From start to now

Did an activity where the students had to compare  where they began with their CSpan  film and where they are now.

Two favorites:

I have no idea/why the f*ck do we have to do this?
TO
My  film is about the NFL’s protest due to the President’s comments on one of the Football Player’s choice to kneel during the National Anthem.

About Donald Trump
TO
I would first say my topic.  Then talk about how society portrays Muslims and other religions and how even though it’s freedom of religion, we don’t really have it.

What’s left over?

An attempt to help everyone realize that any project requires lots of extra work.  In other words, how do you help kids realize that no real project has just enough work, that any project requires work that doesn’t always have immediate pay off.

I tried it with three areas — house building, recording an album, publishing a magazine — with the prompt of what gets left behind or what the extra work might be.

Example below: