Ms. Asgill's ERWC 2017-2018



Good Food/Bad Food PowerPoint AssignmentToday’s Date: 9/1/16Proposal Outline Due: 9/16/16PowerPoint Presentations Due: 9/19 – 9/21Part 1: (Articles)Read and annotate at least 4 articles of your choice. Turn in annotated articles on 9/16. Each group member must annotate individually for an individual grade. Use whatever articles you find that best supports your claim, but you must use at least one article from the ERWC book. If you use web-based articles, you must print them out. (Individual Grade)At the end of each article, please write the following:CLAIM: what claim does the article make?Explain: why is the author making this claim?EVIDENCE: what fact-based, verifiable evidence does the author use? (at least 2 pieces per article)COMMENTARY: what opinions does the author use to explain the evidence?Suggested Articles (You must use at least one article from the ERWC book)Bad Food? Tax It, and Subsidize Vegetables (p. 75)Attacking the Obesity Epidemic (p. 80)No Lunch Left Behind (p. 83)First Lady Proposes Ban on Junk Food Marketing in Schools (handout)America’s Top 10 Healthiest Fast Food Restaurants (handout)Healthy Fast Food Tips (online)Your Own Research (online)Part 2: (Food Log)Keep a food log of all food you have eaten for one week. What pattern do you notice about your eating habits? Do you skip meals, cook, eat out, eat on the run, snack more than you eat full meals, eat healthily, eat unhealthily, eat for convenience, eat for comfort, eat only home-cooked meals, etc.? What you do notice about the way you eat and what you eat? In terms of eating, from 1 to 5, where 1 = F (terrible eating habits) to 5 = (great eating habits), how would you rate your eating habits? Include this research in your PowerPoint presentation. Each speaker should discuss his/her relationship with food for at least one minute so that the audience gets a clear sense of what happened during your week of food tracking and why you ate the way you did. Be specific when you discuss your week of tracking food. Take us inside your experience with the facts, the incidents (what happened), and the observations (what you noticed in the experience). (Individual Grade)Discuss in this format:CLAIM: I eat very well. I would consider myself a 4 on a 5 point scale.EXPLAIN: I believe this is true because…EVIDENCE: The facts are that I eat mostly…and I do not…and I…and I also…COMMENTARY: support each fact with commentary that explains the facts to the audienceStart: Monday, 8/29 (breakfast, lunch, snacks, dinner)End: Friday, 9/2 (breakfast, lunch, snacks, dinner)Part 3: (Proposal Outline)Complete the Group Proposal Outline. Put all member names on the document.Type directly into the Word document.ONE group member emails the document to all three members and to the class email address; be sure that the email contains the names of all group members. This is a group grade.DUE: 9/16/16Part 4: (PowerPoint)Create a PowerPoint PresentationThis is a group grade. Use no less than 5 slides and no more than 7Each group member must explain slides. Divide speaking time equally.Must have the following slides:Introduction Claim: we believe that…Explain: we think this because…Evidence/Commentary: our relationship with food is: Speaker #1 = 1 min.Speaker #2 = 1 min.Speaker #3 = 1 min.Body #1Claim: One Problem (or Potential Problem) with teenage relationship with foodExplain: what we mean by this is…explain the details of the problemEvidence/Commentary #1Body #2Claim: The best way to solve this problem (or keep the problem from occurring)Explain: this is the best way becauseEvidence/Commentary #2Body #3Claim: One additional change you would make to teen eating habits & why it might workExplain: this might work becauseEvidence/Commentary #3 & #4ConclusionOverall we believe (restate main claim/thesis)We learned that…Answer the “So What” Question. Why does any of this matter? This matters because… ................
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