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**PBL Projects - Language Arts**
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Cindy Straus Who We Are English III How can we use information from interviews, artifacts, documents, and pictures to write a play about the individual communities that consolidated to form the one district high school we are today? Students will uncover the hidden stories of family members and community members from the seven small community schools during previous decades and present their findings in the form of a scripted play. These plays will be presented to the class and school community and eventually to the local historical societies and alumni associations. David Parks T3: Teens Teaching Teens English 9 How do students help others in making them aware of social issues? Students will create some kind awareness project to show and inform students of the dangers of drinking and driving. As the students read the book "Tears of a Tiger", they find that the main character, Andy, has been drinking and driving with a few of his buddies. An accident has happened and the star basketball player and best friend of the main character, has died. The point of the project is to have the students make awareness commercials.
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Commercials: Use flip cams or something similar to record a public service announcement. These videos would be made to be shown and shared with the seniors at the prom promise assembly. They could also be used to share with other schools or middle schools in the area. My students would research buzz words used in the drinking and driving world and use at least one in the video. They would be limited to 30sec to 1min in length and could a use a variety of ideas to make their point. I would ask the students to use a time dated list to reach their goals with updates on edmodo to me with pics and video clips and research to keep me in the loop of their progress.

Name: Jennifer Beaven Project name: Saving the Gold by Going Green Secondary Content Area: Language Arts
 * use elements of persuasion within a written document
 * develop and enhance writing skills
 * investigate/explore social amd community awareness of being environmentally responsible
 * develop a multi-media presentation

Driving Question: How can the students at Firestone create a green school?

Project Summary: Students will investigate ways that they can reduce the carbon footprint that we create within Firestone High School. Once they have investigated and researched their topic of choice, students will create proposals for students, staff, and administrators - including the Board of Education - to help them understand the ways that we have been damaging our environment and how we as a school and community can go about reversing the trend and go "green." Students will also create a persuasive/informational document that can be presented to the community on how members of the community can best help in the whole community becoming more environmentally aware. The project will require them to think critically about what is being done in the community and what needs to be changed. Students will be required to present their information to a student and staff audience, and possibly to a community and Board of Education panel, especially if they really want the changes to happen.

Products: Proposal for making Firestone "green", multi-media presentation to be given to staff, students, administrators and BOE members for approval.

Emily Lees A Modest Proposal English 11

What problem do you see in the school or community? What negative effects does this problem cause? What are some realistic steps to take toward a solution to this problem?
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Students will read "A Modest Proposal" and we will discuss Jonathon Swift's issues with poverty and his use of satire and emotional, logical, and ethical appeals. Students will break into groups of 3-4. Each group will choose a current social issue, focusing on our school and community. (They can look at a broader issue if they feel they can find an outside audience capable of changing it that will come to the school.) Students will choose an audience that could be influential in solving the problem. Students will research the problem as it applies on a bigger scale. (Ex: Unhappy with school lunches or teens smoking in community? Research school lunch issues or teen smoking issues on a state to national level). Students will also research the problem as it applies to the school or community. (Ex: Interview students, staff, etc. about school lunches or students, staff, community members about teen smoking problems). Based on research and audience, students will develop a plan for solving the problem. In research format, students will create a blog that addresses the problem, negative effects, and proposed solution, including a practical call to action. Students will then prepare a presentation for audience members (addressing their targeted audience that could be influential in fixing the problem), complete with visuals and handouts (they could have video footage of interviews, power point, pass out informational pamphlets with plan for solution addressed, etc.) and present their plan, with the goal of actually convincing people to put the plan into action. Students and other audience members can respond in person and leave additional comments on the blog as they have discussion points or helpful ideas to implement the plan.
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