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Advocacy and Citizenship:
Speaking Out For Others
Teacher's Student Activities
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ADVOCACY AND CITIZENSHIP
Student Activities
Pre-Viewing Activity:
After a class discussion about what advocacy means and what it takes to be a successful advocate, students make a quick write list of the things they feel they could advocate for or against. They identify someone they believe to be a successful advocate.
Group Activity
Students conduct a group Talk Back session using a quote from one of the guest panelists. They share their ideas with another group or the entire class.
Curriculum Connections Activities
Science: Tribute to Dr. Linus Pauling
History/Geography: Sites of Courage
Current Events: Front Page News
Research Project
Students conduct research on two or more famous advocates to examine the importance of integrity and character. They compare and contrast how these advocates found the courage to persevere using the format of a research paper or a multimedia presentation.
Terms to Discuss
- advocacy
- character
- integrity
- citizenship
- courage
- virtue
- persevere
- integrate
- risk
ADVOCACY AND CITIZENSHIP
Student Activities
Pre-Viewing Activity:
After a class discussion about what honesty is practiced in our culture, students fill a Sketch Pad with words, images, and symbols that illustrate how issues of honesty play a role in their lives.
Group Activity
Students work in small groups to create a Career Web that demonstrates how issues of honesty and values play an important role in a career they value.
Curriculum Connections Activities
Social Studies/Geog: People and Places
History/Literature: Elie Wiesel Timeline
Persuasive Writing: On the Air ‚ A Radio Editorial on Honesty
Research Project
Students conduct research on 3-5 people who told the truth and did the right thing. After the research phase, students select one of these heroes and creatively present their lives to the class by writing a tribute, a newspaper interview, an obituary, or an eyewitness account.
Terms to Discuss
- honesty
- moral
- principle
- values
- fortitude
- appeal
- corrosive
- corrupt
- advocacy
- citizenship
ADVOCACY AND CITIZENSHIP
Student Activities
Pre-Viewing Activity:
After a class discussion about lawyers and advocacy, students complete an Open Mind activity comparing the advocacy concerns of prosecution and defense attorneys.
Group Activity
In small groups, students discuss several comments made by panelist, Brendan Sullivan. They select one quote for development into a debate question, and outline arguments for and against the issue.
Curriculum Connections Activities
Business/Consumer: Ralph Nader and Consumer Rights
Health/Art: The Right to Choose
Career Education: Exploring a Career in Law
Research Project
Students conduct research on a famous trial or legal issue. They use their research to develop a newspaper article, editorial, trial web site, or interview that explores the issue from different points of view.
Terms to Discuss
- adversary
- defense
- prosecutor
- corporation
- jurors
- justice
- conviction
- choice
- allegations
- evidence
- advocacy
- citizenship
ADVOCACY AND CITIZENSHIP
Student Activities
Pre-Viewing Activity:
After a class discussion about students and advocacy, students use an Advocacy Wheel to brainstorm privately about needs in their communities and how they can make a difference.
Group Activity
In small groups, students discuss local opportunities for students to volunteer and make a difference. They create a Community Tour to orient a visitor to the needs of the community.
Curriculum Connections Activities
Mathematics: Jimmy Carter and Habitat for Humanity
Creative Writing/Art: Memories
Physical Education: An Athletic Difference
Research Project
Students conduct research on local problems as candidates for their own action. They select one issue and write a personal action plan for joining in to help. They write a monologue about their personal experience as an advocate.
Terms to Discuss
- advocacy
- motivation
- power
- privilege
- community
- volunteer
- advocacy
- citizenship
ADVOCACY AND CITIZENSHIP
Student Activities
Pre-Viewing Activity:
After a class discussion about the meaning of discrimination, students individually brainstorm causes, effects, and examples of discriminatory acts.
Group Activity
In small groups, students develop a public service commercial that exposes and denounces a form of discrimination in our society.
Curriculum Connections Activities
Creative Writing: Rosa Parks: Pioneer for Civil Rights
Social Studies: Cliques and Stereotypes
Current Events: Telling Events
Research Project
Students conduct research on individuals or organizations that have successfully advocated for an end to some form of discrimination. They use their research to develop a script for a program on the History Channel or a web site.
Terms to Discuss
- discrimination
- civil rights
- bias
- segregation
- stereotype
- token
- dispossessed
- disenfranchised
- cliques
- advocacy
ADVOCACY AND CITIZENSHIP
Student Activities
Pre-Viewing Activity:
After a class discussion about how reading and books can change lives, students brainstorm the books, authors, and characters that have made a difference to them.
Group Activity
In small groups, students make recommendations of books, films, plays, music, performances and visual art that can aspire others to achievement and advocacy.
Curriculum Connections Activities
Expository Writing: Powerful Books
Goal Setting: Wise Choices
Careers: Public Service
Research Project
Students conduct research on Greek authors and their works. They select a myth, poem, play, or other work to review learning about its author, impact on Greek society, and lessons for our modern world. They select an research outcome writing a profile of a hero, a modern myth, or a letter to the author.
Terms to Discuss
- advocacy
- citizenship
- civic
- virtue
- cognitive
- classical
- relent
- scholarship
- achievement
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