Community Activism

Presentation Template

Slide #1: Explain your project

Clearly State the problem(s) that you see facing the community (school/ local/ global)

Include a picture that represents your project:

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Slide #2: Project Importance

Explain why this project is intriguing and important to your group

Include a picture that demonstrates the importance of your project:

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Slide #3: Clear & Coherent Claim

Explain clearly the your claim about how and why this issue affects the community and is supported with evidence. This slide should contain a citation to an outside source (or sources) that will support your claim.

Always good to include a picture:

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Slide #4 (and probably more than one) Action Plan

In the next few slides you should show the actions that your group has taken to work towards a resolution for the problem that clearly addressed the issue and offer ways to improve the problem.

(For example: beach clean up, addressing the issue at a city council meeting, creating a food pantry)

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Slide #5, 6, and 7: Integrating Appeals

Notes on Integrating Ethos, Pathos, and Logos into your presentation:

• Ethos- credibility (Example: Martha Johnson, director of Marine Biology for UCLA, states. . .)
• Pathos- persuading an audience by using certain appeals (Example: The immense amount of plastics polluting Morro Bay has significantly impacted the snowy plover population. . .)
• Logos- appealing to your audience’s sense of logic through use of facts and statistics (Example: In the year 2023, the state of California will have produced the equivalent of 1.2 tons of waste that will be left on our beaches . . .) ** Important to note the use of logos is often where you incorporate your research!

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Slide #8: Implications and Limitations

Clearly explain implications and limitations of your project.

Implication:

Example: We are creating a food pantry for MBHS; an implication might be how to keep the pantry stocked with food beyond one time.

Limitation:

Example: We are going to collect books for children; a limitation would be making sure that our group is adhering to covid protocols with donations.

Slide #9: Underlying Historical, Social, and Economic Roots

Clearly discuss what underlying historical, social, or economic roots contribute to the problem. Explain why these structures or policies still exist.

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Additional Requirements:

• Include visuals from the actions that you took to enhance your presentation
• Practice your presentation– it should be between 10-15 minutes in length
• Make sure that each group member is participating equally in the presentation. Each group member should be prepared and familiar with the material they are presenting.
• Include a final slide for your Works Cited page– this should list a minimum of three credible sources that you used to put together your presentation.

Works Cited

Dean, Cornelia. "Executive on a Mission: Saving the Planet." The New York Times, 22 May

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2007, www.nytimes.com/2007/05/22/science/earth/22ander.html?_r=0. Accessed 29

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May 2019.

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Ebert, Roger. Review of An Inconvenient Truth, directed by Davis Guggenheim. Ebert Digital

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LLC, 1 June 2006, www.rogerebert.com/reviews/an-inconvenient-truth-2006. Accessed

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15 June 2019.

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Gowdy, John. "Avoiding Self-Organized Extinction: Toward a Co-Evolutionary Economics of

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Sustainability." International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology, vol.

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14, no. 1, 2007, pp. 27-36.

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Milken, Michael, et al. "On Global Warming and Financial Imbalances." New Perspectives

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Quarterly, vol. 23, no. 4, 2006, p. 63.

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