You have all been doing a wonderful job working to better your persuasive writing and speaking skills in an effort to convince your intended audience to listen to your points and take your side on an issue, cause, arguement, etc. You have looked at some compelling public service announcements created by the Youth For Human Rights Organization and also campaigns on the American Ad Council site.
Now it is your turn to determine whas issue or social cause you want to persuade others to put at the top of their priority list. Think about all of the things you complain about in your daily life…yes I actually have heard you complain! Now is your opportunity to turn all your gripes and complaints into action! What bothers you the most? What have you always wished, if given the chance to have the floor, you could get others to see as a problem and want to make a change for the better?
For your first term IP you will work to create a Public Service Announcment on an issue of your choice. There will be mulitple steps in the process of this project. Please make sure you use all class time effectively and wisely to complete each step in the process. We look very forward to seeing the issues you choose to bring awareness to and the approach you take to persuading others to care about your selected issue and make a change for the better!
Week #4 Vocabulary Words – Contusion, Plegmatic, Guile, Jaundiced, Emancipate, Contumacious, Embroil
English Objective: Students will be able to use thier knowledge of persuasion to create public service announcements about issues in their lives that deserve the attention and support of others to create change.
Technology Objective: Students will be able to format text in MS Word.
Getting Focused: Please take the first few mintues of class to determine the meaning of the words on the vocabulary handout that you recieved.
Agenda:
(1) Review week #4 vocabulary words
(2) Pass back work and check grades on Edline
(3) Review PSA’s students researched from the American Ad Council last Thursday and Friday
(4) Go over Term #1 IP directions
(Grade 11_Term1_IP_Directions) – Please save these in your Term I IP Folder in your English Folder
Step #1 - Brainstorm ideas in groups about issues they complain about in thier education, their environment, their community, thier city, thier family, thier group of friends, ect..
Step #2 – All groups will present their complaints and as groups are presenting the audience will jot down thoughts they have in response to these complaints.
Step #3 – All students will have the opportunity to view the ideas posted by different groups and decide what issues they are most interested in supporting, creating more awareness about, and getting others to change.
Step #4 - Students will write a letter/press release to their local paper describing the issue they want to bring to others attention and explaining the efforts they will be making to spark change!
PSA Press Release Letter
The Issues PSA Issues
Homework:
(1) Vocabulary Homework #4 – Vocabulary HW for week #4 words – Due Friday October 9th
(2) Ipod & MP-3 Letter Ban - Due Tuesday October 6th – Write letters to two separate audiences. Situation: The State of Massachusetts has implemented a new law that doesn’t allow individuals under the age of 21 to purchase i-pods or any variation of a MP-3. According to policy makers it has been brought to thier attention that those under the age of 21 have become too distracted by them and are not mature enough to handle having a MP-3 player or I-pod. You have decided to take action against this policy. You will write a letter protesting this new law to the following two audiences: (1) Best Buy or another store of your choice that sells these devices. You want to ask the store to support you in stopping policy makers from being allowed to ban the sale of MP-3 players to those under 21. (2) Your Parents or Your Teachers – You want to ask your parents and/or teachers to help you in fighting this policy. Make sure to show this audience the benefit that music has in your life. Also consider that an MP-3 player can also be used to listen to books that you are reading in school.
English Objective: Students will be able to create a personal resume to highlight their achievements and state their career objectives in preparation for Friday’s Technology Conference at TBA.
English Objective: Students will be able to understand character, theme, and plot development through the end of chapter #10 in TKM and show a connection to the important theme of walking in another’s shoes before judging.
English Objective: Students will be able to show a thorough understanding of key themes, character development, and plot development in the chapters 1-8 in To Kill a Mockingbird by responding to key questions.
English Objective: Students will be able to understand plot, character, and theme development in Act I of the Crucible by reading, discussing, responding to, and watching Act I.
English Objective: Students will be able to make inferences and connections between the early Native American literature and the impact that the Carlisle Indian School had on Native American culture.
