• picture wall: create poster w/windows, trees, chairs etc. students emails you photos to insert to poster wall (black and white cut outs). creates community collage.
• student must sing or dance to leave the room
• sing instructions
• identify: problem / solution / job each week
• class begins with journal question, list question, or reading of a controversial article (topics: teen abortion, obesity, racism, pop culture, etc)
• time line & high school years talk...circle at the center with different path choices outward in a brainstorm talk
• acting: monologues & duologues etc.
• advertising campaign
• autobiography: write, collage, photos, etc
• blogging
• book creation: recipes, collage, short stories, zines, comic book
• build a business (investment, cost, necessary sales)
• career ideas
• critique a film, commercial, music (study & write)
• debate/speeches (topics from a hat: fredrick douglas, student congress), how to's
• documentary / independent film or documentry photography (dctvny.org)
• earth posters education project with my kids
• essays: theme, thesis, research, how to, how something was shaped
• event planning: charity/fundraiser ground up
• fashion (build a line from cut outs)
• financial planning: budgeting for a family -given a salary, research bills, etc
• gay & lesbian literature
• geography contests
• government: run a campaign, research issues
• grammar tips
• health care
• improvisation: speak a conversation each person beginning with letter from alphabet
• interactive journals: you respond to pages (private pages they fold over) topics: top tens, a to z, questions, reviews
• interview (see magazines with Q&A style)
• job stuff program: resume, apps, cover letters, interviewing, internships, etc
• journals on students for them to read --self esteem builder
• lists: top tens, to do
• poetry & music showcase & art show
• photoshop, illustrator, garage band
• PICK 10 --choose 10 things from the internet or magazine and report to group
• report on a news article (internet)
• radio show or podcast...interviews or sounds
• rant or review
• scavenger hunts: themed by neighborhood culture
• screenplay or snapshot dialogue writing writing
• sexuality -research teens today, build presentions
• song lyrics (change context or language)
• spelling bee
• subjects: art, photography, music, gardening, cooking, knitting
• teen Lists: wishlist, favorites, etc
• time capsule
• time travel
• topics: sex, obesity, body image, drugs, pop culture, grades, environment
• travel brochure
• website building
• wiki on a person report
• zines

Supplies:

• magazines,
• glue
• markers
• construction paper
• journals in journal bins
• scissors
• computer/printer