Global Issues Unit Assignment

ENG 4E 
 

For this unit each student will be looking deeper into a controversial or global issue.  You may check the document titled (ENG 4E Global Issues Ideas) if you are having trouble thinking of an issue.  With your issue you will be completing multiple projects that will help you discover more about your topic as well as learn many important skills. 

Due Date:  May 1, 2007 

Step One:  Choose one global issue that you feel strongly about or are interested in finding out more about. 

Step Two:  Complete five “Level 3” activities. 

Step Three:  Complete three “Level 2” activities. 

Step Four:  Complete one “Level 1” activity. 

Step Five:  Complete a title page and table of contents for your project. 

Step Six:  Hand in your project to Miss Seguire by the due date. 
 

Level 3 Activities 

1. Create a diorama of the central theme that pervades your research.
2. Create a chart that shows the challenges that have arisen due to your issue and the solutions that have been put forth so far.
3. Create a set of ten flashcards that contain words that you learned during your research.  Once you have completed the cards I will quiz you on your words.
4. Create a radio broadcast that discusses the main issues of your topic.
5. Create a scrapbook (min. 5 pages) that outlines the ideas that you have found in your research
6. Write a newspaper article that will inform the public about your global issue.
7. Create a timeline of events in relation to your issue.
8. Find one person that has been integral in the work that has been done on your issue and find out more about them.  Once you have done your research, write a one page biography of that person.
9. Write a 10 question multiple choice quiz on your topic.
10. Write a letter to someone that could help your cause and explain your information and your reasons for writing.
11. Interview one person in the community that has a link to your global issue.
12. Create a Venn diagram using the two most prominent issues or solutions that you found in your research.
13. Draw a political cartoon about your topic.
14. Write a poem or song that discusses your issue.
15. Write a paragraph discussing the pros and cons of your global issue.

Level 2 Activities 

1. You are now a candidate running for the office of Member of Provincial Parliament and your topic is one of the major campaign issues.  Create a campaign platform as well as poster to convince the people about the facts that you have found on your topic.
2. Create a board game that teaches people about your global issue.
3. Use the knowledge that you have gained to offer five ways in which the students of PDCI could help your global issue.
4. With a partner debate the two central themes in your research.
5. Create a webpage on your topic.  Make sure that you always cite your sources and include your own thoughts on the issue.
6. Present your findings to the class in an oral presentation with visual aids.
7. Write a one page report explaining how your global issue will affect Canada in the future.
8. Create a pictorial essay on your global issue.
9. Create a “Lesson in a Box”.  The box should contain all of the material a teacher would need to teach a one day lesson on your topic.

Level 1 Activities 

1. Implement one of your ideas from level 2 option 3.  Please see Miss Seguire for final approval.
2. Compose a personal essay on the topic of your global issue.  Please see Miss Seguire for a topic related specifically to your issue.
3. Find a way in which to make the students and teachers of PDCI aware of your global issue, and implement it.  Please see Miss Seguire for final approval.