Book	Author
Long Way Gone	Ishmael Beah
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	Ken Kesey
It's Not About the Bike	Lance Armstrong
What is the What	Dave Eggers
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings	Maya Angelou
When I was Puerto Rican	Esmeralda Santiago
The Soloist	Steve Lopez
A Room of One's Own	Virginia Woolf

Requirements:
Select book and secure copy by Friday, December 5, 2008
Schedule reading timeline to have book completed by 1.9.09

Weekly Posting to Book Discussion Forum:

• Posting of one question for fellow group members.
• Response to each group member's weekly question.
• Response to Mr. Chase's weekly question.

Face-to-Face Meetings: 12.10.08, 12.19.08, and 1.9.09

Writing:2fers

Complete three during the quarter. One must be explanatory writing.

Thinking (BENCHMARK):

1. Identify problems specific to or directly affecting Philadelphia.
2. In groups of 2, students work to identify:
1. Social and economic causes of problem.
2. Social, economic, historic consequences of problem.
3. Key stakeholders attached to the issue.
   
3. Create a PowerPoint/Keynote presentation in the vein of IgnitePhilly.org where students will have 20 slides rotating every 15 seconds. Presentations will include recorded audio. (Possible Tools )
4. Each student must submit an individual annotated bibliography for each source he or she contributed to the group and how that research was utilized to fulfill the three elements identified in Step 2. Each stakeholder identified in 2.3 must be interviewed and used within the annotated bib.
   
5. Post your presentations online by 1.15.09 for voting by the world.
   

Q3:

1. Top 7/8 vote recipients will be kept and bottom 7/8 recipients will be absorbed into the top groups.
2. Based upon the findings of fact the groups will draft an action plan to be put into place during Q4. The plan must include:
1. Specifically identified desired change.
2. Timeline for implementation.
3. History of previous groups/efforts to solve the problem.
   
4. Input from stakeholders.
5. Identification of social, political and economic capital available to create desired change.
   
6. Identification of social, political and economic capital necessary to create desired change.
7. Assignment of roles and responsibilities for each group member in the completion of the action plan.

Q4:

1. Teams will implement the action plans.
   

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