World Issues Monday

Topic for this week :Resources Issues

We are going to examine articles from this site

http://www.oneworld.net/

and this one

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons/01/g68/iraqoil.html

These are some questions we will discuss

• What are your initial reactions to a spike in fuel prices and the coming oil shortage?
  
• How might your life have to change? How serious are those changes? How ready are you to make them?
  
• How do you think life might change for other people? Will this affect you?
  
• Why did oil prices rise so fast? Why did the announcement "an oil shortage is coming" cause fuel prices to rise immediately?
  
• Some say that in the United States we are "addicted to oil." Do you see truth in that statement? Why or why not?

Some issues we will be examining in this class include:

Religion
Social class systems
Education
Environment
Food
Poverty
War
Disease
Natural Resources

This is the breakdown of topics for Unit 1

Chapter 1:  Canadian World Issues
  What Is Your Point of View?
  What Is an Issue?
  Distinguishing Opinions from Facts
  How May Bias Be Detected? 
 
Chapter 2:  What Do You Know of the World?
  Classifying Countries
  Your Paper Map of the World

Chapter 3:  Two Themes for World Issues
  Globalization
  Sustainability
  Resources and Resource Use
  Different Views of Our World
  The Need for Sustainable Development