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__** Culture: The Material World: Peer Pressure **__
 * Society and Culture Year 12 Woodville High School 2012 **

Students use a focussed and insightful investigation relating to a range of aspects and issues of the contemporary material world.

Students critically examine peer pressure and its influence on the choices people make in the material world.

Example; cost of latest I phones/ technology, witty face book comments/ photos, influence of the media.

Students consider constructive and incisive strategies to counter peer pressure and ways to be inclusive rather than exclusive.

The investigation may take the form of for example:  a role play, a debate, a discussion, a lecture, a forum, or an oral component of a visual or multimedia presentation.

A documentary film aimed at exposing the heinous acts of Ugandan war criminal Joseph Kony exploded over the Internet Wednesday, drawing praise and condemnation from the millions who viewed it. The half-hour film Kony 2012, made by the U.S. organization Invisible Children, tells the story of a child soldier named Jacob and the charity’s push to have the U.S. intervene to stop the LRA. The campaign kicked off just as the Lord’s Resistance Army, a cultish militia led by Kony that has terrorized parts of Africa for decades, launched a new spate of attacks in the Democratic Republic of Congo.