Stage+One+Checklist

As we approach the end of the quarter we have one final test grade but the beauty of this grade is that the majority of the work will be completed in class. Much cooler than taking a test, huh! As we discussed, before we can start working on the presentation of your Africa conflict (stage two), we need to outline your issue and make sure that you have completed enough research and that you can effectively answer our organizing questions: ·  To what extent do American consumers play a role in instability in Africa ? ·  What kind of responsibilities do we have, as Americans, to be aware of how products in Africa are made? During this week you will have the full class to complete the following: 1) **__ OUTLINE: __**    a.  Fill in the outline template on the wiki site with all of your research. Where it says “Fact1”, “Fact2”, etc. you need to provide information from all of your note sheets that you have collected during previous classes. NOTE that it says “as many lines as needed” for these facts. Don’t just put two! You will probably need to do more research if that’s all you have.     b.  Captains, switch off each day and have team members assigned to fill in their research information. Team members should put their names in parentheses after each section that they researched.     c.  If you don’t finish all of this during class, you will need to do this for homework. I am going to be grading these outlines on Friday.     2)  **__ INTERVIEWS: __** a. Continue reaching out to companies and carrying out interviews. You NEED to do planning in advance of any of these interviews!! Write up your interview questions and get them approved by both your captain and me. b. Again, you are going to meet with varying degrees of success here. Sometimes you will find people resistant to answer your questions while at other times people may have a lot to say because they are a clean company and don’t deal with conflict resources. Other times they may say that they have a policy not to talk about it. That is interesting in and of itself!! **__Save the results of any interviews in a discussion thread on the wiki site.__** You will use this information possibly in your outlines or in your presentations. ** 3) ****__ RESPONSIBILITIES AND SOLUTIONS:  __**  ** a.  ** Continue researching the last section of the outline. **__LOOK at the sample outline to see what we are looking for you to provide in this section!__** You are researching what organizations out there already are trying to stop this issue and what their solutions to the problem are. You are also trying to come up with your own ideas about possible solutions. Think creatively about what we could do to possibly stop this crisis in Africa .    ** b.  ****__ Once you find any information, be sure to update the wiki outline with it.  __**
 * __ Africa __****__ Project: Stage One Checklist!! __**