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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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[|NY Times/ $700 Bill./ from 1:15 pm today]
=**__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 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:

Finaincail Companies: AIG Lehman Brothers Companies are not willing to buy shares in these companies -- so those companies fail Government is pumping a lot of money into the economy -- what does this mean???? One company wants to sell something, nobody wants to buy it Mortgage crisis People are losing their homes stock market down in general; Freddie May & Fannie Mac $700 billion dollar bail out.

Homework:
===1. Continue classwork activities, and complete 3 articles total on your personal Current Events page according to above directions. (You should have several questions and observations for each article. A link and one sentence summary is not enough.)===

Mortgage Crisis Webcasts:
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