Project Description:
This group project will call upon you to use all the knowledge and skills you have learned in all four of your WALC classes from public speaking, discussion, and debate to internet research to factual scientific knowledge to creative writing. Everything you have learned thus far this semester (and last year) has been geared to enable you to envision and complete this project. In groups you will choose an environmental justice issue and organize an event to inform and engage non-senior WALC students about this issue, and offer them solutions and an immediate and concrete course of action regarding the problem. This event can take any form as long as it satisfies the three main criteria underlined above and the requirements detailed below. This one event will take place during lunch or after school in the week of October 21, 2002. It is time to take what you have learned and assert your voices in the public arena, to express your intelligence and creativity in a way that is more real. It is time to practice being subjects of history rather than objects of history. We want you to make a big deal out this project- make it the best that you can. We want you to make this project about you and what you really care about and not about WALC. You will be leaving us soon and it is time to start practicing how you might continue to do something for the environment and have a meaningful connection with the earth outside of WALC. This means a lot to us.

Requirements:
Your event must be at least 40 minutes long and it must cover these basic questions/ideas:

1. What is E.J.?
   
2. What is the issue you are addressing?
   
3. Why is it an issue for the (Balboa) community?
   
4. How can this issue be addressed or redressed short and long term?
   

There must be at least 25 non-WALC seniors in attendance (juniors count as 1/2 a senior WALC person). A minimum of 5 out of the 25 must be non-WALC adults. The more people, the higher your grade.

• You must create outreach flyers to post throughout the school
  
• You must create an information sheet or pamphlet to give to those in attendance. This well made handout must inform, present solutions, and offer an immediate course of action
  
• You must keep a binder containing a paper trail of your meeting notes, idea brainstorms, drafts, discussions, outreach logs, etc. to be turned in on the day of your event.
  
• You must have a well planned, specific, and typed out agenda to follow for your event
  
• You must create an evaluation sheet so that participants can evaluate your event.
  
• You must each complete a two-page reflection after the event.
  

Grading (all items must be completed in order to receive a grade):

• Conducting the actual event- 100Points
• Attendance- 25 Points
• Outreach (flyers posted, personal invitations, announcements, etc.)- 25 Points
• Information Sheet- 50 Points
• Paper Trail- 40 Points
• Evaluation Sheet- 10 Points.
• Reflection- 25 Points
  

Most of you saw one or more workshops conducted by last year’s seniors. Use the best one as your standard—the bar that you must reach and surpass. We think you can do it. Good Luck.