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Who Cares About Needs in the Community?

Lesson 4:

From Unit Opportunities in Philanthropy

Lesson

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Academic Standards

Philanthropy Framework

9th-12th Grade

Subjects:

Language Arts, Library / Technology, Philanthropy and Social Studies

Key Words/Concepts click to view

ELA:	Interview; Narrative Writing; Report; Role-Play
PHIL:	Nonprofit Organizations; United Way
SOC:	10 genOn; Career Opportunities; Inquiry

Purpose:

To introduce students to the procedures of interviewing others and creating their own newspaper.

Duration:

One Fifty Minute Class Period

Objectives:

The learner will:

develop 10 open-ended questions for a simulated agency director interview

role play an agency director and interviewer.

write an article based on the simulated interview.

Service Experience:

Although this lesson contains a service project example, decisions about service plans and implementation should be made by students, as age appropriate.

Students participating in academic service learning activity should be given time to share their experience with the class. (See Lesson One.)

Materials:

Poster-board
Markers
Student-gathered research materials

Instructional Procedure(s):

Anticipatory Set:
Ask students to complete the statement, "I want this job because..."

Direct students to write ten open-ended interview questions.

Have the class form pairs, interview each other as "reporter" and "Agency Director" and reverse roles.

Select two pairs to conduct their interviews as an example for the whole class.

Students will write an article based on their role-playing exercise. The interview will be added to previous United Way articles.

Each group should include at least one article from each member for the poster-board display. Remind students to outline the paper first before putting it on poster-board.