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Answer these questions en lieu of a Final Exam. The quality of this final assignment will affect your semester grade. Be sure to use complete ideas and complete sentences in your responses.

1. What was a new skill that you developed as a result of the online experience of Michigan Student Caucus?

2. What did you learn about yourself and/or other people as a result of the online Michigan Student Caucus?

3. What did you learn about important issues in Michigan and ideas for solving them. i.e. what was the best solution to a pressing problem that you learned about?

4.What was your final project?

5. What did you learn from your final project about how change can be accomplished.

6. What personal strengths and weaknesses did you discover as a result of your final project.

7. If you could do something differently (better) what would it be? How can you put these new knowledge to work in the future ( so that you don’t make the same mistake again and again?)

In order to give structure to your project, please respond to the following:
1. What problem are you trying to address?

2. What are some of the tools you are planning to use address this problem? List all that apply.

• Information and education
• Letter writing to elected officials
• petition signing
• boycott
• fundraising
• Starting a  program such as recycling, after school tutoring, etc.
• One on one service such as working in a soup kitchen, after-school tutoring

3. If you are trying to affect other people, what do you want them to do as a result of your efforts.

4. What is your timeline, i.e. what is the deadline for each step in the process?

5. What is the best possible result of this project?

6. What do you need learn, ask, do in order for your project to be a success.

7. How will you know that your project has been successful?

Send me a copy of your summary of your five causes and the blogs that have been written on that page. Attach it here.

Resolution writers-Attach your timeline here

Researchers: attach your emails here

This is due at the BEGINNING of class on Wednesday, March 4th. Each students must submit a draft of the resolution that they intend to submit to the MSC. Your draft must include at least four (4) preambulatory and four (4) operative clauses,  and at least two (2) consultations.

DO NOT POST THESE AT THE ENVIRONMENT OR JUSTICE LINK. DO THEM IN THE SANDBOX OR AS A WORD DOCUMENT. COPY AN D PASTE THEM HERE.

Be sure that you cast your vote on each of the resolutions at the Poverty link by the end of class on Thursday. In addition to casting your vote, you must post in the section “Discussion about this vote” and then copy and paste your post here.

Your post should be at least two paragraphs long and should explain which resolutions you thought were strongest and which you gave a lower ranking. You will only get full points for this post if you back up your explanation by quoting the resolution, previous post regarding the resolution or some other source based on your online reseach on the topic.

Check on the proposals that are listed at the Poverty link.  Write a well-thought out, well-researched post and copy and paste it here by Friday.

Send me a short paragraph, naming your resolution topic. Explain what you see as the problem and what you would like to see change regarding this issue.

You have just one more post to do this week.  Please

attach it here:)

Voting on the resolutions posted under Education/Arts

is due by the end of class on Thursday.  Since voting

on the Health Resolutions ends and is due by

February 17,  you will either need access to the Internet

over break,  or you will need to complete your voting

in both categories by the end of class on Thursday.

In addition to selecting weights and casting your votes,  you must

also make one post in the discussion section of the voting page for Education /Arts and Health. Please post what you have written in the discussion session here. Thanks.