Project ideas

Here is the update, which can also be found on e-learning:

10B

Group A (Jack, James, Diana)

Stresses on Modern Life – Single Parent Families

Essay topics:

Jack- Compare and contrast traditional families to single parent families.

Diana- The difficulties and situations that single parents and the kids have to face.

James- The cause and effect of Single parent families.

Ways of presenting:

Power point- combining all three of our essays into slides including a video clip or two from websites like youtube.com.

Poster- a chart based on Jack’s topic of showing the difference between single and traditional.

Speech- written in palm cards by Diana and will be about 7-10 minutes long and will be presented with the power point slides.

Role Play - team up with the other group and do a play linking both our ideas.

Group B (Cecilia, Sarah, Jasmine, Nini)

Topic: Divorce

-        Causes and effects of divorce, compare rates in different subjects, and how to prevent divorce.

Works:

-Cecilia: how to prevent divorce, power point (suggestion – third presenter)

-Sarah: affects, poster (suggestion – fourth presenter)

-Jasmine: rates, poster (suggestion – second presenter)

-Nini: causes, power point (suggestion – first presenter)

Play:

-Cecilia: dad (male)

-Sarah: child (female)

-Jasmine: mom (male)

-Nini: third person (male)

This class has been talking about doing something related to The Curious Incident Book. The class expressed a lack of desire to do an autism/Asperger's related topic. So, I have identified another theme in that book which is how stresses of modern life affect families. Christopher's family (the main character) has an absent parent, and when one parent needs to take care of a son, especially with a mental challenge such as Asperger's, it is very difficult. Some families could experience divorce in this kind of circumstance. We mentioned divorce in Taiwan as a possible topic or subtopic.

I hope to divide the class into two groups as follows:

A: Jack, James, Diana
B: Cecelia, Sarah, Jasmine, Nini

The groups decided what to focus on, and I will try to post more information here later in the weekend. Group A is doing stresses on single parent families. Here is the document I gave you in class called stresses on single parent families, and here is the PDF file I found that may help you. For group B, which is focusing on the causes and effects of divorce, besides lending you two John Gottman books (The Seven Principles that Make Marriage Work and Why Marriages Succeed and Fail) and The Unexpected Legacy of Divorce: a 25 Year Landmark Study by Lewis and Blakeslee, I made a causes of divorce document for you. I hope these links help!

Remember, the project must have creative, presentation, and writing components. I expect that each student will produce a short written part and that the group will make a power point or a video and then have a presentation together. It is my strong wish that each group also have either a dramatization or a game for the class to enjoy as part of their presentation. You must at least do reflective posts on your individual blogs about your projects (perhaps multiple times), but if there is a Power Point or video, I hope you will link it to your blogs as well. Grading will be discussed clarified later, but expect an individual grade for your writing and a group grade for group effort. There may be some self and/or peer evaluation involved.