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**Standard 1**

**Evidence1:** After reading //The Glass Castle//, students will choose one issue to research, write a script, create a story board, produce and edit a digital video project and publish it on My Big Campus.

**Rationale 1:** The memoir addresses many societal issues that impact the lives of students and their community. Today’s culture is significantly impacted by social issues addressed in Jeannette Walls memoir such as: alcoholism, poverty, homelessness, domestic violence, deteriorating mental health, hunger, sexual abuse, gambling, bullying, and addiction. Students will choose one issue to research individually and thoroughly investigate the impact the problem has on society and their community. The goal is to create a Public Service Announcement to educate their target audience of the issue, how it affects society, what can be done to help and where one would go to seek assistance. Students will work together on writing the script after they finished their individual research, outline, draft and edit the script, create a story board, tape scenes and edit the final product.

This will be implemented in my Honors American Literature Class, and has not yet been done. I plan to have the students work on the PBL this semester after completing the memoir. I am especially excited to complete this project with this class because it is an Honors class. They are driven students that strive to go above and beyond expectations.

KSD:


 * 1.K.1 The teacher understands the major concepts, assumptions, debates, processes of inquiry, and ways of knowing that are central to the discipline(s) s/he teaches.**

Students will collaborate in their research on Google Docs, communicate and blog about the process on My Big Campus, and brain storm to visualize the final finished product.


 * 1.S.5 The teacher develops and uses curricula that encourage students to see, question, and interpret ideas from diverse perspectives.**

Research the issue and impact on the community. Students will all individually write up a proposal for the PSA; as a group they will choose the best proposal and then together write and edit script.


 * 1.D.3 The teacher has enthusiasm for the discipline(s) s/he teaches and sees connections to everyday life.**

The students will research the issue at hand a come up with a way to inform the public and take on a civic or global issue. Individually and collaboratively figure out a way to best inform the public on the issue at hand.