Homework for Monday, April 26th classes

MS 2 history: Please finish your depression packets and review the '20's and '30's for a quiz on Wednesday.

MS 3 History: Please work on your final social justice projects!!! (see below in case you lost your paper)

MS 3 History Project: Final Requirements

As an accumulation of your hours of volunteering, you will need to do the following to receive a passing grade in History this year.

Portfolio:
You will create several written reports, which will include the following:
1. A history of the organization that you are volunteering with.
This includes how they came in to being, the major highlights in what brought about the need of it, and any other organizations that it evolved from. This should be at least one page typed.

2. A brief explanation of the organization’s purpose and facets of work.
This is to be a two-page clear explanation of what the organization’s involvement in their work entails, such as what different areas of their field they engage in. Please be specific enough on this but not overly detailed.

3. A detailed description of what a typical day of volunteering was like for you. (One to two pages)

4. A brief research paper on the social justice issue that your organization tries to handle. You can write this in conjunction with #2 or #1. This paper needs to include statistics and facts about this particular problem in society. This is addressing the problem(s), not the solution. Make sure you create a bibliography of your sources. This needs to be at least two typed pages

4. Interview: Conduct an interview with your contact person or another person you’ve worked with this year. Come up with a series of questions that you think are appropriate to learn more about how and why this person chose to affiliate with this organization. Type up the interview questions and the answers, and then summarize your thoughts and opinions based on the answers you received.

5. Pictures: Please include either pictures of your time volunteering, or of the work of the organization. You can use, with permission, pictures off of the websites that address the issue as well.

Presentation:
After you have written the above reports, you will need to take the information and create a presentation that is interesting, creative, and informative. Your presentation needs to be at least 7 minutes, and include visual aids, handouts and a creative and well-prepared talk with some of each of the elements of your portfolio. There will be a brief opportunity for your class mates to ask you questions about your presentation and your volunteer time.

Your final grade for this project will be in equal parts the portfolio, the volunteer hours you have been/are turning in, and the presentation.