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Yemen Emerges as Base for Qaeda Attacks on U.S.
U.S. Hunts for More Suspicious Packages
'Explosives found' in Yemen cargo
CHV2O Unit Four: The Global Citizen – International Concerns and Responses
Overall Expectations:
- explain what it means to be a global citizen and why it is important to be one.
- analyze responses at the local, national and international levels, to civic issues that involve multiple perspectives and differing civic purposes.
- Apply appropriate inquiry skills to the research of questions and issues of civic importance.
Conduct research into one of the following topics of your choice. Use the guiding questions below for your inquiry and present your findings to the class. Be sure to use a visual aid - website, slide show, glogster, poster, art piece, video - to enhance class comprehension of your issue.
Topics:
Land Mines Child Labour Climate Change
Fresh Water Sex Tourism Gender Equality
Aboriginal Issues HIV/ AIDS Gender Selective Abortion
Human Trafficking Poverty and Hunger Free Trade
Population Growth Child Health Maternal Health
Peacekeeping Illicit Drugs Terrorism/ War and Conflict
Arctic Sovereignty Universal Education The work of a NGO
Literacy and Education Environmental Sustainability Global Partnership
Prisoners of Injustice ASATs Global Financial Crisis
Oil Spills and toxic waste Food Security Corporate Security Services
Human Rights Violations
Guiding Questions
1) What is a global citizen and why is it important to be one?
2) Define your issue and state its global importance.
3) What are the environmental/ human impacts of your issue?
4) What action has been taken by individuals, governments and or non-governmental organizations to resolve the issue?
5) What are possible solutions to resolve to issue?
6) What is the potential affect your issue may have on the future?
Back to the biodiversity drawing board
Oilsands tailings ponds kill more ducks
2010 Stratford Municipal Election Results
Dalai Lama: The Soul of Tibet
Syncrude to pay $3M penalty for duck deaths
Social Action
Follow steps 1-6 on page 129 of your Civics Now textbook. We will use organ and tissue donation as our topic to explore. Your product will take the form of a written report.
Knowledge:
Did you demonstrate knowledge on the issue of organ and tissue donation?
Thinking:
Did you describe the multiple viewpoints on the issue?
Did you reflect on the potential impact of your choice?
Communication:
Are your answers clearly stated and is the information accessible and easy to understand?
Application:
Did you identify the values and factors that informed your choice?
Did you highlight possible choices for civic action regarding this issue?
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1) Conduct research on the candidates for mayor, councillor and school board trustee. Use the guiding question sheet provided as a template to help you organize your findings.
2) Residential School Diary
Go to the CBC’s Stolen Children website and CBC archives A Lost Heritage: Canada’s Residential Schools. Review between three and five clips from the site. After viewing, write a series of three to five journal entries from the point of view of an aboriginal student. Each entry should be correctly dated and be at least half a page in length. The goal is understand what the students experienced and how it might affect them. The entries should reveal the student’s state of mind and explore his or her feelings and fears.
12th Chile miner reaches surface as camera films rescue tunnel
Policy cost Canada UN seat: former ambassador
Flaherty to present fiscal update Tuesday
UAE banishes Canada from base, blocks MacKay from its airspace
Tories announce $155.5M prison expansion
CHV2O Party Campaign
1) Create an anchor for presentation and classroom display on the political party assigned to you.
a) Independently search out your party’s official website and find the party’s message and slogan, identify the party planks that make up it’s platform.
b) As a group craft an anchor for display and presentation in the classroom. The anchor must communicate the party’s message/ slogan and planks that make up the party platform.
2) Independently construct three of the campaign media below for your choice of political party:
Website: you may begin at weebly.com
Glog: use your glogster account
Pamphlet: be sure to use all six sides
Mail Flyer: may be no smaller than 28 cm x 21 cm
Poster: include text communicating the party slogan/ message, and summary of planks and platform.
Guiding questions
What is your party’s message/ slogan?
What are the planks that make up your party’s platform?
Overall Expectation: apply appropriate inquiry skills to the research of questions and issues of civic importance.
Knowledge:
Did you demonstrate knowledge of the party’s platform and philosophy?
Thinking:
Is all the required work included?
Is it up to standard?
Communication:
Is the information accessible and easy to understand?
Is your work catchy and persuasive?
Application:
Does your campaign material apply strategies used in political campaign materials accurately?
Does it accurately reflect your party’s philosophy and platform?
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News Wrap
Listen to CBC Radio One News and record on chart paper:
- the summary – 5 Ws and H - of a local, national, international story.
- items of interest, effective headlines or catchy vocabulary.
Tools for Analytically Consuming News
Consider:
What is the impact of the story?
What does the story means to you, our community, the world, for the future, etc.?
Why is your selection an important piece of news?
Are groups or individuals portrayed with prejudice?
Is the coverage balanced or biased?
What is the message of the article?
Is there a difference in coverage between media sources (rhetoric, message, tone) about the story?
Is there interesting, effective, or catchy headlines and vocabulary used?
Topics to Highlight and Consider:
environmental issues; human rights infringement or enhancement; social justice; the continuation of coverage of a story; ...