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Friday, September, 2011 Assignments: 1. Click on the link below titled "Warm-Up: Reading Skills: ID Problems and Solutions". 2. Click on the document below titled "Chapter 1 Section 4: Economic Theories Notes". Be sure to follow all directions and use pages 26-30 in your textbook to guide you. 3. Be sure to e-mail Mr. Gleason all completed assignments: gleasonr@dcpsmd.org.

Monday, September, 2011 Assignments: 1. Click on the link below titled "Student Reading: Introduction to Capitalism". As a class read the assignment keeping in consideration all the characteristics of Capitalism discussed in class. Follow the directions as the class is reading the article making sure you are highlighting all correct responses. 2. Click on the link below titled "Economics in the US Worksheet". Students should work individually on the assignment and be sure to turn into Mr. Gleason when finished. 3. Mr. Gleason will review answers and key concepts once all worksheets have been completed by the class. 4. Click on the assignment below titled "Video Clips: Capitalism". Mr. Gleason will show two video clips, or you may click on the video clips below. Be sure to follow along with the worksheet to complete each question. 5. After you have completed each question. Fill in the Capitalism vs. Communism chart on the back of the packet. Remember to turn in all assignments to Mr. Gleason upon completion: gleasonr@dcpsmd.org. 6. Take a Stand Activity: Clear part of the room where all students can stand. Identify one edge of the classroom to represent agreement with Friedman's position, the other end to represent agreement with Pilger's position. Ask students to more to a space on the contimuum reflecting their position. Students may be in the middle if they are unclear or have ixed opinions. Begin with asking students who are in the minority position to explain their position. Call on students in different places on the continuum, probing for understanding and judgements. Follow provcative arguments by challenging students on the opposite side to respond. Encourage students to move if their position change after listening to others.

Tuesday, September, 2011 Assignments: 1. Click on the link below titled "Reading Skills: Think Aloud". Complete the Think Aloud. 2. Click on the document below titled "Section Focus 1-4: Communsim". 3. Turn in all completed assignments to Mr. Gleason: gleasonr@dcpsmd.org.

Wednesday, September, 2011 Assignments: 1. Click on the link below titled "Reading Skills: Think Aloud". Complete the Think Aloud. 2. Click on the document below titled "Study Guide 1-4". Complete the Study Guide and turn into Mr. Gleason to be graded: gleasonr@dcpsmd.org. 3. Complete the Foldable activity 1-4. Follow the directions below to complete the activity:

Thursday, September, 2011 Assignments: 1. Clear your desk and prepare for Section Quiz 1-4. 2. Click on the link below titled "Reteaching Activity Chapter 1". Use your textbook to help you answer the following questions.

Friday, September, 2011 Assignments: ** 1. ** Click on the link below Titled "Political Thought Quotations Project". Follow the directions on the link until you reach question #4. Once you have completed the assignment send it to Mr. Gleason via E-mail. The Porject will be completly due by the end of class. [|Political Thought Project] 2. After you have completed the "Political Thought Quotations Project". All student are to write at least 10 sentences on a separate sheet of Notebook paper or in Microsoft Word addressing your own personal reflective thought response addressing the Quotations you have decided to display. Questions to consider include: - How do these quotes make you feel? - Which quote means the most to you? Why - When researching quotes and pictures what similarities did you find? - Who do these philosophers remind you of? -etc. 3. All students need to answer the following questions about all the Philosophers listed below. Using only the links below, learn the following about each person (click on their names to get their Biography Pages): 1. Where and when were they born? <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #800000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">2. Each person below has written a book, the title of the book is listed after their names in parentheses, write the book title and figure out when the book was written and what the book was about. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #800000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">3. Two additional facts you find interesting about each person. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #800000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">[|John Locker(Second Treatise on Civil Government)][|John Stuart Mill(On Liberty)][|Adam Smith(An Inquiry into the NAture and Causes of the Wealth of Nations)][|Baron de Montesquieq(The Spirit of Laws)][|Niccolo Machiavelli(The Prince)][|Thomas Hobbes(Leviathan)]

Friday, September, 2011 Assignments: 1. Click on the document below titled "Warm-Up: Reading Skills: Think Aloud". Complete the Think Aloud. 2. Click on the link below titled "Chapter Summary Activity: Chapter 1" Use your textbook to help you answer the questions.