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 * **Goal:** Your goal is to clear your name of your drug issue, unintended upcoming pregnancy, your unhealthy public relationship or another personal issue. By coming clean to the media and telling the public about the problem, why it was an issue for you, what you are going to do to change, and hopefully by showing them that the choice you made was a negative one and that there were better choices out there for you hopefully they will go easy on you in the future.
 * Role:** You are a famous athlete coming off a contract and championship year or an up and coming singer with a debut album just released, and an upcoming tour.
 * Audience:** __The New York Times__, __Boston Globe__, __ESPN, Rolling Stone__.
 * Situation:** You are going to call a press conference where you will explain who you are, what your job is, and why you are famous. After giving the audience some background you will explain your situation. What bad choice have you made? You will give background on the choice, information about it, and how you got yourself into it. You will explain why it was a bad decision, and what positives you thought you could get out of it. After you do your introduction you will have to answer at least ten questions from our media circuit. The will ask questions ranging from why you used it to what you plan to do in the future.
 * Product/Presentation:** Using Imovie you will create a mock press conference that you will pass in. This will not be viewed as part of presentation, it is to give you practice in the situation for the real press conference and to give the teacher a hard copy of a press conference similar to the one that will happen in the classroom.
 * Standards (Criteria from both rubrics - product and presentation):** HEALTHY CHOICES ORAL PRESENTATION: Content 24% preparedness 20% Response 20% Staying in character 16% Enthusiasm 10% Presentation Intangibles (volume, eye contact, speech) 10% HEALTHY CHOICES I MOVIE: Visual Appeal 10% Content Delivery 20% Appropriate Audio16% Storyboard 20% Character Background 24% Credits+Sources Cited 10% ||

=Introduction= We are all faced with important choices in our lives that affect our health and well-being. Some of the bad choices we make can have a detrimental effect on our lives. If you're a celebrity, these choices become the business of everyone.

=Task= You are a famous athlete coming off a championship season into a contract year, or an up-and-coming music artist who is about to go on tour and who just released your first album. Now you are faced with a predicament relating to a health issue. Your fans have been let down and your life seems to be in shambles. Somewhere in the world you realize there is a person who made the same mistakes as you did. Because of your popularity and celebrity status you decide to come clean to the media and express how you will get better in the hopes someone out there will do the same. Using Imovie you must create a mock press conference where you talk about your background, the decision you made (information on it, and how it relates to you), the outcome, why you thought it was a good idea, and how you could have better handled choices leading up to your outcome. The Boston Globe, The New York Times, ESPN, and Rolling Stone will all be in attendance. For your oral presentation you need to do the same you did on the movie then open it up for questions to your media guests (the class). Your fans are counting on you to be open and honest. Don't make another mistake by not giving them truth about your predicament and problem. Good luck!

=Conclusion= Your job is complete. Hopefully somewhere others will not make the same choices you made, and for the ones that have, hopefully they understand the steps necessary to becoming clean and/or better. A perfect human being is impossible to find, but ones that make mistakes are everywhere. Humans that make mistakes repetitively are everywhere, but someone who can teach others with their mistakes and learn in the process are few and far between.