Mr. Crueger

bcrueher@rentonschools.us or bcrueger@g.rentonschools.us

First(1st) Period Conference & Planning

Contemporary World Problems

 

Course Overview

Unit : Human Rights/Social Justice

Unit Description/Objectives:

A Social Justice/Human Rights framework is a way of identifying issues of unfairness and inequity while illuminating freedom and possibility for all.  It pays primary attention to how people, policies, practices, curricula, and institutions may be used to liberate rather than oppress those least served by national and international decision making. During the course the student will look at Social Justice/Human Rights issues and how they play out within the global community.  Using historical context, analyze issues of Social Justice/Human Rights in regards to trade (national and international) , geography, environmental issues and cultural relevancy.  Understand the development of human rights on an international stage and how that can affect the interaction of nation groups.  This class will also look at Social Justice/Human Rights ideas as they develop on topics such as race, gender and socio-economic levels. 

Unit : Economics and Globalization

Unit Description/Objectives:

In a world of improving technology, we must understand how the world is becoming more interdependent economically, politically, and strategically.  At the same time, resources are becoming scarcer.  We need to know how all countries make decisions in these three areas, because these decisions may lead to global conflict.  We must also understand how to develop the tools necessary to resolve those conflicts.

Unit: Conflict, Compromise, and Resolution

Unit Description/Objectives:

When you’re faced with significant competing ideas/interests, is it better to be right or to make things work? This unit focuses on conflicts, compromise and resolution as those move between individuals, schools, communities, states, and/or nations. The study of these connect to the many issues that have been studied so far this year and those that might be on-going, from disagreements to battles to war and how those might look in the venues they are occurring. As a culminating idea, the unit focuses on the main issue of compromise and resolution as students search for ways to decide how disagreements might look as possible solutions are discussed and advocated in a persuasive essay

Grading Scale: 

We are using this grading scale for the 2025-26 school year: 

94-100%	A	80-83.99	B-	64-69.99	D+
90-93.99	A-	77-79.99	C+	60-63.99	D
87-89.99	B+	74-76.99	C	0-59.99	F
84-86.99%	B	70-73.99	C-

Academic Honesty Policy

Academic Dishonesty Policy and Consequences:  Academic honesty is incredibly important to me and is something myself and Hazen High School take very seriously. It is important to recognize whose ideas, words, or quotes you are using in your work if they are not your own. Citing your sources and giving credit to others is a skill you will use throughout your life in whatever profession you choose to pursue.

The Hazen Honor Code defines cheating as “[t]he giving or receiving of unauthorized assistance resulting in an unfair advantage in academic work. Examples of cheating include (but are not limited to): copying another student’s work, allowing copying of one’s own work, passing assessment answers or other advantageous information from one class period to another, and the unauthorized use of study aids, books, electronic devices, online programs, or artificial intelligence.”

The Hazen Honor Code define plagiarism as “[t]he act of presenting someone else’s work or ideas as your own, with or without consent of the originator of the work. This includes the misuse of published material, electronic material, responses generated by artificial intelligence, and/or the work of other students or adults. This also includes, but is not limited to, wording, syntax (sentence structure), ideas and the ordering of those ideas, research findings, evidence selection, illustrations, and creative work.” In other words, plagiarism is the taking of language, ideas, or thoughts from another person or source and presenting them as original work.

Copying part of OR an entire homework assignment, classwork assignment, or any other piece of work for this class (other than in-class lecture notes) is considered plagiarism. All work is individual work unless otherwise specified. For all assignments, your answers need to be in your own words. Any use of AI tools (except for Grammarly) is considered academic dishonesty.

Consequences of violating the Hazen Honor Code

**Please note: All offenses are cumulative over high school career**

For all offenses: Teacher completes incident form and notifies student’s family; Administrator records violation in student’s online file.
First Offense	Student-teacher conference. If an assignment, work in violation of the honor code must be redone and will receive half credit.  If it was an assessment, the student will receive a zero(0).
Second Offense	Student-teacher conference, all work in violation of the honor code receives a zero(0).
Third  Offense	Student-administrator conference, academic contract, all work in violation of the honor code receives a zero(0)0.
All Subsequent Offenses	Student-parent-administrator conference, all work in violation of the honor code receives a 0, and additional progressive discipline as determined by administrator.

Plagiarism, or any other form of cheating, will result in severe consequences as listed below. These consequences can also be found in the Hazen Honor Code.

 These consequences are cumulative over your high school career, and do not reset to “0” at any point.

If you need support on how to properly cite your sources, message me in Canvas or send me an email and I would be happy to help!

Artificial Intelligence Policies:

It is not allowed to use generative AI tools in this class in any way. Every element of all work including but not limited to brainstorms, rough drafts, reflections, assignments, final products, and projects, that is submitted by a student must be fully created by that student. The use of generative AI tools for any part of any work is considered plagiarism and / or cheating.

The only exception to this is using Grammarly. However, make sure that any changes you make to your work that are recommended by Grammarly do not change your ideas. Grammarly should be used as an editing tool only to adjust things such as spelling and grammar.

School-Provided Resources (Textbook, Calculator, etc): 

 

School Information

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Weekly Schedule

Week	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
Dates	03/17- 03/20	03/23 - 03/27	03/30 - 04/03	04/13 - 04/17	04/20 - 04/24	04/27 - 05/01	05/04- 05/08

 

Week	8	9	10	11	12	13
Dates	05/11 - 05/15	05/18 - 05/22	05/27 - 05/29	06/01 - 06/05	06/08 - 06/12	06/15 - 06/17

 

Week 1,	Week 2,	Week 3
Week 4,	Week 5	Week 6
Week 7	Week 8	Week 9
Week 10	Week 11	Week 12
Week 13