Category Archives: Social Studies

Answering my Main Inquiry Question Capstone Blog Post #3

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I answered m main inquiry question pretty easily because after a few weeks of researching, I had found tons of research to answer my question with. Writing an essay on my main inqiry question was also pretty quick for me since I knew what to write in the essay. My essay is called “The Importance of Jury Selection.” When I was writing my essay, I needed a claim and reasons to support the claim. So, I came up with possible claims and one that I thought was good was,  “Selecting a good unbiased jury is one of the most important aspects of a trial.” When I finished my essay, I then had to write a script for my WeVideo. I used evidence and reasons from my essay in the script and timed my script to find out how much time each slide was and how long my video would be. When I finished making my script, I was ready to finally start making my WeVideo. I had to also find pictures from the internet to put into my video, and that was hard because a lot of the pictures I found were blurry. It took a lot of searching for better pictures, but soon enough, I found good pictures and put them into the WeVideo. The last thing I needed to do for my WeVideo was the voice over. I recorded the voice over and made it all into the WeVideo. Finally, I was finished. It took a long time to make my final presentation, but I did it and now I am done.

 

Click here to watch my WeVideo:

Capstone Interview

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When I chose my topic, Jury Selections, I knew that it would be easy for me to find someone to interview, since my uncle, Brain Hermann, was a lawyer. I asked him if he would do an interview and he said yes. When I had to come up with questions to ask him, I thought that asking some questions about his job and some about my topic would be good to get information, so I did. I came up with 10 questions to ask him. My interview was on Thursday, May 6th, at 8 pm. The interview went quicker than I expected and it took about 30 minutes. By the end, I got a lot of information about all of the questions I asked and it was cool doing a interview. I think that doing the interview helped me a lot with gathering information and learning more about my topic and sub-questions.

The questions that I asked were:

  • Why did you want to become a lawyer?
  • What do you like most about your job?
  • What do you like least about your job?
  • What is a typical day for you at work?
  • What training do you have to do to be a lawyer?
  • What are some challenges of finding and selecting a good juror?
  • What is a scientific jury selection and your experience with it?
  • When would you have to select a new juror/jury and have you ever had to re-select one?
  • What types of questions would you ask during the jury selection process?
  • What do you look for in a good juror and does it change depending on what type of trial it is?

 

 

Capstone Main Inquiry Question and Sub Questions

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My topic for Capstone is trials. I chose trials because I have wondered how they worked for a while and I wanted to research and learn more about them. I brainstormed for a good main inquiry question and I narrowed it down to: How has technology improved trials and made them more accurate? And: How are people selected to be jurors on a jury? I decided to go with the second one because it is very interesting how people are selected and because I thought that I could find more information on that question. After that I looked for sub questions. I tried to find questions that were closely related to my main inquiry question. I like my questions a lot and I can’t wait to start researching.

Reflecting on Creating My Immigrant Interview WeVideo

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I finished my WeVideo on Friday, March 12. I loved making it because I had so much information and making WeVideos are very fun to make. My WeVideo is one minute and 45 seconds. WeVideos are great for giving good information. I liked doing this whole project and it was a good way to learn more about immigration and about who we interviewed.

Here is the link to my WeVideo: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fZP92xOTntDnqtQOyP1uGKIwngJqhpbA/view?usp=sharing

Reflecting on My Immigrant Interview

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My interview was on Monday, March 1st. I interviewed my babysitter, Monica. Before I did the interview, I had to edit my questions so they weren’t yes or no questions. After that, I started my interview. I had 13 questions that I asked and I got a lot of information to use in my WeVideo. I also learned a lot about Monica. I liked doing the interview because it was a good way to learn and take notes from someone who really had immigrated.

Final Constitution Project

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The question that I answered was, “How did Rosa Parks’ bus incident affect the Civil Rights Movement?” I had an easy time researching about my question and making my final project. I did the the WeVideo for my final project and it was fun to make. I think that I did a good job on this project and it was very fun and interesting.

Here is a link to my WeVideo

Reflecting on Constitution Project Research

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My Constitution Project question was: How did Rosa Parks’ bus incident affect the Civil Rights Movement? I think that doing this research was interesting to learn about because Rosa Parks not getting up from her seat was a very big statement. It shows that everybody should be treated equally and that segregation is unnecessary and wrong.  One of my resources was very hard to get information, so I found another one and other than that I had no problems with researching. If there is one lesson that I learned from the research it is that there never has to be violence in a problem.

My Constitution Project Question

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I chose to ask the question, “Why did Rosa Parks’ bus incident affect the Civil Rights movement?” I chose this question because just by Rosa Parks standing up for herself and refusing to move to the back of the bus, she started a whole boycott. Rosa Parks stood up for all of the African-Americans and refused to give in to segregation.

Presidential Election 2020

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If I could vote I would vote for Biden because he promises to make an entirely new and improved health care plan that anyone can join called a public option, which would be provided by the government rather than by a private insurance government. Another reason why I would vote for Biden is because he says that he wants to make sure all students have access to high quality educational opportunities from preschool through college and attend schools with diverse populations.