Nine weeks Volunteer Project Due Date: May 31st, 2010
****This project is worth 300pts!
Directions: Choose one of the three project options below to complete.
Option One: School/Community Service Project
Complete eight hours of community service to school or community. You will be expected to keep a journal that details what kinds of things you did. Separately you will write a five paragraph essay on why it is important to volunteer in your community (please include your personal experiences). You must have a supervisor/participating adult sign off on your completed hours. For example: Volunteer work at a hospital, research lab, nursing home, zoo, park, school, or museum.
Option Two: Photo Essay
Complete eight hours of community service, but instead of keeping a journal you will take pictures of your experience, put that into a PowerPoint and share the results with the class. Each photo taken should include an explanation (caption) of what is going on in the picture. This would include at least twelve photos, and a two sentence description of what is going on in each photo. You will also have to share something about the organization you are working with or volunteering as a part of.
Option Three: Blogging about Community Service
Go to Mr. Howard’s blog and post one entry for every two hours of community service that you serve. Your five posts (which mean you will serve eight hours of community service) should be one paragraph in length and grammatically correct. You will be graded on the signed off community service hours, and the completion of four entries. The address for Mr. Howard’s blog is http://howardela.blogspot.com/, here you can register and post a comment. Your comment will not appear until I have approved the comment. So following your post I will receive an approval email, following that email your post will appear. This option will include four posts that should be at least one paragraph long each.
