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Welcome to Mr. Enwright's Social Studies Wiki!! This Wiki will be a place for student's to check for and sometimes complete homework assignments. Parents will be able to view student work and check for work. Currently this site is awaiting an upgrade by the Wiki people. The upgrade will make the site more secure and is only given to educators. You can view the site at any time, but please don't request membership until I make an entry asking you to do so. Thanks. Mr. Enwright

Update 11/15 The Crispin Blog assignment is below and is due on Wednesday, November 23rd. Also, each class has chosen their CSL Focus Issue. Check back for our community partners and action plan ideas.

What is Service Learning?

Service learning can be defined in part by what it does for your child. When service learning is used in a structured way that connects classroom content, literature, and skills to community needs, your child will:


 * apply academic, social, and personal skills to improve their community (Malden).
 * make decisions that have real, not hypothetical, results.
 * grow as indivuduals, gain respect for peers, and increase civic participation.
 * experience success no matter what their ability level.
 * gain a deeper understanding of themselves and their community.
 * develop as leaders who take initiative, solve problems, work as a team, and demostrate their abilities while and through helping others.

Last year our students raised over $300 dollars for the people of Japan, while learning science, social studies, and a number of 21st Century computer skills. This year we will be focusing our projects on helping the people of Malden. You can keep track of this years CSL projects as well as everything else going on in Social Studies on our Wikispaces. Ask your child what block they have for social studies and visit the corresponding wiki.

Crispin Final Project ROLE: You are Crispin!!! A young boy who has had his world turned upside down over the last few weeks. You have lost your mother, left your home of thirteen years, made a new best friend, travelled the countryside and learned many new skills, and you have entered a town for the first time.

ASSIGNMENT: You are to write a series of three blogs from Crispin's point of view. Each blog should be from a different point in the novel. 1. As Crispin is leaving Stromford. 2. As he is traveling the countryside with his friend Bear. 3. As the novel closes at the gates of Great Wexley outside of Furnival's manor. Each blog should be from Crispin's point of view and contain both information from Crispin's personal life, but also historical details describing the Middle Ages. Information should include life on a manor, growth of towns, importance of religion, Medieval architecture, and the feudal pyramid.

PROCESS: 1. Open up an acct. or use your google acct. to access the site [|blogger.com]. 2. The assignment is to write a series of three blogs, two paragraphs each. Each blog should be written from Crispin's point of view. 3. You can access the rubric. The paragraphs should focus on voice (sounding like Crispin), word choice (strong vocabulary), and historical details from the Medieval period. 4. Finally, your blogger.com site, needs to be linked to YOUR page on this Wikispace.