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.

Third Interview Preparation

1. Who do you plan to interview?  What is this person's area of expertise?

I plan on interviewing a man in my area names Clifford Rackley. He is a family history person who is very well known within the LDS church in this area.
2. Verify that you have called your interviewee to schedule an interview.  What is the date and time of the interview? 

I have not called this person, but do plan on talking to them over the weekend. 
3. Phrase an open-ended question that will help you find research resources that would help to answer the EQ.

What kind of resources are most helpful when looking for ways to help those who are in a situation such as African Americans. 

4. Phrase an open-ended question that will help you think about other useful activities you might do to help you answer the EQ (IC2, possible experts to talk to, etc).

What is a unique way to convey Family History to high school students who aren't active in it at all?

5. Phrase two open-ended questions that help you to understand your interviewee's perspective on an aspect of your EQ. 

Blog 13: 10 Hour Mentorship Check-In

1.   Where are you doing your mentorship?

For my mentorship, I am going on Ancestry and Family Search to complete my own personal family history.

2.   Who is your contact?  What makes this person an expert?

My contact is a woman names Sherri Salmans. She is considered an expert because she has not only done this for 15 years, but has also helped people by doing their family history. Throughout her time completing family history, she has had to figure the out how exactly to find family members because of coming from different countries and moving across the country in the mid-west.

3.   How many  hours have you done during the school year? (Summer Mentorship Hours and Mentorship Hours should be reflected separately in your Senior Project Hours log located on the right hand side of your blog).

I have done 10.5 hours.

4.   Succinctly summarize what you did, how well you and your mentor worked together, and how you plan to complete the remaining hours.

My mentor and I work together well not only because she and both care about family history, but also because I see her on a regular basis.

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 11: Lesson 1 Reflection

1. What are you most proud of in your lesson, and why?

I am most proud that I was able to have fun and be excited about the presentation. I noticed that some people were excited, but they carried themselves as if they weren't that excited because of their tone of voice and volume.

2. What assessment would you give yourself on your lesson? Explain why you earned that grade using evidence from the component contract.

I give myself an AP. I give myself an AP because I was not calm and my voice was very shaky and seemed to be visibly nervous. I do hope I did receive a P though, but would understand if I did not receive an AP.

3. If you could go back, what would you change about your lesson?  How can you use that knowledge to give a better Lesson 2?

If I could change my lesson 1, I would have practiced the presentation out loud and not just in my head. To do better for Lesson 2, I would make sure my presentation is ready a few days before my actual presentation and practice it with a few people so that I don't sound so unprepared and nervous.