Advocacy: Advocacy in Your Chapter POA
“Advocacy in Your Chapter POA” is a 30-minute FFA lesson plan that helps students integrate advocacy and literacy into their FFA chapter Program of Activities (POA). Through brainstorming a definition of advocacy and exploring the Alliance to End Hunger Advocacy Playbook with a “POA Planner: Advocacy” worksheet, students identify individual and group advocacy opportunities and plan new ways to tell the story of FFA and agriculture.
At a glance
- Learning objectives
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- Develop strategies to integrate advocacy into an FFA chapter POA.
- Identify individual and group opportunities to advocate.
- Innovate to create new ways to tell the story of FFA and agriculture.
- Time required
- 30 minutes
- Materials
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- A copy of the "POA Planner: Advocacy" worksheet for each group.
- Internet access to view the AEH Advocacy Playbook in real time or embed it in a PowerPoint ahead of time.
- Resources
- FFA.org; Alliance to End Hunger (AEH) Playbook http://alliancetoendhunger.org/aeh-playbook/#p=1
- This Quick Lesson Plan Would Work Well As
- 1. Chapter development with chapter officers; 2. Supplement to agriculture leadership curriculum
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Aligned Standards
AFNR Career Ready Practices
- CRP.04Communicate clearly, effectively, and with reason. Career-ready individuals communicate thoughts, ideas and action plans with clarity, whether using written, verbal and/or visual methods.
- CRP.06Demonstrate creativity and innovation.
- CRP.08Utilize critical thinking to make sense of problems and persevere in solving them. Career-ready individuals readily recognize problems in the workplace, understand the nature of the problem, and devise effective plans to solve the problem.
AFNR Cluster Skills
- CS.02Evaluate the nature and scope of the Agriculture, Food & Natural Resources Career Cluster and the role of agriculture, food and natural resources (AFNR) in society and the economy.
Common Core – Math Practices
Common Core – Writing
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.9-10.1Write arguments to support claims in an analysis of substantive topics or texts, using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence.
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.9-10.2Write informative/explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas, concepts, and information clearly and accurately through the effective selection, organization, and analysis of content.
FFA Precept
- FFA.CS-MCommunication: Effectively interact with others in personal and professional settings.
- FFA.CS-NDecision Making: Analyze a situation and execute an appropriate course of action.
- FFA.PL-AAction: Assume responsibility and take the necessary steps to achieve the desired results, no matter what the goal or task at hand.