As many of you know, with today’s economy many of us face hard, challenging decisions every single day. Often times, young adults can feel completely helpless and “mute” with concerns to important issues.
Read the article below and notice how teens are taking their own issues into their own hands. Prepare to discuss some of your issues.
Now that you have read the article, write a blog post in which you discuss an issue that you have with “the way the world works.” It could be the lack of drinking water across the globe, the inequalities between the lives of the wealthy and the poor, segregations role in our society, etc. As you write the entry, please consider:
- What is the issue?
- Why is it an issue and why should others care about it?
- What are some possible ways to fix this solution?
- Are there articles online that discuss this issue? If so, post links!
Rubric:
Proficient – 2 – 3 paragraphs about an issue that you see in today’s world/society. In these paragraphs, students discuss the importance of the issue and ways to prevent/stop this issue. All writing is clear, logical, and makes use of rhetorical devices to enhance overall effect.
Non-Proficient – less than 2 paragraphs an issue, students do not discuss the issue at length, nor why others should take interest in it, writing is unclear, illogical, and does not make use of rhetorical devices.
1 comment:
In issue i have with "the way the word works" is all the technology that surronds people everyday. For example kids/teens used to go hang out with there friends after school in PERSON for five to three hours, sometimes more. Now kids go home and get to their computers, video games, and tvs'. You barly see kids out with their friends anymore hanging out side.
Popular social networking sites like Facebook/myspace alows people to have 1000 max 'friends' but there not real friends some of those people you dont know and probally never will.
Back in the day if you liked a girl or boy you walked up to them and introduced your self, now you friend request them on facebook. Its not the same as introducing your self in person and that first time awkward feeling that you cant get behind a computer screen. A postive oppurtonity that social networking sites offer is that it allows you to reconnect with family or friends that are far away & you just lost touch with.
Some familys that have all the technology advances are disconected and they live in the same home. These are usually the people that have computers and tvs in everyroom or are on their phones all day long. Some people can get so wraped up in their texting or computers that time goes by like its nothing and before you know it the days gone by and you may have not even spoken to the people in the next room.
Another issue i have with the way the world works is that even though segrgation doesnt exsist anymore there is still an invisable line and walls that people have put up, that may seem imposable to break down.
The boarder with color and race is still around today.
In my opinion i think people get scared of what they dont know and its nature for humans to want to blame problems on other people that are diffrent, but placing the blame doesnt solve anything.
The quote "dont judge a book by its cover." comes in here. My cousin whose half dominican/ half puerto rican is dark with real curly short hair. She could even pass as a african american but when she talks you can hear that shes hispanic. People that walk down the street or meet her for the first time lable her automaticly as african american. My probelm is that it feels like to me that society has to have a lable on everything.
My third issue is the way homeless/poor people are treated everyday in bussy citys. When i lived in New York people would walk by homeless people and spit, say insulting things or just mess with them cause their board and find it funny. But its not funny and its not right. What most people forget when they say that " its there fault their homeless/poor why should i care? why should I help? " is that most people that are homeless served as Vietnam soldiers, who deffended and did what they were told to protect this country, that many people take for granted everday. A little history for people is that when soldiers came back from vietnam they got little to no therapy and help for what they expiernced they were written of and thankd for seriving, but they never got the proper help that they needed to overcome some of the things they witnessed, so most turn to drinking. Like most depressed people do when they feel they have no where else to turn and decied to turn to an outlet that can be replaced. Also most homeless people now and days are homeless because of forclosures. Familys that have been kicked out and lost their homes.
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