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Mr. McDonald
Jordan High School History
JHS Distinguished Speaker Series
JHS Courses
American History: Founding Principles, Civics and Economics
Government & Politics (Advanced Placement)
Independent Study Program
Multicultural Studies
Personal Financial Literacy
Poverty in America
Seminar - AP Capstone (Advanced Placement)
Duke Courses
EDU 495: Teaching High School
EDU 496: Secondary School Issues
EDU 703A: Effective Teaching Strategies
EDU 703B: Teaching Social Studies
OMS Soccer
Publications
Resources
For Students
For Families
For Teachers
Service
Contact
Poverty in America - Important Notes
Final Class Update
(May 31) - Please read!
Seniors -
Graduation Livestream, Program & Additional Links
9th-11th Graders
Final Grading Guidance for 9th-11th graders
- Review Carefully
No Summer Assignments this summer
Support Resources -
Social & Emotional Health
and
JHS Ignite at Home Learning Program
Video Resources -
You Are Not Special
and
The Time You Have (in Jellybeans)
COURSE OVERVIEW
Course Description, 2019-2020
and
Growth Mindset
Textbook Questions:
Poverty in America
Speaker Series
: Alternative Assignments
UNIT PLANS (FALL SEMESTER)
Unit 1 -The Invisible Poor
(UPDATED)
/
Review Quizlet
Wealth Inequality in America
(video)
Busted: America's Poverty Myths
A Journey Through a Land in Extreme Poverty: Welcome to America (The Guardian)
There's a Third-World America that No One Notices
(WaPo)
Documentary:
Waging a Living
(assignment)
Extreme Poverty Returns to America
(WaPo)
Ted Talk:
Poverty - Character vs. Cash
Unit 2 -American Scorecard
/
Review Quizlet
PowerPoint:
Causes and Measurement
Handbook Questions
One Lawyer, One Day
(article)
Working Poor Video Questions
Working Poor Resentment
(WaPo)
Video:
Segregated by Design
The Eviction Epidemic (The New Yorker)
Podcast -
Floodlines: The Story of an Unnatural Disaster
(Atlantic)
Unit 3 - War on Poverty, A History of Economic Inequality
Review Quizlet
Civil War -
Article 1
and
Article 2
Wealth in an Industrial Age Article/Questions
Washington vs. Du Bois:
Website
and
Assignment
Cinderella Man Film Assignment
Great Depression Video ?'s
Alternative Assignment for Cinderella Man
The Great Depression, 1929-1939
(ABC/History)
The Great Depression, Crash Course US History
Stories from the Great Depression
(Nat Archives)
Presentation: War on Poverty
Change Comes Knocking
(NC Fund Movie)
Great Society Legislation
Unit 4 - Poverty in North Carolina
NC Poverty: One of the Worst in US
(Gene Nichol Video)
Seeing the Invisible
(News & Observer Series)
Durham: A Self Portrait
(Documentary)
Economic Mobility in the South
(The Atlantic)
Community Organization Assignment
State of Inequality
(WRAL Doc)
Durham/Bill Bell
(IndyWeek)
Living Without a Living Wage
(Washington Post)
Note: This article was written
about Durham
GUIDED READING QUESTIONS
Fall:
The Other America
Spring:
Nickel & Dimed
or
Savage Inequalities
Optional:
There Are No Children Here
UNIT PLANS (SPRING SEMESTER)
Unit 5 - Contemporary Issues, Part I (Updated)
Unit 5 Test:
Alternative Assessment
(Only for those who did not take the test before we left)
Review Quizlet
Article:
What the numbers really tell us about America's public school
Waiting for Superman Discussion Questions
30 Days:
Video
and
Assignment
Presentation:
Minimum Wage
(includes videos)
Should the Minimum Wage Be Increased?
(Pro-Con)
A Tale of Two Minimum Wages
Documentary:
Paycheck to Paycheck
Additional Resources
Poverty's Long Lasting Effects on Students' Education and Success
(Insight Into Diversity)
The Cycle of Educational Failure and Poverty
(Stand Together)
The Effect of Poverty on Education in the United States
(Child Fund International)
11 Facts About Education and Poverty
(DoSomething)
7 Ways Poverty Effects Education
(MoneyWise)
Pay Gap:
Myth vs. Fact
/
Complete Myth
Equal Pay Movement Has These Lessons to Learn
Unit 6 - Contemporary Issues, Part II
Presentation:
Healthcare Legislation
Presentation:
Poverty & Healthcare
The Relationship between Poverty and Mass Incarceration
(The Center for Community Change)
The New Pipeline: Poverty to Prison
(ProsperityNow)
Incarceration
(Stanford Center on Poverty & Inequality)
Criminal Justice Reform
and
Slavery to Mass Incarceration
(EJI)
The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration
(The Atlantic)
Unit 7 - Special Populations
Podcast:
Intersection of Poverty and Stress (Ezra Klein)
Income Mobility Charts
(NY Times)
Unit 8 - Poverty & Pop Culture
From Good Times to Honey Boo Boo
(NPR)
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
Personal Finance & Economics
Personal Financial Literacy
(textbook)