AmeriCorps: A Guide to Effective Citizenship Through AmeriCorps
This Guide provides tools for integrating active citizenship into the AmeriCorps experience through interactive educational modules. The modules are based on four elements essential to active citizenship: knowledge, skills, attitudes, and action. Each module has two sessions: a content session and an action session. The content sessions provide activities that help members delve into the knowledge, skills, and attitudes of effective citizenship. The action sessions guide members through a service project in the community.
The guide is available in sections or as one large document in PDF format for download. You will need the free Adobe Acrobat Reader software to view and print these documents.
Download A Guide to Effective Citizenship through AmeriCorps in entirety (very large):
In sections:
- Table of Contents and Introduction (PDF)
- Module 1: Active Citizenship (PDF)
- Module 2: Citizen Choices (PDF)
- Module 3: Opinion Polling (PDF)
- Module 4: Conducting a News Search (PDF)
- Module 5: Policy Analysis (PDF)
- Module 6: Rights and Freedoms (PDF)
- Module 7: Does It Make Sense? (PDF)
- Module 8: Values in Conflict (PDF)
- Module 9: Getting Involved (PDF)
- Module 10: Differing Perspectives (PDF)
- List of Handouts, Resource Guide, Additional Ideas for Community-Service Projects (PDF)
