World Affairs Notebook - Table of Contents
Divider 1 - General Info
1. 1st week packet
2. Test #1 review sheet
3. Test #1 answer sheet
4. News about
the News/Eleven Elements
5. Eleven Elements homework assignment – keep your explanation only,
the articles can be recycled
6. Test #2 review sheet
7. Test #2 answer sheet
Divider 2 - CNN Video Sheets
1. Year in
Review
2. February 14 & 15
3. February 16, 17 & 21
4. February 23
5. March 14 - Student News
6. March 13 & 14 - CBS News
7. March 15 – CBS News
8. March 28 & 29
9. April 4 - NBC
10. April 5 - CBS
11. April 6 – ABC
12. Media Comparison assignment
13. CNN Student News May 2
14. CNN Student News May 4
1. State of
the Union summary
2. Notes on Bush’s March 20
Cleveland question and answer session
3. Opinion paragraph homework
assignment on Bush’s March 20 speech
4. Second opinion paragraph on
Bush’s March 20 response to the college student’s question
5. Bush told Blair Determined to
Invade Iraq Without UN Resolution or WMD & Moussaoui’s Role
6. Investigators Enter US with
“Dirty Bomb” Material
7. The Exterminator article
& worksheet
8. Is President Bush Really the
Worst President…
9. Notebook paper notes on
Bush’s proposed immigration reform
Divider 4 – American Society
1. Face Transplant article & homework
2. Boy Brain,
Girl Brain
3. The Trouble
with Boys
4. Chart over
problems faced by boys
5. 30 Days:
Life as a Muslim video sheet
6. Ohioians
Facing Terrorism Charges reading
7. Opinion paragraph on notebook paper on the proposed Florida Gulf Coast oil drilling
8. Troubles by the Score - article and homework answers on a sheet of notebook paper.
9. Are Schools/Police Overreacting over MySpace?
10. Media awareness pre-test
11. Portrait of an Alien Nation – chart &
homework
12. What Racial Profiling Feels Like
13. Influenza Outbreak of 1918
14. 1918 Flu National Geographic October 2005
15. Bush Unveils $7.2 Billion Plan . . .
16. Bird Flu Movie video sheet
17. Bird Flu Movie reading packet
Divider 5 – World Religions &
Culture
1. Religions quiz
2. Islam’s Origins and Beliefs
3. Notebook paper notes from Israel video, listing 10
ways life in Israel is similar/diff from life in the US
4. History of Israel – book work questions
5. Kibbutz reading and homework answers (on notebook
sheet)
6. Reading - Shia vs. Sunni
7. Jerusalem: History of the Holy Land
8. Israeli History Timeline
1. Middle East overview reading (has the chart of Palestinian population on the back)
2. Muslim Fury over Danish Cartoons – Why?
3. Islam and Power article & homework
4. Should Countries be Liable for What Newspapers Print?
5. Should a Dubai-Based Company Be Allowed to Manage American Port Facilities? article and homework paragraph on notebook paper
6. Cash vs. Terror/Breaching the Barrier reading
7. Wikipedia’s Hamas article and opinion paragraph
8. Who was Slobodan Milosevic?
9. Srebrenica: “A Triumph for Evil”
10. “On Call in Hell” article and two worksheets
11. Extra! Understanding Influenza
Divider 7 – Economics
1. How would you survive in poverty?
2. How would you survive in middle class?
3.
30 Days: Minimum Wage video sheet
4.
The Other America - article and worksheet
5.
Bipartisan Poll Shows American Voters . . .
6.
Race: Power of Illusion – video sheet
7.
World poverty maps – color handout
8.
United Nations Millennium Goals
9.
Packet over world poverty
Divider 8 – Maps
1.
Middle East map
2.
Middle East map test
3.
Israel map
4.
Map of Shia/Sunni Muslims throughout the world
Includes all papers passed out through, Wednesday, May 24.