Roots in the City on Thursday (5:40pm)

Don't forget that we will be meeting at the Roots in the City garden to bring our semester to an end.  Please bring your service-learning forms, your pigeon peas (gandules), and a one-page reflection of your service activities this semester.  Here's a map to the garden:

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Introductions+

We worked on introductions and thesis statements tonight as we looked at the Osama assignment from last week.  The computer difficulties threw a monkey wrench at the plans for writing in class today, but we are making up for it on-line.

Please watch the following video carefully.  Rosa Ojeda is the school principal who we work with in Nicaragua.  In this 20 minute presentation she provides a short history of her community along with how MDC students and faculty have made a difference in the lives of 34 families.



The Assignment
Write a four paragraph letter where you address Ms. Ojeda and explain to her the work of Greg Mortenson and the similarities that you see between what she and the MDC students and faculty are doing and what Mortenson has done over the past 17 years. Use at least one quote from the book and one quote from the presentation.

Turn your work in here. Have the letter done before the end of the day on Tuesday, April 13.

Important Dates

Complete MyWritingLab-----April 15

Yard Sale----April 11

Shanty Event----April 17

Pigeon Peas-----April 22

Last Day of Class----April 22

Forms for Shanty Event:

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Sponsorship Form