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Q2 Brainstorm and Online Research Process

STEPS

1.

1. Generate a list of things that have impacted your life at school.

My friends
My peers
Linton
Mrs.mckillop
mrs.wolf
LGBTQ

2. Think about your life outside of school. Make a list of things that have impacted your life at
home.
Joey and sofie
George and shanelle splitting up
My aunt lori only comes every 2/3 years
My mom and nicks marriage
Farm animals
Living in the “country”

3. Think globally. Generate a list of things in our world that have impacted you or your are
concerned about.
I am concerned about teachers having guns.
I am concerned about dead animals on the side of the road
I am concerned about school shootings
I am concerned about vape use

4. Highlight one idea from each question above that you feel is a story worth sharing. Enter
your three ideas in row one in the table below.
SELECT 3 ideas → Idea 1: living in the Idea 2: vape use Idea 3: “roadkill”
country

DRAFT some Why are almost all What are some ways What are some ways
questions you have country songs about that we can stop to keep them off the
about your topic you beer? teens from vaping in road?
schools
would like to further
explore.
EXTRACT keywords Living in the country.
and terms to use in
an online search.
APPLY search
strategies to your
keywords and terms
above.
RUN your search Source 1 URL:
Use sites other than ww.theguardian.com
Wikipedia. Notes: Recent hit singles
include Jerrod Niemann
Drink to That All Night, Little
CHART the Big Town’s Day Drinking,
results → Dierks Bentley’s Drunk On A
Plane, Toby Keith’s Drunk
Americans, Lee Brice’s
Drinking Class, Brantley
Gilbert’s Bottoms Up, Frankie
Ballard’s Sunshine and
Whiskey, Cole Swindell’s Ain’t
Worth The Whiskey, and
Lady Antebellum’s Bartender
– and those are just songs
that reference drinking in the
title. The guys of Florida
Georgia Line are lacing
their Cokes with Jack
Daniel’s on Sun Daze,
Blake Shelton is throwing
back shots on Neon Light,
and Jason Aldean is
sipping spirits while naked
in bed on Burnin’ It Down.
It’s not a stretch to say
that the genre is, in a
word, drunk.
Source 2 URL:
www.narconon.org
Notes: Binge Drinking is
Already a Serious Problem
Among the Young. the
difference today seems to
be the proportion of songs
that feature drinking.
Source 3 URL: myself
Notes: i think that
Vape use How can we keep the
animals from being
roadkill?
Source 1 URL: Source 1 URL:
https://drugfree.org www.peta.org
Notes: Vaping is the Notes: Carry an animal
act of inhaling and rescue kit in your car for
exhaling the aerosol, stray or injured animals.
often referred to as and a list of emergency
vapor, produced by an phone numbers of
e-cigarette or similar veterinarians, humane
device. It’s become societies, animal
more popular among shelters, and wildlife
teens than regular rehabilitators. If you
cigarettes, especially come upon an animal
given that vaping who has been killed by a
devices can be used for car, you can either move
anything from flavors him or her out of the
like mango, mint or tutti roadway yourself, or
frutti, to flavorings report the incident to the
containing nicotine or local animal control
THC, the chemical department who will
compound in marijuana usually come and pick
that produces the high. up the animal.
Source 2 URL Source 2 URL
weareteachers.com
Notes: Vaping and e- Notes:
cigs are not the same.
Traditional e- Source 3 URL
cigarettes have a
distinct cigarette taste
Notes:
and appeal. vapes are
small, refillable
devices that heat
“vape juice,”
atomizing the liquid
into a mist. Neither
device uses tobacco,
but both can deliver
nicotine. According
to one recent study,
two-thirds of teens
who vape use only the
flavored vaping juices
that contain no
nicotine, marijuana, or
other drugs.
 EVALUATE your 1 3 2
results and rate
them on a scale of 3,
with 3 being the best
story idea.

5. IDENTIFY your story.

Topic
What will your digital story be about?

Vape use

Point of View
From whose perspective is your story being told?

mine

Target Audience
Who is the narrator speaking to? Describe your intended audience.

Concerned parents, mr.lewis, curious teens

Key Message
Explain what you want viewers to feel, understand, or change as a result of viewing your digital story.

Don't vape anymore

6. SHARE this document with your teacher for feedback and approval.