Workshop Description

This kid-friendly version of Fast Food Nation covers a variety of important and disturbing topics about the fast food industry, including: 
            -the connection between fast food and advertising to children
            -the chemicalization of food
            -the epidemic of fast food/soda pop served in school cafeterias
            -the horrendous living conditions of cattle and chicken
            -the correlation between the rise in obesity and the popularity of fast food

To tackle these topics, we will try out some pre-reading, during reading, and post-reading strategies that can work well in any classroom, and that are new and exciting to your students.  It will be fun, it will be informative, and it will leave you with many a burning question.  Who knows, you just may kick that McDonald's habit yet!
(6th grade and up)