My+Community+Service+Project

Helped plan on documentary. We came up with how the budget cut effects MHS, and how students and teachers feel about the budget. David, Wesley, and I made questions together. Sarah, Jordi, Jean, Cara, and I made a list of questions for the teachers. David and I helped each other make the story board. David, Wesley, and I interviewed Mr. Taveres. Stayed after school to view documentary. Helped plan the introduction of documentary and decide which interview/part is important and has to be kept in the documentary. .
 * 1) Evidence of YOUR work on the Project: should include EVERYthing you have Personally worked on to complete the project**


 * 2) One Reflections - Journal Style**

Write 1 Journal entries that reflect on the work you have done on the project. It can talk about something that was frustrating, inspiring, something you learned, an idea that you have that you want to incorporate into the project, your opinion on how the work is going, etc.

I have many comments about the generation citizen project. I think that some parts of the project is easy and some hard and frustrating. The part that was easy was the research part since you just need to type it in on the internet and what you want will pop up. The part that was hard was the video part. The video takes a lot of time and sometimes the people we need to interview have a busy schedule so booking them for the interview is difficult. During the whole project I learned how a budget works and how our school deals with the budget. I think our video for our project should incorporate some funny parts so it wouldn’t seem so serious. Other than that, I think our project is going very well. Our project was difficult to do but we finished.

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 * 4) FINAL REFLECTION - Essay Style**

Our generation citizen project has some good parts and some bad parts. Let me first tell you what our project is. Our project is about budgets. We learned how a budget works and how our school handles a budget. Our project uses a video to try to lobby people that you shouldn’t cut any teachers/classes form Malden High. Our video consist of Mr. Iovino, Judi Allen, our principal, Mr. Brown, our house principal, **Ms.Kilbansky, and some teachers. Let me tell you about the good parts of our project.**

** Our project has many good parts. Using a video to show the condition of our school was a great idea and it was easy to do. Everybody helped with the project making it kind of easy to do. The project was a good idea since no else has done it. While doing the project, we kind of had some fun doing it like working with people to do something. Even if our project wasn’t the best, we still had fun doing it. Some parts of the project were easy too. I like the researching part because it was easy and important to the project because we can’t tell people false information. I find that some parts of the project were bad. **

** Parts of our project were difficult and bad. I find that doing the interviews were hard because they had to be done at certain times thanks to their busy schedules. The part that was difficult was viewing the interviews we had and cutting it down to about ten minutes. I think that that was hard because we can only use certain parts of the video and we have to stay on topic. What I find was bad is the lack of students attending the viewing of the video. With less people means less opinion meaning that there would be a less variety of opinions on the video. I also think that our project is bad since we had little time to do such a difficult project. I think that most of the students knew this so the loss interest in the project. Our project is mostly difficult than easy. **

** I think our project, overall was hard. I find that our idea of the project was creative but it is really hard. Most of the students find that it is too difficult to do in such little time so they lose interest. This project was also hard because most of the students don’t know how a budget works even after all we did so it is hard to understand. I think that if we stayed after school for the project, we could have finished it and our project would be in better quality. The project will help our community so I feel that it was worth all the work. The project was kind of inconvenient because it interrupted with our learning of history. I think that this caused our class to become behind of others because of all the class time we wasted. Even though the project was hard, I find that it is of importance to have done it. **