Black Lives Matter

Should we allow police officers to keep on taking black lives? In the Declaration of
Independence, it says that we have the opportunity of happiness, freedom and the feeling of safety. How
are black lives supposed to feel safe if they are being killed by the authorities. Black Lives Matter is the
movement to stop the racial inequality and bring equality to us all. The Police brutality makes it look like
black people dont matter, which leads to a huge percentage of our population feeling unsafe. This issue
isnt something that should keep on happening because were living in a civilized age and the land of the
free.
The way Justice is approached in the USA is many policemen wont be held accountable for
killing a Black person. Why is being held accountable even important? It sends a message that there are
consequences for killing black lives. Being held accountable sends a message to the people all around the
nation that black lives arent dispensable. Some people say that blue lives matter, but they choose to
become an officer. On the other hand, Blacks dont have the choice to be black. In other words, when an
officer is killed, the killer is brought to justice which shows that their life already matters. For you to
become a great President, you should be informed of the Black Lives Matter movement. There's black
people around the US that have been brutally killed just because they seem dangerous. Someones
prejudice doesnt give them the right to go on and kill the threat. No matter what type of skin you have
you should not be color coded. You deserve the same equality and the same Justice system. The
sentencing of a black person tends to be more severe than a white person. Is it wrong being black? Society
makes it seem like African Americans aren't worth anything. As a Mexican, I can't even imagine how
hard it is to grow up as an African American in our society today. Since our country states, "all people are
equal," I have to wonder, has this ever been true, America?
Its time to move away from a world where Black people feel unsafe. Making all people feel safe
is the first step to a place where equality does exist. In the office that you will be sitting at you have the
power to make the change happen. The best move as President will be to change our Justice system to
make sure everyone gets the proper Justice they need and deserve to have. The government needs to
provide Black people with what the founding fathers said we all should have. We are living in the same
country where slavery was allowed, but hopefully, one day being born black doesnt mean youre guilty
or deserve to be killed. One day I hope that a Black person walking down the street will feel confident
enough to know they won't be endangered.

-Cesar Villalobos

Schedule
Week 1-2
Aug. 29Sept. 9
Week 3-4
Sept. 12 Sept. 23

Topics Covered

Week 5-6
Sept. 26 Oct. 7

Week 7-10
Oct. 10 Nov. 3

Project
Benchmarks

Early Foundations of American History

Road to Revolution
Declaration of Independence
Making of the Constitution & Government
American Leadership
Defining the Role of the American Presidency
Elements of an Effective & Least Effective
President
Studying Leadership -Analysis of the Top 10
American Presidents

50 for 50 Contest
Letter to the
President
Due Sept. 21

Making of a President
Electoral college vs. popular vote
Evolution of political campaigns in US History
Role of the Media
Shifts in the Electorate - who can/cant vote
Third Party
Running a Presidential Campaign
Each campaign team will be responsible for
knowing the core issues of that Candidates
platform & running a successful campaign

Exhibition:
Voter Info Night
Nov. 2
*Truth
Campaign Video
*Townhall
Debate
Voting Day!! HTHI Polling
Place

Week 11

Voting Day!

#Isidewith&why

NAME

CATEGORY

ISSUE

Sarah J

Economy

Jobs
Tax Plans

Terrell K

Economy

Income
MIlitary Spending

Cesar V

Economy

Government
Spending
Foreign Policy

Aaron S

Foreign Policy

China
ISIS

Andy W

Foreign Policy

Middle East
North Korea

Nymeisha S

Foreign Policy

Nuclear Deals

Miah A

Social

Abortion

Sarah E

Social

Education
Healthcare

Sarah M

Social

Immigration
Paid Leave/Family

Nolan M

Economy

President
Hillary Clinton

Jerry D-Riva

Foreign Policy

Vice President
Tim Kaine

Matthew H

Social

Campaign Manager

Election Project Roles/Issues Worksheet

Name:

Cesar Villalobos

Candidate Name:

Hillary Clinton

Campaign Role:

Economy

Issue: Government Spending

What does your candidates website say?

Link:

hillaryclinton.com

Quotes:

Military: As president, Hillary will prioritize defense reform initiatives

Social Security: I won't cut Social Security. ... I'll defend it, and I'll expand it.
Education: Hillary will work to dismantle the school-to-prison pipeline by
providing $2 billion in support to schools to reform overly punitive disciplinary
policies

Notes:
Summary (This should be like an opening statement in the debate!)
Hillary is planning to invest more into our social security plan, improve our military spending
and reform our discipline tactics in education.

What does an outside source say that SUPPORTS your candidates position?

Link:

https://www.usaspending.gov/Pages/default.aspx
https://www.nationalpriorities.org/budget-basics/federal-budget-101/spending/

Quotes:

Ensure that every Veteran gets timely access to top-quality care through the VA or
private Medicare providers if the VA cannot provide timely access. Fix VA corruption
and help Veterans find good paying jobs. Veterans should come first in the country
they fought to protect, and under a Trump Administration they will.
-Donald Trump

https://www.hillaryclinton.com/issues/
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_EptloiRTk_jsAZbH_LC9GRVnPhEVGtY-vCjhsuaaBc
/edit

As of 2015 the total federal spending was 3.8 Trillion. 33.26% was spend on Social security,
Medicare & health 27.42%, Veterans benefits 4.19% and others, these are a few of many
issues that shell like to address this

Fact Checking Worksheet

1. Copy and Paste your Opening Statement for your ISSUE. Highlight the FACTS,
STATISTICS, EVIDENCE that are mentioned in your speech.
Hillarys priorities in government spending are social security, the military and
education. She wants to invest in our social security plan, improve our military spending and
reform our discipline tactics in education.
Hillary is planning to to improve the Social Security plan nation wide by putting more
taxes on the wealthiest people. This money will benefit people who are neglected by the social
security system.
Hillary is also planning to address our education system. Hillary will increase the
teachers salaries because our future lies in their classrooms. Also hillary will revise the ways our
children are being punished at school. Her website states: Hillary will work to dismantle the
school-to-prison pipeline by providing $2 billion in support to schools to reform overly punitive
disciplinary policies.
Hillary wants to invest money in our military to modernize our weapons and prepare for
internet warfare. She also wants to increase veterans health benefits. In particular, she wants to
ensure that the Veterans Association becomes more efficient. By doing this, more and more
veterans will have access to benefits such as mental health care and education.
Another candidate, Donald Trump, agrees with Hillary that the veterans should get more
support. He believe we should prioritise veterans health care.
Hillarys overview on government spending is to help improve the VA department, to help
our social security by making it accessible to the poor and investing in the education system.

2. Check out what other fact-checkers have said about EACH specific statement. USE THE
FOLLOWING WEBSITES: Politifact ; Factcheck.org, theWashington Posts Fact
Checker; SNOPES-- credit them appropriately!!
Tax plan: Trump said Clinton was raising everybodys taxes massively, when two analyses
concluded almost all of the tax increases she proposes would fall on the top 10 percent.
(Factcheck.org).
Increase teacher salary: Hillary said "Thanks to (North Carolinas) governor and the legislature,
the average teacher salary can barely support a family." This was found to be mostly false
(Politifact).
Veterans: When Donald Trump said that Hillary was okay with the VA, Host Matt Lauer cut

in, saying, "No, no, she went on after that and laid out a litany of problems within the VA."
(Politifact).
______________________________________________________________________________

OPENING STATEMENT
[speech MUST HAVE direct references (quotes, statistics, evidence) stated by your candidate
& presents the Candidates position accurately**, thoroughly, and persuasively.]
** for the candidate
ISSUE: Government spending
SPEECH:
Hillarys priorities in government spending are social security, the military and
education. She wants to invest in our social security plan, improve our military spending and
reform our discipline tactics in education.
Hillary is planning to improve the Social Security plan nation wide by putting more
taxes on the wealthiest people. This money will benefit people who are neglected by the social
security system.
Hillary is also planning to address our education system. Hillary will increase the
teachers salaries because our future lies in their classrooms. Also hillary will revise the ways
our children are being punished at school. Her website states: Hillary will work to dismantle
the school-to-prison pipeline by providing $2 billion in support to schools to reform overly
punitive disciplinary policies.
Hillary wants to invest money in our military to modernize our weapons and prepare for
internet warfare. She also wants to increase veterans health benefits. In particular, she wants to
ensure that the Veterans Association becomes more efficient. By doing this, more and more
veterans will have access to benefits such as mental health care and education.
Another candidate, Donald Trump, agrees with Hillary that the veterans should get
more support. He believe we should prioritise veterans health care.
Hillarys overview on government spending is to help improve the VA department, to
help our social security by making it accessible to the poor and investing in the education
system.
-thank you

OPENING STATEMENT
[speech MUST HAVE direct references (quotes, statistics, evidence) stated by your candidate
& presents the Candidates position accurately**, thoroughly, and persuasively.]
** for the candidate
ISSUE: Trade
SPEECH:
Hillary Clintons stance on trading is practical. She will allow trading with countries only if it
helps the US create jobs.
With China, this doesnt seem to be the case. With China, Hillary wants to be secure on
allowing trading to happen. The New York Times said Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump
both want to file more trade cases against China and impose more tariffs. They want to
investigate how the Chinese government subsidizes businesses. Clinton wants to take these
actions because this system isnt making anymore jobs. Its necessary to keep our relation with
China because the American people rely on their products but our current trade agreement
isnt helping the United States economy like its helping Chinas.
Hillary Clinton is also critical of other trade agreements. She is against the North American
Free Trade Agreement, the Central American Free Trade Agreement, and the Trans Pacific
Partnership because she believes they wont help the USA to create more jobs. She said hat
"Any trade deal has to produce jobs and raise wages and increase prosperity and protect our
security.(Ontheissues.org). Hillary believes that any trade agreements should be able to create
jobs in the U.S. instead of hurting our economy. Also, she wants to make sure that our national
security is protected with these agreements.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/30/business/international/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-trade
-china.html?_r=0
http://www.ontheissues.org/celeb/Hillary_Clinton_Free_Trade.htm

#TRUTHCAMPAIGN AD
BACKGROUND:
These days the political ADs fuel the political games and r hetoric. Rhetoric has become this dramatized and quite
ugly persuasive style that has 1) spur strong feelings against the other candidates 2) rally followers for the
candidates political cry 3) Polarize the Nation 4) demonize the opposer
The ADS themselves are constructed with such dramatic flair that some critics have come up with the template
design to mock the current campaign advertisements. In our #TRUTHCAMPAIGN ad portion of our Election, we
are going to IMPROVE THIS.
We are going to DISRUPT this and present a new version of campaign ads.
DIRECTIONS:
As a Field Team, you will be creating a #TruthCampaign Video that addresses your topics and reveals the Validity
of the topics behind the smoke screen of political rhetoric.
OUR #TRUTHCAMPAIGN will Present the VALIDITY of the Candidates Statements
Show ACTUAL PROOF/ FACT_CHECKING
Improve the Rhetoric
Still needs to have the Entertainment Value
Have a CLEAR TAKEAWAY

Step 1: Collect the FACT Checking Sheet into this one document
Topic:

Quote/
Evidence

Fact-checking Proof

Fact-Checking Verdict

ISIS

Obama said, "If you look

worldwide, the number of
terrorist incidents have not
substantially increased."

There is no universally accepted

definition of a terrorist incident, so
there is no universally accepted count.
Based on State Department data, theres
been a 7 percent increase in terrorist
attacks worldwide from 2009 to 2015.
But the State Departments criteria for
what can be counted as a terrorist attack
is stricter than that of other databases.
According to STARTs Global
Terrorism Database, for instance, there
was a 214 percent rise in terrorist
attacks from 2009 to 2015, a substantial

Mostly False

increase. - Politifact

Tax Plans:
Creating a fair tax
system

Its outrageous that

multi-millionaires and
billionaires are allowed to play
by a different set of rules than
hardworking families, especially
when it comes to paying their fair
share of taxes. (Stated on
Hillary Clintons campaign
website)

Jobs:
Creating more

The economy will create 10.4

million jobs under Hillary
proposal in her first term alone.
https://www.hillaryclinton.com/f
eed/new-report-the-economy-will
-create-10-4-million-new-jobs-un
der-hillarys-proposal-in-her-firstterm-alone/

Income: Raising the

the minimum wage

Hillary wants to increase the

minimum wage for families
because she thinks it will help
poverty.

www.latimes.com/business/la-fiminimum-wage-impacts-201604
21-snap-htmlstory.html

Military spending

Hillary wants to use the 9/11 gi

It would significantly raise the

tax burden of the countrys
highest earners
People bringing more than
$730,000 a year would see
their tax burden go up by more
than $78,000 on average
In 2012, 20% of large U.S.
corporations ended up paying
nothing in corporate income
taxes.
http://money.cnn.com/2016/04
/13/pf/taxes/gao-corporate-tax
es/

True

Make the biggest investment

in new, good paying jobs since
World War II during her first
100 days in office
It is a stretch to say that she
would create over 10 million
jobs when in reality, her plans
would add about 3 million
additional jobs that would've
not happened without her.
http://money.cnn.com/2016/08
/17/news/economy/hillary-clin
ton-10-million-jobs/

Somewhat true

Her income plan would help

people get by
Raising minimum can cause
inflation in which
unemployment rate will go up
The dramatic change in
minimum wage could end up
increases the income gap
between rich and poor states
It can increase the
unemployment rate among the
minorities

Mostly false

She wants to use the 9/11 Gi

Mostly true

bill to help our veterans get the

help they need to be normal
civilians

bill to support our veterans

Hillary wants to focus on

relocating our troops and
working on our resources
income. Neither of the

current presidential
forerunners, Hillary Clinton
and Donald Trump, has so
far detailed a proposed
defense budget.?

Education

Foreign Affair

Hillarys website says she will

launch a campaign to help
increase teacher salaries. She
also said:"Thanks to (North
Carolinas) governor and the
legislature, the average teacher
salary can barely support a
family."

Hillary said: Hillary wants to

support foreign countries to take
out ISIS with either money,
troops or weapons.

http://www.kiplinger.com/artic
le/spending/T043-C000-S001where-clinton-and-trump-stan
d-on-defense-spending.html
http://www.politifact.com/trut
h-o-meter/statements/2011/dec
/19/michelle-obama/michelleobama-credits-president-newgi-bill/

According to Politifact.com,
teachers salaries can support a
family.

Professor Michael Desch from

University of Notre Dame says For
example, she advocated continuing
U.S. leadership in this fight, but also
wanted us to limit our role to airpower
and special operations forces, and
avoid a major ground commitment.
This even as she admitted that a ground
campaign is essential to the goal of
destroying ISIS. To square that circle,
Clinton demanded local actors play the
major role on the ground. But she did
not explain how, if the United States
continues to lead the fight, as we have
been, other regional actors have any
incentive to do much more
themselves? (CNN).

Mostly False

Somewhat true

Government Spending

She will close tax loopholes

that let Wall Street money
managers pay lower rates than
some middle-class families.
(Hillaryclinton.com).

According to the Committee for a

Responsible Federal Budget, Hillary
wants to change the way we spend our
money. She wants to increase funding
to higher education, healthcare, and
energy research. She will pay for this
by reforming the way the government
gains money. She will do this by
increasing business taxes.

Mostly True

STEP 2: Start Collecting the Evidence/Stock Footage Library [Video, Image, Quote]

TYPE

CONTENT

Resource

Video

Generic Video of how bad campaigns are

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2016/
04/11/generic-presidential-camp_n
_9661688.html

Quote

Warren Buffet schooling Trump on his tax

plans.

Mr. Trump says he knows more

about taxes than any other human.
He has not seen my income tax
returns. But I am happy to give him
the facts.
LINK

Video

Talking about how new jobs will be created

and how raising the minimum wage will do
positive things for the economy and working
families.

https://www.youtube.com/watcaef
h?v=1nbFYP3xB6k

Video

In Hillarys previous speeches she states that

she does not want to raise middle class taxes
and she wants to raise the taxes on the high
class. In this video Hillary is caught in a lie
and she says that she will raise taxes on the
middle class.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v
=1ZtJnY5War8
False- caught in a lie

Video

Talk about hillary talks about here military

spending

http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/he
res-what-we-know-about-hillary-cli
ntons-defense-spending-plan/
True

Video

Talks about Hillary showing her taxes return

everyone can see it

Quote

Hillary talks about how she is going to

improve Social Security.

Quote

Hillary stated that she wanted to support other

countries such as Israel

Link:
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/re
gions/americas

Quote

Hillary believes the minimum wage should

be a living wage. Shes proud the Democratic
Party came together to push for a $15
minimum wage

https://www.hillaryclinton.com/is
sues/labor

STEP 3: Storyboarding ** See Joanne

http://www.abc2news.com/new
sy/hillary-clinton-released-her-i
ncome-tax-return-now-wheres-t
rumps

Link:https://www.hillaryclinton.com/
issues/social-security-and-medicare/