Our topic was on the presidency of Mr. Ronald Reagan, specifically during the years of 1980-1890. During the course of working on the project, the our group researched the major events that occur during this time period. We first found out how he appointed the first women to the Supreme Court, Mrs. Sandra Day O'Connor. To support this, we included a Stanford commencement program that featured her as the guest speaker. Second, we also discovered that Pres. Reagan was opposed to the Berlin Wall. To elaborate on this, we drove to a piece of the Berlin Wall located in California and took a picture to represent this idea. With this, we added small amounts of information such as specifics on what Pres. Reagan did during his presidency from old Newsweek magazines. Also we included scenes of political cartoons that depicted the major ideas that appeared during the time period.
Much of our information was found through the help of the community. We found many documentation from neighbors. Also, we found other types of information though the internet as well as our groups garage. Local library were filled with an plethora of information and documentation that helped us very much.
If we were given a chance to pick a different topic, I would very much support that. The topic of Reagan was much too narrow to support during the project. There were too little concrete examples that represented Reagan. Other topics, such as technology and music, with broader topic would have been much more easier for us too elaborate and support on. It would have been better to actually do a little of the project early to see if the topic was worth working on.
If I were to give an advice, I would definitely tell them to be exact on the schedule. If you do not plan ahead on time. It becomes very difficult to find items later on. It is better to start earlier to grasp the magnitude of the work that must be put in the project.
-Fumi K
Nice Fumi! it seems like you got a lot out of this project and had fun while you were at it. Good work this year!
ReplyDeleteWow you drove to a section of the Berlin Wall? That's pretty cool, too bad you couldn't take any for the project! :D just kidding, haha.
ReplyDeleteGood post! I like how you specified what exactly you discovered while researching this topic.
ReplyDeleteAlthough, you said that you wanted to be able to pick a different topic, but I think she sort of gave us the chance to. Our group switched topics, and she just had us redo a couple parts of the project.
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