Homeless Youth is the Focus...
Today will be about gathering information about the homeless youth epidemic. Students will be watching multiple videos as well reading two articles. These videos and articles are meant to give students an accurate, but eye opening description of what its like to be a homeless youth. These references will also show students some of the people who are most at risk for being a homeless youth. Hopefully this lesson will show students that anyone can be in poverty or homeless. The videos that will be shown are: |
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Students will have to read two of the following articles: (They will be sharing main ideas from the articles they read with their table groups)
http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/1/9/homeless-teens-andyoungadultsfindshelterandafutureindenver.html
http://mediamatters.org/research/2014/03/04/what-economists-say-about-paul-ryans-report-on/198328
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cd.23219998506/abstract
http://www.ncsl.org/research/human-services/homeless-and-runaway-youth.aspx
http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/01/opinion/sutter-child-poverty-solutions/
http://theweek.com/articles/534655/want-end-poverty-americaits-pretty-simple
http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/1/9/homeless-teens-andyoungadultsfindshelterandafutureindenver.html
http://mediamatters.org/research/2014/03/04/what-economists-say-about-paul-ryans-report-on/198328
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cd.23219998506/abstract
http://www.ncsl.org/research/human-services/homeless-and-runaway-youth.aspx
http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/01/opinion/sutter-child-poverty-solutions/
http://theweek.com/articles/534655/want-end-poverty-americaits-pretty-simple