Stand UP to Teen Violence

This webquest is designed for middle school student.  The goal is develop awareness in the fight against Teen Violence.  This webquest project is designed to implement  3-4 weeks based on a class period of 45 minutes.

Standards

Stand UP to Teen Violence
The ELA Common Core State Standards
Reading Informational Text
Cite the textual evidence that most strongly supports an analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to supporting ideas; provide an objective summary of the text.
Analyze how a text makes connections among and distinctions between individuals, ideas, or events.
Determine the meaning of the words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings; analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone, including analogies or allusions to other texts.
Determine author's point of view or purpose in a text and analyze how the author acknowledges and responds to conflicting evidence or viewpoints.
Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of using different mediums (eg., print or digital text, video, multimedia) to present a particular topic.

Reading Literature
Cite the textual evidence that most strongly supports an analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to supporting ideas; provide an objective summary of the text.
Analyze how a text makes connections among and distinctions between individuals, ideas, or events.

Writing
Write arguments that support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence
A. Introduce claim, acknowledge and distinguish the claim from alternate or opposing claims, and organize the reasons and evidence logically.
B. Support claim with logical reasoning and relevant evidence, using accurate, credible sources and demonstrating an understanding of the topic.
C. Use words or phrases and clauses to create cohesion and clarify the relationships among claims, counterclaims, reasons and evidence.
D. Establish and maintain a formal style.
E. Provide a concluding statement or section that follows from and supports the argument presented.

Credits

There are many websites and resources used to build the webquest. You will find all of the websites listed in the Resource section.
I created this webquest for a graduate class at Kent State University. I would like to thank Dr. Drew Tiene for the learning opportunity in creating this webquest.
The photos are from www.bebo.com
www.scholastic.com/ID

Other

Pacing Guide
Week 1- Begin reviewing the websites, group students, begin research on one area of teen violence.Review real life scenarios and begin research. Teacher begins to meet with each group as well as individual students.
Week 2- Review song lyrics and begin comparison. Introduce Ebook to each group.
Week 3- Literature study of fictional novel depicting teen violence. (reading will also be completed outside of class)
Week 4-5-Complete documentary ppt /share