Literacy Service Learning Research Paper

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Literacy Service Learning Project Kellen Brooks Brandon McHale Mr. Schoenbauer I am doing a literacy service learning project in school to help promote world literacy. I have chosen to help out my local library by saving them the trouble to categorize books for them. Brandon and I are partners for this project and we are hoping it will benefit our library by helping them out. I believe if all of our library books are categorized correctly it will allow people to find their books quickly and more efficiently resulting in the more books being read which will then result in worldwide literacy. The first day of our literacy service learning project we had to choose who we wanted to work with on this project. I chose to be partners…show more content…
Mortenson has seemed to put too much on himself by promising the Korphe tribe and the Akhmalu’s village that he will build them a school. Mortenson then finds himself between the two in a huge argument. He then returns home hoping to see Marina but she has went back to her previous boyfriend. Mortenson received $10,000 from Jean Hoerni to build the bridge to Korphe; he’s hired helpers to receive the materials. He meets a woman named Tara Bishop who is a psychology graduate, Mortenson and Tara are instantly attracted to each…show more content…
We both feel that it would be best if we just go right after school. I also feel that we can categorize the books the quickest if we both work together on each section of the library. We have also agreed that when we complete the project together at my house before and after the library. Throughout the next few chapters in three cups of tea Mortenson has misplaced the materials he needed for the building. He spoke with the villagers and they have decided that they will work instead of hiring people. Mortenson is in Afghanistan and has a fear of Osama bin laden. One night Mortenson is blindfolded and taken away and he thinks he is going to be killed. Mortenson’s romance with Tara reaches a new level with the birth of their daughter. This is the last day before we go to the library and we are getting all of our information together for our trip to categorize books. We have changed our minds about teaming up on each section and we will now be separating at the library and doing different sections but if that doesn’t work out then we will go back to the original plan. We feel it will be helpful to just take some pictures with our phones instead of going through the trouble of getting a camera and loading the pictures on to the computer. I think the phone will be easier by just sending the pictures to my e-mail. I think we chose the best way to promote
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