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In a 10th grade classroom, our students are going to learn the logistical, emotional, financial, historical, and physical toll of hunger. Through various research projects and a beginning project of a hunger banquet, they are encouraged to further understand the discrepancy between not only having and not having food, but the causes of world hunger, the inequality in quality of food, the psychological toll on being deprived and survival, the physical toll on the body, as well as finding real world solutions to this problem.

Students will read //Angela's Ashes//, which is a reflection on a life of deprivation. Students will also read non-fiction, personal narratives of young children coping with hunger on different continents through Save the Children and Invisible Children, which will teach them empathy. Our students will write letters to those young people abroad. They will research humanitarian initiatives presently underway and see how they, too, can fight hunger. Students will also read the persuasive article by Peter Singer, “The Singer Solution to World Poverty” and respond by developing their opinions. This article will also be a platform to discuss the economic breakdown of hunger. While learning about this issue of world hunger, students will become equipped with the knowledge to put on a hunger banquet for their fellow classmates at the end of the term, raising awareness about world hunger and becoming a part of the solution.

Students will make a calorimeter to measure the energy content in food. They will also learn how to read nutrition labels and recognize the “good” and “bad” chemicals in foods.

Students will also learn about the causes of hunger, where hunger is located in the world, and the Irish Potato Famine.

The culminating project is to have each class volunteer at a soup kitchen in which they become active participators in their community for those who are hungry. [|The Inn- Hempstead]

[|Food Timeline]

[|Feeding Minds...Fighting Hunger]

[|Hunger in the World]

Organizations:

[|World Food Programme]

[|World Vision]

[|Oxfam America Hunger Banquet]