Blog 19: Third Answer

• EQ 
• What is the best way for family history to be ascertained when written records are difficult to find?
• Answer #3 (Write in a complete sentence like a thesis statement)*
• It is important to understand where a person comes from on a genetic level.
• 3 details to support the answer
• Take into consideration, someone who is adopted and wants to find their birth family. If they had an idea as to their heritage instead of just guessing, as to where someone came from.
• In cases of African Americans, when trying to understand where they come from (if slavery is apart of their history) they could learn where exactly they are from and that might inspire them to feel complete.
• Also knowing your genetic ethnicity is important, because there might be diseases in your family that could impact your life as an adult,=.
• I.e Breast Cancer, Alzheimer's, Diabetes, prostate cancer.
• The research source(s) to support your details and answer
• Ancestry DNA
• Concluding Sentence
• Therefore, it is important to understand your genetic history for the reasons of adoption, wanting to know where you come from, and from health reasons.

Blog 12: Holiday Project Update

1.  It is important to consistently work on your senior project, whether it is break or we are in school.  What did you do over the break with your senior project?

Over the break I did nothing until about New Years Eve. On New Years Eve, I completed research checks that I had been behind on. While doing research, I had looked for research for future sources.

2.  What was the most important thing you learned from what you did, and why?  What was the source of what you learned?

My research was actually about basing research while completing family history. The videos I watched went over how to properly determine who your family is and to not just seeing one document and just assuming that the name on the paper is who you are looking for. I learned all of this on the Ancestry youtube channel.

3.  Your third interview will be a 10 question interview related to possible answers for your EQ. Who do you plan to talk to and why?

I plan to talk to other people I know who are involved in family history. I might contact someone who works at a separate Family History Center and ask them about interviewing them. I plan on doing this because it important to get more than one perspective on family history work and how they would answer my EQ based on their experience. 

Blog 1 – Senior Final Lesson/Interview Reflection

1.  What three lessons were most helpful for you to see, and why?

• One important lesson I attended was the lesson on Network Marketing because the activity was confusing and it made no sense. And I took a note down saying that if I were to do a similar activity, I would have to explain the activity more in depth.
• From my Automotive lesson, I learned that it is okay to have some fun with the presentation. Not to much so that you aren't taken seriously, but enough to make it somewhat entertaining. It was important for me to learn that because I don't want the students who watch my presentation bored out of their brains.
• For Labor and Delivery I learned the lesson of making every actually get up and do the activity because some of my other presentations had activities that were only able to have a couple people participate, and that was not very exciting to watch.

2. List one thing that you learned about the senior project in interviews that will help you get off to a good start?

• I was absent for the interviews.

3. What topic(s) are you considering, and why?

• Social working of some kind because it is what I want to do for a possible career.
• I would also want to do some kind of psychology because I have always been intrigued by that field of mental health and study of human mind.

4. What EQ do you think might be interesting to consider in guiding a project like this? (Please don't worry about any sort of formula...we want this question to come from your genuine interest).

• What is the most effective way to help a distressed teen that comes from an "easy" life?

5. What are some ideas you have about finding summer mentorship?

• I am going to talk to some of my personal friends about the project and about the mentor ship and hope they can point me somewhere for a start.