Unit 8:The War on Drugs 毒品戰爭

I. Unit Questions (Handout B Class/ A Class) PPT

1. What are supply and demand供給和需求 and how does this work in the illegal and legal drug trade?
2. Are over-the-counter drugs safe?
3. How do different countries handle addiction and controlling drugs?
4. Does Taiwan have a drug abuse problem?

II. Introduction
A. Common Illegal (Street) Drugs

• Highly addictive上癮的
• Easy to overdose 服藥過量 dose: v.服藥、n.一劑

1. Ketamine K他命 / 氯胺酮.“Special K” is an animal tranquilizer鎮靜劑. Users experience a “full-body buzz” a state of relaxation. The high lasts less than an hour. Users go into a trance昏睡狀態 called the “K-hole”. It’s addictive and overdose is possible.
2. Cocaine 古柯鹼
   “Coke” is a powerfully addictive上癮的 stimulant drug made from the leaves of the coca 古柯plant native 原生的 to South America.
3. Marijuana 大麻
   Most commonly used drug from dried leaves of the Cannabis 大麻plant. The active ingredient 原料 is THC四氫大麻酚. It is usually smoked.
4. Ecstasy (MDMA)搖頭丸.
   The “love pill” is an hallucinogen迷幻劑 that makes the user experience a state 狀態 of ecstasy狂喜 for 8-10 hours.
5. Amphetamine 安非他命/苯丙胺
   “Speed” is a powerful stimulant 興奮劑. Used for medical (ie ADHD注意力不足過動症
   ) and recreational 娛樂的purposes目的.
6. Crystal meth 冰毒/甲基苯丙胺“Methamphetamine”
7. Opium 鴉片.Dried part of poppy flower 罌粟花used for both medicine and street drugs like heroin.
8. Heroin 海洛英 An illegal opioid 鴉片that’s very addictive and used recreationally.

B. Class Conversations: Survey 3 Classmates

Introduction Reading: Drugs in Thailand (level 2)
Vocabulary: seize, bust, traffic, marijuana, amphetamine, ketamine, crystal meth, ecstasy

1.  Do you think alcohol is a drug?
2.  Do you know of any alcoholics?
3. Is alcohol addictive? What about tea, coffee, and chocolate?
4. Is there any difference between "soft" drugs such as marijuana and "hard" drugs like crack, heroin, cocaine etc?
5. Who is worse for society, a peaceful drug addict or a violent non-addict?Why?

III. Readings
A. Legal Drugs
1. What do you know about drugs?

• What are some dangerous drugs?
• What drugs do you think are useful?
• Have you ever used a prescription drug without a prescription?

Reading 1: Over the Counter Medicine Effects 非處方藥 
Vocabulary:

1. OTC 非處方藥
2. Side effects 副作用
3. Dementia 失智/癡呆
4. Tablet 藥片
5. Syrup 糖漿 ie. cough syrup, chocolate syrup...

EXTRA: Binge Drinking

B. The Global Movement of Marijuana Legalization 大麻合法化運動

• Do you think marijuana should be legal or illegal? Support your opinion with facts.
• Why does Taiwan have such a stigma against recreational or medicinal marijuana use?

Introduction:

 In America 25 states have legalized marijuana and many more will do so this year (2017). The pro-pot movement was not launched in the United States. It has been spreading globally, as far back as 1976, with countries like the Netherlands and Portugal experimenting with decriminalization. In Portugal, the possession of all drugs was decriminalized in 2001. In 2016, Uruguay and Canada legalized and regulated weed, helping to remove the stigma around the use of the plant. In 2017 Germany legalized recreational marijuana, as well as Ireland, Australia and Chile. Do you think Taiwan will ever follow their example?

Reading 2:Study Says Alcohol More Harmful Than Marijuana

A major new study研究 into drugs, published發表 in the British medical journal（醫療期刊 The Lancet刺胳針, has concluded總結 that alcohol and tobacco are more dangerous than many highly illegal drugs. They are listed in the top 10 most dangerous substances物質 in the study. Researchers believe British law should classify alcohol and tobacco the same as hard drugs such as heroin and cocaine. Head researcher Professor David Nutt of Britain's Bristol University suggested a new classification 分類of harmful substances. He said it needed to be based on the actual(real) risks (dangers) posed造成 to society. Professor Nutt said the new system was necessary in Britain as the existing one was out of date過時的: "The current drug system is ill thought-out 未深思的 and arbitrary武斷的,” he said. He added there was no scientific basis for excluding排除 alcohol and tobacco as serious drugs.

Professor Nutt and his colleagues (coworker) used three factors to find out how harmful a drug is: the physical身體的 harm to the user, how addictive the drug is, and the impact it has on society. The researchers were experts in drug addiction, lawyers and police officers with scientific or medical backgrounds背景 and doctors. All of them agreed on the dangers of alcohol and tobacco. They ranked 分級/排名 alcohol as the fifth and tobacco as the ninth most harmful drugs. Professor Nutt and his colleagues (coworker) used three factors to find out how harmful a drug is: the physical身體的 harm to the user, how addictive the drug is, and the impact it has on society. The researchers were experts in drug addiction, lawyers and police officers with scientific or medical backgrounds背景 and doctors. All of them agreed on the dangers of alcohol and tobacco. They ranked 分級/排名 alcohol as the fifth and tobacco as the ninth most harmful drugs.

Sources:
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2009/nov/02/david-nutt-dangerous-drug-list

C. Medical Marijuana 藥用大麻

1. CBD Oil 大麻二酚
Uses of CBD oil:

1. Chronic pain　慢性/長期疼痛
2. Relieve 緩解 Cancer related symptoms 症狀
3. Childhood epilepsy癲癇
4. Anxiety焦慮/Depression憂鬱
5. Inflammation 發炎
6. Stress
7. Schizophrenia 思覺失調症(精神分裂症)
8. Pets

Reading 3:Arrested Because of Cannabis Oil (B Class) 
Reading 4:Marijuana in the USA (B Class)

EXTRA:
Uruguay to Legalize (B Class)
Medical Marijuana for Pets (B Class)
Nevada Makes Marijuana Legal


C. The War on Drugs

• Should there be punishments for dealing drugs?
• Should there be punishments for using drugs?
• Should drug dealers get the death penalty?

Planes With Drugs (B Class)
Police Take A Lot of Drugs (B Class)
War on Drugs in Mexico (B Class)
Drone with Drugs (B Class)
Duerete is Like Hitler (B class) or Duterte vows to kill 3 million drug addicts and likens himself to Hitler 杜特蒂誓殺300萬毒蟲，並自比為希特勒

D. Addiction

• Are some people more easily addicted to drugs than others? or Do some people have addictive personalities?
• What else can people become addicted to?
• What drugs are addicting?
• Why are some drugs more addicting than others?
• Why do some people get addicted when others do not?
• What happens in the brain of a person that causes addiction?
• If you are addicted to drugs, what should you do?

Reading: Addiction May Be in Our Genes

E. Taiwan

1. Classification
2. Use and Addictions

NPP and LSD (April 2018)

Resources:
http://iteslj.org/questions/drugs.html
http://www.esldiscussions.com/d/drugs.html
http://teflpedia.com/Drugs_conversation_questions
http://www.geocities.ws/eslken/Legalizeit.pdf
https://fee.org/articles/marijuana-legalization-quietly-goes-global/
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/12/29/health/global-marijuana-cannabis-laws/index.html
https://international.thenewslens.com/article/42433
http://focustaiwan.tw/news/asoc/201705310013.aspx
http://www.narconon-news.org/drug-rehab/taiwan.html
http://www.havocscope.com/taiwan-drug-abuse/

EQ for ESL

The April issues of both ESL magazine have some interesting, helpful articles. So I thought I'd organize them together into a ppt. I was working on it in the classroom during break time and the students seem pretty interested and curious, which is encouraging.

So far I begin with explaining the difference and importance of IQ and EQ, why EQ is more important and what are the behaviors of someone with high or low EQ. I also present ways we can all improve our EQ.

Some of the themes I made, based on the magazine material are Empathy, Stress Managment, Relationships, Gratitude and Time Managment. It's also an opportunity to present Tapping.

This week we are finishing our adjectives and will have a class to focus on the ESL magazines and EQ My presentation very much a work in progress, so I will be editing this and inserting my teachers' feedback.
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Movies on the Holocaust

Life is Beautiful (1997) 美麗人生

We are wrapping up the Jewish Holocaust section of our Genocide Unit. I wish I had time to show my students just one of these movies. I am hoping they can read the book or watch online during their weekend, although they tell me they don't have time. Fortunately, one of their homeroom teachers told me she would share this blog post with their parents and show one of the films in their class after their big test.

• Playing for Time (1980) (Netflix網飛)
• The Wall: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising華沙猶太人起義 (1982)
• Sophie’s Choice (1982) 蘇菲的抉擇
• Schindler’s List (1993) 辛德勒的名單 (Netflix網飛)
• Life is Beautiful (1997) 美麗人生
• Jakob the Liar (1999)  善意的謊言(Netflix網飛)
• Enemy At the Gate (2001)大敵當前
• The Pianist (2002) 戰地琴人
• Spring 1941 (2007)
• Boy with the Striped Pajamas (2008) 穿條紋睡衣的男孩 (Netflix網飛)
• The Reader (2008) 為愛朗讀
• Anne Frank (2008) 安妮法蘭克
• The Book Thief (2013) 偷書賊
• The Warsaw Ghetto (2017)
• Zookeeper’s Wife (2017) 園長夫人：動物園的奇蹟

The Pianist (2002) 戰地琴人

Netflix網飛 Documentaries紀錄片 (with Chinese subtitles):

• Auschwitz: The Nazis and The Final Solution
• Numbered (about Auschwitz survivors' stories)
• Hitler's Steel Beast
• The Last Nazis
• The Nazi Death Squads
• The Nazi Concentration Camps
• What Our Fathers Did: A Nazi Legacy

Resources:
http://www.imdb.com/list/ls000033710/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Holocaust_films
https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/holocaust-remembrance-day/holocaust-movies-17-of-the-best-films-beyond-schindler-s-list-1.5237230

Wrinkle In Time時間的皺摺

Ab honesto virum bonum nihil deterret. Nothing deters a good man from doing what is honorable. (Seneca)

It seemed like our elementary school showed it (read it?) in class every Easter.

Many of the same themes, like defeating Darkness (through the leadership and

inspiration of great figures like Jesus) is similar to Easter.  

The author herself was a liberal Christian and

official writer in residence in NYC's Episcopal Cathedral of St. John.

The similar themes of Goodness defeating

Evil through the Light, comes from the book of John.

Fun fact, this book has been one of the most banned books of all time

because of its Universalist message, which conservatives thought were un-Christian.

Fight the censorship of free thought.

You can read it online for free via OverDrive, Google Books, as an Epub or

buy the Mandarin version.

The reading level for a native speaker is 9-12 years old and for a ESL intermediate level student.
The movie is coming out in Taiwan in a couple of days, but I really hope this inspires my students
to read the book, the way it did for me.

audio books on YouTube for free

Book Vocabulary Words (Quizlet)

ESL Listening (Preview) and Teacher Study Guide, Scholastic Guide

Pre-Reading Brainstorm:

• Have you ever felt "different" from everyone else?
• Genres體裁: What is the difference between fantasy魔幻故事；奇幻文學 and science fiction科幻小說?
• What are the science concepts of Einstein's theory of relativity相對論 and Quantum Physics量子物理學?
• What is a Tesseract四維超正方體?

Loki洛基 holds a Tesseract, a 4 dimensional cube

Book Summary:

A Wrinkle in Time is the first in a series of four book that follow the adventures of Meg Murry and Calvin O'Keefe.

The science fantasy novel begins with Meg's personal struggles at school and her inability to fit in with the crowd.

This is also a problem for her younger brother Charles Wallace. Everyone thinks he is dumb, though both children

are intelligent. Charles Wallace could easily be a genius. He can also read the minds of others.

Charles Wallace befriends a strange group of  neighbors - Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who, and Mrs. Which.

These three ladies take the children on a strange journey, promising to help them find and rescue their

father who has been missing for two years. They travel to three planets by wrinkling space and time.

The first planet is Uriel.

On Uriel, the children see the Dark Thing, a massive blackness that threatens to overtake the universe

and that is threatening Earth. It is only through the work of great people such as Jesus, Buddha and

Gandhi, as well as other great artists and scientists, that keeps the Dark Thing from swallowing the earth.

The ladies tell the children that this is what their father is fighting.

They travel to another planet called Camazotz, which is already overtaken by the Dark Thing.

On Camazotz, everyone acts exactly like everyone else and all creativity has been erased from

the planet. The children meet the Man with the Red Eyes who tries to "hypnotize" them into

following IT. Charles Wallace eventually gives in with the hope of defeating the Dark Force,

but he is taken in by the powerful evil.

On the third planet, Meg finds the meaning of true love to save her brother Charles Wallace.

Does Meg rescue her father and defeat “IT”? Read the book to find out!

Resources:

http://www.gradesaver.com/a-wrinkle-in-time/study-guide/summary

http://mentalfloss.com/article/62736/12-fantastic-facts-about-wrinkle-time

https://www.madeleinelengle.com/for-educators/wrinkle-in-time-teacher-resources/

https://www.teachervision.com/science-fiction/wrinkle-time-common-core-teachers-guide

https://daily.jstor.org/what-time-wrinkle-in-time/
http://www.glencoe.com/sec/literature/litlibrary/pdf/wrinkle_in_time.pdf
http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/teachers-guide/96850/a-wrinkle-in-time/

Spring for ESL

I have a detailed ppt with the following lessons as well as a former blog post:

Spring Poems

• I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud
• A Spring View

Spring Songs

• Here Comes the Sun (The Beatles)

St. Patrick's Day
Easter
Earth Day

Literature in the ESL Classroom

Grammar can be boring, so I like to take literature breaks using some of the English learning magazines (A+ English and  ABC) my school provides. It's an opportunity to teach literature lessons on plot, character development, the importance of setting and famous authors. Students can expand their English world by being familiar with famous stories and writers.

I put the lessons into a ppt, with some videos. I like to supplement what the magazine provides, with a bit of writing practice, video and critical thinking. Some of the lessons I have taught this year:

• The Legend of Sleep Hollow 沉睡谷傳奇
• The Steadfast Soldier 小錫兵
• Mark Twain 馬克·吐溫
• The Thing About Jellyfish
• Pax 
• A Wrinkle In Time 時間的皺摺

• Frankenstein