Assignment: Google onto: http://www.hawaii-nation.org/soa.html
Reader Response for December 2008
Due December 1, 2008

PROMPT: Do you think or feel that change was beneficial for native Hawaiians?
Why or Why not?

Write an opinion paragraph(s) in response to the above prompt.

Standards/Benchmark: SS7HHK.3.7 - Analyze the roles of significant individuals (including King Kalakaua, Queen Lili'uokalani, James Blount, Presidents Cleveland/Harrison, Lorrin Thurston,
Sanfored Dole, John Stevens.) and groups (such as Annexationist Club, Hawaiian League,
Aloha Aina) and their involvement in the Overthrow.

GLO's - GLO # 1 Self Directed Learner
GLO # 3 Complex Thinker
GLO # 5 Effective Communicator
GLO # 6 Effective and Ethical User of Technology

Consider the charges of insurrection against Colonel Wilcox and Prince David Kawananakoa. The lop-sided tribunal against Queen Lili'uokalani in 1895. Finally, consider James Blount's investigation in the overthrow.

Vocabulary: Insurrection, revolution, coup d'etat, conspiracy, manipulate, pretext.

Sample Assessment: The student analyzes how the Overthrow was the consequence of the actions and ideas of individuals and groups. Use compelling and relevant evidence to justify your position.

Example:
Change has greatly devasted the native Hawaiians in terms of cultural losses and despondency when the intentions of the 1848 Great Mahele of giving natives Kuleana lands failed.
Advisors of King David Kalakaua who were filled with self-aggrandizement duped Hawaiian king into signing the Bayonet Constitution, called that because this document stripped the monarch of almost all powers. Treacherous and greedy Cabinet members of Queen Lili'uokalani such as Lorrin Thurston, Sanford Dole, and John L. Stevens perpetrated a coup d'etat that would imprison the queen in her own palace for over two years.

Assignment: Prepare for Debate

Assignment: Students - Look into our upcoming debate by querying this question:

Should the Federal government bailout financial institutions, large corporations, and distressed homeowners?

Review the business cycl. Read about the transition from President Hoover's Republican administration to President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Democratic administration. Compare and contrast this transition to the Bush-Obama exchange.

1) What are the comparisons and contrasts?
2) What would you do to prevent inflation?
3) What would you do to prevent a massive unemployment like our 1930's Depression?
4) Thoughts or ideas to solve the problem?
5) What kinds of legislation is needed in Obama's administration to prevent this financial chaos?
6) How are we going to get the funding to pay for the war and bailouts?

Instructor: Gregory Wong