Students’ age range: 14-16
Topic: Popular Music and Drugs
Description: 1. Write the following on the chalk board:
“Bail extended for reggae Singer on ganja charge”
“Pop Singer fined $50,000 for possession of cocaine”
2. Students will identify the similarities in each headline
3. Students suggest reasons why some pop singers use drugs
4. Let students evaluate each reason given and comment on it
5. Let students discuss why some members in the audience may take drugs at a pop concert
6. Let students say what they would do if they were pop singers or members of the audience at a pop concert where drugs were openly used.
Teacher recalls the example of local ‘Pop’ Singer Gem Myers and the Culture Club (Boy George) Band