The Product or Performance

Guidelines:
     Now that you have gained new knowledge through your research paper, demonstrate your new learning in a performance.

A PRODUCT: Something that is tangible or can be heard. It is a statue, book, painting, tool, fishing-pole, movie, song, web-site or PowerPoint for the purpose of delivering a lesson, etc.

A PERFORMANCE: An ACTION. You may plan, organize and manage a performance. This can be creating and presenting a concert, planning and directing a play, implementing and managing an advertising campaign, providing a community service, or organizing a school or community event.

     You may create a product OR plan, organize and manage a performance. This is the masterpiece that celebrates your new knowledge learned from your research. This is the proof that you can take what you have learned and do something with it. Make it real! Think about what you want to take with you when you leave Ferris High School. Develop something that would be useful to you when you are gone and out there in the real world, including higher education. Imagine that you have been hired to complete this task, and your professionalism and quality count. Quality will always vary from person to person.

     If you choose to create a product, think of something that needs to be ready to sell, be presented in a museum, or displayed for the public. Think of it as something that you could hand or present to a potential interviewer.

     If you choose to plan, organize and manage a performance, carry it out from beginning until the end. You have to plan what you want to get done, organize all of the parts involved and manage the details through its completion. We need people in our work-force that don’t stop working until the job is done. Choosing a performance allows you to practice organizational skills, time management, team-work, problem-solving and collaboration.