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Current Events Page

Welcome! From time to time, we will explore current events. This page will be used to collect and organize our information and thoughts.

=Process:= I will post a general theme. Together we will identify questions we want to answer. Individually we will collect articles and information. If necessary, you will post information to your personal current events page. Your personal page will be a scratch pad, or draft area. Our scribe for the day will then copy and paste and organize to this page, the master class page. Remember: __//Only one person at a time may edit and save changes to this master class page, or data gets lost!//__

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=**__What should a high school student know about the current financial crisis?__**=

In a two hour double block as a class you will: 1. Identify important questions. 2. Search for news articles and web sources that point us towards answers. 3. Collect possible sources, using your individual Current Events pages as a working space. 4. Collaborate with teammates, comparing the resources and answers you find. 5. Arrange questions, sources and and answers on your group page. 6. Provide a narrative structure so that another high school student who tours the class page can begin to identify key issues associated with the crisis. 7. Read the final, combined project and participate in the discussion forum associated with it.

Signs of distress Brainstorm: Empty malls -- some places like IKEA are heating up ??Is the stock market really in trouble?? Gas prices headed up Stock market -- people worried jobs on the line Lot of people are loosing their homes Houses are bvecoming cheaper Government Bail out not working the way they expected, yet paying a lot of money to big companies that are struggling to hellp get them out of their situation, but situations are getting harder worried about paying the govenemrnt back pay is going down, prices are going up, people are loosing their jobs.

What do we want to know about? What are our questions?
How is the war in Iraq affecting the big crisis? How can we **solve** this problem? How will we fix this? Who can come up with a way? Is there a solution? How can kids help? How can we **define** this problem? What started it? What is involved? What is happening here? Mr. Paulson Are people working towards a solution? If so, who? What are their ideas? How does the problem affect individuals? Is this going to be as bad as the Great Depression?
 * Who** are the big people involved?

NOW: Find a newspaper article or two. Read them. Post their links to your wiki space for current events, above After the link, write your questions and observations.

Mortgage Crisis:
Background from This American Life 1 hour http://www.thislife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=355

Shorter version form NPR / All Things Considered 13 minutes http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90327686