You are asked to undertake a Service Learning Project and to write a ten-entry report about your efforts. Any type of volunteer work is acceptable for this project, so long as it is serving the needs of the larger community in some way. Examples of places to volunteer would be homeless shelters, nursing homes, hospitals, Habitat for Humanity, the Boy and Girl Scouts, churches, mosques, temples, and so on.
Entry 1: Write an entry of 400 words minimum on why you chose your project. Discuss the life or work experiences that may have influenced your selection, including whether these experiences were positive or negative. Consider how issues of community, government or individual responsibility, leadership, productivity, problem solving, work ethic, and/or ambition might have affected your project selection. Most importantly, explain why your project is important to you, as well as to the larger community. Label this entry "Selection of the Service Learning Project."
Entry 2: Write an entry of 400 words minimum explaining how your project relates to two of the course objectives, Objective 12 and one or two others between 1 and 11 (do not choose objective 13). See the list of course objectives in the Introduction Above. Be sure to explain why you think these objectives are important. Label this entry "Service Learning Project Objective."
Note: The purpose of this entry is not to tell what you think the objective of your Service Learning Project was; rather, it is, as stated above, to relate your project to specified course objectives.
Entries 3-9: Narrate your experiences on the project each week for seven weeks-unless you combine entries, which is allowed, as long as they meet the minimum word count requirement.
Integrate brief references wherever possible to the six values studied in Week 1. Be sure to relate your project experiences briefly to specific ideas. Ideally, you will synthesize ideas from these readings in entries 3-7; however, you may also do so in entries 1, 2, and 8.
You may also briefly reference ideas from earlier weeks in the course, as well as up to four additional sources you have found in your own research.
A minimum of 500 words must be written each week.
Entries should simply be labeled with the appropriate entry number(s), for example, Entry 3, Entry 4, Entries 5-6, Entries 5-8, and so on.
Entry 10: For the concluding entry of 400 words, labeled "Conclusions," summarize your project, its relation to the course themes and readings, and your feelings about your project experiences.