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This blog is for the 2014-2015 freshmen citizenship class at Bay View High School in Mr. Dunbeck's sections. Here you will find updates on home work assignments, copies of homework assignments, practice tests, links to videos shown in class, hints for tests and occasional extra credit assignments. Be sure to check this site regularly in order to make sure you are up-to-date on all assignments for this class, especially if you are absent.

While checking this site is optional, though highly recommended, you are REQUIRED to have a copy of the Citizenship textbook. It is also important that you regularly attend class to keep up with lectures, notes, discussion, videos, etc. Find out why you are here.

Verbal Kwest - Crazy Streets

Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Cartoon Extra Credit

For extra credit analyze the following political cartoon and answer the questions below.


Note: Wall Street is the place in New York City where most of the country's stocks are bought & sold.  This is where wealthy people take their money to make A LOT more money, sometimes illegally.

1. Identify where the two men are.
2. Identify the crime committed by each of them and what their sentence is.
3. Identify which person got more time?  Which got less?
4. Critical Thinking: What is the message the artist is trying to send?
5. Critical Thinking: Which crime do you believe deserves more time in prison, explain your answer in as much detail as you can.


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