Student Choice Class Discussion Day

April 2nd, 2015

No Warm Up

News: Youth Empowered in the Struggle will be having it's weekly city-wide meeting today after school to discuss the laws our State Government is trying to pass that could shut down our school and other MPS schools forcing us to kick everyone (students and teachers) out and sell it to a private school.  For more information see Mr. Dunbeck.

Learning Objective: Students will direct their own educational experience.

Success Criteria: Students can thoughtfully discuss important modern issues.

Today your class will be in charge of what we learn.  You have a choice between 3 topics that we as a class will vote on.  We will watch and discuss the video that gets the most votes.  

Your options are:

Puerto Rico, Guam, & American Somoa are part of the United States?

Money for Schools & the Lottery

Poor v. Rich in America

America's Broken Prison System

February 6th, 2015

Warm Up

Answer the best you can.

What does for-profit mean?

Why are most people in prison in our country?

Why do people commit crimes again after being in prison?











Learning Objective:  Students will understand problems within our prison system.

Success Criteria: Students can explain and defend their opinions regarding the American prison system.

Today we will be doing something different.  No group work, no reading, no writing.  Instead we will try to watch a video and discuss the concepts in it like adults.  If successful, we will have more days like this.