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Documentary ProposalGroup Name: Terrific TenGroup Members:
Sarah, Nicole, Seth,Alexus, Bradley, Gabryel, Mitch, Cole, Marcy,
Codi
(Sarah)Write the hypothesis of your documentary.
By sacrificing something small such as your time in volunteering
or donating as anindividual you can help ease the issue of poverty,
locally, nationally, and globally.
(Alexus) Explain what you hope to achieve and/or impact through
this documentary. We hope that the audience feels like they now
realize what people go through in poverty
and that it is not always their fault, and that they want to
make a real difference by doingsmall things like volunteering,
donating money to local organization, ect.
(Seth) Explain the topic of your documentary. Be specific and
clear what you are going to focusonList and explain the potential
sub-topics you will cover in your documentary.
Causes of why families become in these situations. Statics on
families in poverty
(Seth) Subtopics:1. Family stand point - By interviewing or
finding statistics of families that went through
poverty.
2. Way you can help - By either donating or volunteering your
time to show support for
people in poverty.
3. Why they are in poverty - Show the causes and effects of
people in poverty and how they
got into poverty.
(Gabby) List the main people and groups you will be covering in
your documentary. Write a brief
explanation of each.Waypoint
318 5th Street SE Cedar Rapids, Iowa 52401
Carrie Slagle: 319-365-1458 ext. 237
Deals with housing for homeless and other services, we can ask
her to give us statistical
information on homeless situations.
Ashley Taylor: 319-365-1458 ext. 118 (volunteering)ashley
.taylor @ waypointservice .org
Deals with volunteering could possibly ask her how many people
volunteer yearly, and what is the
most commonly way people help out.
The Food Crisis Center of Johnson County
1121 Gilbert court Iowa city IA 52240-4528. Angie Meilers
319-351-2726.
I want to find out how many family use the program a day. What
could they use for help for
people around. How has the Recession effected the amount of
people coming weekly. How many
volunteer weekly.
The Linn Community Food Bank Pastor Thomas Miller,
[email protected], 319-365-0502
Says on website to contact them for information. So a variety of
things may be asked, such as
how many visitors they get, how many repeated visitors, etc.
The Cedar House Emergency Shelter.
603 Second Street SW, Cedar Rapids IA (319) 364-2630
Talk to the people who run it and see how many come stay each
week/year, how many they can
have. If the need anything for the shelter itself.
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Marcy) Explain the specific global connections you plan to make
in this documentary.
Shelter England a place for people who does not have a home.
Shelter 2011
Charity number 263710 (England & Wales); SC002327
(Scotland)
88 Old Street London EC1V 9HU
European Countries recession effects
italy has 13% of the population below the poverty line.
US has 14 % in poverty
Italy has 60,000,000 population
US POPULATION 300,000,000 6 times that of Italy
US GDP is nearly 15 trillion
Italy GDP is 2 trillion ratio of GDP to population is
similar
17,000 Italians are homeless
(Nicole& Alexus) Explain the specific local connections you
plan to make in this documentary.
For local connections we plan to look at how many local families
affected by poverty
we are going to look more at the organization to get our
information because families will
not be willing to talk about it
Talk to the runners of HACAP, see if they need help on anything.
(volunteer hours). Talk to the owner of The Cedar House Shelter(how
many stay a night, what the half way
house helps, any activities they do? Helping them get jobs and
get on their feet or just aplace to crash?
Showing statistics on the amount of families in the local area
that are involved in poverty. Interviewing salvation army(Show how
many come and stay.) Per night and annually.
(Cole) List 10 sources you will potentially use. Use proper MLA
format (this isnt done yet for eachsource, including
interviews.
Farmers Association: unleashing innovation and entrepreneurial
spirit. Rural Poverty Portal.
2005-2009. Web. November 18, 2011.
..:: Fight Poverty ::.. Web. 18 Nov. 2011. Byram , Emily. Share
Our Strength. Web. 18
Nov. 2011.
FPNC Aruba. Web. 18 Nov. 2011 Global Issues : Social, Political,
Economic and Environmental Issues That Affect Us All
Global Issues. Web. 18 Nov. 2011.
Home - HACAP Is a Non-profit Agency That Helps People Develop
Skills to BecomeSuccessful and Build Strong Communities - HACAP.
2010. Web. 18 Nov. 2011
"Homeless Statistics - Homeless World Cup." Home - Homeless
World Cup. Web. 18Nov. 2011.
Mission of Hope - Cedar Rapids, IA. Web. 18 Nov. 2011. Voices
for America's Children Nonprofit, Nonpartisan Advocacy for Better
Child Policy.
(Mitch and Cody) Identify what standards you can see as part of
your documentary
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Biology Understand and apply knowledge of the interdependence of
organisms.
(e.g. People in poverty are dependent on others).
English Analyze a complex set of ideas or sequence of events and
explain how specific
individuals, ideas, or events interact and develop over the
course of the text. (e.g. The initial signs and process of someone
getting into poverty and then
recovering). Use technology, including the Internet, to produce,
publish, and update individual or
shared writing products, taking advantage of technologys
capacity to link to otherinformation and to display information
flexibly and dynamically.
(e.g. We are going to create a documentary to inform poverty and
we are going to
use multiple sources).
Math (Geometry) Construct viable arguments and critique the
reasoning of others.
(e.g. Why other people methods are failing and how to fix
it).
Math (Advanced Algebra) Reason quantitatively and use units to
solve problems.
(e.g.The effect if given money to people in poverty, like what
can be purchased,how long it lasts, etc.).
World History
#5 Understand the effects of economic needs and wants on
individual and group
decisions.
#4 when bringing in the view of relief agencies/organizations
that want to change the
current situations of poverty (status quo)
#8 using cause and effect as you evaluate the different kinds of
poverty throughout the
world, bringing in the global connection.
(Bradley)List the needs you have to make this documentary
successful. Consider all things youwill need from information to
technology to people and so on.
Area that supports homeless people for information on local
people going through poverty,
someone who deals with people in poverty, statistics on what the
main cause of poverty is,
statistics on how many people are in poverty (locally,
nationally, and internationally), number of
people that cannot feed themselves, a video camera(School
Cameras), an editing program, and
an impoverished citizen to talk to if we get the chance to talk
to one.
Examples:
Area= Mission of Hope homeless shelter(Founder: Barbara Furman:
(319) 362-555)
Person= Kitty: What forces most of your clients to go to DHS
Prime cause for poverty: Drug Abuse
Statistics of people in poverty: Local: 11% of People National:
46.2 Million People
International: 80% of People
To think about
How many families are living pay check to pay check and are one
pay check away from going into
poverty.
How are we going change peoples viewpoint on people in poverty
that may take advantages of things that
people give them to help.
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