The Value of Giving and Ubuntu What Can You Give to Improve Other Peoples Lives

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The Value of Giving and Ubuntu What Can You
Give to Improve Other Peoples Lives?

• A Life Orientation Project for Grade 10

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Learning outcomes

• To do a resource-based project.
• To acquire information gathering skills.
• To learn writing and presentation skills.
• To research for needed information.
• To critically analyze and organize information.
• To think critically about the project.

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Project and Content Questions

• What is Ubuntu?
• How does the value of giving form part of Ubuntu?
• What experiences do you have concerning the value
  of giving? Have you ever given or been given
  anything?
• Did giving make a difference in your life?
• Do you only give to people who are poor?
• What is it that you are not prepared to give and
  why?
• Are you aware of any charity organisations and
  what they do?
• Why should people give to others?

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How to do the task

• You are expected to produce two samples of work.
  Work in Groups of four. Prepare
• A PowerPoint presentation
• A Newsletter
• Brainstorm your possible information sources.
• Scan Internet resources, Encarta, references and
  non-fiction books.
• Note resources where you located relevant
  information.

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Assessment

• You will be assessed on the following aspects of
  the project
• Presentation style, with correct use of text,
  pictures and other forms of multimedia.
• Writing style, with correct spelling, punctuation
  and citations.
• The value of information gathered.

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Timeframes

• The project will be divided into the following
  phases
• Initial Discussion and Brainstorming. One period
  of 45 minutes-15/02/2007.
• Conferences during the project to check on
  progress. Two sessions of 20 minutes-22/02/07
  10/03/07.
• Final submission and presentation of projects.
• Due date 15/03/2007

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Synthesis

• Prepare a live presentation.
• Organize information.
• Interrogate the question.
• First draft and mistakes.

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Food for Thought!

• Plagiarism is a crime punishable by law.
• Cite all your sources.
• Remember to arrange them alphabetically.
• Only sources used in compiling this project must
  be used.