UNIT 4
Drug and Alcohol project
Name: ___________________________________________ Section ______________________
Dates in IMC: ______________________ and _________________________________________
DUE DATE: ___________________________________________________________________
SCORING:
Part 1: ____________________________/20 points
Part 2: ____________________________/ 10 points
Part 3: ____________________________/ 20 points
Part 4: ____________________________/ 10 points
Total: ____________________________/60 points
Please answer these questions honestly. Use your experience and opinion to appropriately answer the questions
to the best of your ability. These questions are introductory questions and not a graded part of this assignment.
1. Why do teenagers do drugs?
2. Why do teenagers drink alcohol?
3. How does it affect their lives?
4. What legal problems does a teenager face for underage drinking?
5. What legal problems does someone face if they are underage and caught drinking and driving?
6. What legal problems does a minor face if caught doing drugs?
7. What drug use do you believe is most common? Why?
8. Using medicine in any way OTHER than the way it was prescribed or by anyone who is not prescribed the
medicine by a doctor is illegal. It is called medicine misuse and abuse. Which medicine is most commonly
misused/abused?
9. What would you do to help your little brother or sister, best friend, boyfriend/girlfriend if he/she started
drinking and/or using drugs and you knew it was hurting him/her and you and everyone who cared about that
person?
Part 1: Look at your unit 1, 2 and 3 packets in your notebook. Each heading and topic below relates to drug
and alcohol use in some way. Use your own words to EXPLAIN how the topics from Units 1, 2 and 3 relate to
drinking alcohol and doing drugs.
UNIT 1:
Chapter 1 lesson 3
+ risk behaviors
+ lifestyle factors
Chapter 2 lesson 1
+ health skills=life skills
+ refusal
+ health behaviors checklist
Chapter 2 lesson2
+ values
+ decision making
H (healthful)
E (ethical)
L (legal)
P (parent approval)
+ goals
UNIT 2:
Chapter 3 lesson 1
+ mental and emotional health
- Resilient
- Self-esteem
Chapter 3 lesson 2
+ personal identity
+ character = traits of good character
+ demonstrating positive values
+ develop a purpose in your life
+ avoid unhealthful, high risk behaviors
Chapter 4 lesson 1
+ perception
Chapter 4 lesson 2
+ stress management
Chapter 4 lesson 3
+ coping
+ traumatic event
UNIT 3
Chapter 6 lesson 1
+ relationships
- character and relationships
Chapter 6 lesson 2
+ Respect for yourself
- personal identity
- values (page 68 in your unit 3 reading packet)
Chapter 8 lesson 2
+ positive peer pressure
+ negative peer pressure
- manipulation
+ assertive refusal
- refusal skills
Part 2: Use the links provided my Mrs. Vogel, chose a person’s real story and read it. Answer these questions
based on the person’s story you read.
 List the article and name of person’s story you chose.
 Why did you choose this person’s story?
 How does drinking and doing drugs affect a person’s overall health?
 What impact does it have on his/her life?
 Give one example from each side of the health triangle (list one physical effect, mental/emotional effect
and social effect)
- physical
- mental/emotional
- social
 Explain how a person’s whole LIFE is affected including that person’s relationships with others and that
person’s future (holistic effect from unit 1)
Part 3: Answer the questions from the day this project was first introduced, but use websites and reputable
sources to find your answers and DOCUMENT the source(s) you used.
1. List two documented reasons teenagers admit to misusing/abusing drugs? (cite source with url link or source
citation from a book/article)
2. List two documented reasons teenagers admit to misusing/abusing alcohol? Reasons should be different than
your answers for #1 (cite source with url link or source citation from a book/article)
3. How does it affect their lives? (cite source with url link or source citation from a book/article)
4. What legal problems does a teenager face for underage drinking? (cite source with url link or source citation
from a book/article)
5. What legal problems does someone face if they are underage and caught drinking and driving? (cite source
with url link or source citation from a book/article)
6. What legal problems does a minor face if caught doing drugs? (cite source with url link or source citation
from a book/article)
7. What illegal drug is most commonly misused/abused by teenagers? Why this drug over the others? (cite
source with url link or source citation from a book/article)
8. Using medicine in any way OTHER than the way it was prescribed or by anyone who is not prescribed the
medicine by a doctor is illegal. It is called medicine misuse and abuse. Which medicine is most commonly
misused/abused? (cite source with url link or source citation from a book/article)
9. What would you do to help your little brother or sister, best friend, boyfriend/girlfriend if he/she started
drinking and/or using drugs and you knew it was hurting him/her and you and everyone who cared about that
person? (no source needed for this question – please answer it sincerely and thoroughly)
10. What are three of the best resources you could use or tell someone to use for help with drugs/alcohol
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Part 4: Write a letter to someone about his/her choices when misusing/abusing drugs. Explain in your letter
how those choices hurt you and all the people who care for this person to whom you are writing the letter. The
person can be a person in your life, the person who’s story you read in part 2, or a fictional person.
NAME____________________section__________
SCORING:
Part 1: ____________________________/20 points
Part 2: ____________________________/ 10 points
Part 3: ____________________________/ 20 points
Part 4: ____________________________/ 10 points
Part 4: Scoring Rubric for the letter
0 points = no letter
2 points = letter does not connect to the purpose of the project/does not answer or address the main points of the letter as described
4 points = letter loosely connects to the purpose of the project/loosely addresses the main points
6 points = letter begins to describe how the choices one makes affects others
8 points = letter explains how a person’s choices hurts others but lacks the overall, collective purpose
10 points = letter clearly states how the loved one has hurt him/herself and loved ones. It reflects the damage that drugs and alcohol do to peoples’ lives
which encompasses the purpose of the project
Total: ____________________________/60 points
MINUS DAYS LATE : 1 day =
- 8 points
2 days =
- 16 points
3 or more days= -30 points
Days late total _______________________/60 points