Resilience Questions

The Driving Question:

What can we learn from other people's inspiring stories of resilience that we might be able to use in our own lives?

1. Sharing stories of resilience
2. Go over the driving question
3. Brainstorming the need to know questions

Here are our sub-questions in the groupings you organized.

Mammals and People

What it is and how it works

Non-Living Stuff and Plants

History

Grade 9 Project Launch Details

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How can we build a media campaign to express our voices to a public audience?

• What is the difference between speaking for yourself and having others speak for you?
• How are different viewpoints presented in the media?
• How does the media influence concepts of self and others?
• What are the elements of different forms of media?

Project Overview

Final Product: Create a website/blog with links to a multimedia campaign to express yourself and your community

• Creatively express yourself (intro product)
• KRSS newspaper: to be distributed in print and online
• Speak Up: Create a persuasive "rant" to post to blog
• Assess media representations of "us"
• (something else by student demand based on brainstorming driving question)