Day 8: Growing the Movement & GOTV

• Celebrate our time together

• Reflect on the past 4 weeks as a means of solidifying learning

• Brainstorm ways to build on this group and momentum to take us through the next 2+ weeks to Election Day

• Provide feedback on the program to help improve it for future groups

• Gain insight and inspiration from guest speakers

• Develop questions for our guest speakers. Please read their bios and/or Google them, and develop 3 questions you’d like to ask. Write these in your journal and add ONE to a sticky note in the JamBoard (include your name).

• Calculate: If 60 people each got 3 friends/family members to volunteer for 3 hours per week for GOTV efforts or a campaign for 2 weeks, and each of those people’s efforts resulted in 5 additional people voting each week. How many voters would they turn out in total?

  1. What if they volunteered for 5 hours and their efforts resulted in 8 additional voters per week?

• Volunteer!

• Aim for 3-5 hrs/week; log your hours in your journal.

• Reflect in your journal: What are your observations? Highlights? Lowlights? Insights?

• Come prepared to reflect on and share your experiences.

PPT for this session are here.

JamBoards for this session. Gratitude & Guest Speakers

Feedback form.

Reflection (write in journal during session)

Content

1. What are 2-3 things that you learned over the past 4 weeks in relation to the content (three branches of government, voter suppression, electoral college, campaign finance, framing, etc.) we covered that you’ll take with you and remember?

2. What are 2-3 questions that you still have about how government and politics work?

Guest Speakers

1. Which of the guest speakers most resonated with you? Why?

2. What are 2-3 things that you learned from the guest speakers that you’ll take with you?

Volunteering

1. What organization/campaign(s) did you volunteer with?

2. Why were you drawn to them?

3. In what ways did you grow as a person through your experience volunteering?

4. The November 2020 election is 17 days from now. How would you like to stay involved for the next 17 days? What do you commit to doing between now and then? What about after the election?

Course Structure

1. What was it like to work cross-generationally?

2. What was it like to meet new people and develop relationships online via Zoom?