Introduction to Congress: Exploring the Government Shutdown Tuesday, 1/23 Wednesday, 1/24

Objective: Students will learn the history of US government shutdowns & how the current shutdown is impacting Americans. Each group will read an article on the government shutdown Use the newsprint to write down the following: A summary of the article; Impact of the shutdown based on the facts in your article; A graphic or image relating back to your group’s article. Hang up your poster when done Take notes on these posters A quiz next time on the shutdown. You can use your notes.

Links to articles History of gov’t shutdowns: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/1/19/16905584/government-shutdown-history-clinton-obama-explained Why the gov’t shuts down & why it shut down now: https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/politics/this-149-year-old-law-is-why-we-have-government-shutdowns/2019/01/07/5f7bc249-343b-453a-8f90-ed145c2b1e9a_video.html?utm_term=.76fc0343ec20 https://www.businessinsider.com/government-shutdown-timeline-deadline-trump-democrats-2019-1 Shutdown & the economy: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/1/18/18188262/government-shutdown-economy-recession-workers-gdp Shutdown & Native Americans: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/01/us/native-american-government-shutdown.html Shutdown & African Americans: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/opinion-trump-shutdown-african-americans-federal-workers-backpay_us_5b6dc763e4b0530743c9b2fd 6) Shutdown & Migrants: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/government-shutdown-day-21-immigration-court-cancel-thousands-migrant-asylum-hearings-2019-01-11/ 7) Shutdown & schools: http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/District_Dossier/2019/01/shutdown_impacts_schools.html 8) Shutdown & Veterans: https://abcnews.go.com/beta-story-container/Politics/americas-veterans-disproportionately-affected-government-shutdown/story?id=60260832