A few months ago my teacher assigned me a capstone project. I instantly knew what I wanted to do. So I started doing research. Now, I am here almost memorizing my whole presentation. I’m ready for my presentation but I want to reflect on my project and tell you my capstone story.
Like I said before, I knew what I wanted to do. So I gotta work instantly. I started doing research but before long I realized I only had 700 words of research in my document. I needed 1300 words so I went to work fast. I was able to write enough to cover the amount. Therefore I was ready to create my script.
I started my essay confidently as I knew I had enough research. It was a little hard to find the right words at times, I had to do a lot of editing and revision. That was okay with me. When I was done with my script, I spent time editing it.
When creating my script, I was ready and knew I was at the final step. I knew that it would not be easy. It was harder than I thought it would be. I did not know but I had to cut out some of my essays. It is like creating a whole other script. I was shocked and when I was done, I wanted to quit. Then later when I was creating my slides, I realized I have to move stuff around. When I was timing myself, I would get different results every time. This was a problem because I had to find the estimate of my times.
Now, I am done and get to do my slides personally. This was the easiest part because I already had an idea. I knew what I was going to do. All I had to do was add borders and videos and I had NO problem. So then came the hardest part…
The hardest part was memorizing my script. If you ask anyone else in my class, they will probably say that was hard for them too. It was the hardest part because personally, I had a lot of information. This information needed to be explained. Also, I am focusing so much on memorizing that when I move to the next slides I would fidget. When I started to fidget it made it hard for people to hear me. I have worked on being louder and speaking directly to my audience.
Overall I think this was a really fun unit that I actually enjoyed. I enjoyed this unit because I was able to research something that I actually like. Although there were challenges, that is how it goes with any project. Overall this was a great unit and I can’t wait to do more research at the Middle School.
Go check out my presentation by clicking on this link