Service+Learning+Paper

Once each semester you must participate in some community service and write a two page response paper about it. This should NOT be done about Serve His Day. I want you to pick a different day to serve and write about that. Mrs. Pack would be the obvious resource to find opportunities, though you do not have to go through Wesleyan at all. You can choose something completely on your own, or you could come with me to Norcross Cooperative Ministry, where I go one Saturday a month.

After you serve, you need to evaluate the experience in a two page, informal paper. First, tell about what you did. Then, pick an angle from which to evaluate the experience. What made it positive or negative? What made you drawn to the particular project you chose? What purpose does serving others accomplish in our own lives? Are some types of service more or less worthwhile than others? Why? What aspect of the project you did stood out and why? Did one person you served become meaningful to you in some way? Why/How? How does your faith play a role in your desire to serve others? Can one be a Christian and NOT serve others?

These are just some of the questions you might consider, but you can take the paper a different direction if you would like. This will count as an essay grade, though it will not be a major essay. It will count 1/3 as much as a major essay. The due date for this assignment is by December 1, 2008.