Agenda for 4/12

1. Global Poverty "True-False" Quiz

2. Living On One - Change Series - view all episodes by clicking this link (to answer the questions below)

A. Answer the questions below as we watch each episode in the "Living On One - Change Series."

B. Click here for a brief summary of the important issues and essential questions covered in each episode.

C. Turn in your completed questions to eBackpack "Assignment #14 - Living on One Dollar Questions"

Ep. 1: The First Step

1. How many people live on less than $1 a day?

2. What would be the hardest thing to go without if you were forced to live on less than $1 a day?

3. Where do the filmmakers go to experience life on $1 per day.

4. Why do they want to study rural poverty?

5. What percent of Guatemalans live in poverty?

Ep. 2: Water from a Pipe?

6. How many people don't have access to fresh, clean water in their homes?

7. How many people per year die from water based illnesses?

8. How would water related diseases effect your life (even if it doesn't kill you)?

Episode 3: Hunger and Tortillas

9. What percentage of their daily calories were the apply to supply with their initial diet?

10. What is the difference between acute and chronic malnutrition?

11. What percent of Guatemalan children are malnourished?

12. What are the effects of malnutrition?

13. How can malnutrition lead to generational poverty?

14. How many people can be fed by the food produced in the world?

15. Then why do some still starve?

Ep. 4: Disaster Strikes

16. What is the difference between emergency aid and development aid?

17. What effects do natural disasters have on the poor.

18. What percent of the land do wealth land owners control?

19. What is the effect of the majority of the land being used for crash-crop agriculture?

20. What type of land is available to indigenous farmers? Why?

Ep. 5 – We need a Job

21. What do most people do for work in Pena Blanca?

22.  What is an informal job? What percent of Guatemalans have informal job? What about workers world-wide?

23. What are some of the problems faced by informal workers?

24. What are some of the problems faced by Victor as a farmer and day laborer?

25. What benefits come from a formal job?

Ep. 7: (Not) Going to School

26. What effect do language barriers have on native peoples in Guatemala? What percent know Spanish?

27.  Why are poor kids less likely to go to school even if school is free?

28. What percent of girls marry and start a family before 19?