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Blind Tasks

Clear the center of the room and have four students blindfolded. Then, introduce items into the center and ask the blindfolded students to perform a rudimentary task as a group (make sandwiches with assembled materials, find your backpacks among a pile of the entire class's) while the rest of the class observes. After the task is accomplished, clear the space and blindfold another four students for a new task.

Frontline Real World Crisis

Watch all or part of the Frontline documentary Cheney's Law (available at www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/view). Be sure the students see both sides of the debate over the former vice president. Some argue that faced with the reality of 9/11, Cheney made a decision to protect American lives at any cost. Some argue he used the attacks as an excuse to consolidate executive power and silence dissenting views.

After watching the...

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