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Activity 2C: An Editor’s Eye and an Empathetic Heart A Diabetes
Using guided dialectic and paired reading strategies, the fictional story, “Manage Me,” provides teachers with a non-threatening way to introduce the complex and sensitive health issues that envelope a diagnosis of diabetes. The activity allows students to use the story to examine the emotional and social impact of diabetes. Using the non-fictional (“Drawing Out Diabetes”), students will analyze the accuracy of the diabetes information and health content portrayed. Thus, the activity is divided into two parts – the first part dealing with the effective learning domain (emotional and social growth) and the second with the cognitive domain (health content).
Objectives:
- Complete “dialectic” responses to the fictional account, “Manage Me”
- Compare and contrast fictional (“Manage Me”) and factual accounts (“Drawing Out Diabetes”) of the health issues related to Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes (diabetes risk factors, disease onset and symptoms, disease management, related health compromises)
- Construct a graphic organizer to illustrate the similarities and differences between the fictional (“Manage Me”) and factual (“Drawing Out Diabetes”) accounts of health issues related to Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes
- Read a variety of text formats
- Read selected materials for understanding
- Participate in class discussion about diabetes and demonstrate active listening
- Investigate the emotional, social, and physical impact that the diagnosis and management of Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes has on the lives of fictional characters in the story, “Manage Me”
- Consider the benefits of “shared experiences” and “group dynamics” in understanding health information and applying that information to improve one’s “health behavior”
- Consider how some feelings, such as isolation, fear, and anger, can be shared and understood even if the circumstances resulting in these feelings are different
Teacher Background Information 2C- Teacher Administrative Information 2C
- Student Background Information 2C
- Student Story Characters 2C
- Student - The Story 2C
- Student - The Story in Response Format 2C
- Student - Graphic Organizer 2C
- Student - Diabetes Facts 2C
- Appendix 1 - The Story in Narrative Form 2C
- Appendix 2 - Response Prompts 2C
Keywords:
Diabetes, dialectic, paired reading, graphic organizer
Activity Code:
2CUnit Reference:
Bittersweet: Diabetes Lesson Reference:
Lesson 2: Compare and Contrast Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes