Socially Just Service Learning Plan ITU Theme:

Understanding the Human Condition

Elizabeth Campos, Kyle Smethurst, Marina Skendzic

Group Members:

1. Focus on Social Justice Students will go into their community and experience people outside of their gender/race/religion by attending some community event that is outside of the students normal lifestyle. Their objective for students to address a need in their community and develop a service plan to meet the need.

2. Evidence of Learning Intended Product or Outcome Students will submit a reflection of their experience. Any documents or materials created or used during the service learning (Letter from campaign, letter to Congressmen, photos from direct involvement)

3. Enduring Understanding Service Idea That students can make an impact on their community, through direct involvement and advocacy. Students can reach out and make an impact in other communities.

4. Essential Questions What Is Dignity? How can providing a service to a community outside your own help forge a larger community and bring cultures together?

5. Content Areas & Standards Addressed -English & Social Science (Common Core): SL.1.a-d SL.4a W.6 W.7 -Spanish (Foreign Language Framework) Stage III 3.0 & 3.1d

6. Stages of Service Learning Identify the day of activity, describe student activity, & describe assessment a. Investigation Students will research issues in the community that they experience during their art lesson.

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Preparation & Planning Students will work in the same groups from the art lesson (4 people) and develop a service learning plan to make a difference in one of their experienced communities.

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Action Students can get involved directly to meet a need in their community or can advocate for that community through a letter writing campaign or through writing their local congressmen. Students will have the choice to pursue a variety of issues and can follow any path to meet these needs. Reflection After enacting their service learning plan students will individually write a reflection describing what they learned about their adopted communities and how their service aided the community. Students will continue to compare and contrast communities, developing an understanding of how we are all the same, The Human Condition. Demonstration Students will create a presentation (Powerpoint, Prezi, etc) in their groups the show the class their service learning experience.

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f. Evaluation Students will be assessed primarily based on their reflection and presentation about their service learning. This will give us the opportunity to grade them individually (reflection) and as a group (presentation). Students will be assessed on how much they learned about their communities and by drawing comparisons to their own culture. Students will also be assessed informally on productive use of their in class time. 7. What graphic organizers will you create to guide student learning? We will create a graphic organizer that allows students to track their progress through the assignment. They can also organize their ideas in a box format; listing the issues, possible solutions, and how these solution reflect high learning and high service.