Coweta students are jumping into action and are getting involved in projects. Here are potential individual and group projects for a Good Deeds Society, inspired by the book, Good Deeds Society.
1. Put together a scrap book of collage / texts / stories
a. Worksheet for a remembered event (OpenPlan - Good Deeds Remembered Event)
b. Worksheet for an affirming moment (OpenPlan - Good Deeds Society Affirming Moment)
c. Worksheet for identity construction (OpenPlan - Good Deeds Society Cool Clothes)
d. Worksheet for polishing and revising (OpenPlan - Good Deeds Society Revision Guide)
2. Write stories in which you intersperse intrusive thoughts / overheard conversations / details of your life / fairy tale narratives, and you deliberatey avoid “making sense” of it while you’re writing it
3. Create a series of collages that feature text and images that make you think about your life and situations you’d like to make better
4. Develop a series of “Business Plans for My Utopian World”
a. Pet Rescue Center / Adoption Days (A “No-Kill Animal Shelter”)
b. Project Runway 51 – styles / creations you have assembled using thrift store and re-purposed clothing to build your own forward-looking fashion
c. Love-The-Earth Day: Pick up trash from parks / play areas / parking lots
d. Letters from Heaven (or just an unknown friend) – Anonymous letters to people who usually get nothing (people in nursing homes, shelters, homeless areas)
e. Refuge for the Teen Homeless: How to make things better? Your plan
5. Earthworks // Spiral Jetties // A Tour of the Monuments of Highway 51 (inspired by Robert Smithson) & Painting / Freshening-up Rundown Public Places Used by Kids
a. Graffiti old rusting cars (have someone allow you to graffiti an old, inoperable car)
b. Graffiti art for unrented billboards – come up with a theme and make it big
c. Pile rocks in “earthworks” – instead of “crop circles” how about “rock circles” ??
d. Alien visitation art … how would you do art that would make it appear that we are experiencing visits from crafts from alien / distant planets / galaxies?
e. Hot, Bright Paint Gardens: painting places that desperately need a freshening up … bathrooms? Changing rooms? Hallways? Think about how to incorporate a “paint garden” if it appeals to you.
Listen to Chapters in Good Deeds Society!
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3a
Chapter 3b
Chapter 4a
Chapter 4b
