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Grade Level: 9-12
Academic Areas: Interdisciplinary
Duration of service: Year Long
Character Virtues: Caring, Civic virtue and Citizenship
Service Areas: Human Services, Education/Tutoring
Service Learning Project:
Students from high schools throughout New York State will form
an online collaboration using Streams On Line. This collaboration
-- through expressive writing, visual art, and media -- will increase
the students’ awareness of disability rights issues. The
Internet tool will allow people with disabilities to interact
on more equal footing with non-disabled people. Students, disability
rights advocates, and school staff will comment on each other’s
writing. Students will revise their writing in the light of comments.
All submissions will be reviewed and approved by teachers prior
to being made public. Students will read and discuss works of
literature written by and about people with disabilities. Toward
the end of the school year, students will decide on which writing,
visual art, and media will be published in a literary arts magazine
in print and on CD. The students’ publication will be made
available to local libraries and used in lessons given by other
classroom teachers in the collaborating schools.
Goals and Objectives
Academic
Learning Goal: Students will upload expressive writing, visual
art and media on Streams On Line (a distance learning Internet
-based program).
Standard: MST 2
Learning Goal: Students will create expressive writing that addresses
disability rights issues. Students will respond to expressive
writing, do peer to peer critical analysis and evaluation, and
have the opportunity to socialize with students outside their
home district.
Standard: ELA 1, 2, 3, & 4;
Service
Community need: There is a need to bring community awareness
to provisions in the Americans with Disability Rights Act and
its relevance to the community at large..
Possible Community Partners: Disabled In Action, Ten Penny Players,
Inc., Independent Living Centers, Eastern Paralyzed Veterans Association,
Disability Rag and local libraries.
Objective: Self-advocacy and technology literacy for students
with disabilities.
Objective: Increased student and community awareness of ADA’s
history, its impact and intentions.
Character
Virtue: Civic Virtue and Citizenship
Objective: Students will analyze and synthesize parts of the
Americans with Disabilities Act of 2000. Students will gain a
deeper understanding of the aspirations of people with disabilities
by reading their expressive writing.
Virtue: Caring
Objective: Non-disabled students will partner with disabled students
to brainstorm ideas to remove barriers and further social and
academic inclusion.
Key Activities
Key Planning Activities
1. Students will access Streams On Line (the website) that includes
how to edit, compose, add users, use sections, approve submissions,
and upload files.
2. The teacher will bring in outside advocacy organizations to
discuss the ADA from various viewpoints.
Key Service Activities
1. Students will submit original work to the community over the
website.
2. Students create expressive writing examples that identify the
reasons for ADA’s enactment.
3. Original work will be selected and formatted for printing in
a literary publication or presentation on cd roms that are made
available to the general public in local libraries.
Key Reflection Activities
1. (oral) Students will tell of personal experiences with disabilities.
2. (performance – civic virtue) Students will perform their
interpretation of a passage in a poem, book, play, or movie that
deals with a disability rights issue.
Demonstration Activity
A mid-publication online awards ceremony will be held in recognition
of the talents of all participants. Video classes who have taped
the process will share copies of their videos with students at
different schools. A final publication party will connect students
at various schools through video conferencing.
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