Homework April 18th

Students are writing a thank you letter to the Ross Lum Memorial Trust Fund regarding the donation we received for our field trip. A draft of the letter is due tomorrow am.

Social Studies Poster
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Socials Studies

Posters – Due Thursday, April 25.

Task : Create a poster that shows the positive benefits and affects of the Fair Trade Organization on the production of chocolate.

Your poster must have:

 • a slogan      ie Eat Fresh Eat Right Subway  Driving our World Forward Chevrolet

• pictures

• visuals or words that show all the benefits of fair trade

What are the benefits of Fair Trade? (Do you have all of these on your poster – use the boxes to check off each item)

  ☐guarantees farmers a consistent price for their cocoa beans

-       ☐pays farmers a fair price for their cocoa beans

-       ☐farmers who belong to a fair trade cooperative receive enough money to meet their basic needs – housing, food, education, medical attention,

-       ☐fair trade chocolate does not use any child labor to produce their chocolate

-       ☐farmers in the fair trade cooperatives do not live in poverty is the direct first cause of us the use of child labor

-       ☐the cooperatives receive a premium that the cooperative uses to improve their village – ie build a new well for clean water, build a school, pay for a doctor to come to their village

Givens

-       neat

-       everything is spelled correctly

-       a good use of color and pictures

4 – excellent work- goes beyond the expectations – there is some wow factor in your poster – you original ideas and art work. The benefits of Fair trade are clearly detailed in pictures and words.

3 – very good work, meet expectations. The benefits of Fair trade are clearly detailed in pictures and words.

2 – ok work – Some on the benefits of Fair trade are shown in pictures and words.

1 – redo – you need to go back to the drawing board and look at the description of the of the assignment above.