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3. Create a Calendar of steps/activities to fulfill your Service Project. Give specific dates and list what will happen when,etc. List the materials you will need for each activity on the calendar, as well.

4. Presentation Statement - Write 2-3 paragraphs describing how you will present your Service Project to your communityafter it is completed. Will you give a talk at your local teaching/learning center? Will you create a mural in your town? Will you create a WebQuest thatis available for the world to see on the Internet? Will you fly Giant Peace Doves through the town? Will you take pictures and write an aricle for amagazine about your student's construction of an Earthship? What will you do to publically present your project to your community?

5. Partner with a real, mythic, historic, or imagined muse . (We define a muse as a guiding spirit or a source of inspiration in your life.)

Choose, invoke, ask for the help of any historic, mythic contemporary figure, or totem to inspire you in your ServiceProject. Write 2-3 paragraphs as to why you chose this figure to guide you - how are they a source of inspiration for you in this project? If you are doing aproject involving Education through the Arts, for example, you might think about an artist from the past or one who is living, or you might think about agoddess or muse who is the patron of the arts. If you are doing an Environmental Education project, you might think of someone like JaneGoodall or the Earth as sources of inspiration. Create a simple ritual or practice that connects you to this source of inspiration. Describe thatritual or practice in 2-3 paragraphs.

Assignment 11: approving and doing

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Assignment 11: Approving and Doing

Step 2 - Approving

  • Field Advisor Approval - Share your writing from 2-5 on the previous page with your Field Advisor and make anyrevisions as needed.
  • Mentor Approval - Give a final copy of the following to your mentor:
    • Letter of Intent
    • Calendar
    • Presentation Statement
    • Partner with a Muse

When your mentor says you're "Ready," begin implementing your Service Project.

Step 3 - Doing

Do what you said you would do as outlined in your Letter of Intent and your Calendar. If activities need to be added or deleted to thecalendar as the project progresses, talk to your Field Advisor and mentor for approval. Keep the original calendar and also show the new calendar witha 1-2 paragraph written description of why you needed to make those changes to the calendar, if you make changes.

Be sure to read the Tracking section that follows before you start your project; that way you'll be creating your Observation Journal and Sparks Journals as your project progresses.

Assignment 12: tracking

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Source:  OpenStax, Course 5: educating for civil societies. OpenStax CNX. Mar 08, 2006 Download for free at http://cnx.org/content/col10335/1.10
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