Top 10 Global Issues

You are going to be given 1 Top 10 Global Issue to think more deeply about.

Step 1: You need to think about what smaller categories could fall under this topic.  Try to think of categories that would apply to many countries, even if in different ways.

Step 2: What statistics would help make this issue easier to understand? (5-8)


Step 3: Think about how this issue looks different depending on the country.  How might it show itself to a country considered 'developed' vs a country considered 'still developing'?

What's Happening…Ides of March, 2015

Day to learn about what you want to learn more about!!

Option #1: Yesterday's bombing in Tunisia.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/20/world/middleeast/no-links-seen-between-terrorists-and-gunmen-in-tunisia-museum-attack-premier-says.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/19/world/africa/gunmen-attack-tunis-bardo-national-museum.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

Option #2: Selma -- 50 years later.  Pictures from last weekend's 50th anniversary march

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/50-years-later-selmas-struggle-is-not-over/2015/03/08/8bbd9506-c5bf-11e4-a199-6cb5e63819d2_story.html 

Some of the people in the movie…here's their real story.


Viola Liuozzo -- white woman who is killed the day the march reaches Montgomery. http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2013/08/12/209595935/killed-for-taking-part-in-everybody-s-fight

James Reeb -- priest who is killed in Selma.  http://www.jruuc.org/who-was-james-reeb

John Lewis, SNCC youth leader in Selma and current Congressman from Georgia (28 years and still serving)  http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/rep-john-lewis-on-selma-and-the-memories-it-brings-to-life/2014/12/25/f28bab8c-849d-11e4-b9b7-b8632ae73d25_story.html

Controversy over Lyndon B Johnson's portrayal in the movie  http://www.cbsnews.com/news/critics-say-selma-inaccurately-claims-lbj-clashed-with-mlk-over-civil-rights/ 


Option #3 -- Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Heist…25 years later….who did it?

http://www.gardnermuseum.org/resources/theft 

https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/theater-art/2015/03/14/for-gardner-museum-director-art-heist-set-off-year-odyssey-false-leads-and-loss/FksnFccbQiNonVdYrlOF2K/story.html 

Option 4: ISIS

General Background on who ISIS is and what their goals are
http://www.vox.com/cards/things-about-isis-you-need-to-know/what-is-isis