2013 Schedule

1. topic: news sources
   topic: current issues
   skill: discussion vs debate
   assignment: watch news
   reading: "Persuasion vs. Force" by Mark and Jo Ann Skousen
   assignment: reply to email
   (topics discussed: gun control, abortion, caucus vs election, arab spring/syria)
    
2. report: what news did you watch
   principle: Freedom/Agency
   skill: analysis model
   assignment: watch news and prepare to report orally on something interesting
   reading: watch manufacturing consent
   
   
3. report: oral report on interesting new story
   topic: media analysis, biases, and worldviews, combatting media deception, bias vs non-bias
   skill: writing assignment progression
   assignment: written paragraph on something interesting with opinion
   reading: LDR1, Introduction, Liberty
   
   
4. report: read paragraphs 
   principle: responsibility
   skill: how to post a blog article
   assignment: opinion blog post (link)
   assignment: choose a topic to specialize in (individually or as a class?)
   reading: 1000 year war, intro-8
   
   
5. report: discuss blog posts
   topic: fact checking, research
   skill: googling
   assignment: fact check blog post (link to sources)
   reading: LDR2, Self-defence, financial freedom
   
   
6. principle: duty/reciprocality  (justice?)
   skill: USA Geography quiz
   reading: 1000 year war, 9-15
   assignment: fact check blog post (link to sources)
   
   
7. topic: economics, supply & demand
   reading: LDR3, Welfare and Charity, Preparedness and Self-Reliance
   assignment: blog - POV comparison- describe both points of view on a subject
   
   
8. principle: charity
   reading: 1000 year war, 16-22
   assignment: blog - apply principle
   
   
9. topic: macro-economics, austrian, keynesianism, chicago school, rationality
   reading: LDR4, Education, Civic Duty
   assignment: blog - describe ideal situation
   
   
10. principle: property/ownership/stewardship
    reading: 1000 year war, 23-32
    assignment: blog - what actions move us closer or farther from solution
    
    
11. topic: worldviews? false dichotomies?
    reading: LDR5, Food Production, Family
    assignment: blog - suggest a solution
    
    
12. principle: family (model of government, celestial organization)
    reading: proper role of government, 
    assignment: blog - prediction
    
    
13. principle: decentralization
    reading: power structure in america (Mills) Ron Paul's Farewell Address to Congress
    assignment: draft paper
    
    
14. topic: corruption of capitalism, profit & power
    skill: recognize 3 strata of power
    reading: LDR6, Faith and Morality, Conclusion
    assignment: final paper
    
    
15. principle: morality/integrity/honest/personal moral standards

Skills:

• fact-checking, research 
• recognizing false dichotomies 
• geography 
• apply history to today 
• understanding taxes and debt

Principles

1. freedom/agency
2. responsibility
3. duty/reciprocality
4. morality/integrity/honest/personal moral standards
5. stewardship/property/ownership
6. decentralization
7. charity
8. education
9. family

Writing

• watch news
• oral report
• written report
• opinion
• fact check
• opposing points of view
• principle--apply to news
• describe the ideal
• suggest a solution

Books

The Thousand Year War in the Mideast, by Richard Mayberry
$16.16 on amazon

Latter-day Responsibility, by Connor Boyack
$16.19 on amazon