classroom.

TU in the classroom - Brook Trout

Community Service and New Opportunities

click here  Log of Hours  and Template for Writing up community service  - need community click here for updated opportunities. (Community Service Blog) .

Places to do community service in Building

- Ms. Hamblin needs help

- Selling Syria bracelets / awareness campaign

- Helping to set up Brook Trout tank, Eel Tank, and Salt Water Aquarium.  

- Log of Hours v2
- Vol. Paper Requirements v2  click here for form

-  How paper will be graded - Score 

Climate Change Argumentative Essay Checklist

see list below

Climate Change Controversy - 

Scott Pruitt - EPA Nominee - CNN Video / Climate Change - 10 best videos

Arguementative Essay Outline and Rubric:
Outline and Grading Rubric  -    (word doc  /  Outline  pdf / Rubric
Doc 2  . - Reading  on Scott Pruitt Text Code / Doc 2 - Questions 

Doc 1 - Reading on Paris Climate Accord  / Questions on Climate Accord



see some links:
Video of Confirmation of Scott Pruitt
CNN Pruitt Confirmation Hearings Jan 18_2017

U.S. scientists officially declare 2016 the hottest year on record. That makes three in a row.

Research Paper Checklist

Click on the Research Paper description - and follow the Outline !! :


 Research Paper Description and Requirements click here to download

Click here for a  List of Issues to Research 

How to be News Savvy . click for a list of suggestions.

   If you have completed your ‘writing of the research paper”, no take your list of sources and create a Bibliography in Noodle Tools. 

Student Survery

Do the following:

"After these instructions, you will answer some questions about your school. The purpose of the survey is to allow you to give feedback to your school leaders. This is not a test. There will be no ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ answers on the survey so please try to answer each question carefully and honestly. Your individual answers are completely anonymous and your school will only receive overall school results, but the questions are really important because your answers will help your school.
 

a. "Go to the website https://newone.mystudentsurvey.net/take_survey.htm"
b. "Enter the following token (password): 2251961"
c. "Choose your school - Fowler - not PSLA  from the drop down menu"


3. To get the most helpful results, students need to feel that they can answer as honestly as possible.


Survey Link

as you take the survery, write down a couple of observations - what kind of questions did they have ?
open ended? close? rating? ranking?

turn in piece paper with name on it - telling me what you thought of the survey

Onondaga Lake

List of Articles About Onondaga Lake

IIIegal Immigration

Should I be deported - CNN ?

Bail and Crime

When bail is out of defender's reach 

The bail trap 

Tuesday January 10th Global Assignment

Questions to think about  reading a persuasive / argumentative essay

1.       Create and engaging introduction? capture audiences interest?

2.        Do they explain their topic / their mission that they want to sell you?

3.        Do they say why it is in the public good? why people should care?

4.       What evidence do they provide to support their claims ?

5.       What evidence do they use to show critics / counter claims - why the "other side should care"?

6.       Do they have strong conclusion?

7.       What is their call to action?

8.       What are your final thought? do you agree ? are you inspired to take action? If not why not?

Goals :

1.       Even if you don’t have any evidence yet. Start writing about your topic.  Use the outline as way to help you start brainstorming. Why did you choose the topic?

2.       Summarize how you are meeting the above goals (questions)  in your research paper:

3.       Describe what you did today in class, what did you work on?

Persuasive Texts or Speeches

Following is a list of persuasive / argumentative speeches. 

Do they do the following:

1. Create and engaging introduction? capture audiences interest?
2. Do they explain their topic / their mission that they want to sell you?
3. Do they say why it is in the public good? why people should care?
4. What evidence do they provide to support their claims ?
5. What evidence do they use to show critics / counter claims - why the "other side should care"?
6. Do they have strong conclusion?
7. What is their call to action?
8. What are your final thought? do you agree ? are you inspired to take action? If not why not?

List of Speeches with docs. 

January  11, 2017 -Text code the following and summarize:  Michelle Obama’s Final Speech,  Meryl Streep’s Golden Globe Speech, and Fake News Takes On A Role In Italy's National Political Debate.

1)  Michelle Obama's Final Speech - importance of education, and standing up for one's values, and protecting them.

2) Meryl Streep's Golden Globe Speech

3) Italian Fake News problem :

We need the principled press to hold power to account, to call them on the carpet for every outrage. That's why, that's why our founders enshrined the press and its freedoms in our Constitution. So I only ask the famously well-heeled Hollywood Foreign Press and all of us in our community to join me in supporting the Committee to Protect Journalists. Because we're going to need them going forward. And they'll need us to safeguard the truth. (Key Quote - Meryl Steep)

Video clip of Donald Trump mocking reporter

Counter Point - Kelly Anne Conway  (at end of document video)

More on Journalism and Freedom - key links

Committee to ProtectJournalists. 
https://rsf.org/en
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/best-journalism-quotes-ever/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Estate
https://www.cpj.org/

Monday - January 9th

Annoucements
3 big things - If you want to pass government ->
1) Argumentative Essay
2) Community Service / Log of Hours and Write up (500 words)
3) Research Paper Due January 27th. But don't wait.

Learning Target
- survey questions. (becomes a source of information)
- Why Research is Important and how it connects to Journalism and Democracy and why is an education  and learning to think critically important.

Michelle Obama Final Speech as First Lady.

NPR - Michelle Obama's Final Speech
NBC News - Michelle Obama's Final Speech
If Time News Clips - from Yesterday.

Inauguration Day Friday, January 20th. 
- Current Issues
 - What will happen to the Affordable Care Act ? (Obamacare)
 - Russia Hacking into Democratic National Committee, to shake confidence in our government and help Trump get elected.
 - Fake News - Why is it important.  - NPR interviews Italian Journalist.
-  Meryl Speech - at 3 minute mark.
- Michelle Obama's New Hampshire Speech - 
cnn. link to transcript, conway response

Additional List of Research Topics

This list will be continually updated here during the day.

The right to be forgotten from Internet/ Have your unwanted pictures/ video dissappear.
- NYPost  Revenge porn victim to Google, wants her name deleted from google.

Prison System - should they be privatized.

Brazil's Prison System

Chicago  

Flint Water Crisis  - video 

rug Legalization
Abortion
Global Warming
- In Greenland a once doubting scientist has a change
Gun Laws
 - Chicago' s rise in murders
-  Traveling through the streets to school dangerous.
National Anthem / Free Speech
Removing the Electoral College
Flag Burning.
Drone Warfare
Criminal Justice System
 - Teen Solitary - in Syracuse Justice Center
Muslim List
flint mighigan
Free Speech
Haiti - should we help a country poor hurricanes.
drug prices - should government regulated
Route 81
Refugees
Illegal Immigrants
Gun Control
Does Social Media have a responsibilty to "police the news" , does google have a responsbility to "qualify " fix their search results - racial issues..
Abortion - see Ohio Legislation - heart beat bill
National Anthem Protest.
Pipeline - North Dakota
women's rights - equal pay....
Climate Change
Mininum Gas Price


List of Research Topics. Post questions or topic chosen in comment section.