11/142012

Hello everyone Cat here, so today we had....

• Our usual 20 min of SSR
•  Did a current events quick write. We wrote to....
•  What is going on in the U.S. or state Politics now that the elections are over? How engaged or disengaged do you feel from these events and why do you think that you are similar or different in this respect from your peers? How does that general feeling on Politics affect us all?
• After writing we had a discussion within our groups and then a class discussion.
• We then read an article titled "Obama the DealMaker" by a David Brooks. and wrote a Pro and Con on the paper on the author's view on wether the government should go "Off Fiscal Cliff" 
• "Off Fiscal Cliff" is a popular term used to describe the terms of the Budget Control Act discussed in 2011, scheduled to go into effect toward the end of 2012.
• (Click here to read article.)
• Recived our progress reports.
• And tonight's homework is to bring out a printed out editoral about anything political that interests you.
• You can go to this site (www.dailyoped.com) if you need a place to look.