Sample Future Projects

Future Project #1: Visualizing Our Future

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Essential Question: In what ways are social movements catalysts for change throughout history? What social movements today are directing the course of our future? What can our future look like with the "success" of a chosen social movement?

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Product: Found poems, book club rhetorical analysis presentation, informative essay.

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Audience: Exhibition audience, TBD.

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Learning Goals: Students will be able to define the causes and beliefs of significant social movements in American history, and analyze the effects those social movements had on the cultural, political, economic, and social trajectory of America.

Students will be able to analyze rhetorical strategies used by authors in their given book club books and explain how those strategies contributed to the overall theme, message, and tone of the book.

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Guiding Text(s): Troublemaker by John Cho, Dress Coded by Carrie Firestone, My Family Divided: One Girl's Journey of Home, Loss, and Hope by Diane Guerrero, One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia, The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas, A Good Kind of Trouble by Lisa Moore Ramée

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Future Project #2: Intergenerational Allies

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Essential Question: What can members of different generations learn from each other through meaningful conversations, joint service, and shared problem solving?

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Product: Plan of action proposal, visual essay, TBD.

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Audience: Exhibition audience, community partners, TBD.

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Learning Goals: Students will be able to propose solutions to pressing community problems with the help of their intergenerational mentor.

Students will be able to argue their cause and proposed solution through argumentative essays with research-backed evidence. 

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Guiding Text(s): The Reckless Club, Beth Vrabel