Essential Question:
How can we, as a group of teenagers, raise the awareness of our peers so that they can fight against the bystander effect and improve our GV community ?
Reading Objectives
- Use context (e.g., the overall meaning of a sentence, paragraph, or text; a word’s position or function in a sentence) as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase.
- Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text.
- Analyze in detail how an author’s ideas or claims are developed and refined by particular sentences, paragraphs, or larger portions of a text (e.g., a section or chapter).
- Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
Writing Objectives
- Integrate information into the text selectively to maintain the flow of ideas, avoiding plagiarism and following a standard format for citation.
- Use technology, including the Internet, to produce, publish and update individual or shared writing products, taking advantage of technology’s capacity to link to other information and to display information flexibly and dynamically.
Language Objective
- Students will use colons correctly.
Performance Assessment
We will create a website or a pamphlet which aims to raise awareness about a problem or issue facing teens today.
In your website or pamphlet you will include:
In your website or pamphlet you will include:
- A written overview of the issue which uses evidence from the reading in order to raise awareness.
- The overview must feature a summary of an article which demonstrates your understanding of the central idea and how the author develops the central idea through detail.
- The summary must cite and credit your source.
- The summary must include integrated quotations that maintain the flow of ideas and avoid charges of plagiarism.
- Following the summary, students will explain what this issue looks like in their high school bringing in personal experience and/or observation in order to persuade fellow students to see this is a problem in need of a solution.
- A slogan which is memorable and catchy and/or T-Shirt Design (Think #hashtag!)