Grade 7 Ethics Assignments
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Term 2
2. Loss & Remembrance Project Assignment & Evaluation Rubric
Part 1 - Pairs Research Power Point Presentation
TOTAL # OF SLIDES:
title slide, 3 slides per team member answering the questions you researched, at least 1 References slide = that's a minimum of 8 slides for pairs.
Part 1 - Pairs Research Power Point Presentation
TOTAL # OF SLIDES:
title slide, 3 slides per team member answering the questions you researched, at least 1 References slide = that's a minimum of 8 slides for pairs.
- March 18 - Create the groups and divide the topics; do preliminary research; divide the notesheet tasks; work on filling out own research notesheet
- WEEKEND homework - fill out notesheet on own traditions regarding death, loss, and remembrance by interviewing family members
- March 21 - Continue to collect information and fill out your part of the research notesheets on the festival assigned - you each need two sources minimum
- March 31 - Learn PowerPoint online in the NFSB Microsoft suite (your OneDrive); decide as a team on a coherent and consistent design and share the collaborative working feature. Work on your part of the slides, adding in your information from your research. Here's a tutorial on how to share your PPT and work at the same time as your partner. Here's a tutorial on finding copyright-free images in Google to help you find the pictures for your project.
- April 1 - Completing the collaborative Power Point presentation; Learn howto use CiteFast to create your bibliography (need this for your final slides); here is a web tutorial for using CiteFast
- April 14 - Rehearse your oral presentation; Start class presentations
- April 19 - Finish class presentations
- April 29 - choosing someone to honour (family, friend, pet, celebrity, role model), brainstorming; looking at model poems and starting to draft
- See these examples handed out in class; See this website for even more song lyric examples
- May 2- experimenting with techniques; drafting aspects of the poem
- complete the draft (30-40 lines) by the next class
- May 12 - revising the poem; adding in literary and poetic techniques; giving the draft to Ms. Sauve for feedback; starting to storyboard the video and be clear where the 4 religious references go:
- May 13 - Learning wevideo and how to superimpose text, insert images, add sound etc.; revising poem based on teacher feedback; starting the video part of the project
- May 27 - working on video
- May 30 - working on video
- June 9 - working on video and submit the final project byt he end of the period. You can stay in at lunch if you need it. .
- Submit the finished and exported video in the Teams assignment folder
- In person, hand in the physical copies of:
- Poem draft and work with Sauve's feedback on it.
- Storyboard with the 4 religious traditions clearly indicated - ie explain how you have referred to 4 traditions in your video
- Notesheet about your own family traditions and your thoughts on the after-life
- The project rubric
1. Class Participation & Public Speaking
- Participation rubric
- Jan. 28 - Class game #1: in teams of 3, create a story using one word from each of these columns. Follow this structure:
- There once was a _____ who _______. ____ was known for ________. In fact, legend has it that _______. Because of this __________. The moral of this story is.
- Feb 15 & 16 - Liberte de Choisir Workshops. Listen respectfully, ask questions, participate in the class discussion with the guest speaker
- Jan. 28 - Class game #1: in teams of 3, create a story using one word from each of these columns. Follow this structure:
- Public speaking rubric
- Jan. 31 - 2-minute talk #1 discuss the answer to ONE of these questions; here is a website with lots more questions if you're interested for future conversations with friends or family
- March 7 & 8 - 2-minute talk answering a different question from list above; 2-minutes talk choosing a random object and inventing its history while persuading how it changed the world.
Term 1
2. Panel Discussion on 7 topical issues with regards to the social order, ethical questions / dilemmas, and the role of the state and the individual in legislating, accepting or resisting new laws or events which impact, challenge or strengthen the existing social order. Students will be in teams of 3. Each team is responsible for researching and understanding all the sides of the issue assigned to them with a focus on the above-mentioned components of the ERC program. They will present their issue to the class in a panel format. Here is the evaluation rubric.
Dec. 6 - set up in teams, read main article to situate whole group. Create one ethical question per person; research 1 article that deals with that particular issue in more depth per person per issue.
Dec. 7 - prepare your part of the panel and share with the group how the panel parts will work.
Dec. 17 - rehearse 15 minutes - first 3 teams present
Dec. 20 - final 4 groups present
Dec. 6 - set up in teams, read main article to situate whole group. Create one ethical question per person; research 1 article that deals with that particular issue in more depth per person per issue.
Dec. 7 - prepare your part of the panel and share with the group how the panel parts will work.
Dec. 17 - rehearse 15 minutes - first 3 teams present
Dec. 20 - final 4 groups present
- "What happens next after convictions in Arbery death trial?" by Kate Brumback (race)
- "Amazon Supply Chain Innovation Continues" by Steve Banker (environment)
- "Quebec’s Bill 21 again faces questions amid outrage over London, Ont. vehicle attack" by Amanda Connolly (religion)
- "Portugal makes it illegal for bosses to contact employees outside working hours" by Vicky McKeever (labour)
- "How Same-Sex Marriage Became Legal in Canada" by Kim Brown (civil rights)
- "Gov. Greg Abbott signs into law one of nation’s strictest abortion measures, banning procedure as early as six weeks into a pregnancy" by Shannon Najmabadi (reproductive rights)
- "Teachers told to offer books with ‘opposing’ Holocaust views" by the Associated Press (education)