Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Scribe Period 3 1/28/15 Haley Lewin

Homework: Read chapters 1-5, 3 questions; 1 textual questions with quotes, 2 higher level thinking questions (Connections to 1984)

During Class 

  • DOL 7 (Grammar) 
    • Sentence 1: 1 subject 
      •  Independent Clause - Simple Sentence 
    • Sentence 2: 1 subject 
      • Independent Clause - Simple Sentence  
  • Guest Speaker: Mr. Eschew 
    • Kids don't understand the historical significance of the government
      • don't understand how the government has changed 
    • Changes
    • People are always being filmed 
      • Do you value security or privacy? Which would you give up? 
      • September 11, 2001 they valued privacy
      • September 12, they valued security 
      • Different generations remember different things 
        • freshman weren't born in the 20th century 
        • Generation Gap 
        • Technology improvements
    • Patriot Act: October 26th, 2001
      • 5-6 weeks after 9/11 
      • Rushed through Congress 
        • Opponents have criticized the indefinite detentions of immigrants 
      • Good result in stopping terrorists
        • Bad Things: No privacy, people can charge innocent people 
      • Roving wire taps: no search warrants
        • You call a terrorist, they can tap you
          • They can look at who you call, and who they call, and so on 
        • Is this right?
          • Civil Liberties 
            • Haven't actually caught terrorists 
    • NSA: National Security Agency 
      • Patriot Act has given them more authorization 
      • Edward Snowden: subcontractor who had access to what the NSA was doing
        • Traitor or Hero? 
        • Thought that what they were doing was wrong 
        • Released documents saying that they can find anything on your phone 
          • Released it to a reporter from the Guardian 
        •  Information
          • Tapped foreign leader's phones 
          • AT&T, Google, Verizon; NSA has access to every text, phone call, email, searches 
            • Is that OK? 
              • No, because they wanted to be sneaky and didn't tell anyone 
          •  Webcams: They can spy on you through the cameras with microprocessors 
            • They can turn the camera on whenever, and the light doesn't come on  
            • Hacker's do this as well 
      • Building a massive building in Utah to store all of the data  
      • Nicknamed the "Bumblebee Hive" 
        • One leader, the rest are drones 
      •  Has the government gone too far? 
      • Where is the line? 
        • Telescreens (1984) : the camera on your computer 
      •  Do you value privacy or not? 
        • Are you OK with other people having your information?
          • Does it matter whether you are aware of it or not?  
      • Are you OK with carrying something that tracks you?
        • Kids are OK with Apple and the government having their information
        • Not OK with the school having their information 
          • A fact of whether you can choose it or not  
        • More affected by the things close to home than the people who are far away and won't do anything about it  
          • Could be used for a good thing 
      •  Denmark
        • Has CCTV's that monitor the population 
          • One of the happiest countries in the world 

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