***Please be advised that there will be no Zoom session on Monday, November 1st due to the holiday.***
For our next session on November 8th, please:
- read the three-page article "us should break up states" and answer the following questions:
a) What do you think is meant by the expression "the American experiment" used at the beginning of the article?
b) Why does the article argue that the US needs more states?
c) What is gerrymandering? (This will most likely require outside research.)
d) Do you think Joel Garreau (author of The Nine Nations of North America) and David Treuer (author of the Atlantic article "Return the National Parks to the Tribes") would be proponents of splitting up states? Why or why not?
- read the one-page article posted under the title "Graphic detail US politics" on Ilias and answer the following questions:
a) Why is the Senate imbalanced?
b) What is straight-ticket voting?
c) Do you think the article's proposal for voters to move to other states is plausible? Why or why not?
- make sure that you can summarize how the Electoral College works in your own words
Links of interest:
Author David Treuer on rewriting the Native American narrative - YouTube
Home Page | National Museum of the American Indian (si.edu)
Marlon Brando's Oscar® win for "The Godfather" - YouTube
Native American Poetry and Culture | Poetry Foundation
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