This is the checklist I will use to determine if you completed all the proper pre-approvals. Please double check for accuracy.
1st period Checklist
HONORS CITIZENSHIP PROJECT
Citizenship Project Assignments and Forms
MAKE A COPY of the forms so you can type on the forms. You DO NOT need to REQUEST ACCESS. Share the pre-approval form with me on Google Drive. We will go over how to do this together as a class.
The honors project will count 25% of your 2nd grading period.
Late projects will incur a 50% deduction. Projects must be submitted at the beginning of your class period.
UPCOMING COMMUNITY MEETINGS
One of the responsibilities of a citizen is to become informed about issues that affect one's community. A list of upcoming meetings follows below. Some of these meetings require RSVPs. Always check before attending to make sure the meeting dates/times/places have not changed. For honors students, you may attend one of these meetings and complete the meeting form to receive credit towards your Citizenship Project. If you become aware of other meetings that would be appropriate for our class, please let me know. Click here for tips when attending a government meeting.
Charlotte City Council meetings are regularly scheduled for Mondays and are held in the Meeting Chamber at the Charlotte Mecklenburg Government Center, 600 E. Fourth Street. Free parking is available at the Government Center Parking Deck (3rd and Davidson) during City Council meetings.
CMS Board of Education meetings are usually held on the second and fourth Tuesdays at 6 p.m. Meetings are held at the Government Center (600 East Fourth Street)
Matthews Town Council meetings are held the second and fourth Mondays of every month at 7 p.m. at Town Hall, 232
Mecklenburg County Board of County Commissioners- Regular Meetings held monthly every first and third Tuesday at 6 p.m. in the Meeting Chamber of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Government Center located at 600 East Fourth Street.
VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES
One of the responsibilities of a citizen is to give back to the community through volunteering. Below is a list of approved volunteer opportunities in addition to the ones presented in your information sheet. For honors students, you may use these opportunities and complete the appropriate forms to fulfill the service requirement for your citizenship project.
Community Service Thursday- a monthly community service program at the Matthews Branch Library this fall. Teens can come and volunteer for an hour of credit. The program is called Community Service Thursday. We will be doing various service projects for organizations in the community. sign up online at cmlibrary.org or by phone 704-416-5000.
SCHOLARSHIP AND ESSAY CONTESTS
Essay contests offer excellent opportunities to gain writing experience. They also hold the possibility for earning money towards your education! Honors students may submit an entry for any of these contests to earn one point towards their Citizenship Project. To receive credit, you must turn in a copy of your entry with your project, as well as submit the entry for consideration in the contest by the deadline given. You must submit proof that your entry has been submitted, either in the form of a screen shot of the final submission via email, or by a note signed by a parent/guardian that the entry has been submitted via post.
APPLY TO BE A PAGE FOR THE NC HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
This program offers young men and women the opportunity to learn about and participate in the legislative process of our state. It is a 4 day long experience that allows high school students between the ages of 15 and 18 (or 14 if already in the 9th grade), to observe firsthand how our laws are made. It provides them the unique privilege of working on the House Chamber floor in the midst of legislative action.
House Pages are important to the operation of the General Assembly as they assist the members and staff of the House during the legislative session. They participate in daily sessions, committee meetings, and perform other duties including, but not limited to, delivering messages and materials within the legislative complex, answering phones in Representatives’ offices, and passing out documents or running errands in the House Chamber during daily sessions.
The selection process for this program is highly competitive. Official appointments are made by the Speaker of the House based on recommendations by individual Representatives. Each Representative is allotted a number of students he or she can “sponsor” each session. Students submit their application to their Representative who selects the individuals to be appointed by the Speaker. Appointments are made on a first-come, first-served basis.
Click here for more information.
The written application is fairly simple, but to be considered, you must be "sponsored" by your representative. You may count your contact with your representative as Citizenship Project credit under the "Write a Letter" option. I would recommend an email AND a phone contact if you are serious about applying as a position as a page. This would be an incredible opportunity that would look impressive on a college application.
After many years of grading citizenship projects, I have compiled a list of the most common students mistakes resulting in deductions. Click here to read pointers on how to avoid some of the most common mistakes on the Citizenship Project. I promise that if you read these carefully, you can prevent most, if not all deductions from your project.
PEER REVIEW DAY
Tips to remember while performing peer editing:
~~should be: kind, specific and helpful
~~you are helping to improve their work, you are not here to evaluate it
~~should not see good, bad, idk--your judgements and emojis should not be seen anywhere in your comments
Task 1:
Watch Austin's Butterfly to help you with the peer editing process
Task 2:
Find your group members (all 5s find the other 3 people with cards of the same #). Your card dictates your role during the class period and no switching is allowed.
CLUBS: spelling and grammar- Check here for grammar tips/suggestions. Purdue Online Writing Lab
HEARTS: suggestions and examples for improvement/grader (If you were to grade this task using the rubric, what would it score?)
SPADES: pointers (Did they follow all of the suggestions for how to avoid common mistakes?)
DIAMONDS: instructions/facilitator(Did they follow all of the instructions for that task? Did they complete all the parts of the task and/or answer all of the required questions?) Keep everyone on task and make sure everything gets finished (including the Google Form evaluation)
*On each task that is edited today, each team member must write their name and their designated suit.
*Each person should write in a different color pen/pencil (blue, black, purple, green, etc. Please don't use red.)
Task 3:
Complete the evaluation assessing today's activity. This is due by midnight tonight (November 18). Please remember to be honest in your evaluation of the process and your group members, this information will not be shared with anyone else.
If your final project grade was lower than a 79%, and you would like to resubmit your project for a reassessment grade (maximum of 79%), please follow these instructions:
To earn points lost due to convention errors, you must:
Complete the following remediation practice for the where you demonstrated the greatest weakness.
capitalization practice
subject/verb agreement practice
run-on sentence practice
To earn points lost due to task errors, you must:
Make the appropriate edits to your task. Tasks that have not been appropriately edited will not be considered for reassessment. Attach your original submission and your scoring rubric.
1st period Checklist
HONORS CITIZENSHIP PROJECT
Citizenship Project Assignments and Forms
MAKE A COPY of the forms so you can type on the forms. You DO NOT need to REQUEST ACCESS. Share the pre-approval form with me on Google Drive. We will go over how to do this together as a class.
The honors project will count 25% of your 2nd grading period.
Late projects will incur a 50% deduction. Projects must be submitted at the beginning of your class period.
UPCOMING COMMUNITY MEETINGS
One of the responsibilities of a citizen is to become informed about issues that affect one's community. A list of upcoming meetings follows below. Some of these meetings require RSVPs. Always check before attending to make sure the meeting dates/times/places have not changed. For honors students, you may attend one of these meetings and complete the meeting form to receive credit towards your Citizenship Project. If you become aware of other meetings that would be appropriate for our class, please let me know. Click here for tips when attending a government meeting.
Charlotte City Council meetings are regularly scheduled for Mondays and are held in the Meeting Chamber at the Charlotte Mecklenburg Government Center, 600 E. Fourth Street. Free parking is available at the Government Center Parking Deck (3rd and Davidson) during City Council meetings.
CMS Board of Education meetings are usually held on the second and fourth Tuesdays at 6 p.m. Meetings are held at the Government Center (600 East Fourth Street)
Matthews Town Council meetings are held the second and fourth Mondays of every month at 7 p.m. at Town Hall, 232
Mecklenburg County Board of County Commissioners- Regular Meetings held monthly every first and third Tuesday at 6 p.m. in the Meeting Chamber of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Government Center located at 600 East Fourth Street.
VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES
One of the responsibilities of a citizen is to give back to the community through volunteering. Below is a list of approved volunteer opportunities in addition to the ones presented in your information sheet. For honors students, you may use these opportunities and complete the appropriate forms to fulfill the service requirement for your citizenship project.
Community Service Thursday- a monthly community service program at the Matthews Branch Library this fall. Teens can come and volunteer for an hour of credit. The program is called Community Service Thursday. We will be doing various service projects for organizations in the community. sign up online at cmlibrary.org or by phone 704-416-5000.
SCHOLARSHIP AND ESSAY CONTESTS
Essay contests offer excellent opportunities to gain writing experience. They also hold the possibility for earning money towards your education! Honors students may submit an entry for any of these contests to earn one point towards their Citizenship Project. To receive credit, you must turn in a copy of your entry with your project, as well as submit the entry for consideration in the contest by the deadline given. You must submit proof that your entry has been submitted, either in the form of a screen shot of the final submission via email, or by a note signed by a parent/guardian that the entry has been submitted via post.
APPLY TO BE A PAGE FOR THE NC HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
This program offers young men and women the opportunity to learn about and participate in the legislative process of our state. It is a 4 day long experience that allows high school students between the ages of 15 and 18 (or 14 if already in the 9th grade), to observe firsthand how our laws are made. It provides them the unique privilege of working on the House Chamber floor in the midst of legislative action.
House Pages are important to the operation of the General Assembly as they assist the members and staff of the House during the legislative session. They participate in daily sessions, committee meetings, and perform other duties including, but not limited to, delivering messages and materials within the legislative complex, answering phones in Representatives’ offices, and passing out documents or running errands in the House Chamber during daily sessions.
The selection process for this program is highly competitive. Official appointments are made by the Speaker of the House based on recommendations by individual Representatives. Each Representative is allotted a number of students he or she can “sponsor” each session. Students submit their application to their Representative who selects the individuals to be appointed by the Speaker. Appointments are made on a first-come, first-served basis.
Click here for more information.
The written application is fairly simple, but to be considered, you must be "sponsored" by your representative. You may count your contact with your representative as Citizenship Project credit under the "Write a Letter" option. I would recommend an email AND a phone contact if you are serious about applying as a position as a page. This would be an incredible opportunity that would look impressive on a college application.
After many years of grading citizenship projects, I have compiled a list of the most common students mistakes resulting in deductions. Click here to read pointers on how to avoid some of the most common mistakes on the Citizenship Project. I promise that if you read these carefully, you can prevent most, if not all deductions from your project.
PEER REVIEW DAY
Tips to remember while performing peer editing:
~~should be: kind, specific and helpful
~~you are helping to improve their work, you are not here to evaluate it
~~should not see good, bad, idk--your judgements and emojis should not be seen anywhere in your comments
Task 1:
Watch Austin's Butterfly to help you with the peer editing process
Task 2:
Find your group members (all 5s find the other 3 people with cards of the same #). Your card dictates your role during the class period and no switching is allowed.
CLUBS: spelling and grammar- Check here for grammar tips/suggestions. Purdue Online Writing Lab
HEARTS: suggestions and examples for improvement/grader (If you were to grade this task using the rubric, what would it score?)
SPADES: pointers (Did they follow all of the suggestions for how to avoid common mistakes?)
DIAMONDS: instructions/facilitator(Did they follow all of the instructions for that task? Did they complete all the parts of the task and/or answer all of the required questions?) Keep everyone on task and make sure everything gets finished (including the Google Form evaluation)
*On each task that is edited today, each team member must write their name and their designated suit.
*Each person should write in a different color pen/pencil (blue, black, purple, green, etc. Please don't use red.)
Task 3:
Complete the evaluation assessing today's activity. This is due by midnight tonight (November 18). Please remember to be honest in your evaluation of the process and your group members, this information will not be shared with anyone else.
If your final project grade was lower than a 79%, and you would like to resubmit your project for a reassessment grade (maximum of 79%), please follow these instructions:
To earn points lost due to convention errors, you must:
Complete the following remediation practice for the where you demonstrated the greatest weakness.
capitalization practice
subject/verb agreement practice
run-on sentence practice
To earn points lost due to task errors, you must:
Make the appropriate edits to your task. Tasks that have not been appropriately edited will not be considered for reassessment. Attach your original submission and your scoring rubric.