for educational purposes

1. If Everyone Cared like…!
Name:___________________________ Pd:___
Betty Williams
Bob Geldoff
Human Rights
World Hunger
organized a Peace March in
in 1984 worked to end world response to violence in
hunger by organizing “Live Northern Ireland; 2nd march =
Aid” concert & raised $150 35,000 ppl! won the Nobel
million in 1 DAY! Peace Prize in 1976
.
Heroes
Highlight the hero
that inspires you
most.
Nelson Mandela
Human Rights
1920s South Africa
against apartheid (racial
segregation); imprisoned 27
st
years for treason; 1
democratically elected
president in SA & 19 million ppl
voted! He ended apartheid.

2. Open-Ended Response
In 1961, 2 students in Portugal raised their glasses to freedom and were imprisoned for 7 yrs.
Peter Benenson wrote a letter to a local paper to rally support for the students & protest
this injustice. His founded Amnesty International.
• If you were in Beneson’s shoes, what would you do? Would you be a bystander
or would you stand up?
R
A
C
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“Never doubt that a small group of common people can change the world. Indeed, it
is the only thing that ever has.”
– Margaret Mead, cultural anthropologist
Paraphrase Mead’s Quote:

3. "If Everyone Cared
Nickelback
From underneath the trees, we watch the sky
Confusing stars for satellites
I never dreamed that you'd be mine
But here we are, we're here tonight
Singing Amen, I, I'm alive
Singing Amen, I, I'm alive
If everyone cared and nobody cried
If everyone loved and nobody lied
If everyone shared and swallowed their pride
Then we'd see the day when nobody died
And I'm singing
Amen I, Amen I, I'm alive
Amen I, Amen I, Amen I, I'm alive
And in the air the fireflies
Our only light in paradise
We'll show the world they were wrong
And teach them all to sing along
Singing Amen, I, I'm alive
Singing Amen, I, I'm alive
(I'm alive)
And as we lie beneath the stars
We realize how small we are
If they could love like you and me
Imagine what the world could be
If everyone cared and nobody cried
If everyone loved and nobody lied
If everyone shared and swallowed their pride
Then we'd see the day when nobody died
When nobody died...
We'd see the day, we'd see the day
When nobody died
We'd see the day, we'd see the day
When nobody died
We'd see the day when nobody died

4. Student handout
Excerpt from ‘The Drum Major Instinct’
A Speech by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Ebenezer Baptist Church, Atlanta, February
4, 1968
!
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!
…If you want to be important—wonderful. If you want to be recognized—
wonderful. If you want to be great—wonderful. But recognize that he who
is greatest among you shall be your servant. That’s your new definition of
greatness. And this morning, the thing that I like about it . . . by giving
that definition of greatness, it means that everybody can be great. Because
everybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve.
You don’t have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve. You
don’t have to know about Plato and Aristotle to serve. You don’t have to
know Einstein’s theory of relativity to serve. You don’t have to know the
second theory of thermodynamics in physics to serve. You only need a
heart full of grace. A soul generated by love. And you can be that servant…
Copyright: Estate of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Copyright renewed 1996, Coretta Scott
King.
Used by permission of Writers House, LLC, New York City.

5. Student handout
EXAMPLES of Service Learning Topics
Environment • Global Warming
• Recycling
• Deforestation (Rain Forests)
• Threatened Environments (Coral Reefs, Ice Caps Melting)
• Pinelands Preservation (i.e., Black Run Preserve in Marlton)
• Drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Preserve
• Water Pollution (access to clean water)
• Air Pollution
• Light Pollution
Medical • Aids
• Cancer (Breast, Leukemia, Hodgkins, Ovarian, etc)
Public Safety • Disabilities (Hearing, Developmental, Learning, etc)
• Drug or Alcohol Abuse
• Drunk Driving
• Teen Suicide
• Cigarettes
• Organ Donation/Transplants
• Obesity
• Eating Disorders
• Drugs and Sports
Animal Welfare • Animal Testing (i.e., Iams Cruelty)
• Puppy Mills
• Dog Fighting
• “Unchain your Dog”
• The Seal Hunt
• Gorilla Poaching
• China Fur Trade
• Elephant Poaching
• Animal Shelters: Make Adoption your first option
• Spay & Neuter pets
• Bear Baiting (South Carolina, Middle East)
• Circuses (animal abuse)
• Dolphin slaughter in Japan (The Cove)
Human Rights • Poverty/Homelessness - focus on 1 country or continent
• Polygamy
• Child Abuse
• Genocide in Darfur
• Taliban and treatment of women
• World Hunger
• Malnutrition in Malawi: Project Peanut Butter
• Women’s Rights in Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, etc
• Civil War/ Rape in the Congo
• Cyber-bullying
• Childhood Prostitution/Enslavement
• Bullying
• Capital Punishment
• Cyber-safety (online risks)
• Terrorism
• Torture
• Education For All : Pakistan (author, Dean Mortenson), India
• Discrimination (race, religion, gender, ethnic, Immigration)