Drugs

- write a letter/email to a drug addict/ character from the book - go to the computer lap, research facts - in groups, create a daily plan for a drug addict in a treatment center - with a partner, find a different ending to one of the books - invite a police officer and let him talk about that subject
 * Teen Issue – Drugs **
 * Classroom Activities: **

=Book suggestions: = = = __Title: __ **Drug Information for Teens, 2nd Edition** __Editor: __ Sandra Augustyn Lawton __Publisher: __ Omnigraphics, Inc. (2006) __ISBN: __ 0-7808-0862-2 <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">It is a non-fiction book for young adults. It is not so much a book that you read as a whole for pleasure. It is more like a reference book that you can use when you need help or want to look something up. It provides facts about drug use and addiction. It describes the physical and psychological effects of drugs that are often abused. It also covers topic of the health-related concerns and gives treatment information. __<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">Title: __<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;"> **Go Ask Alice** __<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">Author: __<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;"> Anonymous __<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">Publisher: __<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;"> Simon Pulse New York (1971) __<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">ISBN-10: __<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">1-4169-1463-3 <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">The novel is written as a diary from the perspective of a troubling teenage girl. She gets introduced to LSD at a party, where someone puts it in her drink without her knowing of it. Since then her life gets out of control and darker and darker as she slips into the drug scene. She experiences a swing between optimism and despair but the book is seen as a testimony against drug use which is shown especially with the ending.

__<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">Title: __<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;"> **Crank** __<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">Author: __<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;"> Ellen Hopkins __<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">Publisher: __<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">Margaret K. McElderry Books (2010) __<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">ISBN-10: __<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;"> 0-6898-6519-8 <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">Crank reads like //Go Ask Alice// and will horrify and pierce older teenage readers just as //Alice// did 20 years ago. The book is about Kristina, who gets introduced to the “monster” crystal meth, or “crank”. Bree, Kristinas new side of herself, is wild and crazy and is doing everything that good girl Kristina would not do. The reader sees her downfall and her drug addiction. She ends up pregnant from a guy who raped her. Bree may never be free from her addiction to drugs.

__<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">Title: __<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;"> ** The Perks of Being A Wallflower ** __<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">Author: __<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;"> Stephen Chbosky __<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">Publisher: __<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;"> MTV Books (1999) __<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">ISBN-10: __<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">0-6710-2734-4 <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">Charlie is a wallflower – shy and introspective. The reader gets to know Charlie and his problems as a teenage boy through the letters he writes to someone we don’t know. It’s a coming-of-age novel, and drugs are just one of the things he experiences during high school.

__<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">Title: __**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;"> Rooftop ** __<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">Author: __<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;"> Paul Volponi __<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">Publisher: __<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">SPEAK, Penguin Group (2006) __<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">ISBN: __<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;"> 978-0-14-240844-5 <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">It’s about two cousins, Clay and Addison, who grew up together in the projects until they got separated because of a family argument. Clay got caught smoking pot and Addison was arrested for dealing crack. They are reunited and back together at Daytop, a drug treatment program where they try to work out their problems. But their path out of rehab is quite different. One night, one of them gets shot on a rooftop. The story is told very realistic and the reader not only gets an insight into the center for drug abuser but also into the rough lives of the characters and living in the projects.

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