Teen Violence- Process Paper

Coming into this project, as a group, we had a bunch of ideas. We never discussed who a leader was, so together the work was distributed and done equally. We started with disagreements, and ended with a well collaborative project that we all put effort into. Collaboration, (one of our core values) is the main reason we were successful during this project.

Our first idea for the project, since it was on Teen Violence, was to go to schools and speak about teen violence and the views, wrongs, the bad, and ways to change it. Then we thought, "who are we to preach, judge, and criticize other teens about violence. Also considering the fact that getting a chance, or opportunity to present in front of school would be complicated. So we went with the idea of making a website for our campaign, and recording and having students participate in a PSA. We made a website, and a social network (Facebook) to promote the campaign. Our catch phrase/ slogan is "HANN." Sounds like "huh?" but it's slang, and a lot of artistes use it in their lyrics. When we say "HANN" we're referring to a violent situation, and questioning the seriousness in it, for people to do the violent things that they do. For example, in our video, "you lost to him in a game of basketball, now you wanna mix? HANN?" Which is one of the common reason teen end up being violent toward each other. The social network consisted of a Facebook like page where teens, and any one else was open to write how they felt about teen violence, and any experiences they've encountered, or family/friends they've lost to teen violences. The website had our PSA, links to our Facebook, and a personal blog that our Principal, Chris Lehman shared us in.

Even though we didn't officially choose a leader for the project, it was clear that Jackie too that role in being a leader by putting together everyones ideas for the project, and distributing amongst ourselves. Responsibility and communication are both strong components that we all carried during the project. If someone was missing the day something was due, we'd contact each other, and find away to get our part of the project in class, as well as not using absences, be the reason for not having work done.