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HOMELESSNESS: What does it mean to be homeless?
Essential question: “What leads to homelessness and what can we do about it?”School: Grover Washington Jr. Middle School, Philadelphia, PA
Year of project: 2003-2004
Can eighth grade students find jobs for formerly homeless men? They can try. That’s what students in Jennifer Parker’s special education class did for the culmination of their yearlong project on homelessnes ... Read Full Project
LITERACY: What can we do to improve literacy?
Grades: 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 • Curriculum: Reading, Speaking & Listening, The Arts and Writing
School: Grover Washington Jr. Middle School, Philadelphia, PA
Year of project: 2005-2006
Ms. General's students returned to school wanting to focus their service-learning project on Hurricane Katrina. The catastrophe dominated the news in the last weeks of summer, and the students were eager to do something to he ... Read Full Project
GUN VIOLENCE: What is lost when young people die?
Grades: 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 • Curriculum: Reading, Social Studies, Speaking & Listening, Using Technology & Media and Writing
School: Grover Washington Jr. Middle School, Philadelphia, PA
Year of project: 2004-2005
After realizing just how many young Philadelphians have been killed by gunfire in the past year, Mike Galbraith’s 8th grade class decided to focus their service-learning project on the issue of gun violence.
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