Details: Project and Requirements

Social Justice Project Details: Project and Requirements
VISITING ORGANIZATIONS AND BLOG POSTS:

You are required to have a minimum of 5 visits to one organization (or several in combination) that correspond with your area of interest in preparation for this year’s “Social Justice Teach-In.” After each visit, you will post on the blog, according to the instructions, and will upload photos, video and any artifacts you scan in to make your blog a multi-media diary.  You should also be reading articles and educating yourself about your topic in preparation to write an article in the role of an investigative journalist.  You may want to post links to your sources in your blog posts.You must also conduct one interview that has notes and/or a recording (with the subject’s permission), as you will use this interview as a source for your paper.  Listen for other key quotations/facts/statistics as you go on visits and record them for use in your article and your blog posts.
SUMMARY OF REQUIREMENTS:
5 visits to organization(s) on your own time, 5 blog posts about your visits, 1 interview, and 1 article, 1 reflective blog post at project’s end.
SOCIAL JUSTICE TEACH-IN
The eighth grade will run half a day of school to teach the fifth through seventh graders about what they have learned.  You will participate in structuring the speakers, panelists, and artwork for the day and will present a one-hour workshop twice to different groups of students.
GRADING:
Your 6 spell-checked and edited blog posts, an article on your topic using your interview and two outside sources, preparation and the execution for the “Social Justice Teach-In” day and the workshop you lead will all be graded.