NO! You know you want to. The AP test is over... and, well, the soft lull of movies is so calling your name. Okay, this is totally on the fly, but I thought I'd try to jump start you into having AMAZINGLY AWESOME discussions with your somnambulent students in their post AP haze. How do you, how do they stay interesting? Here are some ideas... and if you have some you want to share LEAVE A COMMENT! IT TAKES A VILLAGE, GURUS! Frontline's United States of SecretsOut tonight, this two episode discussion of the NSA's less than top secret surveillance programs will surely spark lively debates in your classrooms. Stream it for FREE!! (Yay!) Get GameyWhen all else fails, break out the board games. I have plenty of suggestions of things to play, but these may require advance purchases. Listen to Intelligence Squared or How Stuff WorksBoth ab-fab knowledgeable programs, your kids should get sucked right into fun convos about a wide range of topics. IQ2... Great Scott! It's time for Oxford-style debates on current events! You can get a little mini-unit on government surveillance and the 14th amendment going, or talk about college or any of the other awesome IQ2 programs out there. How Stuff Works... An APUSH colleague of mine swears by this, and she runs a killer mini-unit four times a year called "meeting of the minds" where kids get together and discuss controversial topics via guided readings, questions, and debates. You can get on that wagon by having a little unit on all things FLOTUS (talk about Michelle for more then her amazing arms, and if you search it on their site, you'll get a couple of different hits) or anything else that tickles your fancy. Their podcasts are amazing! Run the SCOTUS docketIf you are not up on what the SCOTUS is debating this year, then get on over to this FREE lesson plan you can do with your kids, with or without the writing assignment. Play the Constitutional Madness Bracket GameMarch Madness may be over, and the AP exams, too... now you can get down and dirty with your budding Constitutional scholars and figure out what is the most important clause in the Constitution using this bracket-style game. Students analyze clauses from the Constitution to determine which is the ultimate clause. Each individual match up in the 64 clause individual elimination bracket warrants a 150 word explanation of student's logic. Other assorted inspiration...Really, gurus, I am sure you do amazing things. I have other ideas to share, but so do you! I start, you can finish...
1. Do a RPG that mocks their first year post college modeling healthy college debt. 2. Read a book together! I am working on a larger unit marrying Michael Lewis's Boomerang, Neil Irwin's The Alchemists, and HBO's Too Big To Fail. 3. Mock election or court trial? 4. Debates (that are supported) from Deliberating in a Democracy? 5. Watch Mitt on Netflix? 6. Play on Google's Constitute? 7. Balance the Budget on the Concorde Coalition's new Budget App? 8. Talk about Lawrence Lessig's ideas to fix campaign finance? And his SuperPAC? 9. Mentor your students in the iMatter Youth Movement? 10. Write your final, super inspirational send-off lecture?
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I want to start by thanking Mr. Snowden and Mr. Greenwald for their uncompromising dedication to giving the NSA violations air time and transparency.
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