Documentary Proposal

Group Name: Terrific Ten Group Members: Sarah, Nicole, Seth, Alexus, Bradley, Gabryel, Mitch, Cole, Marcy, Codi (Sarah)Write the hypothesis of your documentary. By sacrificing something small such as your time in volunteering or donating as an individual you can help ease the issue of poverty, locally, nationally, and globally. (Alexus) Explain what you hope to achieve and/or impact through this documentary. We hope that the audience feels like they now realize what people go through in poverty and that it is not always their fault, and that they want to make a real difference by doing small things like volunteering, donating money to local organization, ect. (Seth) Explain the topic of your documentary. Be specific and clear what you are going to focus on List and explain the potential sub-topics you will cover in your documentary. Causes of why families become in these situations. Statics on families in poverty (Seth) Subtopics: 1. Family stand point - By interviewing or finding statistics of families that went through poverty. 2. Way you can help - By either donating or volunteering your time to show support for people in poverty. 3. Why they are in poverty - Show the causes and effects of people in poverty and how they got into poverty. (Gabby) List the main people and groups you will be covering in your documentary. Write a brief explanation of each. Waypoint 318 5th Street SE Cedar Rapids, Iowa 52401 Carrie Slagle: 319-365-1458 ext. 237 Deals with housing for homeless and other services, we can ask her to give us statistical information on homeless situations. Ashley Taylor: 319-365-1458 ext. 118 (volunteering) ashley.taylor@waypointservice.org Deals with volunteering could possibly ask her how many people volunteer yearly, and what is the most commonly way people help out. The Food Crisis Center of Johnson County 1121 Gilbert court Iowa city IA 52240-4528. Angie Meilers 319-351-2726. I want to find out how many family use the program a day. What could they use for help for people around. How has the Recession effected the amount of people coming weekly. How many volunteer weekly. The Linn Community Food Bank Pastor Thomas Miller, tesm@fpccr.org, 319-365-0502 Says on website to contact them for information. So a variety of things may be asked, such as how many visitors they get, how many repeated visitors, etc. The Cedar House Emergency Shelter. 603 Second Street SW, Cedar Rapids IA (319) 364-2630 Talk to the people who run it and see how many come stay each week/year, how many they can have. If the need anything for the shelter itself.

Marcy) Explain the specific global connections you plan to make in this documentary. Shelter England a place for people who does not have a home. Shelter 2011 Charity number 263710 (England & Wales); SC002327 (Scotland) 88 Old Street London EC1V 9HU European Countries recession effects italy has 13% of the population below the poverty line. US has 14 % in poverty Italy has 60,000,000 population US POPULATION 300,000,000 6 times that of Italy US GDP is nearly 15 trillion Italy GDP is 2 trillion ratio of GDP to population is similar 17,000 Italians are homeless (Nicole& Alexus) Explain the specific local connections you plan to make in this documentary. For local connections we plan to look at how many local families affected by poverty we are going to look more at the organization to get our information because families will not be willing to talk about it Talk to the runners of HACAP, see if they need help on anything. (volunteer hours). Talk to the owner of The Cedar House Shelter(how many stay a night, what the half way house helps, any activities they do? Helping them get jobs and get on their feet or just a place to crash? Showing statistics on the amount of families in the local area that are involved in poverty. Interviewing salvation army(Show how many come and stay.) Per night and annually.

(Cole) List 10 sources you will potentially use. Use proper MLA format (this isnt done yet for each source, including interviews. Farmers Association: unleashing innovation and entrepreneurial spirit. Rural Poverty Portal. 2005-2009. Web. November 18, 2011.

..:: Fight Poverty ::.. Web. 18 Nov. 2011. Byram , Emily. Share Our Strength. Web. 18 Nov. 2011. FPNC Aruba. Web. 18 Nov. 2011 Global Issues : Social, Political, Economic and Environmental Issues That Affect Us All Global Issues. Web. 18 Nov. 2011. Home - HACAP Is a Non-profit Agency That Helps People Develop Skills to Become Successful and Build Strong Communities - HACAP. 2010. Web. 18 Nov. 2011 "Homeless Statistics - Homeless World Cup." Home - Homeless World Cup. Web. 18 Nov. 2011. Mission of Hope - Cedar Rapids, IA. Web. 18 Nov. 2011. Voices for America's Children Nonprofit, Nonpartisan Advocacy for Better Child Policy.

(Mitch and Cody) Identify what standards you can see as part of your documentary

Biology Understand and apply knowledge of the interdependence of organisms. (e.g. People in poverty are dependent on others). English Analyze a complex set of ideas or sequence of events and explain how specific individuals, ideas, or events interact and develop over the course of the text. (e.g. The initial signs and process of someone getting into poverty and then recovering). Use technology, including the Internet, to produce, publish, and update individual or shared writing products, taking advantage of technologys capacity to link to other information and to display information flexibly and dynamically. (e.g. We are going to create a documentary to inform poverty and we are going to use multiple sources). Math (Geometry) Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others. (e.g. Why other people methods are failing and how to fix it). Math (Advanced Algebra) Reason quantitatively and use units to solve problems. (e.g.The effect if given money to people in poverty, like what can be purchased, how long it lasts, etc.). World History #5 Understand the effects of economic needs and wants on individual and group decisions. #4 when bringing in the view of relief agencies/organizations that want to change the current situations of poverty (status quo) #8 using cause and effect as you evaluate the different kinds of poverty throughout the world, bringing in the global connection. (Bradley)List the needs you have to make this documentary successful. Consider all things you will need from information to technology to people and so on. Area that supports homeless people for information on local people going through poverty, someone who deals with people in poverty, statistics on what the main cause of poverty is, statistics on how many people are in poverty (locally, nationally, and internationally), number of people that cannot feed themselves, a video camera(School Cameras), an editing program, and an impoverished citizen to talk to if we get the chance to talk to one. Examples: Area= Mission of Hope homeless shelter(Founder: Barbara Furman: (319) 362-555) Person= Kitty: What forces most of your clients to go to DHS Prime cause for poverty: Drug Abuse Statistics of people in poverty: Local: 11% of People National: 46.2 Million People International: 80% of People

To think about How many families are living pay check to pay check and are one pay check away from going into poverty. How are we going change peoples viewpoint on people in poverty that may take advantages of things that people give them to help.