BY GABI HUTSON
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Freshmen students taking the pre-AP English 9 and Geography and World Cultures block will now know the 20% Project as the Global Citizen Project. Geography teacher Cari Oberreuter and English teacher Deborah Sidler changed the name to more specifically reflect the goal of the project.

According to Oberreuter, the project’s name caused confusion amongst students as it was unclear what the “20%” was accounting for, and she changed the name to something that better represents the essential point of the project; what your responsibility is as a global citizen.

“There was a lot of confusion students were wondering whether it was 20 percent of their time, or was it 20 percent of their grade,” Oberreuter said. “So we thought this was more reflective of the essential question … That’s pretty much what they have to do with their project is answer that question in some way.”

Other slight changes in the project, other than the name, will make guidelines more specific for students in the block class.

“It’s essentially similar to past years,” Oberreuter said. “We’ve just made it a little bit more prescriptive. There’s a few more steps or requirements.”

This year, the project could possibly appear on Good Morning Sacramento, and according to Oberreuter, they are interested in what RHS students are doing to show off their global citizenship.