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Walkabout

Walkabout. A Senior Journey. Challenging Yourself in Five Areas:. Adventure Creativity Inquiry Service Skill. Adventure. A challenge to the student’s daring, endurance, and skill in an unfamiliar environment

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Walkabout

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  1. Walkabout A Senior Journey

  2. Challenging Yourself in Five Areas: • Adventure • Creativity • Inquiry • Service • Skill

  3. Adventure • A challenge to the student’s daring, endurance, and skill in an unfamiliar environment • An effort that stretches the student’s awareness or courage in a new direction, helping to break down a fear or resistance he/she may harbor.

  4. Adventure Ideas • Taking a trip • Climbing a mountain • Entering a competition • Working out problems in a relationship • Embarking upon a physical fitness program • Apprenticing to a mentor • Setting a physical goal • Trying something new (yoga, ballroom dance…)

  5. Model Adventure Projects • Theater in London- Torii Leon • Sky Diving- Robin DeGuzman • Becoming a Vegetarian- Zach Bradt • Belly Dancing- Jessica Corder • Auditioning for a Musical- Kim Adams • Bungee Jumping- Krystal delaPaz

  6. Creativity • A challenge to explore, cultivate, and express the student’s own imagination in some aesthetically pleasing form. • Involvement in some creative process stressing originality, and the interplay between process and product.

  7. Creativity Ideas • Composing music • Writing a play, story etc. • Making a quilt • Exploring photography or some other medium • Painting, sculpting, sewing • Acting or working in theater in some way

  8. Model Creativity Projects • Making a blanket- Leo Nevarez • Recording original music- Josh Blanco • Building a toy chest- Lindsey Jackson • Scrapbooking of senior yr- Tori Sullivan • Life video for parents-Rico A. • Painting a mural-Aline Villanueva

  9. Inquiry • A challenge to explore one’s curiosity, to formulate a question or problem of personal importance and to pursue an answer or solution systematically, and wherever appropriate, by investigation. • Following any question to a conclusion arrived at thoroughly, objectively, and systematically.

  10. Inquiry Ideas • Any JSHS project • Research of a career • Researching family history • Answering a question about how something works or what you can do to make it better

  11. Inquiry Model Projects • World Religions- Jessica Corder • Quantum Physics- Levi McCracken • Chocolate and Endorphins- Paul Irvine • Skateboard Wheel Size- Sam McCullock • Soundboard Surface Area-Dylan Hillestad

  12. Service“Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.” – Marian Edelman • A challenge to identify a human need for assistance and provide it; to express caring without expectation of award. • Execution of a project which raises awareness of a need and/or contributes to change.

  13. Service Ideas • A clean-up project • Tutoring others • Helping a neighbor regularly • Volunteer work- American Red Cross • Finding a new way to serve • Organizing a way for others to serve

  14. Model Service Projects • Adopting a shelter- Cheri McNeely • Making scarves for SS- Divina Yoder • Starting Russo memorial fund- Josh Blanco • Cleaning/Organizing Band room- Natasha M-R and Seb Galloway • Locks of Love- Dylan Hillestad and Alex Simon

  15. Skill • A challenge to explore a utilitarian activity, to learn the knowledge and skills necessary to work in that field, and to produce something of use. • Learning any skill that renders one more independent or capable of doing things in the world.

  16. Life Skill Ideas • Learning a foreign language • Learning to cook • Learning to sew • Learning basic auto mechanics • Learning basic accounting • Learning woodworking skills • Setting up and using a checking account

  17. Model Skill Projects • Budgeting for the family- Divina Yoder • Learning Car Maintenance- Bianca Boney • Driving a Stick Shift- Jessica Corder • Building a Recipe Book- Zach Bradt • Crocheting- Dene LeBouef • How to lobby for animals-Jordan Campfield

  18. How do I start my Walkabout? • Talk to the important adults and friends in your life who can help you with ideas • Choose an adult mentor who will help you see the project through • Keep track of ideas and what you do in the Walkabout section of your notebook • Decide on the five things you plan to pursue

  19. What do I do next? • Let me know what your five topics will be • Set aside time every week to work on your projects • Provide both your mentor and me with regular progress reports

  20. What does it look like in the end? • You will need to have a finished product for each of your five projects • You will need to write a final reflection • You will need to do a 15-minute presentation summarizing your project

  21. What kind of finished product for each area? • Slide show • A poster • A journal • A finished “product”- quilt, cabinet • A recording • A web page • Other endless possibilities

  22. How will I be graded? • Oral presentation (organization, interest level, preparation, speaking ability) • Five finished “quality products” (each should show a substantial time commitment and be something that you are proud to present) • Analysis of overall Walkabout experience within the context of your presentation (what you learned)

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