Issue Selection and Throughline Podcast

Starter- 10 minutes

1. Skim through the following resources with lists of issues of injustice (briefly check out at least 3 of them to just see what they offer)
2. Pick one issue from one of the websites and explore a link to see where it leads you
3. Be ready to share out which website you landed on, which issue you chose, and what you found from the link
4. IF YOU KNOW your issue already, please write your name and the issue on the whiteboard above the tea station.  

http://encyclopedia.uia.org/en/problem/133064 (scroll down to the list of issues)
https://www.isidewith.com/polls/social
https://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Pages/ListOfIssues.aspx
https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sustainable-development-goals/ 
https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sustainable-development-goals/  

SHARE OUT STARTER FINDINGS

Part Zero Guidelines (Throughline)

• Let's read page 3 of the "Immodest Proposal" guidelines
• Let's check out my Throughline Write-up Example
• UPDATE: YOU DO NOT HAVE TO POST IT ON YOUR DP! Only Parts 1-5 need to be on the DP.

HOMEWORK and Other CLASS Biz

• Share your monologues with me digitally please
• Tonight's Homework: Be ready to share out your issue choice and notes from Throughline tomorrow.
• Be of Service Reflection-- 3/4 page min. DO background research on the organization to bolster your reflection! 
• Don't forget about the Portfolio Conferences scheduled this week
• Justice Monologue make-ups: Lunch tomorrow?
• My morning pod-- Honors: Lunch discussion on Thursday! OR in class with me popping in and out 

WORK TIME
FIRST: Select your issue (stuck? See below)
SECOND: Begin Part Zero- Throughline assignment
Listen to a Throughline of your choosing and take notes and document the following:

1. What essential question is the podcast trying to answer?
2. Outline the major events/arguments the podcast makes to answer their guiding question

ISSUE Selection Help!

1. Spend 10 minutes free writing or making a jot dot a list of all the issues you care about or what comes to mind when you think of injustices.​
2. Scroll through the list of websites under today's starter and research a few issues that stand out to you
3. Pick your topic and then narrow it down. For instance, Google “current events articles on _____” Example: “current events articles on food and water security”
4. Research the issue! The narrower you focus the easier it will be to keep your research tight. For example, rather than researching food and water security around the world, I might just pick one specific community that is facing food and water security injustices OR I might find an organization/individual/community/artist (depending on my preferred method of IMPACT) who is trying to solve that issue and find out where/how they’re focusing their solution and then research the context on that more specifically. Make sense? 
5. Talk to a friend for ideas.
6. Talk to Ashley

Here is what my process for selecting an issue entailed! It took me about 30 minutes to do this!

Issues I'm interested in:

• Access to education
• Environmental justice
  
  

My process: I skimmed through all the links under “resources for selecting an issue” and narrowed it down to a couple issues I care most about. I then spent about 30 minutes google searching key terms like “improving access to education”, “current events articles on environmental justice”, “environmental justice issues today”, “problems with education access worldwide”, “solutions to…”, etc…  This helped get the wheels churning for sure!

Then, I thought about what way I’d want to make impact on these issues.  I decided I am most passionate about using education as a way to affect change (no surprise there, folks!) and so I started googling “education programs to address environmental justice” and other keyword searches like that.  I found this article: https://urbanedjournal.gse.upenn.edu/archive/volume-5-issue-1-spring-2007/environmental-justice-education-empowering-students-become-envi  about a program called The Edible Schoolyard Project in Berkeley, CA.  The Edible Schoolyard Project is an internationally recognized program focusing on the concept of sustainable farming and embodied scientific literacy.  So I decided that program would be my “Approach Analysis”.

I realized that I probably don’t have the expertise or local knowledge to truly critique this particular program BUT I thought that I could apply the elements of it that seem to really work to developing a proposal for our community to engage youth in combating environmental injustices nearer to our home.