The Kirkpatrik Signature Series

The Ten Entries of the Service Learning Project Report:

Write an entry of 400 words minimum on why you chose your project. Discuss the life or work experiences that may have influenced your selection, including whether these experiences were positive or negative. Consider how issues of community, government or individual responsibility, leadership, productivity, problem-solving, work ethic, and/or ambition might have affected your project selection. Most importantly, explain why your project is important to you, as well as to the larger community. Include two unique citations from the assigned articles in this paragraph.

Entry 2: Write an entry of 400 words minimum explaining how your project relates to at least two of the course objectives. See the complete list of course objectives in the course syllabus. Be sure to explain why you think these objectives are important. Label this entry “Service Learning Project Objectives.” Include two unique citations from the assigned articles in this paragraph.

Note: The purpose of this entry is not to tell what you think the objective of your SLP is; rather, it is to relate your project to the course objectives (which are found in the course syllabus).

Entries 3-9: Narrate your experiences on the project. Synthesize ideas from the course readings in entries 3-9. You may reference ideas from earlier phases in the course, as well as up to four additional non-course assigned sources you have found in your own research. Cite at least 2 articles and/or readings from course in this entry.

• A minimum of 500 words must be written for each entry.
• Entries should simply be labeled with the appropriate entry number(s), for example, Entry 3, Entry 4, Entries 5-6, Entries 5-8, and so on.

Entry 10: For the concluding entry of 400 words, labeled “Conclusions,” summarize your project, its relation to the course themes and readings, and your subjective feelings about your project experiences. Cite at least 2 articles and/or readings from course in this entry.
Course Objectives
Students who successfully complete this cluster should be able to:

1. Analyze the importance of such values as justice, dissent, and equality to the
   functioning of republican government.
2. Explain the importance of the Constitution and the structure of the
   government it creates to the preservation of individual rights.
3. Reflect on the relevance of the values discussed to their work and personal
   lives.
4. Assess the benefits of changes in race and gender equality for the individual
   and governance.
5. Synthesize ideas about the challenges posed, to the individual and to
   governance, by globalization and immigration.
6. Assess the impact of large changes in modern society on their work and
   personal lives.
7. Explain the relationship between engaged citizenship and the functioning of a
   republican form of government.
8. Synthesize ideas about the duty of individual citizens to promote engaged
   citizenship.
9. Assess the impact on their communities of their own acts of engaged
   citizenship.