Welcome to the planet
Welcome to existence
Everyone's here
Everyone's here
Everybody's watching you now
Everybody waits for you now
What happens next?
What happens next?
I dare you to move
I dare you to move
I dare you to lift yourself up off the floor
I dare you to move
I dare you to move
Like today never happened
Today never happened before
Welcome to the fallout
Welcome to resistance
The tension is here
The tension is here
Between who you are and who you could be
Between how it is and how it should be
I dare you to move
I dare you to move
I dare you to lift yourself up off the floor
I dare you to move
I dare you to move
Like today never happened
Today never happened
Maybe redemption has stories to tell
Maybe forgiveness is right where you fell
Where can you run to escape from yourself?
Where you gonna go?
Where you gonna go?
Salvation is here
My students have to
1. Choose a current event or issue
2. Research the issue.
They will need at least
two newspaper articles
one magazine article
They may choose to include Internet search items, interviews, newsletters, etc. but they are required to have copies of their research.
3. They will need to write a 3 page paper.
Double Spaced
It should have a standard sized font (Lucida, Garamond, Times, Chicago, Trebuchet, etc.) No "fancy" or handwritten fonts except for as titles.
Type their name on the paper.
4. Their paper will explain the issue in at least 1 paragraph.
They could use other paragraphs to explain what is being done by other people, or what should be done about the issue.
They should have a conclusion that outlines what they intend to do about the issue.
What can you, as one person, do about the issue? How do you make a difference? How can you have power as just one person?
5. The paper will be due the day before Thanksgiving.
6. The project will be due, and they will talk about what the issue is and what they did to make a difference, after Christmas break, January 5th or January 6th.
7. This fulfills several elements of the English core curricula: speaking, listening, research, evaluation and analysis, and inquiry. I hope they choose something that is fun that gives them a sense of "warm fuzzy" from making a difference.
Dare YOU to move... Where else you gonna go? The moment is here.
