Discrimination Against Children is Illegal
Ms. Korfiatis
I.S. 126Q
Introduction
Discrimination means the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things, especially on the grounds of race, age, or sex. In other words, discrimination means treating people differently, negatively or adversely without any reasonable justification. For example,
Discrimination against children around the world still exists, and it is serious a problem.
Task
Your group will study the problems of discrimination found against children. Using the Public Policy Analyst you will develop specific suggestions for policies that might better deal with this problem. Your report may well bring about changes that can really improve life for children in America and all over the world.
Your group will:
Complete the Public Policy Analyst Worksheets (to be explained in Process)
Create a campaign to prevent discrimination against children.
You can create this campaign by creating a poster and an essay.
PROCESS
Your campaign must include:
1. A title
2. Your research (you must show evidence of your research)
3. A new policy that you group has created to help and prevent discrimination against children.
4. A 5 minute presentation of your group’s findings and a poster based on your PPA Worksheets
Public Policy Analyst worksheets in order to help you with your projects:
1. Begin by defining the problem the social problem presented to you in the introduction.
2. Gather the evidence from the websites below about teenagers experiencing discrimination.
3. Identify the causes of discrimination against children.
4. Evaluate the policy. What are the current solutions to deal with discrimination against children?
5. Develop solutions. What new solutions can your team propose to confront the problem of discrimination against children.
6. Select the best policy. What is the best specific policy to deal with discrimination against children? This is a new policy that your group creates themselves!
Your group will use these worksheets as resource for completing the task assignments.
RESEARCH
Step 4: You will use your research to create a poster or pamphlet to address the problems of discrimination against children.
Websites:
Discrimination against children: http://www.voicesofyouth.org/en/posts/discrimination-against-children--2
Discrimination against children of color:
Call the end of discrimination against children: http://odishasuntimes.com/13896/call-for-end-to-discrimination-against-children/
Evaluation
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CATEGORY |
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3 |
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1 |
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Ideas/Research Questions |
Researchers independently identify at least 4 reasonable, insightful, creative ideas/questions to pursue when doing the research. |
Researchers independently identify at least 4 reasonable ideas/questions to pursue when doing the research. |
Researchers identify, with some adult help, at least 4 reasonable ideas/questions to pursue when doing the research. |
Researchers identify, with considerable adult help, 4 reasonable ideas/questions to pursue when doing the research. |
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Quality of Sources |
Researchers independently locate at least 2 reliable, interesting information sources for EACH of their ideas or questions. |
Researchers independently locate at least 2 reliable information sources for EACH of their ideas or questions. |
Researchers, with some adult help, locate at least 2 reliable information sources for EACH of their ideas or questions. |
Researchers, with extensive adult help, locate at least 2 reliable information sources for EACH of their ideas or questions. |
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Plan for Organizing Information |
Students have developed a clear plan for organizing the information as it is gathered and in the final research product. All students can independently explain the planned organization of the research findings. |
Students have developed a clear plan for organizing the information in the final research product. All students can independently explain this plan. |
Students have developed a clear plan for organizing the information as it is gathered. All students can independently explain most of this plan. |
Students have no clear plan for organizing the information AND/OR students in the group cannot explain their organizational plan. |
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Group Timeline |
Group independently develops a reasonable, complete timeline describing when different parts of the work (e.g. planning, research, first draft, final draft) will be done. All students in group can independently describe the high points of the timeline. |
Group independently develops a timeline describing when most parts of the work will be done. All students in group can independently describe the high points of the timeline. |
Group independently develops a timeline describing when most parts of the work will be done. Most students can independently describe the high points of the timeline. |
Group needs adult help to develop a timeline AND/OR several students in the group cannot independently describe the high points of the timeline. |
Conclusion:
Step 5: Each group will prepare a five minute oral presentation describing the new public policies (step # 5 in the PPA) accompanied by a poster. In your presentation, which includes the poster, your group should outline the problem, present data to support the evidence of the problem, and detail your effective policy.
Standards
· Cite several pieces of textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.