First hour

Summary:

• The hospital will not allow large groups of visitors because of swine flu
scares and the cost of training everyone. Instead of this, we are going to
ask students if there is another group of people that they would like to read
to, and give them the option of skyping with Mr. Elate's class. They would
be able to read books to the class via skype or video camera based on a
theme that they choose. They could possibly team up with 6th hour, and
have the theme be about bullying.
• Another option would be for students to help organize the "moving literacy"
display piece. They can create short works of fiction to put on it, organize
the visual display, and maybe have a reading of their pieces while showing
off the display.

• I will bring in information about volunteering at hospitals for those who are
interested.

Connecting Service Learning and Literacy

Objectives:

To bridge the Literacy Arts class with our community through service
To use a hands-on, literacy centered approach in order to meet a direct
need in the community
To use literacy as a tool for service
To use service as a tool for strengthening literacy

Positive aspects of community

o Everybody knows everybody

 block party/look out for each other
 welcoming
o Understand each other
o Everybody has fun
Community needs

o Clean up
o Talk more/communication
 neighborhood watch
 build understanding/relate
o Financial help
 Housing
 Food
 Clothing
o Environment
o Organization
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o Seems like nobody cares/scared of each other
o Interests/Projects
o Clothes drive
o Food Aid
o Kids/find homes
o Interact with people/neighbors
o Neighborhood renovation
o Pick up trash
o Recycle paper
o Plant flowers
o Read to children
• PROJECT: COMMUNICATION/INTERACTION
• Discuss your journal entries. What was it like to be new? Stress the
interaction piece.
• Group 1 Nyador, Tashina, Joanne, Jenna, Anna
• Group 2 Karina, Erica, Star, Jazelle, Shanice, Joseph
• Group 3 Bree, Johna, Michael, Anadela, Vang, Leo
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• What can we do to improve interaction and communication at
Edison?
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• Bake sale/potluck food drive for a homeless shelter/Mary Jo’s
o Use the money to buy books for a homeless shelter
• Clothes drive for homeless shelter
• Hospital work/read books/candy stripers
• Work with the elderly/alzheimers
o Pen-pals
o Literacy Arts pen-pals
o Get together-fun day
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 • Read to little kids
• Help the librarian
o Get to know people that we don’t know instead of staying with the
same clique
• Greeting people-new students/anyone
• Helping other people that need help w/anything they need help with
• Get to know you campaign
• Book drive

New student kit

• Organize an after school community literacy tutoring

• PLANNING
o WHAT: Creating better communication and interactions through
volunteering at a hospital. Reading to children or elderly. Writing
letters to children or elderly.
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o WHO: Pregnant teens, people in comas, children (5+)

Hospital Administrators

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o WHEN

o WHERE
 St. Josephs
 North Memorial
 HCMC

o HOW
 Divide into groups based on interest (young/elderly)
  Contact hospitals

o QUESTIONS
 Do hospitals have daycares?
 What do hospitals need?
 Can we work with one person over time? Bring gifts?
 What type of hospital are we going to?
 What books will we read?
 Is there a hospital close to Edison?
 What about on-line books?
 Do the kids have access to computers?
 Transportation?

2nd hour

Summary:

• Starting next quarter, this class will create new student kits for students
that come to Edison.
• New students already recieve Edison folders, pens, and bookmarks, as well
as information about clubs, policies, and teachers names/room numbers.
Students in this class can write a letter to new students to include in the
packet that talks a little bit about the climate of Edison, what students like
about Edison, who they are, etc... We can also think of more helpful
supplies to include in the packet. Pamela suggested a map of the school, a
page about the history of Edison, a list of winter sporting events, and a map
of where buses pick students up - if we do this, Pamela would like it ready
for the Nov. 17 Edison showcase.
Connecting Service Learning and Literacy
Objectives:

To bridge the Literacy Arts class with our community through service
To use a hands-on, literacy centered approach in order to meet a direct
need in the community
To use literacy as a tool for service
To use service as a tool for strengthening literacy
Community

o Refugees come together to solve problems

o Get to know people
o Seeing people walking on the street
o Neighborhood
o People that get together to share ideas and help
o Something in common-neighborhood, school, classroom, family,
religion-how you define yourself, your identity
o Meeting different people from different cultures
o

o Positive community aspects

o Figure out problem and helping with a solution
o Quiet
o Neighborhood watch
o No bullying
o Quick to help
o Responding to each others needs
o Build understanding through positive language
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• Community needs
o Boring-more interaction
 Parks
o Don’t help when needed
o Bring people together
 Too much fighting
o Communication
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• Project ideas/responding to need
o Events
 o Writing
o National night out
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• PROJECT: COMMUNICATION/INTERACTION
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• Discuss your journal entries. What was it like to be new? Stress the
interaction piece.
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• What can we do to improve interaction and communication at Edison
or in the community? Please consider how your project would use or
promote literacy.
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• Make posters for Edison.
o Huge-make a change
• Talk to new people
o Get together/social
• Read with people who don’t know how to read/or who don’t like to read
o Song lyrics
o Children
• Teach people how to play guitar/soccer
• Get to know you campaign
• Literacy Arts pen-pals
o Other schools
o Elderly
o Other countries
• Book drive
• Organize an after school community literacy tutoring
•

• New student welcome kit

• WHAT: Creating better communication and interactions by creating a
welcome kit for new students.
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• WHO: Who shows new students around Edison? (Student Ambassadors)
Can we team up with student Ambassadors?
• Principal
• Who will make the kits?
• Who will give ideas for the kits?
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• HOW:
• What materials do we need?
o Pencils
 o Notebooks
o Markers
o Basket
o Planner
o VIP lunch pass
o Lockers? Accessories?
• Ask for student donations.
• How will we get the supplies? Ask for donations?
• What supplies do we need?
• How do we reach new students? Deans? Counselors?
• What will we put the kits in?
• Tour of the building. (Student Ambassadors)
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• WHEN:
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• WHERE:
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• QUESTIONS:
o Do we want to include 9 graders?
th

o Who do we need to talk to make this project happen?

o Should the welcome kit include a letter to the new students?
o Who will provide the supplies?
o What will be in the kit?
o How about a get out of detention free card?

4th hour
Summary: No overall project was agreed upon, so we will wait until somebody decides
they want to do a project, or until next semester and try again.

• Connecting Service Learning and Literacy

• Objectives:
• Community
• To bridge the Literacy Arts class with our community through service
To use a hands-on, literacy centered approach in order to meet a
direct need in the community
To use literacy as a tool for service
To use service as a tool for strengthening literacy
o School
o Anything you identify with
o Similar ideas/needs
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• Like about your community/positive
o The parks
o Neighbors
o Friends
o Family
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• What needs to be improved
o Paint the walls
o Pick up trash
o More parks/sports
o Fix the streets/sidewalks
o Clean the hallways
o Clean the gym
o Shovel snow
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o Bigger lockers
o Lunchroom-change the food
o Cooking classes
o New computers
o Freedom to go outside for lunch for all students
o Transportation to school
o More design/clothes classes
o Better water

o New houses
o More stop signs
 o More affordable daycare
o Warm bus shelters

o More teams
o More indoor activities/sports
o Build more high school indoor football stadiums
o More high schools in our conference to play more games
o More soccer fields

o More books
o Read to children
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• PROJECTS
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• Clean the hallways of the school
• Clean the gym-sweep
• Pick up trash outside
• Paint the lockers
• Air freshener in lockers
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• Paint the walls-change image of class or halls-Whitney’s office
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• Write the district about electives/food
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• Read to special needs students
• Play sports w/special needs students
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• PLANNING
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• A. MEDIA CENTER SUPPORT: CLEAN SHELVES/EDISON WEBSITE
IDEAS-4
• B. JOIN AN ORGANIZTION FOR A CLEAN-UP PROJECT-1
• C. DESIGN OUR OWN PROJECT
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• WHO:
• WHAT:
• WHEN:
 • WHERE:
• HOW:
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o Build a house/hang-out to talk about community building ideas
o Fundraise—weekends
o Pick up your own trash
o Pick up trash around school
o Talk to someone about making more/different classes
o Talk to the principal about letting students go out
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• PROJECT: COMMUNICATION/INTERACTION
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• Get to know you campaign
• Literacy Arts pen-pals
• Book drive
• New student kit
• Organize an after school community literacy tutoring
•

6th hour
Summary: Students will create an anti-bullying poster campaign, and present it to a class at
NE middle school and/or Marcy Open school. This Wednesday, 11/4, Jen will come in and
work with students to create advertisements.

• Connecting Service Learning and Literacy

• Objectives:
• • To bridge the Literacy Arts class with our community through
service
• • To use a hands-on, literacy centered approach in order to meet
a direct need in the community
•
• • To use literacy as a tool for service
• • To use service as a tool for strengthening literacy
•
• Community service
Hands-on

Responds to a need

Positive aspects of community

o Clean
o Train nearby
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• Community problems
o Bullying by teens
 Jealousy/picking on someone smaller/being funny
o Electronics
o No planner passes
o Afghanistan
 Lack of security/violence
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• Project ideas
o Give out food
o Pick up trash
o Awareness/letter writing
o Sticking up for someone being bullied
 May do it less
 Anger management for bullies
 Restorative justice

Reading/Writing as tools

 Mural with quotes/design posters/photographs

For other schools/neighborhood parks

Bright/neon

Fun looking with a good message

• Discuss your journal entries. What was it like to be new? Stress the
interaction piece.
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 • What can we do to improve interaction and communication at Edison or in
the community? Please consider how your project would use or promote
literacy.

• PROJECT: BEAUTIFICATION/INTERACTION/ENVIRONMENT
• Help children/adults read
• Bullying-how to stand up for yourself
• Murals
o Recycled poetry
o Design a school-wide survey about a theme
o Media center posters
o Organize an after school community literacy tutoring/poster making

Rearranging media center books

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o THEMES

Motivational

Inspiring

Possibly by graduating class

Bullying

Teach kids how to stand up for themselves

Give kids confidence

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• PLANNING
o Who
 For younger students
• Sheridan/Marcy
o When
 ASAP
o How
 Write poems
 in the voice of the person being bullied
7th hour
Summary:

• Students will create a positive message/motivational poster campaign.They will

distribute the posters, bookmarks, etc... at a library downtown, and possibly other
schools and community centers.

• The library by Edison is closed, but I have a meeting with a library on Nicollett this
Tuesday 10/10 to discuss distributing materials at the library.

• Jen will come in this Wednesday 10/4 to talk to students about advertising and
slogan design.

• Connecting Service Learning and Literacy

• Objectives:
• To bridge the Literacy Arts class with our community through
service
To use a hands-on, literacy centered approach in order to meet
a direct need in the community
To use literacy as a tool for service
To use service as a tool for strengthening literacy
•
• Community Service
o Hands-on
o Based on a need
•
• Connect our classroom to the larger community
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• Positive community aspects
o Every day is a new day
o Friendly
o Clean
o Lower crime rate
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• Community improvements
o Police
o Litter
o More funding for public safety
 o More jobs
o Less violence
 In school
 Police
 Gangs
o Stop treating students like kids
o Use cell phones during lunch
o Stricter teachers
o Uniforms
o Privacy
o Less judgemental
o New paint/tiles-school colors
o Cleaner bathrooms
o Makeover
o Better food
o Improve roads/sidewalks
o Fix up abandoned houses
o Clean-up train graffiti
o Books!
o Clean-up parks
o Metal detectors
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• Community projects
o Paint the basement walls at Edison
o Cell-phones:
o Clean the park-write a paper
o School colors
o Personal safety training
o Study hall
o Bathrooms: letter writing campaign
o Food drive for homeless/ orphanage
o Decorate classrooms/beautification day
o Fix abandoned homes
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• PROJECT: BEAUTIFICATION
•
• Discuss your journal entries. Describe a surrounding/place that makes
you feel really good/comfortable. Describe that place. What makes it
special? Who is in that space?
o Being with family
o Being with friends that are like family
o Ecuador
o Friend’s house-feel like I can talk about anything
 o Privacy and quiet places
o Friends/house parties
o Nature

PROJECT IDEAS

• What can we do to improve the atmosphere/beauty/beingathomelikeness at

Edison or in the community? Please consider how your project would use or
promote literacy.
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• 2. DESIGN SLOGANS W/POSITIVE MESSAGES
o Community
o Inspirational
• Graffiti murals
o Slogans/No Fear/School name

Make ads for fire trucks/buses

o Murals
o Recycled poetry
o Media center posters
o T-Shirts
o Post cards
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• PLANNING
• WHO?
• WHEN?
• WHERE?
• WHY?
• HOW?
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• SLOGANS
• Make it happen
• Reach for the impossible
• C is for community, C is for cool
• Listen and live
• Be safe but be free
• Life is bumpy road
• School

Get involved
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• You want “money”
• You want a bad swagg
• Get yourself to class
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• He say,
• She say
• For what?
• Non-violence
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• Being lazy
• Makes you crazy
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• Fly out of your cage