User:JLSinegal

=Freshman Seminar=

Always Wanted To Schedule

 * Topic Work at a youth homeless shelter for 20 hours. Write about my findings and things i experienced.

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 * Research Component

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 * week 1 Research Roots Young Adult shelter in Seattle. Talk to Administration and figure out what i need to learn before volenteering Find out critiria to start volenteering at this particular homeless shelter.


 * week 2 Take Volenteer homeless shelter four hour seminar. Required to become a volenteer at any youth shelter around seattle.


 * week 3 Work at Roots youth adult shelter for 4 hours. After, record my thoughts and details about my experience working with people less fortunate in an environment I am not accustomed too.  Make a list of the chores i had to go through that day and the rules i was made to enforce. Record the things i did and didnt like about the day and what went wrong and things i could have done better for next time working with these children


 * week 4 Again work at the Shelter and record thoughts, fears, schedule and areas of my voleteering that could have gone better. I also will be writing about what i may do differently next time to improve my volenteering and the things i feel i understand and am succeeding at. Am i making friends? Is this experiece making me reflect issues in my own life? what am i taking out of this experience?


 * week 5 Work another 4 hours at the shelter. become more involved in these young adults lives. Try to be a mentor and lear from the teens I am trying to help. Again record my fidings about the kind of day I experienced at the shelter. Make sure i am doing everything in my power to contribute positively to my fellow volenteerers and the teens i am trying to impact.


 * week 6 Repeat and report another 5 hours at the Shelter. Don't forget to write an hour by hour diary of what i am experiencing.


 * week 7 Again work at the shelter. Start thinking about how i felt before i started this project and how i am feeling about the kids now. Has my opinion on homeless people changed? Have i become attached to the point i may want to keep working at the shelter in the future? Keep writting in my diary and start looking about how my experiences and thoughts have evloved into something deeper.


 * week 8 Read through my diary. Write about what this whole experience meant to me. Look back at the good and bad times and things that stuck out in my mind the most through the experience. Any kid that may have really made an impact o my time there, good or bad? What ways i could have made this experience better? what ways i succeeded in my time at the shelter. Put together all my findings and thoughts throughout the week from my journal. Start putting my project together and figuring out what the biggest thing was that i took from this experience.[[Link title]]

Final Presentation

 * Topic (10%)

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 * Research (20%)

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 * 1) Internet site:
 * 2) Book:
 * 3) Scholarly Journal:
 * 4) Other (interview, TV show,etc):


 * Your accomplishment (20%)

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 * Project Review (50%)
 * 1)What went well
 * 2)What went poorly
 * 3)Future strategies