Passion Project Post #2: Note Taking And Research

This is a picture of my note taking system.

 

When I was searching for sources to use I had a lot of trouble. This is because pickleball isn’t a known sport. Our librarian showed my class many sites that have a lot of topics on them, but none of them had anything on my topic. This meant I had to take matters into my own hands. I searched the internet for sites about pickleball and I was actually surprised on how many I found. I am making sure that the sources I use are credible by checking the information I find with information from other websites. I think the best website I found was the United States of America Pickleball Association’s website because it has everything that I need to know. Things such as what equipment you need and the history of the game. I want to work on my nonfiction comprehension skills and I want to get  better at restating information in my own words. In the past, when I was reading something that is nonfiction and taking notes about it I would come across many times when I was only able to slightly switch up one or two words in the sentence. In other words I would only be able to switch easy words with their synonyms. Sometimes I just switch up the order of the sentence. I want to be able to make more drastic changes to the exact words I find on a website and be able to comprehend the sentences better to do so. One note taking strategy I will be using is color coding. I have set up a system that makes every site I use a different color. This is helpful because when I finish this project I will know what sources I used for each question. I picked this strategy because my english teacher Mr. DeBerry recommended it to me. I can’t wait to finish researching!

Passion Project Post #1: My Topic

For my project I am doing pickleball; where it was and where it’s going. In other words the history of the sport and how it’s getting more popular today. To know more about my project  press here  for my passion project proposal. When this project first got announced, I didn’t know what to do. It wasn’t until Saturday, the week the proposal was due that I thought of it. The only reason I came up with the idea was because my family had ordered a net, and equipment to set up a court in my driveway. It just happened to show up at the perfect time. The equipment inspired me to do my project on pickleball. Since I have been interested in the sport since winter vacation.  I already had many questions I wanted to know the answer to. So that step in the process was easy for me.