Anti-Smoking Limerick Campaign
Content Standards
Students will…
1) Explain how personal choices affect the body.
4) Identify healthy lifestyle behaviors.
Process Standards
Students will…
2) Present information through various techniques.
Task
You will launch a non-smoking campaign for the Canadian Heart & Stroke Foundation. They want you to write a limerick promoting how
smoking has a negative impact on your body and other people around you. You want to promote not smoking or help someone quit and
write of the benefits of quitting.
A limerick is considered an enjoyable form of humor. Follow the guidelines that are below to write your limerick. After you have completed
the limerick, you will draw designs on the background. This must be in color and tie in with your limerick. Look at the examples that are
given to you if you are having trouble writing your limerick.
A limerick is a short poem that follows these guidelines:
1) Lines 1, 2, and 5 rhyme with one another
2) Lines 3 and 4 rhyme with each other
3) Lines 1, 2, and 5 have from 8-10 syllables
4) Lines 3 and 4 have 4-6 syllables
Examples:
1. A handsome young teen hit the scene.
2. At wrestling he really was mean.
3. When he started to puff,
4. The coach said, “Enough!
5. I like you, but you’re off the team.”
1. There lived a sweet girl named Elaine
2. Who secretly smoked in the rain,
3. Her mother, who caught her,
4. Said, “Don’t you know, daughter,
5. Most people who smoke have no brain?”
Criteria
- Following the guidelines for writing a limerick (certain lines rhyme and certain lines have a certain number of syllables)
- Promotes an accurate non-smoking or quitting message
- Background design ties with the limerick
- No spelling or grammatical errors
Anti-Smoking Campaign Poster
Not Yet Meeting
Minimally Meeting
Meeting
Limerick
Quality of limerick created, uses No limerick, multiple (3+)
max.2 mistakes in format of
Max. 1 mistake in format.
correct format, and has an anti- format mistakes, or missing an limerick, shows limited
Good use of creativity, while
smoking message
anti-smoking message
creativity, and has a poor anti- implementing a non-smoking
smoking message.
message
Poster
The poster pictures, and
Poor/no colour, irrelevant/no Limited use of colour, and
Good use of colour, and
arrangement conveys an antipictures,
pictures to help convey the
pictures to help convey the
smoking campaign
anti-smoking message
anti-smoking message
Creativity
Both the limerick and poster are Poor creativity, lack of colour, Limited creativity shown when Good use of colour, and
creative, colourful and engaging. limerick not creative, or no
designing the campaign. Has an appropriate limerick. Few
slogan submitted.
anti-smoking message.
colours, and limited appeal.
Has a clear anti-smoking
message.
Exceeding
Perfect format of limerick,
superb level of creativity, and
has a strong anti-smoking
message
Impressive choice of pictures,
colour, and arrangement of
both pictures and slogan
Outstanding creativity, high
colour, and abstract thinking to
maximise attention, appeal and
effectiveness. Has a clear and
highly effective anit-smoking
limerick.