CHV 2OH Civics

Course Culminating Activity – Global Citizenship

The study of Civics includes not only an understanding of civic and government institutions but it also consists of understanding the contributions of individuals who have made a positive impact on the world. As a result, in the Course Culminating Activity students will be responsible for writing a one-two page report on an individual or an organization that truly exemplifies the meaning of “global citizenship”.

*You will need to complete the following steps for this assignment:

1) From the list below choose one individual or organization.

Individuals

Louise Arbour Aung San Suu Kyi Maude Barlow

Bono Norman Bethune Rachel Carson

Diana, Princess of Wales Shirin Ebadi Dian Fossey

Terry Fox Bill Gates Mahatma Gandhi

Bob Geldof Jane Goodall Dag Hammarskjold

Craig Kielburger Martin Luther King Jr. Dalai Lama

Stephen Lewis Nelson Mandela Margaret Mead

Rigoberta Menchu Tum Mother Teresa Rosa Parks

Linus Pauling Lester B. Pearson Pele

Pope John Paul II Eleanor Roosevelt Paul Rusesabagina

Andrei Sakharov Margaret Sanger Oskar Schindler

Albert Schweitzer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Gloria Steinem

Maurice Strong David Suzuki Desmond Tutu

Jean Vanier Lech Walesa Raoul Wallenberg

Elie Wiesel Simon Wiesenthal Oprah Winfrey

Organizations

Amnesty International Doctors Without Borders

Greenpeace Habitat For Humanity

Human Rights Watch International Red Cross

Salvation Army UNICEF

United Nations World Wildlife Fund

2) Once an individual or organization has been selected,you will be asked to

research and organize brief responses to the following threequestions/sections:

a) Who is this individual/What is the background of this organization? (Give a brief biography or

summary of the organization, including a brief background on the individual, or the number of

members, its mandate/purpose, annual budget etc) = PROFILE

b) What are the individual's values and beliefs? What does he/she/this organization stand for?

=VALUES and BELIEFS

c) Why is this person or organization important? Howis this person/organizationrepresentative of

exemplary global citizenship? (What are his/her contributions to humanity? What are his/her/its

major accomplishments?) =GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP

3) Please be sure to include a title page, bibliography, font size 12 and to double space!

GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP ~ CULMINATING ACTIVITY

Name:______

Success Criteria: / Below 50% / Level 1
50-59% / Level 2
60-69% / Level 3
70-79% / Level 4
80-100%
Knowledge/
Understanding
-Profile/
Background
/10 / -very little summary of individual/organization
-info. is very unclear / -summarizes individual/organization with limited effectiveness / -summarizes individual/organization with some
effectiveness / -summarizes individual/organization with considerable effectiveness / -thoroughly summarizes individual/organization with a high degree of effectiveness
Knowledge/
Understanding
-Values and Beliefs
/10 / - the values and beliefs are not clearly expressed or are not included / -hardly expresses any of the values and beliefs of the individual or organization / -satisfactorily expresses the values and beliefs of the individual or organization / -clearly expresses the values and beliefs of the individual or organization / -thoroughly and clearly expresses the values and beliefs of the individual or organization
Application
-Evidence of global citizenship
/10 / - did not connect individual/org. to global citizenship / -connected individual/org. to global citizenship with a limited degree of effectiveness / -connected individual/org. to global citizenship with some degree of effectiveness / -connected individual/org. to global citizenship with a considerable degree of effectiveness / -connected individual/org. to global citizenship with a high degree of effectiveness
Application
Title Page/ Bibliography, 12 font, double space
/5 / -Assignment does notcontains all of the required elements (title page, bibliography, 12 font, double spaced) / -Assignment contains some of the required elements (title page, bibliography, 12 font, double spaced)
-very little effort in its presentation is visible / -Assignment contains some of the required elements (title page, bibliography, 12 font, double spaced) / -Assignment contains most of the required elements (title page, bibliography, 12 font, double spaced) / -Assignment contains all of the required elements (title page, bibliography, 12 font, double spaced)
Communication
-Language conventions and appropriate tone (for report)
/5 / -does not use language and tone effectively
-many language convention errors / -uses language and tone with a limited degree of effectiveness
-rarely uses proper language conventions / -uses language and tone with some degree of effectiveness
-sometimes uses proper language conventions / -uses language and tone with a considerable degree of effectiveness
-usually uses proper language conventions / -uses language and tone with a high degree of effectiveness
-always uses proper language conventions

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