Reflection #4
(Due following the ending of the Service Learning project)
Answer the following in your journal. You may write more, of course, but at a minimum please
write at least three substantive paragraphs in response to each question.
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How did your expectations and actual experiences relate to each other? What went the way you
thought it would? What did not? Why do you suppose your expectations and reality were
different, if in fact they were?
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In what ways did your experience connect to our readings and class discussions? Did you find
campaigning to match the kinds of things we talked and read about? For those not in a campaign,
was the process of organizing/activating an interest group or voting project what you would have
expected from what we learned in class about the way local government works?
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Why did your organization win or lose? (for campaigns)
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What factors led to either the success or failure of the organization with which you worked
(non-campaigns)?
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How did your “real world” experience compare to what happened during our Camelot
simulation?
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