1. Do Now: 1) Think about how your team has used independent class time in the past few weeks 2) Write down 1 EFFECTIVE & 1 INEFFECTIVE action/behavior your team has taken 3) Prepare to share with your team 2 + 3 min

2. How can you advocate for health care reform for your population? Last class, you brainstormed MANY different ways! Facebook page, Website… PSA, video, radio spot… Community meeting, Townhall… Poster, billboard, brochure… Much more!

3. Advocacy Project Review Advocacy Project: Any creative, research-based advocacy action that you actually carry out in your school, community, city, or nation. You may use any form of media: written, visual, video or audio recorded, etc. Your advocacy project must do the following: - educate the public about health care reform - attract attention to health care reform issues - persuade others that health care reform is necessary

4. Advocacy Project Requirements Review You must show proof that you created & carried out your advocacy project, even if it’s just a “pilot” test… – Examples: Create the Website, Facebook page, poster, billboard, etc. Video/radio spot/documentary: Actually record it or produce a storyboard/script Community meeting: Write out the agenda & gather a small focus group to “pilot” it; gather their feedback

5. Advocacy Project Grading Review: CREATIVITY (15 pts) QUALITY/EFFORT (15 pts) IMPACT / EFFECTIVENESS (15 pts) CONTENT (15 pts) – Obama’s Provisions What does the law do for your population? Why will it be effective? How can we gather public support for it? – Your new provision What is Obama’s law missing? What else needs to become part of the policy to help your population?

6. Letter to Obama http://www.whitehouse.gov/video/Inside-the-White-House-Letters-to-the-President Remember this video? Challenge: Can you make a letter that is so well-written & convincing that it will end up on Obama’s desk?

7. Obama Advocacy Letter Requirements Review Team-written letter to President Obama or First Lady Michelle Obama (about 2 single spaced, typed pages) This letter must clearly: discuss reasons you support or oppose at least 2 of the provisions in the new health care reform law provide 1 or more recommendations for future action (including a Provision that should be added) describe your advocacy project in a compelling and clear way

8. Obama Letter Requirements Review (written deliverable) Graded on WRITTEN Rubric categories (70 pts total): Outline (10 pts) Purpose (10 pts) Organization (10 pts) Tone (10 pts) Supporting Research (10 pts) Format (10 pts) Content (10 pts) 2 min Remember, you can access the complete PBL matrix on the class website: www.11thgradenationalhealth.weebly.com