GOYB
Get Off Your Butt

All GOYB's are due no later than 5 PM Monday, October 6
 Keep in mind that you need to complete one on-campus and one off-campus GOYB each semester.

The purpose of the G.O.Y.B. is to help you experience firsthand some of the ideas and issues that we are going to be studying this year.

This is a different kind of assignment than your regular coursework.

The essential aspect of the G.O.Y.B. is what you experience. Your task is to immerse yourself in the experience, paying special attention to your feelings, thoughts, and reflections. As such, your written reflection is not a report of what you did, but a reflection on what you experienced (see the rubric for more guidance), and how that experience is connected to what we have been studying in our work together this year. Be creative! Be thoughtful!

  • All of you will have the opportunity to participate in four GOYB experiences this year, one each quarter.
  • You have seven calendar days from the time of the experience to turn in your reflection. Be sure to include the date of the experience in your reflection.
  • Only those G.O.Y.B. opportunities listed on our class website are approved. (We are always looking for more opportunities. If you have an idea for a G.O.Y.B., please let me know, and we’ll try to share it with the rest of your classmates).
  • Your paper should be approximately a page in length (250-300 words) and should respond to each of the following three question

     

  • What? 2-3 sentences, briefly describing the date, place, and activity you experienced.
  • So What? Explain why this was an important activity to participate in, and how the experience connects to our coursework (roughly half of your paper).
  • Now What? Address what you learned through this experience, and how this might change your outlook on the world, your sense of empathy and understanding of others, etc. (roughly the second half of your paper).

SEE Rubric

Your GOYB grade (100 points) is assigned according to what you did and how thoughtfully you reflected on it. It is due no more than 7 days after the GOYB event.


 
 

 

On-Going Events:

Any Thursday Morning Comfort Runs. Meet in Garage at 6:45am. Return around 8:00. Bring sandwiches and juice to homeless people in the Tenderloin outside of St. Anthony's Dining Room. Sign up on the white board outside room 209. YOU MUST SIGN UP.

Any trip to Martin dePorres House of Hospitality. Meet at 5:55 am in front of the flagpole. Return to SI around 8:20. Sign up on the board in 212. YOU MUST SIGN UP. Friday Mornings (and the fourth Monday of each month):

Any 9 AM mass at St. Boniface Parish in the Tenderloin (133 Golden Gate Avenue between Leavenworth and Market 415.863.0111)

Tutoring at St. Peter's Grade School: See Mr. Jackson in the Magis office

Tutoring at DeMarillac Middle School- 3-5 pm, M-F (Call 552-5220, Enrique or Celine)
Aidan's Way

Visit the African Diaspora Museum in San Francisco

Please check with your Spanish and Religious Studies teachers to see if there is any "crossover" with GOYB and Espanol en la Calle opportunities.

What's New:

Magis Film Festival: 1:45 in Room 109

October 10: Grace Lee Project

November 14: School Ties

Exhibit: Doctors Without Borders: A Refugee Camp in the Heart of the City - October 15-19, 2008

This free exhibit, co-sponsored in SF by World Savvy, is made up of materials used by Doctors Without Borders in its medical work around the world. Guided by aid workers, students will explore real shelters; see how food is distributed; taste the high-energy biscuits distributed to combat malnutrition; understand basic health care and epidemic control in emergency settings, and more. For more information on our 2008 California tour to San Francisco, Los Angeles, Santa Monica, and San Diego, and to find some resources to use with your class, click here:
http://doctorswithoutborders.org/education/refugeecamp/home. School groups are encouraged to attend! Sign up now to bring your class in October 2008, go to: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/109549666.

Note: A great curriculum companion piece for this exhibit is available online at the Exploring Human Rights virtual classroom from the ICRC - module 5B
http://www.ehl.icrc.org/images/stories/explorations_pdfs/5_comp.pdf

Solidarity Dinner: Wednesday, October 22--Carlin Commons
Join us for the Immersion Program's information night

THE SEA IS SO WIDE AND MY BOAT IS SO SMALL: Examining ways to create a safer world for children SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2008, 5-7 PM
Featuring: MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN
President of the Children's Defense Fund
You must RSVP to Mr. Shaughnessy by Wednesday, October 8

Cowell Theater @ Fort Mason Center
Marina Boulevard and Buchanan Street, San Francisco

Marian Wright Edelman is President of the Children's Defense Fund and best-selling author, she will examine how to make our nation and world safe and fair for all children. She will offer insights from her new book, The Sea Is So Wide and My Boat Is So Small.