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Contemporary Issues: Shaping World Events and Influencing Public Opinion

Explore the role of media in shaping events and influencing opinions, impacts of individuals and organizations, and perspectives on discrimination, religion, and crucial global issues. Reflect on historical facts vs. interpretations, traumatic effects, and connections between events and contemporary issues. Mathematics Minutes include areas, perimeters, and geometry questions. Debate on raising the minimum wage, with analysis of rotating structures and profit averages. Reflect on the Second Amendment's interpretation and America's evolution. Exit ticket questions and research hypotheses into current event problems.

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Contemporary Issues: Shaping World Events and Influencing Public Opinion

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  1. Contemporary Issues Agenda 10/9 • Discussion-Notebooks/Rest of the semester • BW-Math Minutes • Debate—Minimum Wage—Team 1 v. Team 2/ Team 3 v. Team 4—Those not debating will be judging. This will be turned in for a participation grade. • Exit Ticket—Minimum Wage

  2. 2nd Nine Weeks Essential questions—from state standards • EQ #8: What is the role of the media in shaping world events and influencing public opinion? The Impact of Individuals, Groups, and Organizations on Contemporary Events The Impact of History, Geography, Economics, and Politics on Contemporary Events • EQ #9: What types, patterns, and attitudes exist regarding discrimination? • EQ #10: What are the various contemporary religious perspectives on social issues? • EQ #11: What current crucial issues exist, and who are the relevant groups and individuals involved in them in the U.S. and globally? • EQ #12: What is the difference between historical facts and historical interpretations? • EQ #13: When looking at a problem, what is the history behind how problem’s development? • EQ #14: What is the impact of traumatic effects of destructive events on human society? • EQ #15: What relationships exist between historical events and contemporary issues? • EQ #16: What is the connection between geography and issues of culture, economics, and politics?

  3. Notebooks • Front section of Notebook—BELLWORK ONLY (Beginning of the period UNLESS SPECFICALLY STATED—ex. Word Wall) • ONE WEEK of Bellwork ON ONE SHEET OF PAPER • PUT DATE/DAY FOR EACH DAY • EVERYTHING ELSE GOES BEHIND THE SECOND POST-IT TAB (INCLUDING EXIT TICKETS) • If I can’t find it I can’t grade it.

  4. Math Minute 10/9 Answers 5. Find the area of the square. 6. Find the perimeter of the square. 7. Use +, –, and • to complete the equation: 4 _____ 5 _____ 2 _____ 6 = 8 8. Draw the line(s) of symmetry. 9. If all the sides of a triangle are equal, it is a(n) ______ triangle. a. isosceles b. scalene c. equilateral 10. What type of triangle is this? Use the diagram to complete Problems 1–4. 1. Which letters represent the diameter? a. AO b. DE c. OB d. AC 2. Which letters represent the radius? a. DE b. AD c. AO d. BC 3. Which letters represent a chord? a. OB b. DE c. AO d. OC 4. True or False? OB and OC are equal in length.

  5. Debate Minimum Wage— • Pro—the Federal Government should raise the minimum wage in the US • Con—the Federal government should not raise the minimum wage

  6. 1. A restaurant occupying the top floor of a skyscraper rotates as diners enjoy the view. Ling and Sarah notice that they began their meal at 7:00 p.m. looking due north. At 7:45 p.m. they had rotated 180 degrees to a view that was due south. At this rate, how many degrees will the restaurant rotate in one hour? • A. 90 degrees • B. 180 degrees • C. 240 degrees • D. 270 degrees

  7. 2. Your friend shows you a scale drawing of her apartment. The drawing of the apartment is a rectangle 4 inches by 6 inches. Your friend wants to know the length of the shorter side of the apartment. If she knows that the length of the longer side of the apartment is 30 feet, how many feet long is the shorter side of her apartment? • A. 9 • B. 20 • C. 24 • D. 30

  8. 3. If 12 vases cost $18.00, what is the cost of 1 vase? • A. $0.67 • B. $1.05 • C. $1.33 • D. $1.50

  9. 4. A company earned a profit of $8.0 million each year for 3 consecutive years. For each of the next 2 years, the company earned a profit of $9.0 million. For this 5-year period, what was the company’s average yearly profit, in millions of dollars? • A. 8.2 • B. 8.25 • C. 8.4 • D. 8.5

  10. 5. A company rents moving vans for a rental fee of $25.00 per day with an additional charge of $0.30 per mile that the van is driven. Which of the following expressions represents the cost, in dollars, of renting a van for 1 day and driving it m miles? • A. 0.30m + 25 • B. 25m + 30 • C. 30m + 25 • D. 55m

  11. Answers: • 1. C • 2. B • 3. D • 4. C • 5. A

  12. Essential Question • EQ #6 Identify, research and formulate a hypothesis, and propose solutions for a current event problem in an argumentative essay (or verbal presentation)

  13. Minimum Wage Reflection Question (Exit ticket) • Places like New York, Oakland, San Francisco and Seattle have raised the minimum wage in their cities, in some cases to $15/hour. Why do you think these places have raised their municipal minimum wage? Do you think it would be worth it for workers to move to these cities to earn more money per hour? Why or why not?

  14. Gun Control in the US Second Amendment to the Constitution?The amendment reads: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” • In your own words how do you interpret this amendment? • What kind of America do you think the Founding Fathers imagined when they wrote this? How is the United States different now than it was in 1789, when the Second Amendment was written? • Why is the right to own guns so important to Americans?

  15. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/victims-of-las-vegas-shooting-list-names-latest-update/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/victims-of-las-vegas-shooting-list-names-latest-update/ http://www.independent.co.uk/news/las-vegas-shooting-gun-control-trump-white-house-not-time-premature-latest-a7979741.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hw1RrmlrTtM Daily Show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruYeBXudsds Jimmy Kimmel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfxCy0wj4uwConan O’Brien

  16. Contemporary Issues Agenda 10/11 • BW-Need 2 Know 2nd-1 • Gun Control—History of guns in the US—video and questions • Create a new 2nd Amendment—Partner activity

  17. Need to Know 2nd Q-1—Write the question and your answer in your notebook (remember these are the study guide for your benchmark tests) Which of the following is NOT a part of the Bill of Rights: (CI 25) A. Freedom of speech B. Freedom of religion C. The right to bear arms D. Separation of Church and State

  18. Essential Questions • EQ #11: What current crucial issues exist, and who are the relevant groups and individuals involved in them in the U.S. and globally? • EQ #13: When looking at a problem, what is the history behind how problem’s development? • EQ #14: What is the impact of traumatic effects of destructive events on human society?

  19. History of Guns and the 2nd Amendment in America • Answer the 7 Questions on the paper provided or a separate sheet of paper –Staple questions to paper. • http://www.annenbergclassroom.org/page/second-amendment-dc-v-heller-and-mcdonald-v-chicago

  20. Agenda 10/12 • BW—Word Wall 2nd Nine Weeks—Pt. 1 • Finish/Discuss New 2nd Amendment and restrictions • Discuss New technology • Readings—con of gun laws

  21. Word Wall 2nd Nine Weeks

  22. Partner Activity—On a sheet of paper to turn in • Rewrite the second Amendment on a sheet of paper in your groups own words that reflect what it SHOULD say in today’s America.

  23. What restrictions should be included in someone’s right to “bear arms?” • List these restrictions on your group’s paper below your rewritten Second Amendment.

  24. AMENDMENT II • A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

  25. How do we write an amendment or law to take into account future technology like 3-D printing for Gun Control? • http://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/2017/07/26/americas-loaded-history-with-guns/

  26. Agenda 10/13 BW—Political Cartoon Pro-PPT Cons –Read and Write Short Essay in Notebook

  27. Gun Control • Is this cartoon For or against gun control? How can you tell? • According to the cartoon if guns are limited who will be in danger?

  28. Gun Control Pro’s Arguments

  29. Facts about the gun lobby • There are 3 times as many pro-gun lobby groups as anti-gun groups. • In 2006, gun rights political spending on lobbying totaled $3,000,000 versus gun control spending of $90,000 - a ratio of 33:1

  30. Pro 1The Second Amendment is not an unlimited right to own guns. • Justice Antonin Scalia, wrote, "Like most rights, the right secured by the Second Amendment is not unlimited. • Courts routinely explained that the right was not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose… nothing in our opinion should be taken to cast doubt on longstanding prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill, or laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings, or laws imposing conditions and qualifications on the commercial sale of arms

  31. Pro 2--More gun control laws would reduce gun deaths • There were 464,033 total gun deaths between 1999 and 2013: 270,237 suicides (58.2% of total deaths); 174,773 homicides (37.7%); and 9,983 unintentional deaths (2.2%). Guns were the leading cause of death by homicide (66.6% of all homicides) and by suicide (52.2% of all suicides).  • "American children under age 15 were nine times more likely to die of a gun accident than children in other advanced wealthy countries… About 200 Americans go to emergency rooms every day with gunshot wounds.

  32. Pro 3-High-capacity magazines should be banned because they too often turn murder into mass murder • A Mother Jones investigation found that high-capacity magazines were used in at least 50% of the 62 mass shootings between 1982 and 2012. • (ATF) agents, state that a high-capacity magazine "turns a killer into a killing machine.“ • Some gang members use high-capacity magazines, such as 30 rounds or even 90 rounds, to compensate for lack of accuracy and maximize the chance to harm.

  33. Pro 4-More gun control laws are needed to protect women from domestic abusers and stalkers. •  Five women are murdered with guns every day in the United States. A woman's risk of being murdered increases 500% if a gun is present during a domestic dispute • During the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, 5,364 US soldiers were killed in action between Oct. 7, 2001 and Jan. 28, 2015; between 2001 and 2012 6,410 women were killed with a gun by an intimate partner in the United States.

  34. Pro 5-Guns are rarely used in self-defense. • Of the 29,618,300 violent crimes committed between 2007 and 2011, 0.79% of victims (235,700) protected themselves with a threat of use or use of a firearm, the least-employed protective behavior.

  35. Pro 6-Legally owned guns are frequently stolen and used by criminals. • Between 2005 and 2010, 1.4 million guns were stolen from US homes during property crimes (including burglary and car theft), a yearly average of 232,400. • Ian Ayres, JD, PhD, and John J. Donohue, JD, PhD, Professors of Law at Yale Law School and Stanford Law School respectively, state, "with guns being a product that can be easily carried away and quickly sold at a relatively high fraction of the initial cost, the presence of more guns can actually serve as a stimulus to burglary and theft. 

  36. Pro 7-Gun control laws would reduce the societal costs associated with gun violence. • According to the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation (PIRE), in 2010, gun violence cost each person in the United States roughly $564 and the US government $5.5 billion in lost tax revenue; $4.7 billion in court costs; $1.4 billion in Medicare and Medicaid costs; $180 million in mental health care for victims; $224 million in insurance claims processing; and $133 million for law enforcement and medic response to shooting injuries.

  37. Pro8-A majority of adults, including gun owners, support common sense gun control such as background checks, bans on assault weapons, and bans on high-capacity magazines. • According to a Pew Research survey in Mar. 2013, 83% of all adults surveyed (and 79% of gun-owners; 86% of people living with a gun-owner; and 74% of NRA households) approve of background checks for private and gun show sales.  • Don Macalady, member of Hunters against Gun Violence, stated, "As a hunter and someone who has owned guns since I was a young boy, I believe that commonsense gun legislation makes us all safer. Background checks prevent criminals and other dangerous people from getting guns." 

  38. Pro 9-More gun control leads to fewer suicides. • Between 1999 and 2013 there were 270,237 firearm suicides in the United States, accounting for about 52% of all suicides during those years. •  A person who wants to kill him/herself is unlikely to commit suicide with poison or a knife when a gun is unavailable. 

  39. Pro 10--Enacting gun control laws such as mandatory safety features would reduce the number of accidental gun deaths.  • Approximately 50% of unintentional fatal shootings were self-inflicted; and most unintentional firearm deaths were caused by friends or family members.  • Marjorie Sanfilippo, PhD, Professor of Psychology at Eckerd College who has researched children’s behavior around guns, stated, "We put gates around swimming pools to keep children from drowning. We put safety caps on medications to keep children from poisoning themselves… Because children are naturally curious and impulsive, and because we have shown time and again that we cannot 'gun-proof' them with education, we have a responsibility to keep guns out of the hands of children." 

  40. Pro 11--The presence of a gun makes a conflict more likely to become violent. • The FBI found that in 2013 arguments (such as romantic triangles, brawls fueled by alcohol or drugs, and arguments over money) resulted in 1,962 gun deaths (59.9% of the total). • American Journal of Public Health noted, "gun-inflicted deaths [often] ensue from impromptu arguments and fights; in the US, two-thirds of the 7,900 deaths involving arguments and brawls were caused by guns."

  41. Pro 12--Armed civilians are unlikely to stop crimes and are more likely to make dangerous situations, including mass shootings, more deadly • None of the 62 mass shootings between 1982 and 2012 was stopped by an armed civilian. Gun rights activists regularly state that a 2002 mass shooting at the Appalachian School of Law in Virginia was stopped by armed students, but those students were current and former law enforcement officers and the killer was out of bullets when subdued. •  "The average gun owner, no matter how responsible, is not trained in law enforcement or on how to handle life-threatening situations, so in most cases, if a threat occurs, increasing the number of guns only creates a more volatile and dangerous situation." 

  42. Pro 13-Countries with restrictive gun control laws have lower gun homicide and suicide rates than the United States. • Harvard professor David Hemenway, PhD, wrote "We analyzed the relationship between homicide and gun availability using data from 26 developed countries from the early 1990s. We found that across developed countries, where guns are more available, there are more homicides."  • According to a Mar. 2016 study, gun homicide rates in the United States were 25.3 times higher and gun suicides were 8 times higher in 2010 than in other populous, high-income countries. 

  43. Pro 14--The Second Amendment was intended to protect the right of militias to own guns, not the right of individuals. • Former Justice John Paul Stevens, JD, in his dissenting opinion for District of Columbia et al. v. Heller, wrote, "the Framer's single-minded focus in crafting the constitutional guarantee 'to keep and bear arms' was on military use of firearms, which they viewed in the context of service in state militias," hence the inclusion of the phrase "well regulated militia."

  44. P ro-15 Civilians, including hunters, should not own military-grade firearms or firearm accessories. • President Ronald Reagan and others did not think the AR-15 military rifle (also called M16s by the Air Force) should be owned by civilians and, when the AR-15 was included in the assault weapons ban of 1994 the NRA supported the legislation. • Jonathan Lowy, Director of Legal Action Project at the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, stated, "These are weapons that will shred your venison before you eat it, or go through the walls of your apartment when you’re trying to defend yourself… [they are] made for mass killing, but not useful for law-abiding citizens."

  45. Arguments against Gun Control (Federal Regulations) • Read the Article outlining arguments against gun control. • In you notebook (not in Bellwork) Write a short essay outlining the reasons against gun control. You must choose at least 3 of the Arguments in the Reading to back up your claim. • Argument A- • Facts from reading supporting your argument • Facts • Argument B • Facts • Facts • Argument C • Facts • Facts

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