Chris Burgess CIRG 644 RAFTS

Chris Burgess

CIRG 644

Demonstration- Writing RAFTS

 

                Imagine that you are a seasoned and respected oncologist. The local radio station in Charleston, WV asks your help in creating a public service announcement that will be aired during world cancer day. They want the service announcement to include practical and effective tips involving ways the audience can prevent cancer. The radio station will supply a vocal cast if necessary. Use the rubric checklist below as a guide.

 

What's your Role: A respected oncologist in the community

What's your Audience: Radio station listeners in the coverage area (around Charleston, WV)

What's your Format: A radio public service announcement

What's your Topic: Cancer prevention

What's your Strong verb: Prevent




Student Sample...

 

Today, February 4th, is world cancer day and we would like to share with you a couple of ways you can easily prevent cancer. Do you or your loved ones smoke? Did you know that tobacco smoke contains about 70 chemicals that can cause cancer? By giving up the habit you can easily decrease your risk and the risk of those around you of getting cancer. Did you know that tanning beds also cause cancer? Those who start using tanning beds before age 30 increase their risk of getting skin cancer by 75 percent. By avoiding tanning beds you can help prevent skin cancer. This was a public service announcement brought to you by your local radio station and the ad council.

 

 

Amber Marshall - RAFTS Activity

          Our Environment

You are a Division of Natural Resources (DNR) officer at your local wildlife management area (WMA).  Your job is to educate the local residents about the importance of taking care of the environment. You must create a brochure that demonstrates how to care for the environment, what happens if it isn’t taken care of, and the importance their role plays. Your job is to persuade the local residents they must take a positive action in caring for their environment. Be sure to use the three R’s: Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle! Earth Day will be here soon!

Role: DNR Officer

Audience: Local Population

Format: Brochure

Topic: Taking Care of the Environment

Strong Verb: Persuade

Sample: Remember this is only a SAMPLE, you must be creative and elaborate when creating your own brochure.

Rebecca - R.A.F.T.S.

Rebecca (Cline) Roll
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Role: War bond salesman

Audience: American civilians living in WWII

Format: Tri-fold advertisement pamphlet

Topic: Supporting the American government

Strong Verb: Persuade



You are an employee of the U.S. treasury during World War II. The government is in desperate need of more money to support war efforts both domestic and abroad. You must create a persuasive pamphlet that can be easily dispersed to the Americans still working in the states. Your bosses have decided the best way to create revenue is to sell war bonds to these individuals. They must buy war bonds to support our troops overseas. Convince them of this, and remind them of what they are aiding. Remember, goods are being rationed, so we cannot waste any paper on fruitless efforts: this must work!

STUDENT SAMPLE PAMPHLET:

(Inside)

 (Outside)

Krysalea Burns RAFT

                                                                                                                                Krysalea Burns

                                                                                                                    R.A.F.T.

 

Standards: SS.9.H.CL6.3 : analyze the causes and effects of political revolutions and determine their impact on the formation of governments and on the citizens of a society (e.g., French, Italian, German and Latin American.).

 

Imagine you are a Haitian (Saint Domingue) French slave in 1789 preparing for the Haitian Revolution. You are standing before your people and preparing them to engage in one of the most violent revolts in history. Knowing that many may die, lose work on the plantation and change their lives forever, you create a speech to rally your fellow slaves. In your speech you discuss French/Slave relations, treatment, the organization of your rebellion and how this may affect the world (other slave countries).

 

R: Haitian Slave Leader

A: Fellow Slaves

F: Persuasive Speech

T: Slave Revolution that will free your people

S: Urging slaves to FIGHT


Student Sample:

People of Saint Domingue, who are we?! Are we French colonists with security and the benefits of belonging to the empire? NO! Are we Africans? NO! Are we free men? NO! While we have been born free, we have become enslaved and captured by the French to be used for their own gain. We have been forced to live under injustice and tyranny, forced to be slaves so they may have their tobacco and coffee. We die so they may live as kings! We are starved so they may be full, we are beaten so they may prosper! We are SLAVES so they may be FREE! Today, I urge you to fight… FIGHT FOR YOUR FREEDOM! We can do this, look at America, look at how they have freed themselves from the injustice of the British colony. They fought for their right to govern but today we fight for the right to be free. We may follow in America’s footsteps and rise up against the power that threatens us and once and for all be free. We must begin by first attacking their business, destroying their crops, demolishing their tools and killing them at their pocket. We must destroy the plantations! By destroying the plantations we destroy the French!  So people of Saint Domingue we might have been born as slaves but we tonight we will die as free men!!

 

Seth Tabor

CIRG 644

Module 5 RAFT Activity

Place yourself in the shoes of “Rome’s Worst Enemy” Hannibal; create a poem after one of your epic battles during the Punic War. Your poem should fully encompass your feelings towards Rome and what you have witnessed during/after battle to share with the rest of Western Civilization. Using the Rubric checklist below as a guide clearly and concisely create your poem

What is your Role?: Hannibal of Carthage “Rome’s Worst Enemy”

Who is your Audience?: Western World

What is your Format?: Poem

What is your Topic?: Feelings/Emotions towards Rome

RAFT Assignment

Meredith Ferry

CIRG 644

Module 5

Demonstration of RAFTS

April 2, 2015


Imagine you are a famous Latina songstress and you are to compose a song related to the hardships faced by the indigenous people of El Salvador. The song must fully convey the hardships that the indigenous have faced throughout the years. This type of song is more difficult than those you usually write, so to help you gather your information and ideas, you go through this checklist to ensure that you are doing so efficiently.

What’s your Role: Musician

What’s your Audience: Indigenous people

What’s your Format: Song

What’s your Topic: Hardships

RAFT Assignment – Nadia Yousaf

The Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Role:           President Harry S. Truman

Audience:   The American public

Format:       Speech

Topic:         Justifying the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

This assignment is for 11^th grade social studies students. For this assignment you will assume the role of U.S President Harry S. Truman and prepare a speech to be delivered to the American public justifying your decision to use an atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Weigh the pros and cons that helped form your decision, focusing on the political events that lead you to believe that bombing was the best course of action at the time. 

Student Sample

Dear fellow citizens…..
We have offered and the Japanese have rejected a final peace proposal – vowing instead to fight till the last man standing. We have no doubt as to their resolve and willingness to live up to this promise, for valor and sacrifice is, after all, a bedrock of this ancient culture. We are weary with war for it is yet to lay down its burden and despite subjugation of the Nazi regime we face with horror the prospect of another prolonged and bloody struggle to win peace of the citizens of this world.
The rapid technological advancements made by the Allies and the US in particular, towards the end of war on the European front have also yielded secrets, terrible secrets locked in the heart of the atom. These unseen and unassuming particles, waves or whatever Physicists refer to them as, contain within them power the likes of which mankind has never witnessed let alone tamed. The American curiosity, love of science and innovative spirit has not only unlocked this secret but has learned to tame this tremendous energy and has managed to create a weapon so destructive that it has the potential to erase conflict  or the human race from the face of this earth.
We are thus today faced with a binary choice – either, we buckle down and send more of our children to certain death in the jungles and mountains of Japan to secure a victory that is certain but also certain to come at an unbearable cost or we can unleash this atomic bomb on the enemy in the hopes that sense and the all-powerful will to survive will prevail over their cultural values and their suicidal ideation.

As commander in chief, who has watched over 400,000 brave American boys and men and countless millions on the Allied side, lay down their lives to ensure our freedoms and continued progress – I have no stomach to witness further loss of American and Allied lives. I have therefore decided, despite strong revulsion and moral compunction to unleash this terrible nightmare on this enemy – for even the most evil of enemies may not be deserving of this horror. I would like to stress again on the gravity of the situation and want to assure the American public that the decision to bomb Japan has not been made in vain. I would like to thank my fellow country men for their continuing support.