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An Introduction to Income Inequality in America: Economics, History, Law

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CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 18.01.07

Unit Guide

Economic Inequality: What It Is, How It Affects Our Lives, and What We Can Do About It

Eden C. Stein

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Lesson Guide with Classroom Activities

Lesson Title	Content	Strategies and Activities
“A World of Money”	View documentary about the history of money in human society and become familiar with basic economic terms	Cornell note taking while viewing documentary Responding to text-based questions Class discussion
Introduction to economic systems	Handouts on market, command, and market economies	Graphic organizers for comparing and contrasting
Quality of Life	Define and describe measures of infant mortality, life expectancy, birth rate, death rate, literacy rate, poverty rate, per capita income, gross domestic product and unemployment in various cultures.	Examining, interpreting and summarizing data
Economic Inequality in The Hunger Games	Reading nonfiction text from an adult mainstream periodical entitled “Five Economic Lessons of The Hunger Games ”	Cornell note-taking on written text Participating in small group and whole class discussion.
Economic Inequality: The American Dream Under Siege	Reading core text including graphs and figures Viewing data from the World Inequality database Listing to a podcast from Planet Money Viewing sections of the feature film “The Divide” Examining a New York Times interactive on generational mobility Viewing the brief documentary “Raise the Wage”	Cornell note-taking on written text Responding to text-based questions Examining, interpreting and summarizing data Connecting fiction and nonfiction Connecting print and non-print media Evaluating bias in print and non-print text Participate in classroom discussion and debate
Examining Economic Inequality via cartoons	Viewing cartoons online.	Choosing a cartoon Interpreting the meaning of a political cartoon Presenting a brief oral presentation to the class
What We Can Do	Researching and reading nonfiction text Writing an argumentative essay	Choose a possible solution to economic inequality from our core text to focus on Conduct independent research on the chosen text with the help of the teacher and library media specialist Use a writing process to draft and write an argumentative essay Create a digital presentation and present it to the class.

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