Boyes.TopicTalk

List five facts that you already know about this event/issue: 1. Depression affects many teens. 2. Many of these teens don’t find proper help or support. 3. When teens don’t or can’t find help for their depression, it has the capacity to increase and become too much to handle 4. This can often lead to suicide. 5. Not all teens who are depressed are suicidal.
 * Topic Talk:**
 * Topic Choice: Teen Suicide & Depression**

Teen depression and suicide is an affliction that affects a large percent of the teen population, many of whom don’t know how to find help or support. If these teens can find others like them, it can help them deal with their problems. Also, it can show adults that are around teens such as these exactly what these teens go through.
 * Answer these questions about this person:**
 * How did/will this event/issue impact the world?

A) To help teens find help. B) To show adults that these teens need help
 * For what purpose do you want to write about this event/issue--that is, what argument(s) might you make about it? (For example, you might show how teachers can work with dyslexic students or argue that Hurricane Katrina was a turning point in American politics).

Teens, and the adults that should know how to help those suffering from depression.
 * For what audience(s) do you intend to make your argument(s) about this event? (People who already know about dyslexia? People from New Orleans? Teachers?) Explain.

Articles, diary entries, one act plays, and other similarly descriptive genres
 * What genres (types of writing) might be appropriate to this topic? (For example, what kinds of writing might associated people (like teachers) write about it? What kinds of writing might be written about it?)

I know several people who suffer from depression, and I have myself. I feel that proper help can keep teens from falling into worse depression, or even attempting suicide.
 * Why are you interested in researching this event/issue? How do you personally connect with it?

What resources do you think will be useful to you? Specific books? Series of books? Magazines? Periodicals? Interviews? Internet sites? Films? Other?
 * Resources**

Interviews, magazines and similar things would be good resources to learn more about the topic.

List five facts that you already know about this event/issue: 1. Auto-Immune Diseases are diverse and can affect people differently between diseases
 * Topic Choice: Auto-Immune Diseases**

2. AI Diseases often compound upon each other.

3. There are many signs for AI Diseases that can be missed or mis-diagnosed

4. Despite debilitating effects, people with AI Diseases can often look “normal” to those around them.

5. Many AI Diseases have symptoms that people that have never had them can’t even imagine.

1. How did/will this event/issue impact the world? Many people don’t understand the effects of AI diseases. This is a problem that many people suffering with them have to deal with.
 * Answer these questions about this person:**

2. For what purpose do you want to write about this event/issue--that is, what argument(s) might you make about it? (For example, you might show how teachers can work with dyslexic students or argue that Hurricane Katrina was a turning point in American politics). I want to show people without any of these diseases what those who do have to deal with on a regular basis.

3 For what audience(s) do you intend to make your argument(s) about this event? (People who already know about dyslexia? People from New Orleans? Teachers?) Explain. My audience is adults who don’t understand the impact that AI diseases have on those suffering with them.

4. What genres (types of writing) might be appropriate to this topic? (For example, what kinds of writing might associated people (like teachers) write about it? What kinds of writing might be written about it?) Articles and interviews and similar personal and informative writings would be appropriate because they convey the message clearly.

5. Why are you interested in researching this event/issue? How do you personally connect with it? My mother suffers from several AI Diseases, and I want people to understand what she has to go through daily, even when her ordeal isn’t obvious.

What resources do you think will be useful to you? Specific books? Series of books? Magazines? Periodicals? Interviews? Internet sites? Films? Other?
 * Resources**

Periodicals, Interviews, Websites, etc.

I think that it will be about even, though Teen Suicide and Depression is a more talked about problem in society.
 * Once you have completed worksheets for __TWO__ topics, please answer these three questions; be prepared to discuss your answers in class:**
 * 1) Of your two topic choices, which one do you think you will find the most information about? Please explain.

2. Of your two topic choices, which one do you think will make the most compelling argument for an audience? Please explain. Teen Suicide and Depression because my target audience is more likely to have some sort of connection to the topic.

3. Of your two topic choices, which one do you really like the best? Please explain. I find them to both be even. I was effected by one, and my mother, the other. Both are really personal to me, and I feel that I can make a good point about both.