• Use this week to continue focusing on missing assignments and projects in your classes. If you are an IB student, use this week to focus on your IAs and TOK Essays for your IB diploma.

In connection with our first unit in Contemporary Issues, research and locate any recent (past 3 months) homelessness data in comparison with data from the last two years. Discuss with family and classmates how you feel this contemporary issue is evolving/not evolving with COVID-19 and recent circumstances.

Communication: If you have any missing assignments, please use this week to complete them and email them to me for late credit. This week I will grade assignments which were completed prior to school closure and put them in the grade book.

For enrichment activities (optional) and connecting to our learning from right before the closure, read some contemporary news stories and analyze/identify their use of claims, grounds, and warrants. As an added/extra challenge, find the very first article which reported coronavirus in China – analyze the original claim and how the claim has evolved over time.

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​Best wishes.

Today's Focus: Group Debrief on Grounds Identification in Time (2015) Article; Warrants, Conclusions, Claim Evolution, and Domain Expansion Lecture

- No homework; tomorrow we will begin the student-chosen topic of abortion.

Today's Focus: Small Group Causes and Solutions Gun Violence Discussion/Debate, Elements of a Claim (Grounds, Warrant, Conclusions) Lecture, Identifying Grounds in Time Article "Why America Can't Kick Its Painkiller Problem" (2015)

Homework:
​- Finish identifying the grounds in Time (2015) Article DUE THURSDAY

Today's Focus: Global Gun Violence Data Discussion, Journal of Adolescent Health's "School Shootings in the US: What is the State of Evidence?" (2019) Critical Reading and Discussion

Homework:
​- None.

Today's Focus: Case Studies Group Debrief, Global Firearms Policy Comparison

Homework:
​- Nothing.

Today's Focus: GCA (1968) and Brady Law (1993), 2nd Amendment Case Studies Visual Work Time

Homework:
- ​Case Studies Visual due Thursday

Today's Focus: Second Amendment History/Context, NFA (1934) and GCA (1968)

Homework:
​- None.

Today's Focus: Socratic Seminar, supported with Annotated Bibliography - Homelessness

​No homework. Enjoy your weekend!