TUESDAY 6/21

IC212
TODAY:
-The Corporation Chapter 5 discussion questions due.
-We finished discussing The Corporation Chapter 4.
-We began discussing The Corporation Chapter 5. We will finish this at the beginning of class tomorrow.
-Quiz #12.

HOMEWORK:
-Read TWIF Chapter 1.
-Complete your 2 paragraphs for TWIF Chapter 2 Flatteners 1-5.

MONDAY 6/20

IC212
TODAY:
-No new discussion questions due.
-We discussed The Corporation Chapter 4. We have a little left to discuss at the beginning of class tomorrow.
-Quiz #11.

HOMEWORK:
-Read TWIF Chapter 1 for Wednesday.
-TWIF Chapter 2 Flatteners homework due Wednesday.
-Read The Corporation Chapter 5 & answer the following Discussion Questions:
1) What is the largest education management organization in the US?
2) What is one pro to privatizing K-12 education?
3) What is one con to privatizing K-12 education?
4) What is the only industry that has a larger segment of the American marketplace than education?
5) Explain the "Nag Factor."
6) Explain the 4 types of parents.
7) What is meant by "opportunity in devastation?"
8) How do corporations use "undercover marketing?"

THURSDAY 6/16

IC212
TODAY:
-Drucker Chapter 4 discussion questions due.
-Quiz #10.
-We discussed Drucker Chapter 3.
-We watched the following 2 clips from The Corporation documentary.
Externalities
Monstrous Obligations

HOMEWORK:
-Due next Wednesday:
For each of the 10 flatteners in TWIF Chapter 2, write 2 paragraphs.
Paragraph 1: Explain what the flattener is.
Paragraph 2: Explain why it is a flattener.

WEDNESDAY 6/15

IC212
TODAY:
-This is a link to the article about testing in school.
-The Corporation Chapter 3 discussion questions due.
-Quiz #9.
-We discussed The Corporation Chapter 2.
-We viewed the following clip from The Corporation documentary:
Like A Good Neighbor clip

HOMEWORK:
-Please watch the following clip from The Corporation documentary:
Case Histories clip
-Read The Corporation Chapter 4 & answer the following Discussion Questions:
1) In 1933, FDR created the New Deal, aimed to strengthen government's control of what?
2) What American corporation provided the Nazis with tabulation machines used by them to track records in their extermination & slave-labor camps?
3) What was passed by Congress in 1952 to ensure coal mine safety?
4) How did "new social regulation" curb corporations power & freedom?
5) What fuel the political system & are a core strategy in business's campaign to influence government (Look for it. It's in the chapter.)?

TUESDAY 6/14

IC212
TODAY:
-The Corporation Chapter 2 discussion questions due.
-We watched the following clip from The Corporation documentary.
A Legal Person
-We finished our discussion of The Corporation Chapter 1.

HOMEWORK:
-Michelle will bring in a current event for us to discuss.
-Read The Corporation Chapter 3 & answer the following Discussion Questions:
1) Explain what an "externality" is.
2) Explain what happened in the Anderson v. General Motors case.
3) What is meant by "the science of exploitation?"
4) What happened in the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory disaster?
5) What was passed in 1938 by President Roosevelt's administration that banned sweatshops, child labor, & industrial homework?