The Ubuntu Project - Letters from KIPP

I received the first reply to your letters from KIPP over the weekend. Others to follow.

Dear Breck Stenson and Cady Hammer


My name is Joy Washington and I'm a 5th grader at KIPP charlotte. I'm glad that I'm working with you. The biggest goal at KIPP is to prepare us for college, I found out that is your big goal to.

One of your questions was what big projects do you have this year? Well, so far we will have two projects in history class, one is a slave diary we will make. The second one is we are going to act out the civil war. The amount of home work that we have is about two assignments in each block. Since we have four blocks that's eight assignments altogether. We stay in school from 7:30am to 5pm. When school is over I am VERY tired, but it's worth it because I get the education I need.

I have a few questions for you and they are, what colleges do you want to end up in? What are your activities at school like? What do you do each day to get better? I hope to see you soon!!!

From, Your friend Joy Washington at KIPP

Tomorrow, we will work on 'Conclusion' and refining your ideas for the Ubuntu Project. This is the last week with no H/W sheet. Have you balanced your workload other the course of this project effectively so as to comfortably meet Friday's deadline?

Ubuntu Project - Research Person

How can you personify your ideas in order to come up with a creative choice for your leader?

Ubuntu Project - Examples of Creativity

The Ubuntu Project

By Thursday, bring in your choice for the greatest leader in history.

Rmember the different levels of thinking...

1) The Obvious

2) The Unlikely

3) The Abstract

Who will you nominate?

The Ubuntu Project - Research

Use this link to investigate and learn about  KIPP school.

http://www.kippcharlotte.org/

 Find:

• Five things our schools have in common
• Five things the students have in common
• Prepare three questions that you would like your group leaders to ask when they meet up with the KIPP students.

If you want to understand the true value of an excellent education for those who don't take it for granted, follow this link and watch the video.

http://www.kippcharlotte.org/aboutus.htm

This video below gives a little history about the organization



H/W is due for Tuesday