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    Kaitlin Allanson is a freshman from northern California participating in the Joint Educational Project (JEP) at USC. In her pre-reflection essay, she identifies that she expects to gain the most awareness of the community context surrounding Birdielee V. Bright Elementary where she will be doing her service, as she currently has little knowledge of the local area, history, policies, and inequalities. She is excited to learn directly from locals and experts. Kaitlin is also nervous about being placed outside her comfort zone for the first time, as JEP will require her to create and teach lesson plans to students, work closely with a small group of classmates, and engage in service learning to improve her own understanding of

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    Kaitlin Allanson is a freshman from northern California participating in the Joint Educational Project (JEP) at USC. In her pre-reflection essay, she identifies that she expects to gain the most awareness of the community context surrounding Birdielee V. Bright Elementary where she will be doing her service, as she currently has little knowledge of the local area, history, policies, and inequalities. She is excited to learn directly from locals and experts. Kaitlin is also nervous about being placed outside her comfort zone for the first time, as JEP will require her to create and teach lesson plans to students, work closely with a small group of classmates, and engage in service learning to improve her own understanding of

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    Kaitlin Allanson is a freshman from northern California participating in the Joint Educational Project (JEP) at USC. In her pre-reflection essay, she identifies that she expects to gain the most awareness of the community context surrounding Birdielee V. Bright Elementary where she will be doing her service, as she currently has little knowledge of the local area, history, policies, and inequalities. She is excited to learn directly from locals and experts. Kaitlin is also nervous about being placed outside her comfort zone for the first time, as JEP will require her to create and teach lesson plans to students, work closely with a small group of classmates, and engage in service learning to improve her own understanding of

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    Kaitlin Allanson is a freshman from northern California participating in the Joint Educational Project (JEP) at USC. In her pre-reflection essay, she identifies that she expects to gain the most awareness of the community context surrounding Birdielee V. Bright Elementary where she will be doing her service, as she currently has little knowledge of the local area, history, policies, and inequalities. She is excited to learn directly from locals and experts. Kaitlin is also nervous about being placed outside her comfort zone for the first time, as JEP will require her to create and teach lesson plans to students, work closely with a small group of classmates, and engage in service learning to improve her own understanding of

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    Kaitlin Allanson

    Team: Arsenal FC
    Birdielee V. Bright Elementary
    O. Aguilar/Grade 4

    PA: Sasha Hondagneu-Messner


    Course: Earthquakes (Geology 240)
    September 23, 2015
    Essay #1

    Essay #1: Preflection


    Approaching my JEP eight week course, I expect to experience the most change or
    development in the first category: awareness of the community context. As a freshman from
    northern California, I have very little knowledge of the area around Birdielee V. Bright
    Elementary. Unfortunately I know almost nothing about how my region or the greater LA region
    has been affected by history, geography, policy, or inequality. But fortunately, my lack of
    knowledge also means incredible room for growth. I am excited and interested to learn about the
    area outside of USC through direct contact with individuals who are true experts; locals, whether
    teachers or students offer an incredible, deep, and authentic perspective on how their community
    and the communities around them have been impacted by outside factors. I am eager to explore
    in particular how policy affects the area around Birdielee V. Bright Elementary. Who is making
    or has made the most impactful laws in this area? How do these laws affect the daily lives of
    those in this area? And what types of policies do locals think are the most important in the years
    to come? I think participating in JEP will allow me to most grow my knowledge of policy around
    the area my school is located and answer these questions with thorough, clear, and
    comprehensive answers. Therefore, my lack of knowledge of the University Park neighborhood
    provides an opportunity and excitement to develop my awareness of the community context.
    When I think about JEP, I also consider what makes me most nervous; what concerns me
    most is how JEP places me so far outside of my comfort zone. While I worked extensively in
    high school with younger children from low-income areas, USCs Joint Educational Project is
    completely new for me. I have never organized lesson plans and presented those same lesson

    plans to a class of eager students. I have never worked with such a small group of classmates to
    run an entire classroom. And I have never engaged in service learning for the sake of improving
    my own understanding of an educational topic. The novelty of these three things for me are
    intimidating and a bit concerning. However, this nervousness and placement outside my comfort
    zone also fosters a new skill set; to be successful, I will need to be ambitious, courageous, and
    adventurous. I expect these skills to really develop during my time with JEP; I really believe the
    three skills listed above come hand in hand with the type of program the Joint Educational
    Project has been designed to be. I also expect that in spite of my inexperience using service to
    improve my own academic understanding, this type of learning will deepen my knowledge of
    earthquakes. Teaching a subject I am currently learning should develop my skills as a learner,
    student, and teacher. Therefore, while I am nervous to tackle a new program, which forces me
    into an environment new and perhaps a bit daunting, I am also ready for the skill set the
    experience will solidify and the greater academic depth it will provide.

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