The Week Ahead, IB Global Politics

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IB Global Politics HL2

• Monday: Finish Part 1 of Half the Sky
• Tuesday: Start Part 2 of Half the Sky
• Thursday: Finish Part 2 of Half the Sky
• Friday: In class writing. As always, I will provide feedback to everyone who shares their work with me; this includes all revisions and additions to your original work. Please share your documents using Google Drive
• (from last week): What information about gender-based violence resonated most with you during the screening? What was most surprising?
• (for Friday the 28th) Choose one of the following: 
• Nicholas Kristof says that one of the “global paradoxes is that countries with the most conservative sexual mores tend to have the most prostitution.” Why do you think that is? What value do women have in these societies? What examples from the film illustrate this?
• Do wealthy countries have a responsibility to help poor countries improve access to and quality of education for girls? Why or why not? What more could or should the United States do? What do you think is the best way for you and the members of your community to help?
• There is an international debate raging around the subject of prostitution and whether women will be better protected if it is legalized. What do you think? What impact do you think legalizing prostitution would have on the global sex trafficking crisis?
• In the film, Nicholas Kristof explains that microfinance programs have not been as successful in Africa as they have in Southeast Asia. Why do you think that is? What challenges do women in African countries face that are unique to their regions?

IB Global Politics HL1

• Monday: Meet in Learning Commons, read Mingst & Karns, Chapters 1-3.
• Complete the remainder on time outside of class. 
• Tuesday: 
• Watch Selections from Boyer, J. (2011). GEOG 1014: World Regions. Lectures presented in Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA. Retrieved July 6, 2012, from http://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/geog-1014-world-regions/id481684171 
• 3.3.1 Sovereignty-What is it? How do you get it?
• 5.2 The changing nature of cooperation
• 5.4.1.1 UN: Mission and structure
• Plan game, Is there a most important concept related to the United Nations position in world politics?
• Thursday: Continue game, Is there a most important concept related to the United Nations position in world politics?
• Friday: Complete game, Is there a most important concept related to the United Nations position in world politics?
• Outstanding prompts. As always, I will provide feedback to everyone who shares their work with me; this includes all revisions and additions to your original work. Please share your documents using Google Drive
• Describe your chosen news article through each of the lenses in Waltz's Levels of Analysis. 
• How do Constructivism (Idealism), Liberalism, and Realism each view states’ role in global affairs?
• Based on what you now know, how do you view the role of IR theory as it relates to your study of world politics?
• To what extent can we use intellectual constructs and analytical tools to make sense of (and predict?) complex social phenomena?