Building Family and Community Relationships

Unit 5: Building Family and Community Relationships (125 wrds)

In each course in your associate’s degree, you have learned ways to develop family and community relationships. Imagine the following case scenario:

A new family has moved to your community and their children are attending your childcare center. Both parents are farm workers and move frequently depending on the agricultural needs of the community.

Please share one way that you can strengthen family and community bonds with this family. Give specific examples.

 Unit 5: An Agent for Change (150 wrds)

In previous units, you have watched videos from the TED.com website, which is a website dedicated to sharing knowledge, ideas, and perspectives that can have a positive change in various situations. For this unit’s Discussion, go to the TED.com website and select a video to analyze the argument made by the speaker. While you can choose any video, you may need to watch a few videos to find one that you are comfortable with analyzing the argument made by the speaker. While the video does not need to relate to your Final Project topic, it may help to choose a video that you can use as further evidence in your project.

After reviewing your selected video from TED.com, respond to the following prompts in paragraph format:

What parts of the speaker’s argument stood out to you and why do you think the argument resonated with you?

What methods did the speaker use to make his or her argument strong? Cite information from the readings in relation to the parts of an argument you noticed.

What aspects of the argument were weak or underdeveloped? What logical fallacies were conveyed in the argument? If no logical fallacies were conveyed, how did the speaker avoid specific logical fallacies?

How might you use the strengths of this speaker’s argument in your own writing of the Final Project?

Unit 5: Strong Arguments (120 wrds)

Lawyers, activists, and politicians may come to mind as people who often create arguments and make a stand for an idea. Yet, it is likely that everyone at some point has encountered pushback on an idea and needed to convince an audience of the validity of that idea. Think about a time when you took a stand to defend an idea against an unreceptive or defensive audience. It may have been at work, school, home, or in your community. It does not necessarily need to be a life-changing situation, but a situation that you needed to gather your thoughts and convey them in a compelling way, either through writing or spoken-word. With this situation in mind, respond to the following questions:

· What idea or stance did you need to defend?

· What were the characteristics of those opposing you?

· How did you make your argument? Was the argument effective?

· What did you learn from this experience?