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Projects
Throughout the term, individual and group projects will be assigned. Projects are 15% of the final grade. They will be graded on research, creativity, cohesiveness, grammar/spelling, and presentation.
Project #1: Students will work in pairs to create a project surrounding a social justice issue. It may or may not be in the form of a paper. Students are encouraged to be creative. However, regardless of the project format, each project must be accompanied by a 2-4 typewritten pages that thoroughly explain the project and answer the following questions:
What is social justice?
Why should Christins care about social justice?
Why is this topic an important social justice issue?
What does the Bible say about this issue or subject?
What can Christians do to combat or help this situation?
Students may choose for the following topics and/or discuss with the teacher an acceptable alternative topic:
Afghan Women's Rights
Ageism
Child Labor
Darfur/Sudan
Domestic Violence
Human Trafficking
Jena 6
Racial Profiling
Sexual Harassment
Street Children
By Oct 1 all groups will submit an initial concept for their project and outline of their paper, including full bibliographic documentation of five sources that the teacher can review, apart from websites, and this course’s textbooks [25%]
By the Oct 15 all groups will submit the first page of the paper including introduction and initial development of the body of the paper [25%]
Completed project and paper with full bibliography submitted by Oct 29 [25%]
Groups will be scheduled to present their projects to the class at various intervals throughout the month of November [25%] |
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