Adolescent
Sexuality in a New York minute
The
social consequences of sexual activity, STDs and peer pressure
CS
133 Mr. Greg Muir
Scenario
Chantel is a good student
in the sixth grade
for years she would play
fight with boys in the
school yard and often saw boys
her age as disgusting, silly
and immature. Mike an older boy from the neighborhood begins to show
interest in Chantel and ask her to attend his birthday party. Chantel attends the party and
finds her friends making out on
the coach with a couple of neighborhood boys, Chantel feels nervous but Mike reassures her that making out is
something that everyone is doing. You
are standing against the wall watching as Mike leads Chantel to his bedroom, he
closes the door before you could advise her on her decision. You know the outcomes can be quite serious, she
could become pregnant; this could be a start to a life of constant sexual
activity or even worse she could contract AIDS or any other sexual transmitted
disease. What do you think Chantel’s future will be? In
this web quest will help Chantel and
teens like her create a positive future when
faced with decisions
involving sex.
Introduction.
Since 1988, despite
opposition from some parental and religious groups,
You are a
member of the New York City Mayoral Committee
on Teen Abstinence and Sexually Transmitted Diseases you
will be creating a marketing team to
make a commercial about sexual activity and STDs
among teens.Your research in this web quest
will be used to create a script,
a story board and ultimately a dramatic skit that will be
videotaped as a commercial.
Task
In
an effort to
create your script
and story board you will research the causes
for sexual activity and sexual
transmitted diseases among elementary and middle school students
and also look at
recommended solutions or come up
with solutions of your own. Using
the SIX STEPS OF THE PUBLIC POLICY ANALYST (PPA) method of investigating social
problems: your Teen Initiative Marketing
Team will consist of five members that will collectively:
·
Research the
social issues surrounding
teenage sexuality by a combination of analyzing newspaper
articles, conducting surveys
within your neighborhood and using
internet research to
address the problems
and solutions related
to this issue. This will be done
using the PPA model. Your survey can be done using the Steps 1-6 of the PPA.
·
You will
create a public
policy slogan using the
Public Policy Analyst
·
After
your slogan is completed a script will be created using Microsoft Word. Dialogue, lines and roles must be assigned to
each member from your team to create a script for your commercial.
·
Using
Power point you’ll create a story board detailing the scenes of your
commercial, using an oral presentation
you will explain your storyboard
and details of
your research.
·
Ultimately the final
step will be to
videotape your commercial as a finished
product for distribution.
·
The commercial
will include all the steps of the PPA along with:
1. The subject, title and
slogan
2. Evidence collected (secondary or
primary sources)
3. Documentation using
graphs, statistics and footnotes
4. Alternative solutions, policies
connections and recent solutions you’ve come up with.
5. Finally each marketing group will
present their commercial in class.
Requirements for Power point Story Board
1. Each story board must have a minimum of 6 slides
2. Each step of the PPA must be
included. You may use more than one slide per step and extend your power point
beyond 6 slides
3. Each slide must be well thought out
using graphics and text
4. There must be clear separations
between scenes in your story board ie. Beginning, middle and end must be clear.
5. There must be a title slide (which
will not be one of the 6) with group members’ names and title of presentation.
The slogan for commercial must also be clear and precise.
Oral Report
1.
Your oral
presentation should be a minimum of 5
minutes in length.
2.
Each group
member should be assigned a role
as you will be evaluated individually as well as
a group.
3.
The oral
presentation will be done with the power point presentation.
4.
The PPA model
must be followed for all presentations.
5.
Use your
imagination be creative.
6.
The presentation
should be informative and capture audience attention.
7.
Prepare for a
question and answer period after the presentation.
Process
Step 1: Students will be required to create a
marketing research team.
Each team will have 5 members
assigned various roles, (1.Director 2. Illustrator/Graphic
Artist, Researcher/Public Policy Analyst, Writer, Editor and Publisher).
These roles will primarily be used to complete the script, story board and
presentation. For the commercial each member will be assigned an acting role.
DIRECTOR: responsible
for the overall coordination and organization of the marketing team. The
director leads team meetings works
together with members to assign roles brainstorm research, create drafts, edit
and give final
approval on all stages of
the commercial process.
ILLUSTRATOR/GRAPHIC ARTIST: responsible for creating sketches for the storyboard, finding pictures, graphics and
symbols for the power point presentation. You will also add a creative touch to
the slogan; organize art work for the set design.
RESEARCHER/PUBLIC POLICY ANALYST: responsible for researching issues, connections,
policies, new solutions that deal with the social problem your research will
help to create the questions for the survey. Although all members are required
to work together to complete the PPA worksheet, you’re responsible for being
the team’s main research expert.
WRITER: responsible
for overseeing all written work, you will be the note taker during brainstorming
and team meetings. Your writing skills will be used to create drafts for the
script as well as record information from research.
EDITOR/PUBLISHER: responsible for editing all written work and give approval for
submission or display. You will proof read, check for spelling errors, proper
use of grammar, punctuation provide vocabulary words and assemble a
group of typist to produced a
polished copy of the script and
power point presentation.
Step 2: Each marketing
research team will identify the problems and issues surrounding teenage sexual
activity in
Below in the Resource section
are links to internet sites that may help with your research. Use the PPA
worksheets from the links below to organize your assignments. Please read the
information carefully
2.
Gathering Evidence for the
task:
3. Identifying Causes of the
Problem
4. Evaluate Existing Public
Policy
5. Develop Public Policy
Solutions
6. Selecting the best Public
Policy Solution
After your team completes the worksheets on the PPA web site,
you will use these worksheets along with resource material to complete the
tasks. Remember to work together on these sheets!
Resources
General
Websites & Search Engines
Specific Websites and
Databases
Performance Rubric
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Content |
Content reflects a lack of
comprehension of the task |
Content reflects some
comprehension of the task |
Content reflects comprehension of
the task |
Content reflects a complete
comprehension to the task |
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Six-Step Public
Policy Analyst |
Description of identifiable
performance characteristics reflecting a beginning level of performance. |
Description of identifiable
performance characteristics reflecting development and movement toward
mastery of performance. |
Description of identifiable
performance characteristics reflecting mastery of performance. |
Description of identifiable
performance characteristics reflecting the highest level of performance. |
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Oral/Visual Presentation |
Description of identifiable
performance characteristics reflecting a beginning level of performance. Task was unclear and did not have
a sense of voice or point of view. |
Description of identifiable
performance characteristics reflecting development and movement toward
mastery of performance. Task was somewhat
clear but lack
a sense of voice and point of view. |
Description of identifiable
performance characteristics reflecting mastery of performance. Task was clear with a sense of
voice and point of view. |
Description of identifiable
performance characteristics reflecting the highest level of performance. Task showed a sense of clarity,
audience, voice and
point of view. |
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Use of Graphics |
All graphics are attractive (size and
colors) and support the theme/content of the presentation. |
A few graphics are not attractive but
all support the theme/content of the presentation. |
All graphics are attractive but a few
do not seem to support the theme/content of the presentation. |
Several graphics are unattractive AND detract from the content
of the presentation. |
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Originality |
Presentation shows considerable
originality and inventiveness. The content and ideas are presented in a
unique and interesting way. |
Presentation shows some originality
and inventiveness. The content and ideas are presented in an interesting way.
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Presentation shows an attempt at
originality and inventiveness on 1-2 cards. |
Presentation is a rehash of other people's ideas and/or graphics
and shows very little attempt at original thought. |
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Cooperation |
Group delegates tasks and shares
responsibility effectively all of the time. |
Group delegates tasks and shares
responsibility effectively most of the time. |
Group delegates tasks and shares
responsibility effectively some of the time. |
Group often is not effective in delegating tasks and/or sharing
responsibility. |
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Effectiveness |
Project includes all material needed
to gain a comfortable understanding of the topic. It is a highly effective
study guide. |
Project includes most material needed
to gain a comfortable understanding of the material but is lacking one or two
key elements. It is an adequate study guide. |
Project is missing more than two key
elements. It would make an incomplete study guide. |
Project is lacking several key elements and has inaccuracies
that make it a poor study guide. |
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Conclusion
After completing this web quest
you should have
a better understanding
of the social problems affecting teen sexuality, teen pregnancy, sexual
transmitted diseases and sexual activity among elementary
and middle school students
in New York City. You should have learnt that sex is a special activity
that requires a great level of maturity and responsibility and
should be practiced in your adult years
when you’ve developed
a higher level of maturity and
understanding. Sexual transmitted diseases have
become a major social
problem that can affect
anyone regardless of race , age
class or color it destroys families, relationships and can even
lead to death. You should
feel good about yourself because
you have now gained
a greater knowledge of sexual activity and must further increase your
awareness as a social policy analyst and help your peers to make positive life choices when faced
with thoughts of sexual
activity.
English
Language Arts
Standard 1: Students will read, write, listen, and speak for
information and understanding.
As listeners and readers, students will collect data, facts, and ideas;
discover relationships, concepts,
and
generalizations; and use knowledge generated from oral, written, and
electronically produced
texts. As
speakers and writers, they will use oral and written language to acquire,
interpret, apply,
and
transmit information.
Standard 2: Students will read, write, listen, and speak for literary
response and expression.
Students will read and listen to oral, written, and electronically
produced texts and performances,
relate
texts and performances to their own lives, and develop an understanding of the
diverse social,
historical,
and cultural dimensions the texts and performances represent. As speakers and
writers,
students
will use oral and written language for self-expression and artistic creation.
Social Studies
Standard 4: Economics
Students will use a variety
of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of how the United
States and other societies develop economic systems and associated institutions
to allocate scarce resources, how major decision-making units function in the
United States and other national economies, and how an economy solves the
scarcity problem through market and non-market mechanisms.
Standard 5: Civics, Citizenship, and
Government
Students will use a variety
of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of the necessity for
establishing governments; the governmental system of the