Webb+Summer+2012+Units

Ellen Bell: **__Adolescent Bullying__**: Educating our students

Sara Carroll: **__Migrancy in America__**: A unit for 11th-12th grade students exploring American migrant workers' experiences in the past and present through literature and current events.

Misael Castillo-Jimenez: **__Teen Obesity__**: This unit is created to inform students about teen obesity, the negative effects it is having on the lives of many teens, touch upon bullying, and how healthy eating and exercising habits can lead to a better life.

Sarah Cavis: **__Teenage Relationships - Peer Relationships, Perspectives and Teen Suicide__**: This lesson is geared toward high school freshmen using the book //Thirteen Reasons Why// by Jay Asher. It will help students discover differing perspectives and how to create positive relationships in order to change the staggering trend of teen suicide.

Chelsea Holmes: __**Moving Forward: Embracing Cultural Differences and Combating Injustices**.__ A four week unit plan geared toward High School Seniors, that will examine the many cultures of America through writing and literature. We will also examine injustices, the forms they come in, where they happen, and discuss how to combat them and fight for justice.

Sam Howard: **__Understanding Islam and Hinduism__**: Hindus and Muslims in America and how we can promote religious tolerance across the nation.

Cassandra Hughes: __**Social Stratification & Unemployment**__: This unit is designed to educate how the current financial crisis has affected society and enhance our understanding of class distinctions today.

Jeanine Kemmer: __**Children of War**__: The toll on youths in wartime and the extensive use of children in combat throughout the world.

Thom Kimble: __**Identity and Diversity towards the Road to Acceptance**__: This unit is to allow for students to see that the identities they describe themselves as are important and should not be seen as immoral or wrong.

Jodi Kiplinger: **__Tracking Our Youth into Prison__**: This unit examines the “School to Prison Pipeline” that is currently shaping the landscape of the United States.

Matt Krieger: **__Civic Responsibility__**: This unit is designed to instill an urge to voice what is morally right, to have students find their voice, and to widen their perspective on social, local, and world injustices.

Chelsea Lupenec: **Understanding Poverty in Society**: Helping our students become aware on the growing issue of poverty. Educating our students is just one of the ways to help make a difference in poverty.

Karin Lynch: **__Environmental Issues Project__**: An unit for6th grade Language Arts exploring, analyzing and implementing changes towards the improvement of our local environment.

Kelsey McClure: __**Coming to Terms: Rebuilding after Genocide**__: This unit will cover four different genocides that have occurred around the world and how the people affected have tried to come to terms and heal from the atrocities that have occurred.

Linda Miller: __**Adolescents and the Media**__: 6th grade level. An examination of the unrealistic view of adolescents through the media and the affects on adolescence.

George Sachse: __**Media and Society**:__ A unit that focuses on the relationship between media and society, especially its influence on children and teenagers focusing on the effects or desensitization of violence, interpretations of body image, our relationships with others and the world around us, and consumerism. This unit asks the question of what media we are consuming and how it is shaping our society. Are we controlling the media or does it control us?

Tiffany Stommen: **__Adolescents and a Healthy Lifestyle__**: Geared towards 7th graders. An examination of the influence on adolescents to be skinny rather than healthy.

Alexa Surdell: __**Sex and Pregnancy**__: 8th Grade+ students will look at the consequences of unprotected sex by reading //Jumping Off Swings,// looking at case studies and numerous websites regarding this issue.