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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

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

6. The Bank Bail Outs 2nd Youtube Vid
This time we’re talking about the Govt and Banks
What happened in 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?

7. 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?

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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"

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

12. 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.

13. 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.

14. 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 Mr. Saleh also raised army salaries, halved income taxes and ordered price controls.

15. 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.

16. 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.

17. Revolution: Wall Street and Around the World
Occupy Protests

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Occupy Wall Street

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Occupy Boston

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Occupy Miami

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Occupy Oakland

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Occupy Los Angeles

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Occupy Atlanta

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Occupy Berlin

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Occupy London

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32. 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

33. 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).

34. 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

35. 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

36. 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)

37. 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

38. 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