A minimum of 500 words must be written for each entry.
Entries should simply be labeled with the appropriate entry number(s), for example, Entry 3, Entry 4, Entries 5-6, Entries 5-8, and so on.
Volunteer Work Selected – Volunteering at my daughter’s Cheer
Entry 1: “Selection of the Service-Learning Project.”
Write an entry of 400 words minimum on why you chose your project. Discuss the life or work experiences that may have influenced your selection, including whether these experiences were positive or negative. Consider how issues of community, government or individual responsibility, leadership, productivity, problem-solving, work ethic, and/or ambition might have affected your project selection. Most importantly, explain why your project is important to you, as well as to the larger community. Cite at least 2 articles and/or readings from the course in this entry.
Remember, it is your job as a student to demonstrate learning based on the assigned course materials.
Entry 2: Write an entry of 400 words minimum explaining how your project relates to at least two of the course objectives. See the complete list of course objectives in the course syllabus. Be sure to explain why you think these objectives are important. Label this entry “Service Learning Project Objectives.” Cite at least 2 articles and/or readings from the course in this entry.
Note: The purpose of this entry is not to tell what you think the objective of your SLP is; rather, it is to relate your project to the course objectives
Remember, it is your job as a student to demonstrate learning based upon the assigned course materials.
Entry 3:Narrate your experiences on the project in a minimum of 500 words. Be sure to relate your project experiences briefly to specific ideas in each of the week’s readings. Ideally, you will synthesize ideas from these readings. You may also briefly reference ideas from earlier weeks of the course, as well as up to four additional sources you have found in your own research. Cite at least 2 articles and/or readings from the course in this entry.
Remember, it is your job as a student to demonstrate learning based upon the assigned course materials.
Entry 4: Narrate your experiences on the project in a minimum of 500 words. Be sure to relate your project experiences briefly to specific ideas in each of the week’s readings. Ideally, you will synthesize ideas from these readings. You may also briefly reference ideas from earlier weeks of the course, as well as up to four additional sources you have found in your own research. Cite at least 2 articles and/or readings from the course in this entry.
Remember, it is your job as a student to demonstrate learning based upon the assigned course materials
Course Objectives
Students who successfully complete this cluster should be able to:
1. Analyze the importance of such values as justice, dissent, and equality to the functioning of republican government.
2. Explain the importance of the Constitution and the structure of the government it creates to the preservation of individual rights.
3. Reflect on the relevance of the values discussed to their work and personal lives.
4. Assess the benefits of changes in race and gender equality for the individual and governance.
5. Synthesize ideas about the challenges posed to the individual and to governance, by globalization and immigration.
6. Assess the impact of large changes in modern society on their work and personal lives.
7. Explain the relationship between engaged citizenship and the functioning of a republican form of government.
8. Synthesize ideas about the duty of individual citizens to promote engaged citizenship.
9. Assess the impact on the communities of their own acts of engaged citizenship.Resources:
https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2013/08/22/kings-dream-remains-an-elusive-goal-many-americans-see-racial-disparities/
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/still-the-land-of-opportunity/
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
https://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/184/a-lincoln-anthology/4822/the-gettysburg-address/vox.com/2015/9/21/9334215/equality-of-opportunity
https://evonomics.com/people-dont-actually-want-equality-want-fairness/
https://digitalcommons.law.seattleu.edu/sjsj/vol1/iss1/7/
https://mises-media.s3.amazonaws.com/I%20Pencil.pdf
https://mises.org/library/i-pencil-1
https://archive.org/details/JusticeWhatIsTheRightThingToDoByMichaelSandel/page/n43/mode/2up
https://archive.org/details/JusticeWhatIsTheRightThingToDoByMichaelSandel/page/n97/mode/2up
https://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html
http://cyberspacei.com/greatbooks/h2/6gi/gi_024.htm
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/01-10-02-0178
https://hbr.org/2017/01/true-leaders-believe-dissent-is-an-obligation
https://www.vox.com/summer-movies/2018/5/17/17343442/avengers-infinity-war-captain-america-thanos-sequel-moral-dilemma
https://content.bellevue.edu/cas/la/400-410-420/id/kss-2019/transcripts/transcript-spiderman.pdf
http://theconversation.com/how-the-moral-lessons-of-to-kill-a-mockingbird-endure-today-100763
https://www.hoover.org/research/rugged-individualism