Community+Service+Learning

DEFINITION OF A CITIZEN: DEFINITION OF ACTIVE CITIZENSHIP:

11/15/10 DO NOW-

Problem in my Community- Not Recyling

I can help by putting signs up that promote recyling and explain the positive effects of recycling. Also, I can also make sure that I recycle plastic, paper and other materials ever day. This would help because then I would be helping the environment and maybe others would be influenced to do the same. I can also tell others about recycling and tell them to recycle too.

Lobbyist- A lobbyist is someone to interacts and influences the government or congress to consider his or her ideas and make them happen.

12/15/10

Some of the issues that we should consider working on are- 1) Recycling- We have to get more people to recycle and we have to start recycling ourselves too. 2) Lunches- The High school needs to have more variety and more food for the people buying lunch in fourth lunch. 3) Grades 4)Use of resources 5) Variety of lunch in MS schools 6) Equality of people. 7) Enviro Clean 8) Bullying 9)Littering 10) Teen Pregnancy 11) Paying for Trash 12) Early Release Schedule 13)paper shortages

//__**Recycling**__// Recycling is a very important issue. Recycling helps reduce energy usage, pollution, reduces the consumption of raw materials, and does many more things that help out our environment. We need to get more people to recycle, and we have to recycle ourselves because we have a responsibility to take care of our environment, since we're the ones living in it. If we don't take care of our environment then we will suffer. Recycling is an excellent way to help take care of our environment, and the world around us. It's more important than bullying, because when people doen't recycle they're hurting and the environment. Recycling would help our environment in so many ways, and would definitely have a positive impact on every single one of our lives. Not Recycling is basically bullying the environment, which is not the way to go. Handling issues about recycling would be better than handling issues about bullying because everyone will benefit in the long run, when our environment gets less polluted and cleaner to live in. Recyling is the first step we have to take to make sure that our children, and their children, and generatioons to come have the oppurtunity to live in a clean, safe, and healthy environment, which results in a happy long life for everyone.

//__**Bullying-**__// -the city of malden has laws about bullying -even though there are laws, bullying still occurs -bullying affects everyone and can cause people to commit suicide -bullying affects everyone physically and mentally and emotionally

CCQ- Bullying affects people mentally, emotionally, and physically, so it's important to stop bullying.

First, everyone in the class spoke and said what an important issue we should discuss was. Each issue was written on the board, and we all voted for one of the issues. Bullying and Recycling were the top two, and so then one person in each partner group was assigned one of the issues. We all had to represent each issue and talk about how the issue you were representing was more important, and we were also persuading others to vote for your issue too. Then, we had a Q&A session where we asked questions about each others arguments. When this was over, we all voted again for either Bullying or Recycling. I think that this was a really fun thing to take part in. We all had a voice, and it was a bit like a democracy because everyone got to represent an issue, everyone stated an issue they thought was important, and everyone had the chance to vote for which issue they thought was important. Everyone took part in this, and it was a really fun experience, and I enjoyed it.
 * //__Summary/Reflection-__//**

Do Now # 2- Look up how to get a recycling bin and explain

Outcome: We should all figure out a way to make sure that our school is recycling and make sure that most of the people living in Malden are recycling too. Matt's Outcome:

Recycling Notes:
 * two types on recycling operations- internal and external recycling
 * Internal recycling: materials that are reclaimed from used materials.