In your journal make a quick list of issues that have provoked disagreement between groups of people in your hometown or local community.
Cheerleading is a sport
What to do with the 2 million dollar surplus in our city
Hats in school
I-pods and phones in school
Easy to get into honors courses
Keeping our town ‘small’
Overcrowded High School
Switching from 7 hour days to 6 hour days
School dance policy
Make a quick list of issues that have provoked disagreements on your college campus, and between groups of people in your home state.
Memorial for the 35 bridge collapse
Drinking age
Future of parking at NCC
Tuition costs
Smoking Indoors
New stadium for the Vikings
Think about issues—local, statewide, regional, national—that have touched your life or could affect you in some way in the following areas: environmental, health care, civil rights, business, education, crime or sports. Make a quick list of questions within these areas you wonder about. For example, Will I be able to afford to send my children to college in twelve years?
Will I collect social security when I am older?
Is our earth going to use up all its resources?
How expensive will gas prices become?
Will new technology be created to suppress them?
Is our nation headed towards socialism?
Will the NFL play next year?
Will the unions get disbanded for teachers?
Will crime rates continue to grow?
Can cancer be cured?
What is more important…freedom of speech or the right to privacy?
Jot down a list of classes you are taking this semester. Then make a quick list of topics that prompt disagreements among the people in the field you are studying or plan to study. For instance, in political science, people continue to debate whether the electoral college is useful anymore or not.
Spanish 2200
Should people who immigrate have to learn English?
How can we embrace other cultures?
AP BC Calculus
Nothing really.. Maybe over whether or not it is useful in life
Economics
How should our economy run?
How much government should be involved?
Humanities
What is considered art?
Do things like dance count as art?
Are people born artists?
Can anything be called art?
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