This one-hour television special will be addressing the dangers of alcohol and underage drinking.

Through writing we sort out our thoughts, develop social networks, and participate in shaping and changing our worlds. Writing matters, and the teaching of writing has never been more important than it is today. Many groups and individuals have jumped into the conversation. In this video session we’ll investigate who they are and what they are saying. In addition, we’ll explore practices proven to support young writers as they develop competence and confidence with writing in various genres for varying purposes and audiences.

This session will provide an opportunity to experience immersion, investigation, and scaffold genre instruction first hand. We’ll investigate multiple strategies to support writers within a genre and think together about how this model can be used with other genres.

Dr. Esperanto presents the words "ballast" and "permeable," the vowel sound "schwa," and the Latin phrase "quid pro quo." Dr. Esperanto's science experiments illustrate the vocabulary word "vacuum."

Dr. Esperanto presents the words "rural," "urban," and "abundant" and the suffix "-ectomy." The Latin phrase is "pro bono publico." In the science segment, Dr. Esperanto builds a wet-cell battery using compounds and elements from the Periodic Table of Elements.