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LESSON PLAN

Dec. 10, 2007

CIA Tape

Topics: Power and authority

Standard 1: Understands ideas about civic life, politics, and government

Benchmark 3.  Understands the nature of political authority (e.g., characteristics such as legitimacy, stability, limitations)

Discussion Questions

  1. What does CIA stand for?

  2. What is waterboarding?

  3. What is the Geneva Convention?

  4. Do you think that waterboarding terror suspects violates the Geneva Convention?

  5. How do you think the United States should treat terror suspects?

Media Literacy

In the media, waterboarding has sparked a lot of controversy. Why do you think Channel One News covered this story?


Writing Experience
Do you believe that the CIA has the right to destroy videotapes of interrogations of terror suspects? Write three paragraphs.

 


Vocabulary

- CIA

- Interrogation

- Obstructed

- Waterboarding

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