EL CIVICS CASAS CIVIC OBJECTIVE #17 FAMILY Identifying and resolving family and/or community issues such as substance abuse, spousal abuse, and gang violence. Teacher’s Manual Practice and Assessment of Oral Skills Janet Cagely Candace LynchThompson Carlos Perez Diana Rivers NOCCCD SCE ESL Department 1830 W. Romneya Drive Anaheim, CA 92801 Winter 2007 EL CIVICS OBJECTIVE #17 Winter 2007 Table of Contents Page Number Notes to the Teachers …………………….. ……...……………… 3 Section 1: Student Introduction to Family Issues ……………… 5 Section 2: Community Agency Services for Families in Crisis... 19 Section 2: Answer Key………………………………………….... 22 Section 2 Assessment Task 1……………………………………... 31 Section 3: Identifying Family and/or Community Problems…... 32 Section 3: Answer Key …………………………………………… 35 Section 3: Assessment Task 2 ……………………………………. 119 Section 4: Characteristics, Consequences, and Solutions for Family and/or Community Problems……………….. 121 Section 4: Assessment Task 3 …………………………………… 132 Objective 17 Details and Additional Assessment Plan Tasks …... 134 2 EL Civics – NOTES TO THE TEACHERS: Civics Objective: Analyze community resources and find appropriate ways to prevent or solve family and/or community problems. El Civics Objective: This EL Civics packet addresses CASAS Civics Objective #17 language and literacy requirements to demonstrate students’ basic knowledge and awareness of problems and issues that families may face. Some examples might include spousal abuse, child abuse, substance abuse, and gang violence. EL Civics Overview: These civics lessons intend to supplement the coretext and allow students to use and develop language to accomplish realworld tasks. The ultimate goal of this civics unit is for students to become more competent members of the English language community. Method: Students’ language abilities develop by utilizing all language skill areas: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Final assessment targets: 1) students’ ability to chart and interpret lists of community services, 2) students’ ability to describe/identify possible family and/or community problems, 3) students’ ability to complete an authentic writing task describing in detail a family or community problem. This civics unit is largely vocabulary based and task oriented. Students practice: 1) identifying available community services and resources, 2) orally and in writing describing characteristics, consequences, and resolutions to family and community problems. This packet offers students the opportunity to develop and improve oral, reading, and writing skills. The activities included in this packet are good language practice before final assessment. PLEASE NOTE: 1) Assessment: assessments are administered by the teacher. Completed assessment packets will be graded by assigned assessors at the end of the term. Dependent on ESL Language Level, each student is required to perform and complete the following tasks to demonstrate language abilities in all skill areas: 3 EL Civics – NOTES TO THE TEACHERS continued: Assessment Task 1: Student uses the community services data provided to chart/list 5 agencies that provide services to families with problems. (Beginning Low Advanced) Assessment Task 2: Student demonstrates understanding (written response) to pictures of 5 family and/or community problems. CONTENT “A” (Beginning Low Advanced) CONTENT “B” (Beginning High to Advanced) Assessment Task 3: Students respond in writing to questions pertaining to an authentic writing task. (Intermediate Low to Advanced) Supplementary Packet: Madison Heights videos (a series of Family Literacy videos dealing with family issues) can be checked out of the ESL Learning Labs. Important Notes to ALL Classroom Teachers: Lessons marked with an asterisk are “better suited” to higher levels, but teacher (and student) curriculum preferences vary, so adapt for your classroom use “as appropriate”. More specifically for OFFSITE teachers, the activities presented here are appropriate for a multilevel student population. Teachers need to adjust the lessons to the language needs and strengths of their students. More efficient students are encouraged to engage in more challenging activities under the guidance of the teacher. NOTE: teachers are encouraged to present each section in order. For example, Section 2 depends somewhat on basic vocabulary and general knowledge skills demonstrated in Section 1, while Section 3 (ILAdvanced), builds on vocabulary and other process skills presented and developed in Sections 1 and 2. 4 SECTION 1 INTRODUCTION CASAS CIVIC OBJECTIVE #17 Preventing or resolving family and/or community issues, (such as substance abuse, spousal abuse, and gang violence) What is abuse? Abuse is a general term for the use or treatment of something (person, thing, idea, etc.) that causes some kind of harm (to the abused person or thing, to the abusers themselves, or to someone else) or is unlawful or wrongful. . 5 Abuse Can Take Many Forms, and It Can Be Active As Well As Passive Here are some examples of abuse: • Child abuse: Abuse, usually physical, emotional or sexual, directed at a child. • Domestic violence: occurs when a family member, partner or expartner attempts to physically or psychologically dominate or harm the other. The term "intimate partner violence" (IPV) is often used synonymously with "wife beating", "wife battering", "man beating", "husband battering", "relationship violence", "domestic abuse", "spousal abuse", and "family violence". • Drug abuse: the misuse of drugs, alcohol or other substances, usually a form of addiction. • Elder abuse: Abuse, most often physical or in the form of psychological threats, directed at the elderly, especially in nursing homes and similar institutions. • Emotional abuse or psychological abuse: coercion, humiliation, intimidation, relational aggression, parental alienation or covert incest: Where one person uses emotional or psychological coercion to compel another to do something they do not want, or is not in their best interests; or when one person manipulates another's emotional or psychological state for their own ends, or commits psychological aggression using ostensibly nonviolent methods to inflict mental or emotional violence or pain on another. • Gang Violence: abuse that occurs when 3 or more people work together with a type of identification for the group, (name, sign, color, or symbol), and commit some type of crime. • Human rights abuse: Violation of human rights. • Incest: Sexual activity between close family members. • Legal abuse: Malicious prosecution to retaliate, coerce, or emotionally/financially harm a person. • Physical abuse: Where one person inflicts physical violence or pain on another. • Sexual abuse: The improper use of another person for sexual purposes, generally without their consent or under physical or psychological pressure (which may include children whether abused by parents, or strangers). • Spousal abuse (or domestic violence): Abuse, usually physical, or psychological abuse, directed at one's spouse. • Verbal abuse: The use of foul language, obscenities or demeaning talk directed at another. 6 Introduction Some Abuse Statistics: From the National Violence Prevention Fund Organization: • Around the world, at least one in every three women has been beaten, coerced into sex or otherwise abused during her lifetime. 1 • In the year 2001, more than half a million American women (588,490 women) were victims of nonfatal violence committed by an intimate partner.2 • Women of all races are about equally vulnerable to violence by an intimate. 3 Orange County Protective Services Program (reproduced with the permission of the Orange County Medical Association Alliance, OCMAA) • Approximately 10 % of older adults are victims of abuse. • According to national estimates only 1 in 14 cases of elder abuse are reported. • Elder abuse is a family issue anaverage of 400 cases are reported each month in Orange County. Orange County Social Services Agency: • The Child Abuse Registry receives over 27,000reports of suspected child abuse annually. • Orangewood Children’s Home and Emergency Shelter Foster Homes provide temporary shelter for over 2,571 victimized children each year. • On an average, 3,600 children in Orange County are in outofhome care. California Youth Crisis Line: • The California Youth Crisis Line connects an average of 12,000 callers with vital resources annually. Agencies as well as young adults from every county in California use the Crisis Line’s tollfree number. 1 Heise, L., Ellsberg, M. and Gottemoeller, M. Ending Violence Against Women. Population Reports, Series L, No. 11., December 1999 2 Bureau of Justice Statistics Crime Data Brief, Intimate Partner Violence, 19932001, February 2003 3 Bureau of Justice Statistics, Violence Against Women: Estimates from the Redesigned Survey, August 1995 7 Introduction Lesson 1: Family Goals ofthis lesson: 1. Describe the members of your family and where they live 2. Talk about who takes care of the chores and responsibilities in your family 3. Discuss the causes of stress in a family 4. Describe ways to deal with stress in a family 5. Talk about emotions Who Are the Members of Your Family? Family Members: Repeat these words: 1A. sister husband daughter mother grandson grandfather niece nephew uncle brother wife granddaughter grandmother son father aunt cousin Draw a line connecting each word on the left to its partner on the right. a. What word has no partner? 1B. Other Family Words/Expressions: Discuss the meaning of these words and expressions: inlaws: (grand)parents: (grand)child/children: single parent: 1C. Discussion: Work with a partner. Discuss your family using the following questions: 1. Is your family large or small? 2. How many brothers and sisters do you have? 3. Do you have children? If yes, how many children do you have? 4. Where do your family members live? 5. Do you live with any family members now? If yes, which family members do you live with? 6. Are you married? If yes, describe your inlaws. 8 1D. PreReading: You are going to read about a single mother. Think and talk about the following questions first: 1. Do you know any single mothers? 2. What problems do single mothers have? 3. Who can help single mothers? 1E. Reading: Read the story. Where I Live My name is Sandra Parks. I’m a single mother. My son, David, and I live with my sister and her family. My sister and brotherinlaw have two children, two daughters. My brotherinlaw and I both work fulltime. Mysister works parttime. We split the rent and utilities. My sister takes the children to school and picks them up. My sister and I share the cooking and cleaning responsibilities, and my brotherinlaw takes care of the yard. Someday maybe I’ll move into my own place, but for now it’s good for David to live with a lot of family. 1F. Vocabulary: Match the words in the box with the definitions below: pick up utilities split both share my own place 1. services in the home that are paid for monthly, like electricity and water. 2. to go and get something or someone to bring with you. 3. the two together 4. to divide among people equally 5. belonging only to me 6. to do something together with others and not alone 9 1G. After You Read: Work with a partner. Read the story again. Write down each person’s responsibilities: Sandra Sandra’s Sister Sandra’s BrotherinLaw work fulltime work parttime work fulltime Chores & Responsibilities in a Family 2A. Chores: Repeat these words (add pictures) cook meals do the laundry do the dishes dust empty the trash vacuum clean the bathroom(s) clean the floor(s) take care of the yard bathe the children feed the children feed the pets clean up after pets pay the bills wash the car buy groceries help children with homework shop for the house 10
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