1. Borderlands Walls, fences, barriers: historical perspectives, case examples, political questions

2. Writing strategies ✤ summary: key words and ideas ✤ commentary: explanation and analysis ✤ case examples: specifics from history and current news ✤ your proposal or position: take a stand and give reasons ✤ enduring questions: complexity, further thought

3. 01 Ellis Cose ✤ Author of The End of Anger: A New Generation’s Take on Race and Rage, 2011 ✤ “Red, Brown, and Blue” essay in Newsweek, 2010

4. 01 Richard Rodriguez ✤ Author of Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez (1982) and Brown: The Last Discovery of America (2002) ✤ “The Great Wall of America” 2010 essay in the Los Angeles Times

6. http://www.history.com/topics/great-wall-of-china/videos/seven-wonders-the-great-wall 4-min video

7. Recent case examples ✤ Berlin Wall http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fK1MwhEDjHg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fK1MwhEDjHg ✤ Israel-West Bank Barrier http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/guides/456900/456944/html/nn1page1.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/guides/456900/456944/html/nn1page1.stm ✤ U.S.-Mexico Border http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico–United_States_barrier http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico ✤ Syrian refugees in Sweden and EU countries http://stream.wsj.com/story/syria/SS-2-34182/SS-2-314965/

8. Take a position and give reasons ✤ Should the U.S. patrol and enforce a U.S.-Mexico border? ✤ And what about Central American refugees from drug wars, especially children? ✤ Immigration policy? Amnesty? Anchor babies?