Respect+Life+Projects

Your assignment is to work with your assigned group to research one of the following topics you have been assigned (click on a topic for more information):
 * abortion
 * just war doctrine or legitimate defense
 * euthanasia and/or assisted suicide
 * death penalty
 * stem cell research and/or cloning
 * environment (care for God's creation)
 * human trafficking and/or immigration and/or treatment of migrants & refugees
 * human rights and/or torture

Once you've checked in your topic notes with Mr. Smith, you need to create a lesson on your topic so that your classmates can learn from you. Here are the elements of your lesson that you need to develop:
 * 1) __Presentation/Direct Instruction-__ give your classmates the basics of your topic: the who, what, where, when, why, and how. ***Just War Doctrine will be slightly different- see Mr. Smith**. Also explain to them what the Church teaches about your topic (whether it is right or wrong) and under what circumstances (if any) it is morally right or justified.
 * 2) __Activity or Review Activity__- get your students up and active using the information that they have just been taught. This activity can be done early on in the lesson or as a review before an assessment about the topic.
 * 3) __Video Clip__- choose the TV genre you want to use: talk show, reality TV, crime/hospital/legal drama, situation comedy, soap opera, or news report. Create a video that includes all of the basic information on your topic, edit it, and post it to creatively reinforce the information in your presentation.
 * 4) __Discussion/Chat on the issue__- group members will conduct a class-wide online chat to discuss the issue and facilitate understanding of the topic.
 * 5) __Assessment:__- you will assess how well your classmates know the basics of your topic.

You will be graded on each element of the lesson by Mr. Smith and your classmates will also evaluate how effectively you taught the information to them. You will also be evaluated by your fellow group members as to how well you worked in your group and how much of the work you did. These evaluations will have an impact on your grade.

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