English English Homework
The Final Project
Music, lights, action! This is it! You can do it! You are amazing!
Re-read the assignment sheet
Circle and underline items that you don’t remember from your first reading.
Brainstorming ideas
Look to google
Look to Indiegogo or kickstarter (crowdsourcing sites)
Talk to your peers
Brainstorming
Make lists
Think about topics
Think about Your passions
Think about communities
What is your project’s purpose?
Raise awareness
Call to action
Provide information
Provide a solution
What are your project’s specific goals?
I want to raise five thousand dollars to provide art supplies and art instruction to the local senior living facility.
I want to provide a weekend day-camp for children from lower-income-housing to practice (basketball, dance, soccer, softball etc.)
I want to take a team of students from a juvenile detention half-way house on a service-learning field-trip to collect trash along the Mississippi river.
I want to teach poetry writing to lower-income children on a Saturday afternoon in Chanhassen park.
Research design
What kinds of things do you need to research to justify your project?
Primary research
Observation
Survey
interview/s
methods
Explain the structure of your project
significance
Why is your project important?
why is your project of value?
Go get ‘em tigers!
See past the finish line