“They say that time changes things, but you

actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

PERSONAL PROOF PORTFOLIO PACKET

Guide Question: How do we use geometric logic to create
change and raise awareness?

Name: ________________________________________________

Issue/Topic: ___________________________________________

Teacher: ______________________________________________

Date: ________________________________________________

The purpose of the Portfolio Folder is to document the steps of the

Personal Proof as you complete your project.

There are 4 major pieces of the Personal Proof Project:

1. Investigate
2. Design
3. Educate
4. Reflect

Your final project is Due: Friday October 4th 2018.

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 TOPICS
The purpose of this project is to demonstrate how logic helps us
create awareness about issues concerning us as Global citizens.

What is Global Citizenship?

Global Citizenship is about understanding the need to tackle
injustice and inequality, and having the desire and ability to work
actively to do so. It is about valuing the Earth as precious and unique,
and safeguards the future for those coming after us. Global Citizenship
is a way of thinking and behaving. It is an outlook on life, a belief that
we can make a difference.

What issues are of great concern to citizens right now?

What issues affect you most?

Your task is to create a research a topic, create a personal proof, and

develop an awareness poster. You will hand in this pocket after each
step, along with your articles and poster. The rubric is in the back.

Steps Point Value

1 Investigation 20
2 Personal Proof 25
3 Conditional Sentence 5
4 Poster 20
5 Reflection 15

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 INVESTIGATE
In this section:
1) Identify the problem to be solved (the issue):

2) Make a list of questions/ideas/steps to guide your investigation:

3) Identify, collect, analyze, select, and organize relevant sources of

information (where you will get your sources from for the
justifications). List your sources here:

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4) Write notes from your sources here:

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 DESIGN
In this section write your rough draft of your two-column proof:

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Final Version of your proof

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 EDUCATE
Now you are going to create a poster to raise awareness about your
issue and educate others. Your poster has three parts: Your Personal
Proof, 4 Logic Statements, Visuals (Pictures, Graphs, Drawings, etc.)

1) Create an original conditional statement below:

2) After peer review, rewrite your sentence below.

3) My final conditional statement is:

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AFTER YOU HAVE YOUR FINAL CONDITIONAL SENTENCE WRITE THE:

1) INVERSE:

2) CONVERSE

3) CONTRAPOSITIVE:

MAKING THE POSTER

NOW GO FIND YOUR GRAPHICS AND CREATE YOUR POSTER.

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 REFLECTION
1) What do you think are the strengths of your Personal Proof?

2) What could you have improved upon?

3) Using what we have learned about logic, reasoning and proof,

respond to the Andy Warhol quote on the front of this packet.

4) What did you think about this overall project? What did you
enjoy? What didn’t you enjoy?

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Example

Summary: About My Project

This is a personal proof project for geometry. I chose to focus on unemployment because it’s
a problem around the world. Lots of people don’t have jobs and when people don’t have jobs,
it can lead to not having enough money for food and then people could die from starvation. I
made website because I want people to see it and help people who need jobs. I created a
personal proof and poster to let people know the basics of unemployment but to also tell
people what to do if they’re unemployed.

Personal Proof: My Argument

Statements
1. The unemployment rate is going up.
2. In February 2009, the unemployment rate
went up to 9.0
3. Many jobs are being lost per month
4. There are people living on food stamps.
5. More opportunities for jobs will reappear 5. I found this in an article in the New York
in 2010
Justifications
1. Given
2. I found this from
www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf
3. There are 135,000 job losses a
month=www.bls.gov
4. There are 2,109,105 people living on food
stamps.
Times, the article was “Hiring? Raises?
Bonuses it really isn’t 2009 anymore is it?”

Conditional Sentence: “If we do not create more jobs, then more people will be living on food
stamps.”

Poster

Resources:
"Unemployment Tops 10% in 15 States" MSNBC July
17, 2009
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31963779/ns/business-stocks_and_economy/

"Claims for Jobless Benefits Rise Unexpectedly" New York

Times May 20, 2010
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/21/business/economy/21econ.html?scp=9&sq
=unemployment&st=cse

"The unemployment crisis by education" Washington Post June

1st, 2010
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezraklein/2010/06/the_une
mployment_crisis_by_edu.html

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 Category Level 4 Level 3 Level 2 Level 1
Investigate (Research and Summary)
Summary The summary The summary The summary There is no
Statement statement provides a statement statement is summary
clear, strong provides a clear present, but does statement.
statement of the statement of the not make the
author's interest in author's interest author’s interest
the topic and/or in the topic or position clear.
position on the topic. and/or position No
The author outlines on the topic and outline is
the main points to be outlines some of provided.
discussed. the points to be
discussed.
Questions & The author provides The author The author does Includes 1 or
Sources insightful questions provides not provide fewer pieces of
and demonstrates good questions, or evidence
strong interest in the questions and questions do not (facts,
topic. 3 or more demonstrates relate to the topic. statistics,
sources are provided. interest in the 2 sources are examples, real-
topic. 2 -3 provided. life
sources are experiences).
provided.
Investigate (Research and Summary)
Proof All arguments were Most arguments All arguments Arguments
clearly tied to an idea were clearly tied were clearly tied were not
(premise) and to an idea to an idea clearly tied to
organized in a tight, (premise) and (premise) but the an idea
logical fashion. organized in a organization was (premise)
tight, logical sometimes not
fashion. clear or logical.
Use of Facts Every major point Every major Every major point Every point
was well supported point was was supported was not
with several relevant adequately with facts, supported.
facts, statistics and/or supported with statistics and/or
examples relevant facts, examples, but the
statistics and/or relevance of some
examples. was questionable.
Educate
Mathematical The four logic The four logic There are some All or some of
Concepts statements are strong, statements are errors in the four the logic
clearly written and clearly written logic statements statements are
accurate. and accurate. and/or they are missing. The
awkward or not statements are
grammatically irrelevant.
correct.

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Poster Poster is neat and the Poster is neat and The poster is Images, what
Illustrations images are clear and images are messy and images images.
and Graphics greatly add to the somewhat are difficult to
reader's difficult to understand or are
understanding of the understand and/or not used.
issue. may not be
relevant to the
issue.
Reflection
Clarity & Student provides Student answers Student answers Student is
Completeness thoughtful insight in all the questions most of the unable to
clear and complete in full sentences. questions. reflect on the
sentences. project.

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