Monday, October 29, 2007

Research Tools

Visit http://alameda.peralta.edu/projects/20013/EnglishSabirpathfinder.doc

http://alameda.peralta.edu/projects/20013/EvalWebWksht.doc for the assignment: Evaluating a web page.

Other resources
http://alameda.peralta.edu/Projects/20013/researchsteps.pdf

http://alameda.peralta.edu/projects/20013/researchquestion.ppt#256,1

Social Entrepreneur Essay Assignment
Handout: The Social Entrepreneur Essay research worksheet is a way to define what a social entrepreneur is compared to a philanthropist.

See a librarian at the reference desk to help you define your search and identify the SE you'd like to profile in your 5-10 page essay.

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.

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.

The question you want to ask after you have identified a person or two:
What motivated this person to want to change something in society? How did this person get the community's support for the project? What did the community gain? What did the social entrepreneur gain?

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 10-20 years. You need to locate 6-10 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.

Due dates
The planning sheet and 5-10 sources are due Wednesday, November 7 or Thursday, November 8 to share.

An introduction and conclusion to the essay are due: Monday, November 12.

The first draft of the essay is due: Wednesday, November 19 or Thursday, November 20.

The final draft is due Tuesday, November 27 or Wednesday, November 28. Put the essay, the planning sheet, and all the works cited and bibliography pages on a disk. You can use the same disk the midterm was on.

5 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I watched the video on the Cinta Larga Indian Tribe in Brazil. The tribe lives on land that spans several acres. This land has been designated for them (a reservation), where they have their own laws that govern the land. However in the late 1990 they discovered that the land sits on one of the largest diamond mines in the country. The government now wants to determine if the mine should be governed by them. Basically what they are saying is the land that the Indians live on does not cover what is under ground. They have had many counties that have come in and starting mining illegally, which ultimately is causing several diamonds to be sold on the black market. The Indians means of support is mining; However, due to the illegal mining there was a massacre of over 100 people that the tribesmens have been accused of doing. The mine has been closed down until the government can determine a peaceful and legal way of dealing with the situation. I don’t think that this video really falls under the category of a social entrepreneur. The journalist did bring this story to light for people that weren’t aware of the situation. I believe that the diamond mind belongs to the Indians. The government always seems to want to get involved where the shouldnt especiallty when there are large sums of money involved for profit.

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