Q Due to the COVID 19 pandemic, Dr. Cassara is offering you this optional replacement assignment to take the place of the 15 hours of Service Learning for the Fall, 2021 Semester. If you choose to do the standard Service Learning project, please follow the instructions below. You will need two of the following books by Roald Dahl: The BFG Danny, Champion of the World The Witches 2. Read the two books that you pick. 3. Answer the following questions for each book: a. To what age group do you think the book would appeal? Explain your answer using principles from the textbook chapters on cognitive development. (at least 200 words) b. Roald Dahl has a gift for writing stories that focus on children's real concerns. Using principles from the chapters on Socioemotional development in your textbook, explain the concerns that each story would be focusing on that involves a child's fears and hopes and expectations. (200 words, at least) 4. Find a child or children to whom you can read one of these stories. --obviously if they aren't already in your household, use Skype or Facetime, Zoom or telephone. a. Tell me: Which story did you read? How many children? What are their ages, and cognitive development levels? Why did you pick this particular story to read to them? (100 words) b. Tell me how the child(ren) reacted and how those reactions relate to the cognitive and socioemotional principles you identified from the chapters. (200 words) 5. Tell me about your experience. What did you learn? What did you observe? What surprises occurred? Would this be something you would do again? How do you relate this experience to our course? As with all assignments, it is important to write this well, to proofread it thoroughly for good spelling, grammar and word usage. Make sure not to ask me to read into your thoughts and do not assume that I know what you are thinking. In a sense this is a Laboratory Report, so please present this in your best professional manner. I look forward to reading your reports. OR you may complete the original Service Learning Assignment (15 hours) which requires the following: STANDARD SERVICE LEARNING ASSIGNMENT: Assignment: Please carefully read all instructions: 1. This Journal needs to be completed by the due date in the last week of the course. To document your experience and any transformations that occur in your world view and your practical knowledge of children and their worlds, you are asked to complete journal questions for before, and after your experience. Please use the following to document your experience. 2. IMPORTANT-- please print and complete the form called "Acknowledgement of Risk" and mail it (or scan and email it) to Evelyn Gonzalez, Coordinator, Office of Community Engagement, Bunker Hill Community College, Boston, MA 02129 as soon as possible. Phone: 617-228-3485 To get credit for this assignment in your final grade, this form must be filed. Service Learning Project: Journal Objective: Service Learning Project: Volunteer for 15 hours in the capacity of helping children. Before volunteering please answer these questions: Most of these questions require at least a paragraph in response, and will be graded accordingly: • With what age or grade level are you interested in working? • What are your first 2 choices where you will do the volunteering? And why? • What are your honest expectations of your service learning project before you start working? What are your initial perceptions of the service site/community organization, or the individuals at the site that you have chosen? • What do you think will be the challenges related to this volunteer experience? • What are the weaknesses or fears you bring to this project in working with children? • What are the strengths you bring to this project in working with children? • How does this project relate to your concept of civic responsibility at this point? o After volunteering please answer these questions: o How much time did you spend and exactly what you do? o What have you learned about yourself and your community? o What do you feel you contributed and why? o What was most rewarding? o What was the most important lesson you learned? o What are your thoughts now that the work is completed? (surprises, expectations; fulfilled or not, if you had it to do over you would…) o Tell me the connections you think this project and experience has to child psychology- any part of the course? o How does this project relate to your concept of civic responsibility at this point? Note: How your work looks and is presented represents what you think of it and how you want an instructor to think of it. Make sure to label it with your name and give it a title. PLEASE PROOFREAD YOUR WORK OR HAVE SOMEONE IN THE LANGUAGE LAB OR WRITING CENTER READ IT AS YOUR PROFESSOR WILL INCLUDE CONSIDERATIONS OF SPELLING, CORRECT WORK USAGE, AND GRAMMAR IN HER GRADING OF YOUR WORK.