UNIT+STRUCTURE

CIVICS UNIT: A POSSIBLE FUTURE/brendan 6x5=30 students 6 or 12 topics for groups to pick from a hat, each with 5 civic ‘hats’ to wear: suggestions below. . . 1 TRANSIT (more bike lanes, filled pot holes, car-commuter fees, or reserved bus/taxi/HOV lanes) A) car-driver B) bus/trolley taker C) pedestrian/taxi D) cyclist E) transit authority

2 Home/Office TAXES (retail taxes on plastic bags or bottles, lower) A) homeowner/tenant B) shopkeep C) eco-activist D) public union member E) youth

3 Garbage In/Out ( Separated wet trash for apt./condos? Combined plastics, metals, glass?) A) avid recycler B) buyer of sorted trash C) apt./condo dwellers D) home gardeners E) tourist/server

4 Parks and Recreation (more winter rinks, off-leash areas, or curfews, public golf courses) A) hockey mom B) dog walker C) youth D) city outdoor worker E) nearby resident

5 Libraries and Public fests (more books, open longer, or more fests with paid bands, dancers) A) borrower B) local bookstore C) street vendor/cop D) local senior E) librarian/artist

6 City Planning & Permits A) councillor B) condo developer C) bureaucrat D) small landlord E) reporter

The peer-teaching moment would be simpler than I originally explained. It would involve a group preparation of a handout for a 5-min. presentation, delivered in a trial run of the city council culminating vote and letter to the editor, by each member of the group to each of the other five groups. Then five rounds of listening.