Advisory

Advisory

Purpose: The purpose of the advisory program at Ed Tech High is to provide students with the chance explore post-high school options, create positive connections with staff members, and seek support in their academic pursuits. Additionally, the advisory period will be a time for students to discuss current issues that affect their academic and social lives and seek the appropriate help with those issues as needed.



__**Agenda for the week**__ XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX || Using your netbooks and your discussion groups, [|research] and discuss the relief efforts that the United States is proposing for the victims on the Japanese earthquake and tsunami. How do the proposed relief efforts for Japan compare to the relief efforts employed for New Orleans? How do the environmental risks from Hurricane Katrina differ with the risks from the Japanese earthquake and tsunami? By the end of the week, compose a letter as a group to your state and national representatives to Congress about your recommendations to provide relief to the people of Japan and create a video (Using animoto, Windows Movie Maker, or other programs) highlighting an aspect of your research and conclusions (e.g. Human impact of natural disaster, Global economic impact, risk of radiation due to damage to nuclear reactors, etc). ||
 * Day || Date || Activity ||
 * Monday || March 14, 2011
 * Tuesday || March 15, 2011 || Continue activity from Monday. As a group you should begin storyboarding your video and composing a draft of your letter. ||
 * Wednesday || March 16, 2011 || Continue video and letter development. Collect pictures that will tell the story of your research and conclusion. Make sure that the letter has received input from all group members. ||
 * Thursday || March 17, 2011 || Continue video and letter development. ||
 * Friday || March 18, 2011 || Submit the group link to your video via blackboard and they will be presented next week. A final version of the letter should be submitted to me in hard copy by the end of the day in an unsealed, addressed envelope. I will read and review the letters and then send them. When responses are received, we will discuss them in class. ||