February 8 class:
Results of Vote (which issue):
Education: 10
Haiti: 1
Healthcare: 5
Unemployment: 2
Social Inequality: 2
What We Did in Class:
First the instructor talked about the section of the country in which Nuclear Nebraska takes place. She showed a Powerpoint. She distributed a handout with five questions and students went into pairs to complete the questions. Later we discussed the questions.
The instructor distributed a NY Times editorial about student loan money and how the Senate is holding up the vote.
Next we discussed the issue on which we wanted to work. We voted and the results are listed above.
We then went to the computer lab and the instructor showed students how to look up their congressional representatives. She handed out a worksheet for the students to record the information. The purpose of this exercise was to show students how to find the information and also to keep the information for purposes of communication later on in the class.
In addition, students learned how to find out who is donating to their representatives and how much money has been given to them.
Next week:
No class because of the holiday.
Week of Febr. 22:
--Read Ch's 3 & 4 in Nuclear Nebraska
--Read Action 4 in Kush
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Links for class:
Equality Trust
Equality research
Computer Lab:
Find your representatives and how they voted. Also who donates to them.
Who donates to politicians: Open Secrets
