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Society and Action is pretty much a chance for students to take responsibility into their
own hands.
Society and Action is where it's a bunch of groups and it's kind of like the real world
where you have to sell things, and buy things, and make things, and it's how you make your
own business, your own company.
We're getting money from learning, learning about what African American studies is.
We have our own companies.
We run our own spreadsheets.
We do our own projects.
We do everything that a real company would do.
Everything from meeting with Mr. Cherry to presenting a final product to him.
Everything is ourselves.
We do what we make.
We try to find a way to get my students involved and interested in American history, and I
was struggling until I came up with an idea that would help motivate students to be more
creative and to delve into research by rewarding them with dollars.
So Society and Action is a way to economically empower my students by having them create
their own companies.
Each person has a job, a specific job that they're responsible for, for the company.
They build mission statements.
They try to keep up with their bank accounts, their records, even pay their taxes.
But the key to this is that they are treating me as a valued customer and learning how
to build quality working relationships.
And so, based on the different commercials that we do for the ASPCA, we have people who
know me, kids, and that kind of thing like that, we come in and we signal who's the area
affected because we can't watch them without time.
And so we do two commercials of it, and we have people who know us and we do a lot of
those things.
So really, people are allowed to use the skills, the gifts, the talents to earn history credit.
So basically, we have a lot of commentees that do a lot of stuff like the media.
We have people that take like, documentations and we have people that set up due dates and
stuff like that.
And really, I feel like it's super organized and to be honest with you, it makes it easier
on the teacher and it makes it easier on us because like, you know, we know the students
and we are able to kind of like say, hey, we have like, yeah, super flexible with the
time with us and stuff like that.
Everything that we do impacts our final grade.
We earn money, which then translates into a grading system, starting with $2,000 for
an A and so on down the line.
We have to earn our grade, literally.
It's different from all my other classes and how they teach me and I feel like I like this
but this is the first time I've ever done it to myself, it's lit.
Super phenomenal because I say that because like, you get to see something that is coming
from your colleague's perspective instead of the teacher's perspective because they have
known you for like the past three years, they've known you for the past four years and like,
it's something that I'm like, oh, wow, he's growing into this.
He's developing something, new traits, new characteristics.
So it's something that I really think has helped a lot of kids, especially myself.
I like it.
I like it more because like, it's different, so like, it being different from all the classes
makes it like, you know, fun.
I really like it when we do it.
I feel like I learn a lot and I get to work with other people and I mean, I learned a
lot since class started, like, people we've learned and watching their white presentations.
The cells of the skin and the hair also remains as clean, cleansers, it's paraben-free.
Another unique thing about society in action is the opportunity that we have to get close
with a small group of people and really learn how we work with other people.
You learn things about other people as well as yourself with society in action.
Don't hold count if you want to win.
You gotta represent the whole country, okay?
You just gonna put that right there.
Mako got what you want.
Our cattle are being fed. Our cattle are being taken care of.
Mako's good right now.
To my knowledge, he don't have anything more to say.
So you're not gonna be doing it.
What if I said my sweet mouth?
Okay, we know, at the New start call,
that you all have been gracious and loudest.
I'll do it.
In the past 10 years,
I've used society in action with junior high students.
And it's worked phenomenally.
They, you know, they love it.
And I was kind of scared to try it
with 18-year-olds and seniors
thinking it was
maybe too juvenile for them.
But actually, they've taken it to
a whole other level, intellectually
but with society in action.
