Title - Trump's Road to the White House - January 24, 2017

Trump's Road to the White House Video

Template for Analyzing the Video

1) State as accurately as possible the video's purpose for presenting this information. Explain your analysis/answer in five (5) or more sentences.

2) What is the video attempting to convey and from what perspective is it presenting the information? Provide your analysis/answer in five (5) or more sentences.

3) What key question can you develop from the content presented in the article? Provide your question and then your analysis/answer in five (5) or more sentences.

4) What are the most important ideas you would have to understand in order to understand the video's line of reasoning? Provide your analysis/answer in five (5) or more sentences.

5) What is the video failing to address (what might be questioned)? Provide your analysis/answer in five (5) or more sentences.

6) What consequences are likely to follow if people take the video's line of reasoning seriously? Provide your analysis/answer in five (5) or more sentences.

7) What consequences are likely to follow if people ignore the video's reasoning? Provide your analysis/answer in five (5) or more sentences.

8) Identify the key conclusions the video comes to and presents? Provide your analysis/answer in five (5) or more sentences.

9) What facts, experiences, or data is the video using to support its conclusions? Provide your analysis/answer in five (5) or more sentences.

The questions below are to be used as the framework for responding to at least one of your classmate's posting. That is, select a posting you wish to respond to then evaluate the work and answer the following questions.

Be sure to address the questions to your classmate and make it relevant to his/her work.

You are required to provide a minimum of (5) five sentences for each question (#1 - #8) posted below and to respond to at least to one of your classmates.

Let's have some fun with this while providing critical and relevant policy discussions and remember to respect all viewpoints.

1) What is your classmate presenting as his/her main idea/purpose? Explain your analysis/answer in five (5) or more sentences.

2) What question is your classmate attempting to answer? Provide at least 4 alternate questions for the author.

3) What information does your classmate provide as a basis for arriving at his/her own conclusion? Explain your analysis/answer in five (5) or more sentences.

4) What are the main conclusions or inferences made by your classmate? Explain your analysis/answer in five (5) or more sentences.

5) What are the main ideas that guide your classmate's thinking? Explain your analysis/answer in five (5) or more sentences.

6) What does your classmate take for granted? Explain your analysis/answer in five (5) or more sentences.

7) What is your classmate's perspective and how is s/he seeing it? Explain your analysis/answer in five (5) or more sentences.

8) If your classmate is correct (or insightful), what are some implications we should recognize? Explain your analysis/answer in five (5) or more sentences.

(source: The Thinker's Guide to The Art of Asking Essential Questions by 2010 by Dr. Linda Elder and Dr. Richard Paul)