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Starter: Globally, are there more wars now than there were 50 years ago?
1.How accurate was your prediction?
2.What most surprised you about these charts?
3.Identify two trends you see in the charts.
4.Why do you think this is?
5.What is one consequence of this change?
6.What is the take home story from these charts?
7.Is this good news or bad news?
8.Draw out what you predict this graph will look like over the next 50 years.
9.How many of these wars do you think the U.S. was involved in?
10.In his 2011 book, The Better Angels of Our Nature, scientist and author Steven Pinker detailed how war has been on the wane for half a millennium. Do you think we will ever reach a point when we no longer have war?
Congressional Arts & Crafts Project
Throughout the week we will be assessing the role of political parties in the legislative process as well as considering the differences in House and Senate rules and procedures.
You will be answering these questions in a product randomly selected from a number of categories:
You will be answering these questions in a product randomly selected from a number of categories:
- What are the advantages of the majority party in lawmaking (besides the obvious)?
- How important have parties become to how the legislative process functions?
- What about the rules (not parties) could cause a bill to pass in one chamber but not in another?
Closer: How easy is it to pass a bill? How might a president with an ambitious legislative agenda react to your answer?
- Make a claim here!
- Support your claim with TWO pieces of accurate and relevant information.
- Use reasoning to explain why your evidence supports your claim.
- Respond to an opposing or alternative perspective.