Finally, after countless months of hard work were done. What are we done with? Capstone! Capstone is a project where you choose the main inquiry question about a topic to study and present. You need five resources and an interview to help you determine your answer to your main inquiry question.
My question was “What is the impact of sports movies on young athletes in terms of their social, emotional, and academic well-being?” How I came up with this is a big story. My topic went through many changes and eventually, I decided to open it up to sports movies. When I was asked what about sports movies I went blank. Finally, I came out with a measly answer “How does this affect the movie industry.” When my answer was searched up google had different plans that suggested how they affect youth. That’s when my question was born.
The only problem was many times my research was undercover in search results. Even though sometimes I thought of quitting I was motivated to keep looking. Some of the best websites appeared on the seventh page. When finally I interviewed Chris Connelly all the research resurfaced though we had a double header (I forgot to record the first so we decided to do it again) it was twice as much research. That proved challenging when I had to transcribe it.
All my research was transformed into an essay. This was really fun because I got to explore sports movies of all sports. I had 3 parts and within each part were 3 little parts. In each little part was a movie explaining that part. The reason we made an essay was to use the essay in making our script
I started to copy and paste parts from all my docs. Though I still had to edit it by gluing together parts by adding some transition words. But if you thought that was hard the next step was 1000000000x harder. We had to memorize 3-5 minutes’ worth of words. My strategy was to read, then repeat not looking at my script which proved well.
But when I got up in front of the class that is when I thought I could not do that. Though my feelings pushed me through delivering a great presentation.
Capstone was so fun and I am so glad I got the chance to show off my topic.