About This Lesson
ESSENTIAL QUESTION: HOW DOES EXTREMIST POLITICAL PARTY THINKING RESULT IN POOR CHOICES IN TERMS OF VOTING AND PUBLIC POLICYMAKING?
Objective: To have students analyze and evaluate how extremist political party thinking results in poor judgment in terms of voting and public policy
Citations:
Video: Interview with Arlie Russell Hochschild – Author of A Stranger In Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right
https://www.c-span.org/video/?416749-3/arlie-russell-discusses-strangers-land (52:19 mins) - Show first 10 minutes
Hochschild, Arlie Russell (2016) A Stranger In Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right. New York: The New Press (Pgs. 4-55; 79, 94-102, 225-230)
Trump’s Meeting Al Gore Gives Environmental Activists Hope (The New York Times, December 5, 2016) –
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/05/us/politics/climate-change-trump-al-gore.html?_r=0
