Amy Keliher

"Food for the Neighboring Soul" incorporates service learning into the curriculum at Slinger High School. With service learning being a top priority for the school, the English department will provide students with creative activities that involve using particular skills to provide service to the community. Activities include Pocket Stories, Military Interviews, Empty Bowls, and a Family Service Night. Pocket Stories is a literacy campaign where students will paint aprons and book bags with a character from a children's book and place objects from the book in the pockets to make the stories come alive for local elementary school children. For Military Stories, participants will study Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms, conduct interviews with local military personnel, and put the stories in an oral-history book. Empty Bowls will include students investigating the issue of poverty through reading, guest speakers, video, and other forms of media. They will then paint bowls that represent empty bowls of food throughout the world and sell them at a Family Service Night to help fight hunger. Keliher hopes students will become more socially responsibility through the project. She lives in Oconomowoc.