For this check-in each group should post a brief (1 paragraph) description of what your Alternative School Moment (ASM) will be and then a detailed breakdown of how you will accomplish that project.

Your description should answer the following questions:  

1. What will your ASM teach?
2. Who or what will do the teaching?
3. Where will your ASM take place?  Why?
4. What time of day will your ASM take place?  Why?
5. What kinds of materials and supplies will your ASM require you to gather or generate beforehand?

Your breakdown should include 10-20 steps.

You should  also include which group members will be involved in which tasks.

Note:  While it is not required for this check-in, your final project write-up will have to provide a rationale for how your methods reflect and serve your objectives.  You may wish to draft some of these rationales for this check-in even though it is not required for the check-in.

Assignment Graded based on:

1) Timely completion.

2) whether or not you have 10-20 actionable* steps.

3) each step has a group member in charge for that particular step.

*”actionable” refers to your literal action–what you actually do.

To use an  incendiary example:  I  want to start a fire is my objective.   Starting a fire cannot then be my actionable step.  An actionable step might be:.  I swipe a match against the side of the box.  OR I knock down all the lit church candles.  OR I throw a lit cigarette onto the curtains.   All of these actions have the potential to start a fire.  I may do them with the objective to start a fire, but each act is different and would be interpreted differently in the world and probably have different effects in the world.

The reason you need to have specific actionable steps is that

a) you are actually going to carry these steps out and you need to know if you need a cigarette butt or matches and

b) you are not just carrying out actions, you are trying to accomplish particular objectives tied to a particular theory or belief, so you want to think about the different interpretations different actions will have even if they seem to have the same effect.