Session 5: The Occupy Movements Part 1: The Economic Problem Skills: Summarizing with Evidence and citations

What You’ll be doing today… Concept(s)(Videos You’re Getting Concepts From) The Bank Bailouts The 99% vs. 1% 2008 Economic Crisis Occupy Movements Skills You will be practicing writing summaries with formal structure and citations of evidence Can you make sense of info you have in front of you in your own words You’ll be working in pairs whole period

Your Thinking Log for This Session What I see/hear What I am thinking/Questioning Data Charts Explanations Vocabulary Etc How am I processing this? What am I thinking? How do I feel about info? What questions or confusions do I still have? * Note- I HIGHLY RECOMMEND YOU LABEL EACH VIDEO TO HELP YOU

Preamble Why and how are the rich, well rich? Why and how are the poor, well poor? Take 3 mins to jot something down on paper, (I want to see what you know) You’ll turn to partner in a sec, then out to whole class

The Economic Crisis of 2007-2008 To start off, let’s talk about what happened in 2007-2008 when the economy went BUST. Here is a quick explanation as to what happened… The Economic Crisis of 2007-2008 Questions? Clarifications? Let’s summarize this together…

The Bank Bail Outs 2nd Youtube Vid This time we’re talking about the Govt and Banks What happened in 2008-2009 with banks and gov? For this vid… I want you to react a bit more to the numbers and data… Need to Know PBS Jot down data Talk to partner Report out to whole class where your head is at?

The Bail Outs Pulse Check Now that you saw some numbers and reacted.. Question(s) to ponder.. Was this the best solution for the problems the banks had? As a taxpayer, how do you feel about this?

The 1% and the 99% Explained Ok…let’s start off with one of the most famous lines of this whole movement…”We Are the 99%” What exactly does this mean? We’re watching a Youtube vid that explains this concept What you are doing: What major info can you get out of it? What questions do you have? The 99% vs 1 % Foreclosures in America

Occupy Wall Street Preview Some footage of the reaction to all this… Occupy Wall Street-Story behind 7 mos of Protest Wall Street Rally Should the protesters have taken to the streets and set up camps? Does this make a difference? The Reaction from Police… NYC Occupy Oakland Police Clearing Occupy LA Camps

Occupy Student Movements You also had strong reactions by college students across the country because of high tuition increases that universities authorized This was very present across ALL UC campuses Some video on the protests: UC Davis Police Incident UC Davis Chancellor "Walk of Shame"

Revolution: Wall Street and Around the World Protests in the Middle East

Revolution: Wall Street and Around the World Protests in Libya Protests emerged in several cities in mid-February. Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi took power in a bloodless coup in 1969 and has ruled his oil-rich country with a heavy hand.

Revolution: Wall Street and Around the World Protests in Tunisia In what became known as the Jasmine Revolution, a sudden wave of street protests ousted the authoritarian president, Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, who had ruled for 23 years. The success of the revolution inspired protesters in Egypt and other Middle East countries.

Revolution: Wall Street and Around the World Protests in Yemen In January, thousands of Yemenis protested in Sana, the capital. President Ali Abdullah Saleh responded by promising that he would not run for re-election when his term ends in 2013. Mr. Saleh also raised army salaries, halved income taxes and ordered price controls.

Revolution: Wall Street and Around the World Protests in Egypt The most populous country in the Arab world erupted in mass protests in January. After 18 days of angry demonstrations, President Hosni Mubarak, who had ruled the country for 30 years, resigned and turned over all power to the military on Feb. 11.

Revolution: Wall Street and Around the World Protests in Syria Internet campaigns called for Syrians to demonstrate in Damascus on Feb. 4 and 5, but other than security forces, people did not take to the streets. During the three-decade reign of Hafez al-Assad, Syria was a harsh dictatorship. Mr. Assad's son, Bashar al-Assad, has made gestures toward a more mild government.

Revolution: Wall Street and Around the World Occupy Protests

Revolution: Wall Street and Around the World Occupy Wall Street

Revolution: Wall Street and Around the World Occupy Boston

Revolution: Wall Street and Around the World Occupy Miami

Revolution: Wall Street and Around the World Occupy Oakland

Revolution: Wall Street and Around the World Occupy Los Angeles

Revolution: Wall Street and Around the World Occupy Atlanta

Revolution: Wall Street and Around the World Occupy Berlin

Revolution: Wall Street and Around the World Occupy London

Revolution: Wall Street and Around the World

Revolution: Wall Street and Around the World

Revolution: Wall Street and Around the World

Revolution: Wall Street and Around the World

Revolution: Wall Street and Around the World

Revolution: Wall Street and Around the World

Making Sense of the Occupy Wall Street Now take 10 minutes with your partner to do 2 things: Talk through each video and discuss what you wrote down for each video (from the left side of the column of your Thinking Log) Take the remainder of the time to fill out the left side of your Thinking Log now Let’s Bring out to the Floor final takeaways and clarifications

Guidelines for Writing a Summary with Evidence  For a one-paragraph summary, discuss each supporting point in a separate sentence.  Give 1-2 explanations for each supporting point, summarizing the information from the original.  For a multi-paragraph summary, discuss each supporting point in a separate paragraph.  Introduce it in the first sentence (topic sentence).

Occupy Movements Part 1: Blog Work Write a summary on the NY Times article on Occupy Wall Street & the videos from class You’ll be writing this for your blog You summary should include (see checklist below) A citation to the author and source Main idea (paraphrased) Major supporting points Major supporting explanations

Your Options to Summarize NY Times Article on Occupy Wall St. Washington Post Demand From Leaders Washington Post Photo Gallery The Videos on the Economic Crisis The Occupy Wall Street Videos

Guidelines for Writing a Summary Examples of frames: According to ___________________ (Name of source), ________________________________________.             (author's last name)                      (main idea;) Morgana's  article/video on ______________ discusses the ____________________.                    (topic)   (main idea) In his/her article, "________________" argues that _______________________. (author's last name, ) (title of article/video (plug in main idea), (detail or supporting point)_____, (then you explain it)

Your Work with Summaries You’re working in 3s today for the last part of Occupy Wall Street You’ll need 1 facilitator to run this part of the session You’ll need 1 timer You’ll need 1 reporter

Your Work with Summaries Step 1: Take 3-4 mins to read this sample summary-You’re looking to find why this sample is an example of a good summary-highlight/annotate anything you find Step 2: Take 3 mins to Talk with each other about what you read and highlighted as examples of why this is a good summary Step 4: Take 3-4 mins to read your own summary- and highlight/annotate parts of yours that match the strong points on the sample one Step 5: Take 2 mins to highlight parts that are a work in progress