From Olivia: The Social Justice Documentation Project

Hi, All.
I am going out of town tomorrow (Thursday), and I thought I should post some info.

1. Bridge Essay is due during the week after break. (Details are below.)
2. The next thing to worry about is your Social Justice Documentation Project. Remember that although this project will create the topics for your Research Paper, this is NOT a paper; it's a historical record.

Your Documentation Project must make a record of something. You want to create your own Social Justice Document. Documentation might include: oral history (transcribed and edited, or recorded and turned into a sound piece), photography, video, a web-based feature, a survey, a poem, a song, a play, a series of drawings, a comic strip, or ???

The only rule is that it MUST comply with our class criteria for judging texts as SJ Doc.

You must have a clearly identifiable subject (your grandmother, an ex-convict, a rape victim, a community, a family, an event)
Your subject must somehow connect to/offer ideas about a social group that you can argue experiences one of Young’s Five Faces.

Remember to think in terms of groups, not just individuals.

You must create something that “documents” your subject. Think of yourself as a historian; you are creating a historical record of someone/something/a group of people that/who might not be a regular part of our histories; you are making a "primary source."

Eventually, you will: 1) complete your Documentation, 2) put it into a presentable form, 3) make a list of research topics related to your subject, 4) write a 1-2 page introduction to a research paper—explaining your project and what kind of context your research puts it in, 5) conduct your research (paper is 10 pages total, including intro and statement, but not Works Cited, Documentation attached, any appendices), 6) create and support a thesis, 7) present your project and turn in your paper

Please do not forget: SJ Doc Project and Res Paper are TWO different things!