Who Runs the Streets- Day 2

Writing Prompt: (2L)
Who do you feel is more responsible for the problems in the U.S.A., the president or Congress (the people who make and pass laws)? Why?

1. Share Out Homework: (2R)
Listener: (Write down 2 statements that stood out to you from your partner and why.)

2. Word Bank: (2R)
Search and define the following words:
(For each word, write the dictionary definition, then paraphrase with your own definition)
Government
Direct Democracy
Participatory Democracy
Monarchy
Autocracy
Anarchy
Oligarchy
Human Right
Civil Right
Dictatorship
3/5 Clause
Citizen
Electoral College

3. Electoral College Dialogue (2R)
Click on Boondocks Cartooon
Discussion:
Answer the following:
What does the Boondocks’s Huey feel about the Electoral College? Do you agree? Disagree?
What does Huey feel about democracy?
Do you agree or disagree with his statement in the middle of the second cartoon?

4. What to the Slave is the 4th of July:
Excerpt from Frederick Doulgass Speech
1. What was your initial reaction to this speech?
2. Would you agree or disagree with Douglass? Why?

5. S.I..L.T. or S.I.C.A.

6. . Homework:
Huey of the Boondocks is not the first character to criticize the electoral college, voting, or patriotism. Your homework tonight is to read the following excerpt from Frederick Douglas’s: “What to the Slave is Your Fourth of July". After reading. draw a picture that either represents Frederick Douglas’s view of the 4th of July, your own, or compare and contrast the two.

(for excerpt read by James Earl Jones click here