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Part One: Introduction

Introduction: Spencer 

Chapter One: Our Social Voice - Maria Delgado

  • Catchy Introduction – story of when you painted the mural
  • What is a social voice?  (we may use some of the other student answers)
  • How is a social voice communicated
  • Why it’s important – why people need to hear our social voice (why they should care)
  • Service: speaking out (list some of our IMPACT projects), design our commercial that we’ll post on YouTube, visit an artist activity (First Fridays in downtown)
  • Interview: newspaper reporter, musician, artist

Chapter Two: When Voices Are Silenced – Antonese Robertson

  • Introduction: Story of abuse, but has to stay silent
  • Who are some of the people whose voices are silenced
  • How do people silence another person’s voice
  • What we miss by never hearing their voices
  • Service: volunteer at a domestic violence shelter, Day of Silence
  • Interviews: works for a domestic violence shelter, someone who has been through it      

Part Two: Life

Chapter Three:  Drugs - Karina Marquez

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Chapter Four: Abortion - Portia Yowytewa  

 

Chapter Five: Drinking: Nancy DeLaRosa

  • Introduction: Maybe a Poem or Story
  • Why it’s addicting – how they get addicted
  • The bad side of it
  • Why people start - kids
  • Law – underage drinking
  • Ways to get people to stop
  • Interviews: dad (wants to stop), counselor for AA, people trying to pass the law
  • Service: something for drunk driving? Maybe a video or something?

Chapter Six: Debt - home prices, in debt, broken families

 

Part Three: School

Chapter Seven: Like a prison: Fernando Chavez

  • Introduction – what is like (1 page)
  • Why they make it like a prison
  • What it should be like – school that values freedom (2 pages)
  • Interviews – politician, superintendent of our district, principal (3 pages each)
  • Service: writing letters to textbook (McGraw Hill), superintdent of public instruction (Tom Horne)
  • Describing your service projects  and the results (2 pages)

Chapter Eight: Bullying

 

Part Four: Neighborhood / City

Chapter Nine: Painting Graffiti: Daniel Rodriguez

  • Introduction: describe it
  • How it makes the community look bad
  • Why people tag – interviews
  • What can be done to make a difference
  • Interviews: former taggers, someone from the city, maybe your dad
  • Service: coordinate a graffiti clean-up

Chapter Ten: Gangs - Rikki Parra

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Part Five: State

Chapter Eleven: Immigration – Kristeen Campos,

 

Chapter Twelve: Latino Civil Rights, Carol and Arlene

  • Introduction - poem (maybe the I AM POEM) - part of the song - Telling My Story
  • Explain what's going on
  • Short part about Latino Civil Rights Movement of the 1960's
  • Ways Latinos are mistreated now
    • How it hurts families
    • How many borders they had to cross / experiences / trying / etc.
    • Racist laws
  • How they help our society 
  • Service - maybe a march, student protest, helping an organization that gives food or water (Safe House)
  • Interviews - students whose parents are immigrants, immigrants, lawmakers, government 

Part Six: Nation

Chapter Thirteen: The American Dream - Joseph Merced

  • Introduction: Grimey and Homer
  • Values of the American Dream: What is the American Dream?
  • Service - unsure right now
  • Interviews with people about what they believe is the American Dream?
    • Illegal Immigrant – How they see it
    • Business Owner

Chapter Fourteen: Racism: Crystal Carr

  • Introduction - poem or story or a quote
  • Expand your article
  • Why are people racist
  • What are examples of racism?
  • Examining music, movies, television
  • Interviews - former KKK member, a Civil Rights activist, Little Rock Nine, Ruby Bridges, John Perkins
  • Service - something with little kids (designed a children's book about racism that you read to a group of little kids)

Chapter Fifteen: War in Iraq: Eunice Leyva

  • Introduction - Figure it out
  • How it affects our economy
  • How it affects our lives
  • Whether we should or should not be there
  • Interview - soldiers, teachers, students, peace activist
  • Service Project - hospitals (soldiers), help coordinate our Soldier Boxes (February) 

 

Part Seven: World

 

Chapter Fifteen: Genocide - Vanessa Sanchez

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  • Service -
  • Interviews - someone who was in a country where there was genocide 

 

Chapter Sixteen: Global Poverty – Angela Vest, Andrea Rodriguez

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Chapter Seventeen: Global Warming - Mackenzie Willis

  • Create the garden concept
  • Design a "green school"
  • Write about the school-wide recycling