Discovery Discussion Debate

Economic Inequality
There are many issues associated with this topic. This story will introduce the ideas of culture and women. Defining this idea is key to developing a well structured understanding of this topic. Dr. Paul R. Friesen

Discovery Discussion Debate

Title:
The Hard Truth About Economic Inequality That Both the Left and Right Ignore

Discover Ideas
(Outline(

Discuss the Story

(3 Question Levels)
Create Opinions

Debate

Defend your Opinions

Economic Inequality

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Look through the idea, front to back. The ideas in red are just ideas. Students should add to these. There is an outline page for Discovery. There are graphic organizer pages for the Discussion and Debate sections. The reason for the worksheets, at the end of the book, is to help you work systematically through the material. Worksheets are helpers and can be a distraction from the rhythm and sequence in your teaching. By putting them at the end they become support pages versus places to stop, giving a smoother presentation.

Discovery
In the beginning of each story you will have a few questions to discover what you know, or think you know about a story. The Title of the article/ story will be given and you will be asked to discover the story by asking good questions. In the second part of discovery you will be asked to find words which you do not know. Some of these may be highlighted already in bold. Definitions will follow to help you discover what the writer is talking about. Discovery will help you form a plan for the discussion and debate.

Discussion
Discussion is not a debate, though it can quickly become one if there are strong opposing ideas in the group. Discussion can be a part of the discovery before you read the story. It may also come after to discuss the ideas of the story. Sometimes a persons views may change after reading the article, which is a good way to start a discussion. Discussion is interaction without a lot of structure. Be careful not to confuse discussion with argument. Debate is about argument. Discussion is about sharing your views and interacting with others who want to expand or give a differing viewpoint.

Debate
Debate is a structured idea. It means that only one person speaks in turn, and with a specific point to address. It also has a time limit, so the speaker must be precise in their argument. In a debate the key is to listen and be prepared to oppose the other teams ideas. It takes research, a lot of work, and patience. In the following story we want to begin with discovery ideas. What can you know from a title, if you dont know about the topic?

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In discovery you will form ideas to create basics ideas for an outline. In discussion you will ask questions to help you build an outline for your viewpoint. In debate you will separate the outline into two sections, for and against. At each stage you will be able to use what you have learned before, to expand on your ideas and understand both sides of the issue.

Category ~ Economic Inequality

Discovery
Title: The Hard Truth About Economic Inequality
What can you know from the title? . __________________________________________ . __________________________________________ . __________________________________________ . __________________________________________ What do I know about this topic? . __________________________________________ . __________________________________________ . __________________________________________ . __________________________________________ What drives me to success? . __________________________________________ . __________________________________________ . __________________________________________ . __________________________________________ Have you ever had a problem with rich people cheating poor people? No! Why not? Yes! What did you do, and why? ___________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________
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That Both the Left and Right Ignore

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. Now read the story. . Create an outline of the story / paragraphs. . There are highlighted words you will find following the story. . Look in the definitions, which follow the story. . Discover the words you dont know.

Economic Inequality
The Hard Truth About Economic Inequality That Both the Left and Right Ignore
April 11, 2013 http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/author/jerry-muller/ Jerry Muller: Inequality is increasing almost everywhere in the post-industrial capitalist world. Despite what many think, this is not the result of politics, nor is politics likely to reverse it. The problem is more deeply rooted and intractable than generally recognized. Inequality is an inevitable product of capitalist activity, and expanding equality of opportunity only increases it -- because some individuals, families, and communities are simply better able than others to exploit the opportunities for development and advancement that today's capitalism affords. Some of the very successes of western capitalist societies in expanding access and opportunity, combined with recent changes in technology and economics, have contributed to increasing inequality. And at the nexus of economics and society is the family, the changing shape and role of which is an often overlooked factor in the rise of inequality. Though capitalism has opened up ever more opportunities for the development of human potential, not everyone has been able to take full advantage of those opportunities or to progress very far once they have done so. Formal or informal barriers to equality of opportunity, for example, have historically blocked various sectors of the population -- such as women, minorities, and poor people -- from benefiting fully from all capitalism offers. But over time, in the advanced capitalist world, those barriers have gradually been lowered or removed, so that now opportunity is more equally available than ever before. The inequality that exists today arguably derives less from the unequal availability of opportunity than it does from the unequal ability to exploit opportunity. And that unequal ability, in turn, stems from differences in the inherent human potential that individuals begin with and in the ways that families and communities enable and encourage that human potential to flourish.

The Role of the Family

The role of the family in shaping individuals' ability and inclination to make use of the means of cultivation that capitalism offers is hard to overstate. The household is
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not only a site of consumption and of biological reproduction. It is also the main setting in which children are socialized, civilized, and educated, in which habits are developed that influence their subsequent fates as people and as market actors. To use the language of contemporary economics, the family is a workshop in which human capital is produced. In a seminal book of 1973, the sociologist Daniel Bell noted that, in the advanced capitalist world, knowledge, science, and technology were driving a transformation to what he termed "post-industrial society." Just as manufacturing had previously displaced agriculture as the major source of employment, he argued, so the service sector was now displacing manufacturing. In a post-industrial, knowledge-based economy, the production of manufactured goods depended more on technological inputs than on the skills of the workers who actually built and assembled the products. That meant a relative decline in the need for and economic value of skilled and semiskilled factory workers -- just as there had previously been a decline in the need for and value of agricultural labourers. In such an economy, the skills in demand included scientific and technical knowledge and the ability to work with information. The revolution in information technology that has swept through the economy in recent decades, meanwhile, has only exacerbated these trends.

The Rising Status of Women

One crucial impact of the rise of the post-industrial economy has been on the status and roles of men and women. Men's relative advantage in the pre-industrial and industrial economies rested in large part on their greater physical strength -something now ever less in demand. Women, in contrast, whether by biological disposition or socialization, have had a relative advantage in human skills and emotional intelligence, which have become increasingly more important in an economy more oriented to human services than to the production of material objects. The portion of the economy in which women could participate has expanded, and their labour has become more valuable -- meaning that time spent at home now comes at the expense of more lucrative possibilities in the paid work force. This has led to the growing replacement of male-breadwinner/female-homemaker households by dual-income households. Both advocates and critics of the move of women into the paid economy have tended to overemphasize the role played in this shift by the ideological struggles of feminism, while underrating the role played by changes in the nature of capitalist production. The redeployment of female labour from the household has been made possible, in part, by the existence of new commodities that cut down on necessary household labour time (such as washing machines, dryers, dishwashers, etc.). The trend for women to receive more education and greater professional attainments has been accompanied by changing social norms in the choice of marriage partners. In the age of the breadwinner/homemaker marriage, which predominated from the nineteenth century and the first two thirds of the twentieth, women tended to place a premium on earning capacity in their choice of partners. Men, in turn, valued the homemaking capacities of potential spouses more than their vocational attainments. It
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was not unusual for men and women to marry partners of roughly the same intelligence, but women tended to marry men of higher levels of education and economic achievement. As the economy has passed from an industrial economy to a post-industrial service and information economy, women have joined men in attaining recognition through paid work, and the industrious couple today is more likely to be made of peers, with more equal levels of education and more comparable levels of economic achievement -- a process termed "assortative mating."

Vocabulary Definitions Find the colored words and look them up in the dictionary. __________ 1. _________________________________________________ __________ 2. _________________________________________________ __________ 3. _________________________________________________ __________ 4. _________________________________________________ __________ 5. _________________________________________________ __________ 6. _________________________________________________ __________ 7. _________________________________________________ __________ 8. ________________________________________________
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Discovery
What do I know about this topic?
List at least four (4) different ideas you have found in this story about economic inequality.

. __________________________________________ . __________________________________________ . __________________________________________ . __________________________________________

Use them when you make your outline.

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Discovery Discussion Debate Discussion

Level I 1. In your opinion what causes inequality? 2. In your opinion is being wealthy a good or bad thing? 3. What do you think of rich people? 4. What do you think of poor people. Level II 1. 2. 3. 4. If you were rich, what would you do with the money? If your life was controlled by rich people how would you feel? Do females, in your country have to work harder for the same money as males? Is money a good measure of equality value? Explain.

Level III 1. 2. 3. 4. Are gender and economic inequality equal? What causes inequality? What are effective solutions to bridging the gap of economic inequality? What would you change in your country to achieve a better balance economically?

You now have everything you need to fill out your outline. Look at your answers, under Discussion, and fill it out to reflect the new ideas. These new ideas will help you form your debate ideas better.

Before you debate go to this url

http://www.debate.org/debates/Income-inequality-does-not-equal-economicinequality/1/ You will find many ideas about this debate topic for reference later.

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Discovery Discussion Debate Debate

In debate you will have a statement not a question. You have to react to the statement with facts, not opinions. Discussions are based a lot on opinions and answer questions. This is where these two ideas, though similar, are different. Debate is about facts and statements. When you make a statement, from a story, you must consider what the core issue is. If you have made a good outline, you will have this already discovered. This story is economic inequality. The core issue could be; ________________ ________________ ________________ ________________ In todays world the topics could range from; ____________________________ ____________________________ ____________________________ ____________________________ These are all good arguments that you would want to research for your argument, or write in your essay. Build the argument starting from Why? Once you have determined the Why? you can find facts to support your idea.

Debate Debate Statement

To help balance the economy people should be limited in the amount of wealth they hold. Rich people should bear the load of economic inequality. Freedom is about choice. Inequality is caused by a lack of desire to change our choices. Before you start choose one of the above statements to focus on. Choose a for or against position. Research to find FACTS for your position. List the facts. Write out your argument in a long paragraph format. Include the opposite position in your writing.

You need to write out both sides so you can understand the other sides argument.

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Discovery Discussion Debate Discovery Outline

Main topic ________________________ Find one (1) key idea in each paragraph. (3-5 words) Paragraph 1 ______________________________ Paragraph 2 ______________________________ Paragraph 3 ______________________________ Paragraph 4 ______________________________ Paragraph 5 ______________________________ Write two things about the main paragraph idea. Paragraph 1 ______________________________ A. ______________________________ B. ______________________________ Paragraph 2 ______________________________ A. ______________________________ B. ______________________________ Paragraph 3 ______________________________ A. ______________________________ B. ______________________________ Paragraph 4 ______________________________ A. ______________________________ B. ______________________________ Paragraph 5 ______________________________ A. ______________________________ B. ______________________________ In the introduction you use the 5 paragraph ideas to communicate the order of your argument/ essay. In the conclusion you repeat what you have said about the points of each paragraph.

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Graphic Organization ~ Main topic = 5 Paragraph Topics

paragraph 1 ____________ ____________ ____________ ____________

paragraph 5 ____________ ____________ ____________ ____________

Main topic

paragraph 2 ____________ ____________ ____________ ____________

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paragraph 3 ____________ ____________ ____________ ____________

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Discussion Graphic ~ Is obesity a problem / becoming a problem in todays society? Answer ~ I think obesity is (is not) a problem, because

Problem / Economic Inequality

Companies should be required to fund social programs which help balance economic inequality

Gender equality should be a law to help with gender inequality.

Freedom means choice. To limit force equality is to interfere with this choice.

Respond

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Respond

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Discovery Discussion Debate Debate graphic ~ choose one statement from the Debate Statement list
above. Write it here _____________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ To make your argument you should understand that they are connected. In the next two charts (1) list your argument facts and ideas, (2) show how your argument connects to both the center point and the other points.

Facts
For 1 Against

Add more if needed

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Discovery Discussion Debate Debate graphic ~ choose one statement from the Debate Statement list
above.

If this -- then

If this -- then

Write your statement position here. ________________________________________ ________________________________________ ________________________________________ ______________________________

If this -- then

If this -- then

If this -- then

Now start the Debate. As a team choose which points they will speak about. Each person will listen for the opposite point and create a new response to what the other person has said. A: point 1 B: responds to the point and give a new point. C: responds to B and give a new point. After all persons have spoken each person can respond to any point given by the opposite team, or add more points from their team which will need responding to from the opposite team.

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Dear Teacher/ Student, After you have finished this please look for more in this series to challenge yourself. This is only part of a curriculum. It starts with Dr. Roys Everything Grammar. Dr. Roys Everything Grammar Volumes I and II will develop the skills of story and essay writing, while at the same time building a foundation in grammar. The repetition of grammar, combined with reason and speaking, culminating in a story or essay will prepare students for this series. Going beyond this book is a book to expand the outlines into essays. Good essays are able to build and defend an argument. Building a structure for debate will springboard off this skill set.

Dr. Paul R. Friesen

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