Read these two excerpts, and then answer the question that follows:

TEXT A: “Arizona Enacts Stringent Laws on Immigration” by Randal C. Archibold, published in the New York Times.

PHOENIX — Gov. Jan Brewer of Arizona signed the nation’s toughest bill on illegal immigration into law on Friday. Its aim is to identify, prosecute and deport illegal immigrants.

The move unleashed immediate protests and reignited the divisive battle over immigration reform nationally.

Even before she signed the bill at an afternoon news conference here, President Obama strongly criticized it.

Speaking at a naturalization ceremony for 24 active-duty service members in the Rose Garden, he called for a federal overhaul of immigration laws, which Congressional leaders signaled they were preparing to take up soon, to avoid “irresponsibility by others.”

The Arizona law, he added, threatened “to undermine basic notions of fairness that we cherish as Americans, as well as the trust between police and our communities that is so crucial to keeping us safe.”

The law, which proponents and critics alike said was the broadest and strictest immigration measure in generations, would make the failure to carry immigration documents a crime and give the police broad power to detain anyone suspected of being in the country illegally. Opponents have called it an open invitation for harassment and discrimination against Hispanics regardless of their citizenship status.

TEXT B: “State AGs, Democrats File Briefs Against Arizona Immigration Law” by Elise Foley, published in the Huffington Post.

WASHINGTON -- While the Supreme Court justices took up health care, opponents of Arizona's extreme immigration law looked ahead.

Eleven attorneys general filed an amicus brief on Monday in support of the federal government's suit against the law, SB 1070, which the Supreme Court will hear in April. Nearly 70 House Democrats, led by Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-Ariz.), filed a separate, but similar, brief.

The fight over Arizona's immigration law, though slightly lower profile than the constitutionality question on health care, is likely to provoke a firestorm as the Obama administration pits itself against Republican state lawmakers who attempted to take up enforcement of immigration law on their own.

The Justice Department sued Arizona in July 2010, two months after the law was passed, to block measures that government lawyers argued were unconstitutional. A few of those provisions were blocked before the end of the month, including measures requiring police to check immigration status of those they suspected to be in the country illegally or violators of offenses that could lead to deportation.

Opponents say the law is unconstitutional because it preempts the federal role to police immigration. But they also said the law is harmful for other reasons, such as diverting police efforts from other issues.

In what way do the two news articles covering the Arizona immigration law differ?

Activity 2: Watch the two video clips below that analyze the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Then, answer the questions below.

VIDEO 1: Dateline Documentary

VIDEO 2: British Pathe

Although both videos address President Roosevelt’s announcement, the main difference between the two is that:

Which of the videos offers a positive depiction of the Japanese?

Activity 2: Watch the video about Benjamin Franklin’s life, and read the extract from his autobiography. Then, answer the questions below.

VIDEO: “Benjamin Franklin”

EXTRACT: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

“My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me to the service of the Church. My early readiness in learning to read (which must have been very early, as I do not remember when I could not read), and the opinion of all his friends, that I should certainly make a good scholar, encouraged him in this purpose of his.

I continued, however, at the grammar-school not quite one year, though in that time I had risen gradually from the middle of the class of that year to be the head of it, and farther was removed into the next class above it, in order to go with that into the third at the end of the year. But my father, in the meantime, from a view of the expense of a college education, which having so large a family he could not well afford, he took me from the grammar-school, and sent me to a school for writing and arithmetic, kept by a then famous man, Mr. George Brownell, very successful in his profession generally. Under him I acquired fair writing pretty soon, but I failed in the arithmetic, and made no progress in it. At ten years old I was taken home to assist my father in his business, which was that of a tallow-chandler and soap-boiler; a business he was not bred to, but had assumed on his arrival in New England. Accordingly, I was employed in cutting wick for the candles, filling the dipping mold and the molds for cast candles, attending the shop, going of errands, etc. […]

From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books. Pleased with the Pilgrim's Progress, my first collection was of John Bunyan's works in separate little volumes. I afterward sold them to enable me to buy R. Burton's Historical Collections; they were small books, and cheap, 40 or 50 in all. My father's little library consisted chiefly of books in [religion], most of which I read, and have since often regretted that, at a time when I had such a thirst for knowledge, more proper books had not fallen in my way since it was now resolved I should not be a clergyman.

This bookish inclination at length determined my father to make me a printer, though he had already one son (James) of that profession. In 1717 my brother James returned from England with a press and letters to set up his business in Boston. I liked it much better than that of my father, but still had a hankering for the sea. […] I now had access to better books. An acquaintance with the apprentices of booksellers enabled me sometimes to borrow a small one, which I was careful to return soon and clean. Often I sat up in my room reading the greatest part of the night, when the book was borrowed in the evening and to be returned early in the morning, lest it should be missed or wanted.”

Which element of his story is included in his written autobiography but skipped over in the video version?

Which detail of his life has been omitted by the video version?