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MHS Senior Project

2015. MHS Senior Project. The Senior Project is a graduation requirement that all students in Appoquinimink School District must complete. What is it?. You will be assigned a reader. Everything you turn in, will be turned in to your reader and/or advisor.

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MHS Senior Project

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  1. 2015 MHS Senior Project

  2. The Senior Project is a graduation requirement that all students in Appoquinimink School District must complete. What is it?

  3. You will be assigned a reader. • Everything you turn in, will be turned in to your reader and/or advisor. • Everything they return to you should be put in a 3-ring binder that makes up your portfolio. • You will be presenting your project to your reader and at least one other faculty member. • If you do well, you may be presenting to a panel of scholarship judges. Who will see it?

  4. By the time you are done your senior project, you will have completed: • A parent letter • A Topic Approval form • A background research for the topic you have chosen • A written component which includes your background research • A product • A presentation • A portfolio What do I have to do?

  5. The topic approval form lets your reader know what you are planning to research and hope to do for a product. • Topic approval form and parent notification letters are due during the next advisory Topic Approval form

  6. You will be completing background research on your topic and writing a report on this research. • Your report should be 5 pages or longer with 1 inch margins and a font size of 10-12 • You should have 5 quality sources cited in your background research • All of your sources should be listed using APA format on a works cited page. • A rough draft will be due at the end of September 2014 with the final draft due in December 2014 Background Research

  7. Your written component is done towards the end of your project. • The written component has 5 parts: • The introduction (1/2 to 1 page) • The background research (5 pages) • Reflection on experience and Results (3 pages) • Works cited (1 page) Written component

  8. You have a choice of what type of product you are going to complete: • Service learning • Creative product • Research paper Product

  9. Service Learning – • complete 50 volunteer service hours with an organization; • You will need to have your hours completed before your scheduled presentation date • you will need someone at the organization to be willing to sign off on your hours on a log sheet or give you a certificate of completion for your hours • For example, you might do volunteer hours at the Gibby Center in Middletown Service Learning

  10. Creative project – • You can create a product related to your topic • For example: if you did a green energy topic, you might create a biodegradable cooler • OR, if you choose to do a type of cancer as your topic, you might be the captain of a Relay for Life team Creative product

  11. Research paper – • 9-12 page formal research paper about your topic; this will be separate from or in addition to the research in your written component • 1 inch margins • 9 quality sources, cited in the paper and on works cited page in APA format Research paper

  12. In March, you will present your senior project to your reader and another evaluator. • Your presentation will include: • An introduction including your 4-year journey through high school • Information about your topic • Information about your product, how it was made and how it relates to your topic Presentation

  13. The portfolio will contain all of the documentation you have collected for your project: • Table of contents • Resume • Topic approval form • Parent letter • Rough draft of your background research • The final draft of your written component • Documentation of service learning hours or product completion, if necessary Portfolio

  14. MARCH 20th 2015 Presentation Day for the class of 2015:

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