Jerome Scarlett

Monroe Academy for Visual Arts and Design

Scarlettenglish@cs.com

..ran into a door, ah.. not working, try again. Okay, I was walking down the block and some stupid boys were playing football on the street. I wasn’t paying them any mind and some doofus who can’t throw straight hit me. . right in my eye…how’s that, do you think anyone will buy it? Violence is endemic in our society. On television, in music, families and sports you can find violence. Much has been made of spousal abuse, and child neglect, but violence, emotional and physical, as most would agree, is hard to contain. Increasingly, young teenagers have entered increasingly into the statistics as the victims and perpetrators of violence that occurs in youthful relationships.

As a policy analyst for the Soundview section of the Bronx, it will be your job to investigate the causes and formulate some solutions for abuse in youth romantic relationships and present it in the form of a typed, double-spaced 3-5 page paper. You will also be responsible for presenting a shortened version of your paper to a committee made up of your peers in which you’ll present a policy that Monroe Academy for Visual Arts and Design should adopt and why. You should also come up with a list of existing resources that teens can turn to if they are having any issues related to abuse in romantic relationships.

In order to do the task, you must first complete six (6) worksheets. These worksheets will help you organize and outline your ideas. Clicking on one of the links below (in the blue font) will bring you to a worksheet. The worksheets are in order, so you should complete worksheet one (1) before you do worksheet three (3), for example. Additionally, you will visit five websites to gather information about the problem. The websites you visit will provide information that you will use (cite) in your paper. When you use information from websites, you have to make sure your reader knows where you got the information and to give the credit where credit is due. Clicking here will tell you how to do this. We will also review this in class. I have provided some websites for you. In addition, you will be responsible for finding four (4) other websites, not given in the resources list below.

Organizing Ideas/Worksheets

1. Identifying the Problem, and Worksheet #1

2. Gathering Evidence, and Worksheet # 2

3. Identify Causes of the problem, and Worksheet # 3

4. Evaluate the Policy, and Worksheet #4

5. Develop a solution to the Problem, Worksheet #5

6. Selecting the Best Solution, and Worksheet #6

Resources

Sites about Adolescent violence

v Teen Love Hurts, ABC News report

v When Romance Rages, Recognizing and Preventing Teen Abuse

v Abuse Information Sites, Related sites about abuse

v Mayor’s Office to Combat Abuse, NYC help and information

v Statistics on Abuse, NYC,

v Report on Violence, Statistics on risk factors and incidences of teen abuse.

Search Tools to help you find more information

v Google, www.Google.com

v Ask Jeeves, www.AskJeeves.com

v Altavista, www.Altavista.com

v Lycos, www.Lycos.com

v Yahoo, www.Yahoo.com

You will be evaluated on a scale of 1-4, with 4 being the highest.

GRADE:	1	2	3	4
Oral Presentation	No knowledge of the uses of PPA - Presents no data to support the proposed policy	Little knowledge of the uses of PPA.-presents several sources of data in a logical format to support the proposed policy	Acceptable amount of knowledge Of the uses of PPA –presents several sources of data in a logical and organized format to support the proposed policy	Superior knowledge of the uses of PPA.-presents an exceptional amount of data to support the proposed policy
Research	Website links not relevant to support the proposed policy	Enough website links, but few support the proposed policy	Many website links that support the proposed policy	All website links support the proposed policy
Report and Worksheets	Incomplete - does not use the conventions of standard written English	Complete weak usage of the conventions of standard written English	Complete with and acceptable usage of the conventions of standard written English	Complete with superior use of the conventions of standard written English

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1. Students will read and write for information and understanding.

2. Students will read and write for literary response and expression.

3. Students will read and write for critical analysis and evaluation.

4. Students will speak and listen for social interaction.

5. Students will research for and use primary government documents.

6. Students will chart the historical, economic and historical realities that have contributed to current public policy.

After faithfully following all steps in this assignment and putting in your best effort, you will be able to define, research and critically think about a social issue in your community. You will also be able to analyze the effectiveness of policies and advocate for changes, locate community resources, be able to gather and present information both orally and in written form and link the idea of narrative stories to social justice activism.