This document summarizes discussions from a service learning institute focusing on social studies and English language arts. It outlines Texas TEKS standards for 8th grade ELA and reading regarding comprehension of informational texts, synthesizing ideas within and across texts, and multimedia presentations. Potential topics for social studies are then listed relating to migrants, immigrants, diversity, poverty, elders, the environment, war, bullying, and the Holocaust. Quotes from students are included reflecting on their learning experiences with these topics. The LEADERS model for service learning and integrating youth voice into the curriculum are also mentioned.

1. Service Learning TexasJune 2011 InstituteFriday Focus GroupSocial Studies and English Language Arts

2. Four CornersLevels of PracticeContinued Needs

3. Success

4. Learning Through Conflict

5. ELA and Reading TEKS110.20 ELA and Reading. Grade 8b. Knowledge and SkillsComprehension of Informational Text/Expository Text. Students analyze, make inferences and draw conclusion about expository text and provide evidence from text to support their understanding.(D) synthesize and make logical connection between ideas within a text and across two or three texts representing similar of different genres and support those findings with textual evidence.

6. ELA and Reading TEKS110.20 ELA and Reading. Grade 8b. Knowledge and SkillsWriting/Expository and Procedural Texts. Students write expository and procedural or work-related texts to communicate ideas and information to specific audiences for specific purposes. Students are expected to:(D) produce a multimedia presentation involving text, graphics, images, and sound using available technology.

7. The Path Through Books

8. Migrant Workers

9. Migrant Workers

10. Immigrants

11. immigrants

12. diversity

13. diversity

14. diversity

15. Poverty and aspiration

16. Elders/friendship/death

17. Elders

18. environment

19. Environment/disasters

20. environment

21. environment

22. environment

23. Poverty/hopelessness

24. hunger

25. Poverty/teen pregnancy

26. Children and war

27. Children and war

28. bullying

29. tolerance

30. Visioning

31. The important thingAbout a spoon is That you eat with it.It’s like a little shovel,You hold it in your hand,You can put it in your mouth,It isn’t flat,It’s hollow,And it spoons things up.But the important thingAbout a spoon is that you eat with it.The Important Bookby Margaret wise brown

32. Holocaust and bullying2005-2006

33. Holocaust and bullying2005-2006

34. Holocaust and Bullying

35. Holocaust and Bullying

36. Holocaust and Bullying

37. Holocaust and BullyingAnti-Bullying GroupDenmark

38. Holocaust and BullyingTerezinHolocaust in General

39. I felt like I wasn’t the only one teaching them, but they were teaching me, too. ---Kiarra“If we do not act, we shall surely be dragged down the long dark and shameful corridors of time reserved for those who possess power without compassion, might without morality, and strength without insight.”---Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.When the majority hears something from a higher power, they’ll believe anything they hear. ---Jacob M.At the very beginning of the Holocaust project, I didn’t really care about it because I thought that the past was the past, and nothing would ever happen like that again.---Elizabeth

40. “…with enough people, we can stop what’s happening.” ---Lucas“ Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world: indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.”---Margaret Mead“…I know for sure that it brought me closer to other people I don’t talk to very often because I talk to them a little bit more than I did before this project.”---Jessie…I feel that we, the 8th grade kids of EMS, left behind something that nobody is ever going to forget and that, to me, is very satisfying!”---Tori

41. LEADERS ModelLEADERS ComponentCurriculum IntegrationYouth Voice

42. Marketing Service Learning

43. Marketing Service Learning

44. Making connections