1. Choose a current event or issue.
2. Research the issue.
You will need at least
two newspaper articles
one magazine article
you may choose to include Internet search items, interviews, newsletters, etc. but you are required to have copies of your research.
3. You will need to write a 3 page paper.
Double Spaced
It should have a standard sized font (Lucida, Garamond, Times, Chicago, Trebuchet, etc.) No "fancy" or handwritten fonts except for as titles.
Type your name on the paper.
4. Your paper will explain the issue in at least 1 paragraph.
You could use other paragraphs to explain what is being done by other people, or what should be done about the issue.
You should have a conclusion that outlines what YOU intend to do about the issue. What can you, as one person, do about the issue? How do you make a difference? How can you have power as just one person?
5. Your paper will be due the day before Thanksgiving.
6. Your project will be due, and you will talk about what the issue is and what you did to make a difference, after Christmas break, January 5th or January 6th.
7. This fulfills several elements of the English core curricula: speaking, listening, research, evaluation and analysis, and inquiry. I hope you choose something that is fun that gives you a sense of "warm fuzzy" from making a difference.
Welcome to the planet
Welcome to existence
Everyone's here
Everyone's here
Everybody's watching you now
Everybody waits for you now
What happens next?
What happens next?
I dare you to move
I dare you to move
I dare you to lift yourself up off the floor
I dare you to move
I dare you to move
Like today never happened
Today never happened before
Welcome to the fallout
Welcome to resistance
The tension is here
The tension is here
Between who you are and who you could be
Between how it is and how it should be
I dare you to move
I dare you to move
I dare you to lift yourself up off the floor
I dare you to move
I dare you to move
Like today never happened
Today never happened
Maybe redemption has stories to tell
Maybe forgiveness is right where you fell
Where can you run to escape from yourself?
Where you gonna go?
Where you gonna go?
Salvation is here...
