Blog 18: Answer 2

1.  What is your EQ?

• My EQ is How can family history be ascertained when written records are difficult to find?

2.  What is your first answer? (In complete thesis statement format)

• My answer to my EQ is to look beyond sources that are "obvious" and to look beyond birth certificates and look at smaller sources such as directories and newspapers.

3.  What is your second answer? (In complete thesis statement format)

• My second answer to my EQ is to look at the historical events of the time era I am researching.

4.  List three reasons your answer is true with a real-world application for each.

• My answer is true because events in other countries led to families from other places to come to the United States. For example, WWII Europe was not safe for Jews, so for safety, they came here to the States where they would be safe.
• My answer goes into customs, and it is true because there are naming traditions in countries like Italy. For example, if a family has a son and if the child dies before they turn 2, the next baby will be given the same name.
• It is also important to understand the impact religion has on people. Take the mormon church, the saints moved across the plains for something they believed in, no matter how long it took. It would make sense as to why they are off the grid for a few years, because they were traveling from New York to Utah within the span of about ten years.

5.  What printed source best supports your answer?

• My third interview provided me with this source.

6.  What other source supports your answer?

• A video on Ancestry that discusses the importance of understanding the importance of migration, time it happened, and how long they were traveling.

7.  Tie this together with a concluding thought.

• My EQ answers are not always self explanatory in the sense that if someone is new to family history, they may not understand that history is a major factor when impacting family history.

Blog 17- Interview 3 Reflection

1. What is the most important thing I learned from the interview?  

The most important thing I feel I learned from my interview is how important it is to focus on the actual history part of family history and to understand customs and traditions of the country of your area of study.

2.  How has your approach to interviewing changed over the course of your senior project?

My approach is to now let the answers to my questions decide my next question and not worry to much about having set questions ready right away.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5TdWp8sdyWna1BWVEZlRWh0NTQ/view?usp=sharing 

16: Independent Component 2 Approval

1.  Describe in detail what you plan to do for your 30 hours.

What I plan on doing for the next 30 hours is completing the family history of Kenzie McCarell.

2.  Discuss how or what you will do to meet the expectation of showing 30 hours of evidence.

What I will do to prove that I spent 30 hours is by having someone taking pictures, of me doing research, show pictures of the start of the tree when I begin the project, and then show a picture of everything I have found by the end of the 30 hours.

3.  Explain how this component will help you explore your topic in more depth.

This IC will help me understand the answers of my EQ because I know that not all of her families sources are not going to be obvious. And my EQ is about finding sources that are not easily accessible.

4.  Post a log in your Senior Project Hours link and label it "Independent Component 2" log.

Go to Mentorship hours and scroll down to the IC 2 Section.

Independent Component 1

• LITERAL
  (a)  “I, Diane Gordon, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.”
  (b) Cite your source regarding who or what article or book helped you complete the independent component.
•  Ancestry.com and FamilySearch.org 
  (c) Update your hours in your Senior Project Hours link. Make sure it is clearly labeled with hours for individual sessions as well as total hours.
• (d) Explain what you completed.    
• INTERPRETIVE 
  Defend your work and explain its significance to your project and how it demonstrates 30 hours of work.   Provide evidence (photos, transcript, art work, videos, etc) of the 30 hours of work.  
  
• APPLIED
  How did the component help you understand the foundation of your topic better?  Please include specific examples to illustrate this. 
• This goes into my topic because my topic is about helping myself connecting to my family and helping someone connect to theirs. So for my independent component, I did my best to help someone understand their family,

 I had to start with Isaac. 

 This is my end result of the project.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BzMeYW7pfRpZOmgTX9CiMwrZNV_XKU2yeUgtqrXNHms/edit?usp=sharing 

my IC essay. 

Lesson 2 Reflection

1.What are you most proud of in your Lesson 2 Presentation and why?

I am most proud that people actually seemed to be interested in my topic. I say that because I was very worried people would find my presentation boring and not really seem to care about my topic. I know that the class seemed to care at least a little bit because someone asked me what kind of free website they could go to and I said one they could go to and I saw a number of people write it down really excited.

2. a.     What assessment would you give yourself on your Lesson 2 Presentation (self-assessment)?

I deserve an AP.
   
     b.     I deserve that grade because I did not make it to the 20 minute mark and failed to cite at least one source.

3. What worked for you in your Lesson 2?

The thing that worked for me, was being able to have time to tell a story that I love to share, and being able to have people get to know who they are, and help them start trying to discover themselves.

4. What didn't work? If you had a time machine, what would you have done differently to improve your Lesson 2?

I didn't make time and forgot to go over the purpose of one of my props. There is not that much that really didn't 

5. What do you think your answer #2 is going to be?

I think my answer number two is to look at the problem at another angle. Such as, for tracking an african american family, not just giving up, but trying to track the family that owns the slave.