Webb+Summer+2010+Units

Students will examine the 1970s oil shortage, the demise of the electric car and other topics designed to get them engaged with society and solving major issues. 4 writing assignments will help students express their thoughts. Film, as well as readings are encouraged as "text." || This unit will focus on adolescent obesity and peer pressure, suicide, teen drinking/drug use and stereotyping. || Inner city students will address inequality. || This unit plan will teach students to become environmentally appreciative and mindful citizens addressing different environmental concerns at the local, state, country, and global level. || Students will learn about poverty in today’s society. || The unit uses contemporary literature and video to facilitate 8th grade student thinking on this topic. In the unit, students will find and analyze internet and print sources for their bias and effectiveness. Written assignments include a group multi-genre project done in literature circles, daily journaling, and a critical essay. The unit will culminate in a list of resources that will be made available throughout the school and the community. || This unit plan is designed for a regular (50-minute) freshmen English class in a school with a large population of migrant children (such as Watervliet High School, Hartford High School, etc.). The major themes will be migrants and immigration, and, of course, at times the unit will touch on race and racial prejudices. In particular, this unit is geared for migrant children who may have never read any literature about people like themselves. Along with targeting this population, the unit is intended to educate other students who may not be migrants themselves about the struggles encountered by migrants. || 12 grade students will get some idea of what is happening in the economy and the role of government in addressing it. || This four week unit works to provide secondary students with a necessary understanding of the obesity crisis and its effect on everyday Americans. During this unit, students will have an opportunity to learn more about the fast food industry and its role in the obesity crisis as well as having to opportunity to analyze various nutritional facts as they pertain to fast food restaurants and the daily recommended caloric intake. Moreover, students will have access to various nutritional advocates as well as representatives from the fast food industry. To conclude the unit, students will learn about various methods in place to reduce the obesity epidemic. || The writing for change unit covers epilepsy awareness. I created this unit for the English 9A level, but it can be taught in any ELA high school classroom. The reading activities in the unit range from reading a novel on the history of epilepsy to a novel about a teenage athlete that discovers he has the disorder. They will do reading journals, blogs, watch various video clips, write a paper, and construct poems. The final project is a public service announcement that will be created on a technology platform. || An important topic which deserves to be addressed in schools. || This unit will focus on the recent epidemic of Type 1 diabetes among the youth in the United States. Along with diabetes other social issues will include, divorce, alcoholism, teen relationships and peer pressure. || This unit provide the students with the opportunity to write an individual serving in the armed forces and teach them how to draw their own opinions about important world topics. ||
 * Paul Bach - **Save the World from Oil Dependency!**
 * Stephanie Bertuca - **Fat Kid Rules the World**
 * Holly Bruning - **Change Inequality**
 * Megan Emerson - **The Environment and How We Affect It**
 * Sarah Fox - **Address Poverty**
 * Carly Fricano - **Teenage Sex and Pregnancy**
 * Kendra Grieser - **The Affect of Immigration on U.S. Migrants**
 * Joseph Law - **How an Economy Works and Why it Crashes**
 * Cornell Lloyd - **Obesity at Large**
 * Jennifer Magierka-Delaphiano - **Epilepsy**
 * Briana Murphy - **Darfur Genocide**
 * Andra Newington- **My Sweet Blood: Type 1 Diabetes**
 * Cody Piechocki- **Writing to Soldiers**