Impact

Project Title: Impact Grade: 7

Name: Jessica Sanderson

Project Idea: Students read “The Outsiders” and determine how the personal choices of violence impacted the character’s future success. They extend their research on the topic of teen violence by conducting interviews with people of various ages to question them about their experience and knowledge on the impact of violence in schools. Students will engage in collaborative discussion on kid blog to evaluate case studies of prisoners as real life examples. Using their notes and evaluation on the issue of teen violence, the students will write an editorial in response to a newspaper article and how violence in their communities can be decreased. They will create brochures using Microsoft Publisher to inform their peers on the problem and solution to teen violence.

Driving Question: How does violence in school play a role in a student’s future/academic success?

Content: Reading comprehension; literary analysis; listening; gathering data through interviewing and research; reflective writing

Major Student Products: Plan and create a brochure using Microsoft publisher to explain the issue/solution to teen violence, reflect on programs and solutions implemented in other schools via kid blog, evaluate case studies of prisoners, collaborate and determine an advertisement to post on a school bulletin board,

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