Using Google Docs, create a PowerPoint about homelessness as a follow-up to our
semester-long Empty Bowl Project. Share your presentation with ms.kappelman@gmail.com
Your PowerPoint should include the following information:
Your PowerPoint should include the following information:
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Definitions of homelessness and poverty
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Information about Preble Street Resource Center
o
Who do they serve? (demographics)
o
What kinds of programs does the Center provide
o
Where are they located?
o
When did they open? How long have they been
around? What are their hours?
o
How do they get there funding? How much money do
they need?
o
Why do we go there as a class and donate money?
(Your opinion)
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Information about homelessness, poverty, and hunger
in Maine: Demographics
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Information about homelessness and poverty in
the US
o
How many people in the US are homeless? Live in
poverty? What percent is that?
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How many kids? What percent is that?
o
How many people are mentally ill in this
population?
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What is the racial breakdown of homelessness? Poverty?
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What is the level of education in this
population?
o
How have the levels changed over the years?
·
Information about a couple government programs
that combat poverty/homeless/hunger (who qualifies and what the program does)
·
Information about the Empty Bowl Project (What is
it?)
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Your opinion:
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How would it feel to be homeless? (Read some
stories online)
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What would you do if you found yourself
homeless?
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What should we, as a society do, to fight
hunger, homelessness, and poverty in the U.S.?
Cite ALL your sources in a BIBLIOGRAPHY! If you got any
information from a website, copy and paste the URL into your BIBLIOGRAPHY. If
you copy and paste anything WORD-FOR-WORD, make sure to put it in QUOTATION
MARKS and hyperlink the quotation to the website it came from or say where the
quotation came from in that slide.
Add graphics, images, and video to enhance your
presentation. Videos should be hyperlinked to the website where you found them.
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