(Your choice to focus on Vaccines, Alternative Medicine or Antibiotics)
To protect ourselves against serious infectious diseases, we have several choices, for (Perlstein)example vaccines, alternative medicine and antibiotics. There are however, positives and negatives to all of these choices. Citizens have a responsibility to be informed about medical choices and the consequences of their decisions.
TASK – Under test condition you will write an essay on the above title. * Step 1 (lesson 1) – Fill in the Section A – research support table * Step 2 (30 min homework) – Finish any research and start planning your essay (section B&C). * Step 3 (lesson 2) – Finish planning your essay and start writing the essay. Submit just the essay to www.turnitin.com at the end of class. * Step 4 (optional homework 30 mins) – Research any other points that you want to use in your essay and proof read what you have written – do not write any more. * Step 5 (lesson 3) – Finish the essay making any changes or additions. Sign the checklist and resubmit to www.turnitin.com.
Submission method: essay submitted to turnitin.com and printed copy due:
In your essay you must: * Focus on ONE method of protection against infectious disease (Vaccines, Alternative Medicine or Antibiotics) and explain how it offers protection against your chosen disease. * Focus on ONE (possibly two) infectious diseases e.g. Polio, Cholera, Smallpox, Rabies, Influenza (Flu), Tuberculosis (TB), Ear infections, Sinus infections, Pneumonia, Whooping Cough, BirdFlu, Hand foot and Mouth. * Describe the disease and how it is infectious * Consider the benefits and limitations of your chosen method of protection against your chosen disease(s).
Other questions you are encouraged to cover: * How has your method of protection changed societies locally and/or globally? (S) * What is