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Who gets the Heart?

Who gets the Heart?. Persuasion: CA Standard 2.4. The Situation. You are a member of the heart transplant surgery team at the UCLA Medical Center. At the moment, you have FIVE patients that desperately need a transplant to live. All of them could die at any moment. The Solution .

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Who gets the Heart?

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  1. Who gets the Heart? • Persuasion: CA Standard 2.4

  2. The Situation • You are a member of the heart transplant surgery team at the UCLA Medical Center. At the moment, you have FIVE patients that desperately need a transplant to live. All of them could die at any moment...

  3. The Solution • You need to collaborate with your fellow doctors and discuss the reasons why you should and should not save each patient. • You will use these arguments to help you make your own decision for who you want to select to receive the heart for your individual essay.

  4. Overall Objective: Persuasive Essay • With your group, you will pre-write by listing the pros and cons of why you should or should not save each patient. • Independently, you will choose who you think deserves the heart, outline your ideas, then write a persuasive essay to convince your team.

  5. Who will you choose? • All five patients need your help! But you can only save ONE. • You only have limited information about each patient. You need to use your skills of persuasion to convince your team members to save the most deserving patient.

  6. Group Roles • Facilitator: Leads the discussion, monitors that your group is on task and all opinions are voiced. • Transcriber: Writes the pros and cons of why you should or should not save each patient. • Presenters (2 students): Presents your group’s discussion and findings to the rest of the class.

  7. Jonas Kasperak • Male • Age 55 • Employed as a steel worker • Married • Unemployed wife • Seven children ages 8-22

  8. Elena Rodriguez • Female • Age 31 • Sings first soprano at the Los Angeles Opera House • divorced • two children, age 2 and 3

  9. Carlos Wahnon • Male • Age 10 • Son of a politician • when he grows up he wants to be a doctor

  10. Lincoln Bradley • Male • Age 65 • Vice President of Google • Father of three grown children • Grandfather to five children

  11. Helen Jackson • Female • Age 39 • recent widow • unemployed • on financial assistance • Mother of three children ages 4, 8, 10

  12. Only one can live...Who will it be?

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