• WSJ

• NYT 200295079

• Trib online 66904609

• IR Resources

• Careers for Int'l Relations Majors
   

• NOTES

• GRADES

• Go to the online Tribune.  Navigate around and then take this test on today's online Trib.  The username for all students is 66904609.  Mr. Pahl will give you the password. You can work with a partner (NOT with 3...).  Be sure to put both names on the test if you work with a partner.
• If you do NOT send the item below to Mr. Pahl today you will lose 3 participation points:

• Check your grade
• Seniors, vote for Homecoming Court...
• Hey a bunch of you lost participation points for not telling me if you have internet at home or not...many of you did not put your name on the form...
• Read through today's Tribune online and write a one page report about any major story that deals with something outside of the U.S. (The "air travel scare" story beginning on page 1 can be used...also stories on pp A16-A17) You can use the form below, or actually write out the report (best if typed!) and turn in a hard copy. (worth 10 points, due tomorrow, Thurs....)

• Also, come prepared to answer in class tomorrow the following questions from stories in today's paper...

1. What did Pres. Obama give a major speech about?
2. What did the makeover of the Oval Office involve in a nutshell?
3. Explain the trend for the last 8-9 years of the U.S. casualties in Iraq.
4. What is the "Barbie Arrrest" story about?
5. What are some of the goals of the American forces fighting in Afghanistan?
6. How does Israeli Minister Barak explain the killing of 4 Israelis in Hebron?
7. What group took responsibility for the killing of the 4 Israelis?

IR Theory

• Finish the conflict assignment given you yesterday. Due today, 10 points.
• The assumptions of Realism in International Relations...
• Liberalism as an International Relations theory is often contrasted with Realism.
• Marxism is another approach altogether in International Relations theory.

10 points, due tomorrow, Thursday: Write IN YOUR OWN WORDS what the main differences are between these three theories of IR. Either type it up and print it out to hand in OR submit it electronically below:  ORGANIZE your writing...

CLASH of CIVILIZATIONS

• Know these areas by name for a quiz next week...
• Learn Samuel Huntington's paradigm to explain our current world order, the model he created to replace the Cold War model which is no longer valid.
• You have one assignment, due at the end of the period.  Find an article in either Wall Street journal paper (Thurs or Fri) or today's Tribune (or online Tribune...) that either would GO ALONG with Huntington's model or that would GO AGAINST Huntington's model. 
• Cut the story out, staple it to a page with your name(s) and an explanation of why this story is a proof of Huntington's "Clash of Civilizations" theory or why it it goes against Huntington's theory.  10 points, due today.

• Grade check
• Jog for Justin

World Order and Economic Systems

• Remember, you will be tested on Huntington's divisioning of the world...so study that
• Make a chart (with a partner, if you want) which summarizes the major world peace conferences Mr. Pahl showed yesterday on the PowerPoint. Due: Tomorrow, Thu., worth 10 points.  Here is a link to a SAMPLE:
• There are only a few major kinds of economies in the world today...The two main ones are a Market Economy and a Command Economy.  Mixing aspects of each of these yields a Mixed Economy.  Many poorer countries have a Traditional Economy in which people largely follow custom and tradition, provide for their own needs, and have little money or resources. They are poor.  After you have studied about Market and Command economies:
• Also due tomorrow, worth 10 points:  Look over this WSJ article about Cuba's economy, and make a chart indicating what things about Cuba's economy show it to be a Command Economy and what things show it to be a Market Economy.  Sample... This also can be done with partners...

• Read the Executive Summary of this document about American attitudes toward foreign policy for a quiz and class discussion tomorrow...

• Take this test on things Mr. Pahl has talked about the last couple of classes...
• Take this test on the CCGA American survey, executive summary.
• Constitution Day Facebook

• Check your grade

First Day of Autumn!

• Finish your Huntington chart, due at end of the period...

• Use the next two articles to complete the submission box below:
  • Front Page New York Times article "Where Boys are Prized." Give three reasons why girls would pretend they are boys in Afghanistan.
  • Also, read about North Korea, paying especial attention to the last section of the article, "Nuclear Threat."

Take these quizzes:

• Forms of government and economic systems
• Mr P lecture test.  You may want to have a copy of the WSJ, p. A18 with you...

Trade Blocs

• Get with a partner or work yourself...Do Google and Yahoo searches, etc. to find out how the current modern world could be divided into trade blocs.  This would look at the world divisions, etc. as ECONOMICally determined, not religiously and culturally as Huntington would predict. 
• What are the world trade blocs?  Prepare a one page report, with maps or drawings for the end of class in the lab on Wed.  Worth: 20 points. 
• Try to have one article from any issue of the New York Times (online) or Wall Street Journal to give evidence of your trade blocs.

High Five Friday of Homecoming Week!

• ENERGY is a huge problem/challenge in the world today.  Many nations are competing for limited supplies of oil and other non-renewable resources.
• On the NYT site (Name&Password= 200295079) there is a link to 6 Questions about an article that deals with a town in Italy.  Answer those 6 questions below  (with a partner if you like...)

• EXTRA CREDIT. (You must do the above assignment first before trying to get this extra credit!) Take the News Quiz in today's New York Times (name&password = 200295079) and call Mr. Pahl over to show him your score when you have answered the 5 questions. 1 point ex credit for each answer you get correct. Study about these stories before you take the quiz:

FREE TRADE

• Answer these questions:  Due at the end of the period, 10 points.

World Sweep

• Summarize each of the following stories in today's New York Times. Each summary should be about 5 sentences long. Due Wed., 10 points:
• A4 Eviction of Haitians
• A4 Welfare Shift in Britain
• A1 "Two Portrayals of Soldier..."
• A1 "Military Orders Less Dependence on Fossil Fuels"
• Rape in Congo...does the presence of the US stop these kinds of atrocities? (Answer this question in your summary...)

• 5 points, due by Thursday...Read in Monday's Tribune (10-4-2010), page A4, the article "Try college in high school".  Give feedback on the IR Moodle course...use your BHS login, but without the graduation year...Click on "News Forum" and respond to Mr. Pahl's post about Dual Enrollment, the subject of this article...
• Play Free Trade

• On Nucor's website is a page entitled FREE AND FAIR TRADE. Find that page and read it...  On this page it says: "We need to remember that free trade does not mean “free-for-all trade.”  Write in the News Forum on IR's Moodle what they mean by this.  Read their statement, and then provide analysis of it on the IR class in Moodle.  10 points, due tomorrow.

National Character

• Honest Abe, and cannot-tell-a-lie George Washington are huge role models for Americans, especially to kids growing up.  In China, Confucius has been the national hero for thousands of years.  Confucianism teaches honesty and character as a way of keeping a nation strong.
• Read the article in the New York Times (200295079) on page 1 (and continued on page 16) about the fraud that is taking place all throughout Chinese society. Give 5 separate SPECIFIC examples of fraud or deceit written about in this story: (Worth 5 points, due by end of period, you CAN work with a partner...)

• The Han Dynasty in China was a time of intellectual and cultural development.  The Han developed scholars who were honest and learned, and they became a model for future generations of Chinese. To this day some Chinese refer to themselves as "men of Han".  Respond to the prompt on Moodle about this fact and today's article. (5 points, due by end of period.)

China and Terror

• Read the article on the front page (continued on p. 12) of the NYT (200295079)  about the meeting of Chinese and US army brass.
• Read about the Chinese snub of a Chinese winner of the Nobel Peace Prize (p A12, NYT).

• On the Op-Ed page (A30) is a series of letters to the editor about how we should treat terrorists we have apprehended; should we give them a trial in a court of U.S. law, or should we detain them until the war on terror has subsided?  Read those short letters and then, weigh in with your opinion on Moodle...

Genocide and Free Speech

• Do a search for "genocide" in today's Trib online  (66904609 password=student) and online NYT (200295079).  Explain the results you get and how you would explain these results: (5 points, due today)

• Genocide note-taking assignment for Mr. Weiss' teaching...
• Read about free speech in China and then Moodle...

Black Plague, Activism and Iran

• Tomorrow: Storyboards DUE!!!
• Below are questions to answer (10 points, due tomorrow...) based on the following stories to read:
  • 1. (NYT 200295079) In today's New York Times, on page A11, is a story of the spread of the Black Plague.
  • 2. On the bottom of page A8 of the NYT is a story about activists in Russia.
  • 3. On the bottom of page A6 is a story about three Americans captured in Iran.

FAILED STATES

• Go to today's New York Times (NYT 200295079) and use the search function on the first screen to do research about your FAILED STATE. See what stories you can find in the NYT that have info about the nation you are researching...

North Korea and Somalia Pirates

1. Don't forget our field trip after school tomorrow!  Any last minute permission slips? GIVE TO MR. PAHL!
2. Here's a link to the FAILED STATES Index.
3. Take this quiz based on reading about the Pirates Den. There is one question per page of this article, so, for instance, the answer to question 3 is on the 3rd page of the Pirates article... 10 points due today.
4. Have you finished your Aging video yet? Be sure to get it to Mr. Pahl, better late than never!
5. Answer the questions below relating to yesterday's LINK presentation.  Due today, Nov. 9, 10 points.

• Read the front page article from today's NYT (200295079) "Assertive Chinese Marooned in Mental Wards" and then weigh in with your opinion about what is happening there on the Moodle...

NYT and the Pirate's Den

• Read these two articles about opium production and then answer the questions below, 15 points, due Monday.
  • Article 1. Afghanistan Opium Production Cut
  • Article 2: Afghan Poppy Harvest is Next Challenge for US Marines

• Retake the Pirates Den quiz (if you want to...).  If you get them all right, I will change your score on the one you took on Tuesday. If you work with a partner, the partner must be from your lunch group. You can work in a group as large as you want to, as long as everyone in the group is in the same lunch group.
• Don't forget, you will be presenting to the class on Nov. 17 and 18 on the FAILED STATE you have been assigned...

• Get ready to present tomorrow and Thursday....
• Here is a link to Foreign Policy Magazine's site which includes links to the FAILED STATES you are researching.
• Be sure to pay attention to the presentations of others because you will be tested on them! :-)

FAILED STATES TEST

• Here... (no partners, you may use notes...)
• SEATING SUGGESTIONS:

Karl Marx.  From this one German man's ideas, a whole governmental system (socialism/communism) came into the world, with the fervor of a religion.

• Reading Schedule for Strayer book...
• Take the test.  You can use notes. No partners.
• Don't forget there will be a test on Friday on the whole chapter, all of this week's readings.

The Rise and Fall of Communism

• Take the test on readings 668-689
• For Monday December 6 read pages 691-696

The Global South

• Take the quiz on today's reading. You can use your notes.  No partners...

How Should the Global South be Governed?

• Today's Reading (pages 705-710) is about Experiments in Political Order, and compares African Nations and India in the ways they experimented with different government forms as they developed in the latter 20th Century.
• TAKE NOTES on all 5 pages of this reading on the Moodle.  (Remember, your username is your ID number and your password is your 8-digit birthdate.) Try to make your notes follow the flow of thoughts Mr. Strayer uses in these pages...You can work with a partner (especially if you forgot your book); be sure to put both names in the notes.  This is worth 15 points...
• Remember, you will need to turn in our notes for the test on this chapter on Friday and they will be worth 20 points.  You can print out today's notes (at home, if there is no paper in the lab...) as part of what you turn in for Friday.

Religion in the Modern World

• Quiz on 740-747
• Link to Outline of Chapter 24 (half credit will be given if you turn in these notes printed out.  If you copy them by hand you can get full credit...)
• Info on tomorrow's TEST on chaps 22-24

America's Challenges, China's Labor Pains, Iran Protest Songs

• Take the test on today's readings. (No partners!) You can use notes, but not the readings themselves...
• Moodle.  Look at the article on page A10 in today's NYT (200295079) about the US and Iran's nuclear program.  Weigh in about how you see this...(Click "Iran and the Bomb" and then respond to the thread started by Mr. Pahl (10 points).

Immigration and Child Soldiers and Terror!

• Take the quiz on "Immigration Debate" and "Armed and Underage." (no partners...)
• What are the biggest terror threats in the world? Read this Foreign Policy article... (NOTE: the article continues on many pages...) Write on Moodle your own summary of this article (no partners, 15 points...)
• About the final...

Cuba, Planet Earth and Oil

• Individually: Quiz on today's readings...it can be done with a partner ONLY if the partner is on your final's team.

In your groups:

• In the NYT (200295079)
  • Religious Strife in Egypt, page A1.
  • Sadrists in Iraq, page A4
  • US Stance on North Korea, page A4
• Sudan article.  What is the issue or conflict? What/who are the various sides of this issue/conflict?

• Failed States
• FINAL STUDY GUIDE

FINAL EXAM.

• Take the multiple choice part of the test by groups...