S+Stefanilo,+Daniel

** E-mail: ** daniel.stefanilo@maine.edu
 * Teacher:** Mr. Dan C. Stefanilo
 * Office:** Hogwarts School of Magic (Griffindor)
 * Office Phone:** (207) 636-6772
 * Office Hours:** Dawn to Dusk (M-F)

=Summary of Unit= The purpose of this unit on healthy choices, is to make students aware of the drug, sexual and dietary choices that will arise in their life and the consequences of each. Students will not only get knowledge of the different drugs, sex, pregnancy, and dietary terms, but how to react to being in the situations they know can have negative consequences. They will have the chance to be part of mock situations for each of the negative choices. The goal is that they will use their knowledge of the negative consequences and use one of the many ideas they will gain knowledge of to make a choice the is proactive and beneficial for their individual life. Students will get to watch movie clips, read blogs, and listen to guest speakers who have been put in these situations and learn of the different choices they made. Students will be assessed formatively post every lesson so that I can gain knowledge on the mastery they have attained on the topic. After the unit has been completed, my students will need to perform a webquest that shows their mastery of the underlying themes of the unit.

=Establish Goals= Maine Learning Results: Health Education and Physical Education-C. Health Promotion and Risk reduction C1 Healthy Practices and Behaviors Grade 9-Diploma Students demonstrate healthy practices and/or behaviors to maintain or improve the health of self and others in each of the following areas; healthy eating; physical activity; tobacco; alcohol; and other drug-use prevention; and prevention of STD's, HIV, and unintended pregnancy.

= = =Students will understand that= •They have choices and control over their healthy practices and behaviors •Healthy relationships have many parts and are important to practice •unintended pregnancies can be avoided with the various uses of birth control and contraceptives

= = =Essential Questions= •How can I take control of my life by making healthy choices? •why is it important to contribute to a healthy relationship? •How can I avoid unintended pregnancy?

= = =Students will know= •Factual Information: Birth control (contaceptives, condoms, pill) Pregnancy (trimesters, embryo, umbillical cord) Healthy relationships (love, friendship) Choices (drugs, abstinence) •Critical Details: how to use different birth control methods. Learn respect for the opposite sex.What situations will arise giving you choices •Sequence and timelines: The different trimesters during pregnancy as well as important days during pregnancy

= = =Students will be able to= •Model the aspects of a healthy relationship. •Tell a story of a person making healthy choices •Exhibit knowledge of birth control methods and how they work. •Compare differences between healthy and unhealthy relationships. •Role play a situation in which you are pregnant or have a child. •Realize their right to choose and make healthy choices.

**Performance Task Overview** You are a famous athlete coming off a championship season into a contract year, or an up and coming music artist who is about to go on tour and just released your first album. You have just been informed you have tested positive for some type of drug (marijuana, steroids), got into trouble with alcohol, become pregnant, are part of an unhealthy relationship, or another predicament keeping you from playing or going on tour. Using Imovie you must create a mock press conference where you talk about your background, the decision you made (information on it, and how it relates to you), the outcome, why you thought it was a good idea, and how you could have better handled choices leading up to your outcome. The Boston Globe, The New York Times, ESPN, and Rolling Stone will all be in attendance. For your oral presentation you need to do the same you did on the movie then open it up for questions to your media guests (the class). Your fans are counting on you to be open and honest. Don't make another mistake by not giving them truth about your predicament and problem. Good luck!

=Expectations= Plagiarism-It is very important that in my class you don't cheat. It is not only cheating, hurtful, and cowardly, but it is against the law. Any questions on plagiarism look in the student handbook. Know that if you are caught plagiarizing it will be an automatic fail for the project on top of any concequence from the school.

Attendance- I expect everyone to be able to make it to class everyday. With that said there are times that something comes up and you just can't make it to school. In that case it is your job to find out what you missed. I will be willing to help any student filling them in with what they missed. However, most of our class time is spent being interactive with each other. You will lose points for participation on any day you miss.

Homework- Homework will be rare. The only homework you should ever have is your mini-projects. You will have plenty of time to finish these either at home or in class.

Cooperation- In almost every class there will be cooperative learning groups, discussions, and debates. It is very important that you participate in all of these as cooperation is an important part of your grade.

Late Work Policy/Redo's- I will not penalize you for any late work. Students who pass their work in on time however will get points towards their participation grade. Late work becomes too late to pass in after the 2nd time we meet and you still don't have it. I believe your content knowledge is most important.

Respect- We discuss and learn very touchy material in this class. It is very important that anyone who is talking is respected and treated fairly. You may not have the same opinion as them but you must respect the person they are. When someone is talking, you are not.

=Benchmarks=
 * There is potential for up to 1000 points. There is no extra credit. Good Luck!

Participation (0 pts)-** I expect as part of my classroom expectations that you show up to class and participate in the different activities we have going on everyday. You will not get points for this, it is expected of you.


 * Pre-Assessments (50pts(completion))** There will be times before we start lessons that I will give you a pre-assessment. This will be graded on completion and not content. These assessments are to help both you and I gauge the knowledge and direction the lesson should go.


 * Formal Assessments (50pts(completion))** There will also be times throughout the lesson that I will give out a formative assessment, or ask students to write, read, or create knowledge in some way. These will also be graded on completion. These assessments are primarily to help me gauge how the class is mastering the content of the lesson.


 * Garage Band (100pts)-** Students will use garage band to make a song or an audio file that brings up all the choices they may need to make in their lives. By using the content knowledge from their ladder and the cooperative learning students will make their product based on the outcomes of the choice they make as well. This can focus on good, bad, or both outcomes from the choices they choose.


 * Comic Life 1 (100pts)-** Make a comic life of a person faced with decisions and show positive negative outcomes depending upon their choice of how to deal with the decision. By using their Five W's chart and participating in the three step interview, students should have good ideas of what situations they will choose to make a comic life of.


 * Comic Life 2 (100pts)-** Using comic life to compare similarities and differences in healthy and unhealthy relationships.


 * Imovie 1 (100pts)-** Using Imovie students will model aspects of a healthy relationship


 * Imovie 2 (100pts)-** Make a truth advertisement using Imovie. Take a topic or product and make the advertisement bringing out some truth about the product. We will try to get these on local television.


 * Pregnancy Webquest(100pts)-** Using a webquest students will role play a situation where you or a friend are pregnant or have a child.

You are a famous athlete coming off a championship season into a contract year, or an up and coming music artist who is about to go on tour and just released your first album. You have just been informed you have tested positive for some type of drug (marijuana, steroids), got into trouble with alcohol, become pregnant, are part of an unhealthy relationship, or another predicament keeping you from playing or going on tour. Using Imovie you must create a situation where your character has to make a choice, and ultimately makes the choice leading to the negative outcome. Your imovie must have parts leading up to your decision, your decision and choice, and show the negative and positive outcomes of your choice. You can add anything else you wish. Your oral presentation will be to show the imovie and set the stage for a mock press conference where you talk about your background, the decision you made (information on it, and how it relates to you), the outcome, why you thought it was a good idea, and how you could have better handled choices leading up to your outcome. The Boston Globe, The New York Times, ESPN, and Rolling Stone (your classmates) will all be in attendance. The media will be given questions ahead of time that they can ask. (You will have the general ideas of these questions ahead of time. Your fans are counting on you to be open and honest. Don't make another mistake by not giving them truth about your predicament and problem. Good luck!
 * Unit WebQuest (200pts)**


 * Subject to add assignments (up to 100pts worth)**- There will be times throughout the unit that I would like to add an assignment because I believe it will help students gain mastery of the content. Assignments will not exceed 100 pts.

=Grading Scale= **A** (93 -100), **A-** (90 - 92), **B+** (87 - 89), **B** (83 - 86), **B-** (80 - 82), **C+**(77 - 79), **C** (73-76),
 * C-** (70 - 72), **D+**(67 - 69), **D** (63 - 66), **D-** (60 - 62), **F** (0 - 59)