How can we decrease homelessness and illiteracy in our town? How can mutual respect be a positive influence in today's society?

Resources for topics related to Maniac Magee:

Use the links below to find information on the various topics. *After opening the link to the questions for your topic, go to your folder, open your file, and save this document in your folder.

Homelessness

For research see Questions for homelessness

http://earthsystems.org/ways/

http://www.eng.umu.se/city/weronica/main_essay/homelessness.htm

http://www.hud.gov/homeless/index.cfm

http://www.senate.gov/member/ct/lieberman/general/ro11200a.html

Illiteracy

For research see Questions for Illiteracy

http://www.literacycouncil.org/problem.htm

http://www.teachinternational.org/illiterate.htm

http://indian-river.fl.us/living/services/als/facts.html

Respecting Others

For research see Questions for Respecting Others

http://www.goodcharacter.com/BCBC/RespectingOthers.html

http://www.kidsource.com/kidsource/content/behavior.html

After researching one of the topics above with your Tribe (cooperative learning group):

1. Create a Powerpoint presentation using your prior knowledge and the information you learned about your tribe's topic from the websites and other materials related to your topic.
See Powerpoint Rubric.

2. Complete one of the following projects using your prior knowledge and the information you learned about your tribe's topic from the websites and other materials related to your topic. See Project Presentation Rubric.

-perform a skit for the class

-perform a puppet show for the class

-design an advertisement/poster and present it to the class

-write a song and sing it to the class

Credits:

Picture of globe,people on bench, and boy on bench:"some images © 2002-www.clipart.com"