Community+Service+Project


 * MY COMMUNITY SERVICE PROJECT**
 * (RUBRICS TO COME)**

Examples: - Picture of a flyer YOU Created - Electronic Flyer YOU created - A Question YOU came up with for a survey - An e-mail you sent to __ about the project - A copy of the speech you gave - A short video of you working on something (I have cameras) - A few sentences documenting what you did in class that you think is significant - A transcript of a conversation you had with another class member that shows participation and engagement
 * 1) Evidence of YOUR work on the Project: should include EVERYthing you have Personally worked on to complete the project**
 * Wrote an e-mail for Mr. L. Iovino
 * Interviewed Ms. Hawks
 * Prepared questions for Ms. Judi Allen
 * Helped compose the script of the voice over for the documentary
 * Asked Ms. Klibansky about the budget during class time
 * Came up with a list of teachers to interview
 * Contributed with the making of the story line


 * 2) TWO Reflections - Journal Style**

Write 2 Journal entries that reflect on the work you have done on the project. It can talk about something that was frustrating, inspiring, something you learned, an idea that you have that you want to incorporate into the project, your opinion on how the work is going, etc.

-It must be grammatically correct. -One page typed, single spaced, 12 font -Attached or embeded on this page of your wiki -Must include one illustration showing the main idea of your entry

I thought that this project was beneficial but at the same time it was very harmful. This project has brought awareness to us as students and what is going on in our school, financially. I know for a fact that when I first heard about the "budget crisis", I was like "No big deal! We just need to find an alternate way to try to keep the education in Malden prospering with what we have!" And as soon as we chose this topic to do our community service project on, I was like "What's wrong with the budget?" That is what I thought of it before but after this project, it has opened my eyes to what Malden is really facing economically and how all these city officials are trying their best to try to maintain the education in Malden. I thought that the research/work/inferences/predictions/etc were pretty much self-explanatory and it wasn't that hard to accomplish but what I thought was hard to accomplish was the documentary. I don't think that there were enough people that were willing to stay after school for long periods of time working on it. That's what I think the problem was. I don't think that anyone would devote so much time for a project. Even though we weren't able to finish the project, I believe that it still had a positive impact on us.

The downside of this project was the production rate as well as other attributes. The production rate was fairly slow, I personally thought that this project wasn't //that// lengthy and would eventually end around the month of May at the latest. The students in the class were not as engaged in this project, therefore, it was something that they could careless about which will lead to them refusing to commit their time after school to finish the project itself. I also thought that with Haley not showing up again after April vacation has some what put everyone in the mindset of "Oh, she doesn't even care about this project anymore so why should we." If she was going to start Generation Citizen with us, I'd expect her to finish it with us. The particular con that this project had on us, students, was that it interfered with our curriculum. Spreading awareness about issues like these are great, getting students involved are great, but I don't think it fits in with this particular class. I believe that class is for learning on that particular subject. For example, we are in US History I Honors, I expect to learn what the other honors classes are learning. I believe that something like Generation Citizen should not be done in a classroom under another subject. During the beginning of this project, I was alright with it but on some days, it threw me off of what we learned the previous day, going back and forth between history and budgets. Eventually, our history classes became more and more devoted to this project rather than learning what we are supposed to be learning.

Evidence of your participation in the FINAL action the class takes - Documentary -Speech to Legislators - Petition - Survey and Survey Results - Policy changes you sent to a Sentator
 * 3) THE FINAL PRODUCT -**

(More to come on this)
 * 4) FINAL REFLECTION - Essay Style**

I thought that this project was beneficial but at the same time it was very harmful. This project has brought awareness to us as students and what is going on in our school, financially. I know for a fact that when I first heard about the "budget crisis", I was like "No big deal! We just need to find an alternate way to try to keep the education in Malden prospering with what we have!" And as soon as we chose this topic to do our community service project on, I was like "What's wrong with the budget?" That is what I thought of it before but after this project, it has opened my eyes to what Malden is really facing economically and how all these city officials are trying their best to try to maintain the education in Malden. I thought that the research/work/inferences/predictions/etc were pretty much self-explanatory and it wasn't that hard to accomplish but what I thought was hard to accomplish was the documentary. I don't think that there were enough people that were willing to stay after school for long periods of time working on it. That's what I think the problem was. I don't think that anyone would devote so much time for a project. Even though we weren't able to finish the project, I believe that it still had a positive impact on us.

The downside of this project was the production rate as well as other attributes. The production rate was fairly slow, I personally thought that this project wasn't //that// lengthy and would eventually end around the month of May at the latest. The students in the class were not as engaged in this project, therefore, it was something that they could careless about which will lead to them refusing to commit their time after school to finish the project itself. I also thought that with Haley not showing up again after April vacation has some what put everyone in the mindset of "Oh, she doesn't even care about this project anymore so why should we." If she was going to start Generation Citizen with us, I'd expect her to finish it with us. The particular con that this project had on us, students, was that it interfered with our curriculum. Spreading awareness about issues like these are great, getting students involved are great, but I don't think it fits in with this particular class. I believe that class is for learning on that particular subject. For example, we are in US History I Honors, I expect to learn what the other honors classes are learning. I believe that something like Generation Citizen should not be done in a classroom under another subject. During the beginning of this project, I was alright with it but on some days, it threw me off of what we learned the previous day, going back and forth between history and budgets. Eventually, our history classes became more and more devoted to this project rather than learning what we are supposed to be learning.

Going back to what I said above, "I expect to learn what the other honors classes are learning."...I believe that we should have been done with our curriculum by now without the interference of this project. This project did wonders for me, it has taught me so much but the knowledge of budget cuts isn't going to help me pass my final. I'd rather have a teacher go over and teach me about the things that are going on in the book rather than having them give me a review worksheet on stuff I have never seen in my life before. This is nearly impossible for me to memorize so much information and process it. History is not my only final that I have to study for and I can only devote so much time to it. I will have a rough outline of the chapters but that still isn't doing me good enough. I'd expect to have an equal "playing field" with all the other honors history students for the final exam.

Generation Citizen also made me consider history class as a joke sometimes because we were just not getting enough work done and it did not feel like an honors' class. I personally did not like cramming things in the last week before finals and learn things on my own. Like a section or two would be fine, maybe even a chapter but three is just too much. I think that we should have left the documentary as well as the project unfinished because education always comes first, and in this case, it was history, preparing us for our exam.