Thursday, November 06, 2008
Social Entrepreneur Research Essay Assignment for English 201 Fall 2008 --Part 3
This research worksheet is a way to define what a social entrepreneur is compared to a philanthropist. We are looking at individuals who are continuing the social justice legacy of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, Martin King and the Civil Rights Movement.
The question you want to ask after you have identified a person or two:
1. What motivated this person to want to change something in society?
2. How did this person get the community's support for the project?
3. What did the community gain?
4. What did the social entrepreneur gain?
Your essay needs to answer all of these questions; you can structure it like a typical problem/solution essay or cause and effect.
The person has to be alive. Try to find someone local, who is living in the San Francisco Bay Area or in California. The person has to have been doing this work for 5-10 years. You need to locate 5-10 sources on your subject to form a bibliography; you don't have to cite 10 sources. The sources can be published or broadcast interviews, books, articles, and films or you can interview them yourself. The person cannot be a relative. You can work in groups and share data. In fact, I encourage it.
See a librarian at the reference desk to help you define your search and identify the SE you'd like to profile in your 4-5 page essay. Use the handouts or the links to handouts to document the research process and to pace yourself. We will have several related assignments, from evaluating websites to developing a research strategy to help you find the information you need and then document it.
I created this assignment after seeing the program: New Heroes on http://www.pbs.org/opb/thenewheroes/. I wanted students to realize the power they possess to be the change in their communities they want to see, that one person can make a difference.
Beginning next week, I will be showing a few episodes of the New Heroes series and we'll look at the Frontline World program for examples of Social Entrepreneurs.
Use the library worksheet to define the terms: social, society, entrepreneur, "social entrepreneur", philanthropist and philanthropy. Be clear about the difference between a philanthropist and a social entrepreneur. Also define: hero, local, selfless, selfish, community, help, support, supporter, care, independence, money, wealth.
Due dates
The planning sheet and 5-10 sources are due Monday, November 17 to share.
An outline is due: Wednesday, November 19.
An introduction and conclusion are due Monday, November 24.
The first draft is due Wednesday, November 26.
The final draft is due Wednesday, December 3 (1-3 PM) class, Thursday, December 4, (8-9 AM class). This draft needs to include a peer review and a meeting with me somewhere in the process to review the essay. Ask the tutor or writing center teacher comment on the five areas we consider when reviewing another’s work (Hacker handout) or specific questions you might have. We will meet in the L-202E.
You will post the essay, the planning sheet, and all the works cited and bibliography pages on the blog that day in class. You will also email the essay to me.
The question you want to ask after you have identified a person or two:
1. What motivated this person to want to change something in society?
2. How did this person get the community's support for the project?
3. What did the community gain?
4. What did the social entrepreneur gain?
Your essay needs to answer all of these questions; you can structure it like a typical problem/solution essay or cause and effect.
The person has to be alive. Try to find someone local, who is living in the San Francisco Bay Area or in California. The person has to have been doing this work for 5-10 years. You need to locate 5-10 sources on your subject to form a bibliography; you don't have to cite 10 sources. The sources can be published or broadcast interviews, books, articles, and films or you can interview them yourself. The person cannot be a relative. You can work in groups and share data. In fact, I encourage it.
See a librarian at the reference desk to help you define your search and identify the SE you'd like to profile in your 4-5 page essay. Use the handouts or the links to handouts to document the research process and to pace yourself. We will have several related assignments, from evaluating websites to developing a research strategy to help you find the information you need and then document it.
I created this assignment after seeing the program: New Heroes on http://www.pbs.org/opb/thenewheroes/. I wanted students to realize the power they possess to be the change in their communities they want to see, that one person can make a difference.
Beginning next week, I will be showing a few episodes of the New Heroes series and we'll look at the Frontline World program for examples of Social Entrepreneurs.
Use the library worksheet to define the terms: social, society, entrepreneur, "social entrepreneur", philanthropist and philanthropy. Be clear about the difference between a philanthropist and a social entrepreneur. Also define: hero, local, selfless, selfish, community, help, support, supporter, care, independence, money, wealth.
Due dates
The planning sheet and 5-10 sources are due Monday, November 17 to share.
An outline is due: Wednesday, November 19.
An introduction and conclusion are due Monday, November 24.
The first draft is due Wednesday, November 26.
The final draft is due Wednesday, December 3 (1-3 PM) class, Thursday, December 4, (8-9 AM class). This draft needs to include a peer review and a meeting with me somewhere in the process to review the essay. Ask the tutor or writing center teacher comment on the five areas we consider when reviewing another’s work (Hacker handout) or specific questions you might have. We will meet in the L-202E.
You will post the essay, the planning sheet, and all the works cited and bibliography pages on the blog that day in class. You will also email the essay to me.
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Introduction
Fighting for what you believe in is considered a threat to the government. Striving to fix your community of starving people, families being torn apart by drugs and guns, and equal justice for those who break the law because the “men in blue” won’t help, as soon as you take matters in your own hands and challenge the system then and only then the government steps in and try to take those people who are making a difference out!
Conclusion
Bobby Seale and the Black Panthers only wanted to be treated equal as the Caucasians where treated. The Black Panthers wanted justice, poverty to end, healthy programs for the black and brown communities. The Government did not want to help; they believe that blacks and browns were right where they need to be (at the bottom of the earth). Bobby Seale and the Black Panthers took matters into their own hands. Sad to say the Panthers were destroyed for what they believed in “Justice and Equality for all”. Even today if you rise up against the government you will be taken out. Nobody in High authority likes change unless it benefits them and the people around them.
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English 201 B
Introduction
Fighting for what you believe in is considered a threat to the government. Striving to fix your community of starving people, families being torn apart by drugs and guns, and equal justice for those who break the law because the “men in blue” won’t help, as soon as you take matters in your own hands and challenge the system then and only then the government steps in and try to take those people who are making a difference out!
Conclusion
Bobby Seale and the Black Panthers only wanted to be treated equal as the Caucasians where treated. The Black Panthers wanted justice, poverty to end, healthy programs for the black and brown communities. The Government did not want to help; they believe that blacks and browns were right where they need to be (at the bottom of the earth). Bobby Seale and the Black Panthers took matters into their own hands. Sad to say the Panthers were destroyed for what they believed in “Justice and Equality for all”. Even today if you rise up against the government you will be taken out. Nobody in High authority likes change unless it benefits them and the people around them.
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