Research Page Overview
This page is meant to feature an NPO that is working to make your country a better place.
There are four tasks to this section of the project: Country Overview, NPO Research, Cause and Effect Essay, and PSA/Persuasive Anyalysis. Read below for detailed directons.
1. Country Overview - Students should research their country carefully and provide some basic background information (with images) about the problems and issues facing that country today. Is education a problem? Does everyone have access to water and electricity? How about the environment? The CIA World Factbook website will help get you started. It provides some basic facts on every country in the world. More research will need to be done.
2. Expert Interview - The group will conduct an on-line interview with a volunteer from their chosen country using Peace Corps Correspondence. The group must record the interview and provide a transcipt. An interview worksheet must be completed.
3. NGO Research - Using the most respected charity ranking web site (CharityNavigator.org), students will select one reputable NGO that is doing work in their chosen country. Students will complete a Research Worksheet explaining the process they took to arrive at their NGO of choice. This sheet will serve as the research part of this project. You may access this worksheet from the link below. Students should save this document to their computer and type their answers. When they are done, they will attach this worksheet to their Research web page.
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4. Cause and Effect Essay - Once an NGO is chosen, students will write a cause and effect essay discussing the results (effects) of their NGO’s programs and projects (causes). This essay will be done on Google.docs. Everyone must contribute to it. The same collaborative assessment applied to the literary analysis essay will be applied to the cause and effect essay. Once finished, students should attach the essay to the Research web page.
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5. PSA/Persuasive Analysis - Finally, students will create a 60 second PSA for their NPO. They must consider audience, purpose, and rhetorical techniqes when creating this commercial. Students will use a worksheet to evaluate and analyze their use of the persuasive techniques that they learned this year. Students may access this worksheet below. The rubric for the PSA is below (Note: the PSA rubric is the second one). Also below is a sample commercial to view and get ideas from. It was made by college students in Canada about an NGO in Liberia. Students should attach their PSA and the analysis to the Research web page.
Be sure to check the Web Site Rubric on the Project overview Page to see how you will be graded on this page.
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