Love Activates the Same as Cocaine
Love Activates the Same as Cocaine
Priority Standards
1.2M Analyze the qualities of healthy peer and family relationships
1.3M Describe healthy ways to express caring, friendship, affection, and love.
1.5 M Describe how social environments affect health and well-being.
Supporting Standards
1.9 M Classify personal stressors at home, in school, and with peers.
1.11M Identify loss and grief.
3.2M Evaluate the benefits of professional services for people with mental, emotional, or social health conditions.
Interdisciplinary Standards
ELA CCRS.2 Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text.
ELA CCRS.5 Analyze in detail how an author’s ideas or claims are developed and refined by particular sentences, paragraphs, or larger portions of a text (e.g., a section or chapter).
English: CCSS 9-10.2 Creating Brochures based on research
ELD CCSS 2.6ab Reading/viewing closely
Short Constructed Response
Think of a time you or someone you know was in love or heartbroken. How could the information we learned have helped you/them? What advice would you now give them or yourself?
Performance Task
Task 1: Brainstorm session: In groups of 4, pick a topic to brainstorm potential supportive techniques, people, or resources to help someone who is feeling the affects of being in love or being heartbroken.
*Topics written on poster sheet paper: Supportive people, School Resources, Community Resources, Home Resources, Self Care Techniques, Affirmations
Task 2: Groups present their ideas or the class does a gallery walk to read the ideas
Task 3: Create a brochure using Canva or Google docs to address the prompt using the ideas generated in the brainstorm session.
Make sure the brochure has:
Color scheme that is EASILY readable (backgrounds not too dark and fonts not too light)
Contains 3-5 images related to the topic
Clear, organized, and concise explanations
BOLD words to emphasize important vocabulary within the poster
Short 1-2 sentence summarizing your information
Brief description of the BENEFITS of knowing this information
Numbered steps that demonstrate HOW TO utilize the supports and/or techniques provided or a QR CODE that links to a SEPARATE resource document