Passion Project #2

To identify resources I started to look on Google. Google gave me a lot of websites to choose from. Then Youtube was a really good place to look for videos. It was good for finding a lot of video resources. Finding resources was fairly easy, but finding good resources was hard.

T0 make sure the resources are credible I will compare the information to the Preservation Hall website because I know that is factual. I will also use well known sources like The New York Times.

The Preservation Hall website is the resource I think will be the most useful. I think this because they’re writing about themselves and they probably have a lot of information on themselves and I already have a lot of information from them and still more to read.

What nonfiction reading skill I’m trying to improve when I am reading websites and links for this project is identifying the text structure of the author is using. In my interview I will apply the school because I will need to know in what way the person I’m interviewing is talking about the information they’re giving me if they’re talking in chronological order first this than that, or me cause affect.

One note taking strategy that I am using is boxes and bullets I am putting as the box my sub topic that I’m researching and or the resource, as the bullets is all the information I get. How I came up on the strategy is I normally take notes in bullet form but it would be hard to just organize the bullets at the end so I decided to make it boxes and bullets because it would be easier on my part.

 

Passion Project #1

For English we got assigned a Passion Project to do.

The first thing we had to do was select a topic.  My strategy was to pick something that I am interested in and that I know a little bit about.  I started to think about things that I like that could be topics.  Some of them were: Preservation Hall, Mets (1969 or 1986), and Ben and Jerry’s.

It was  hard decision  but it came down to the resources I have.  I knew that I had two possible choices for an interview if I picked Preservation  Hall.  Also I knew there would lots of information out there on this topic.  I am excited to learn more.

Here is a link to my proposal that I sent to my teacher.