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I want to be in MUN Class.

Board Submissions

Everything You Know Is Wrong | Part 1

Delegates will be able to:

• Examine assumptions that can lead to errors of reasoning.
• Learn techniques for recognizing and resisting these assumptions.
• Examine their own prejudices and prejudices that others might have about them.
• Learn how errors of attention and memory can impair reasoning.

Step 1: In Today's Meet, list every group to which you feel you belong. 

Examples: “junior,” “soccer player,” “Angeleno,” “Republican,” “Buddhist.” 

Step 2: Discussion | We will choose three groups many identified with and discuss characteristics of people in that group. 

• How do the group’s characteristics as described by a group member differ from the characteristics described by outsiders?
• Will every member of that group have these characteristics?
• What are the potential benefits of making these assumptions about what group members would be like? What are the potential pitfalls?

Step 3: Us vs. Them |  Come up with examples for each of these phenomena. Think both inside and outside of your own experience and your own identity groups. For instance, even you have never experienced prejudice, you seen it on TV or in a movie. Type the best examples in the boxes

Step 4: Errors of Attention |  Discuss the following questions:

• Why do so many convicted killers have the middle name Wayne?
• Does the middle name cause violent behavior, or is there another cause or both?
• When you next see a news report about a murderer, are you likely to take notice if his middle name is Wayne?
• When you next meet a person with the middle name Wayne, are you likely to wonder whether he has violent tendencies?

Step 5:  Chart of homicide rates from the Bureau of Justice| Discuss the following questions:

• What is the approximate total number of homicides between 1996 and 2005? (The easiest way to do this is to figure out the approximate average and multiply it by the number of years.)
• How many people are on News of the Weird’s list of Waynes?
• What is the likelihood that a convicted killer had the “classic middle name”?

Step 6: Disagree on Iraq? Your'e not just wrong, You're Evil! | Read and discuss.

*Adapted from the Annenberg Classroom

The UN | How it Works and What it Seeks

1. Today's Document: Do Now make a copy, we will all be working on the same document.

2. Review Executive Board Application Submissions.

3. In the comments section, answer the following questions for me:

• What was your favorite part of today? 
• What would you like to see happen in club meetings to make it more fun?
• Also, would you want to have rotating snacks? Every week, one person is responsible for bringing eats for the team. Yes? No? You know Ms. Kelly likes to eat!

Intro to the United Nations

Step 1| Do Now: What do you know about the UN? How does it work?

Step 2 | As a group read, discuss and annotate The United Nations: Working for Us All handout.

Step 3 | Together, watch The United Nations: It's Your World

Step 4: As a group read, discuss and annotate The United Nations: Keeping the Peace handout.

Step 5: Watch UN for Kids together

Step 6: Intro to the United Nations Exit Slip

• Remember to work on writing your answers at a level 3/4! :)

Step 7: 

Hey! It's Ms. Kelly! I had to go to the doctor, but I want to know how MUN went today! In the comments section, answer the following questions for me:

• What was your favorite part of today? 
• What would you like to see happen in club meetings to make it more fun?
• Also, would you want to have rotating snacks? Every week, one person is responsible for bringing eats for the team. Yes? No? You know Ms. Kelly likes to eat!

Love, 

Ms. Kelly

STMUN Handbook

1. What does this quote mean to you?

"Many say our world is at a tipping point. If we do not act together, if we do not act responsibly, if we do not act now, we risk slipping into a cycle of poverty, degradation, and despair."

-Ban Ki Moon, Secretary-General, United Nations

2. Create STMUN Folders--> Share with Historyhungergames@gmail.com

3. STMUN Handbook (Move to MUN folder)

4. UN Principal Organs Exit Slip

Overview & Diagnostics

Agenda:

• Welcome - Maria
• Getting to Know Each Other
• Name
• Animal (Matches the First Letter of your name)
• ex. Penguin Polanco
• State of the MUN Address - Ms. Kelly
• MUN membership
• The MUN "sport" Practice vs. Games
• Expectations to remain an MUN delegate
• MUN Diagnostic

MUN Orientation