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Writing practice With teacher support May Horverak 2014

American values and social issues Write two lists One with American values One with social issues in American society Sum up in class May Horverak 2014

American society Values Social issues: Freedom Independence Equality and equal rights Patriotism Progress Development The pursuit of happiness The self-made man Social issues: Inequality; the difference between rich and poor Poverty Unemployment Racism Health care May Horverak 2014

Texts about american society Obama’s victory speech 2012, link to video of speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddx8t6zGWxA Link to full text http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/nov/07/barack-obama-speech-full-text Tupac’s song «Brenda’s got a Baby», link to music video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRWUs0KtB-I http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/2pac/brendasgotababy.html Look at the speech and music video and write down what values or social issues are presented here. Make a list of the values/social issues Try to write a question for discussion for these two texts related to social issues and values Try to change the question for discussion to a statement that can be argued or discussed = thesis statement May Horverak 2014