Immigration Project

My whole class had interview someone about their story and life. I knew I was going to do my project on my grandfather, Bhal but he had died ten years before I was born.

This was my first challenge because I couldn’t ask for very exact details but his wife and son were happy to tell me everything they could.

The first part of the process was making the questions that I was going to ask them and this wasn’t that difficult because I wanted to know as much as I could. I interviewed my grandma first and she knew much more then I thought she would about his journey. I then interviewed my my Dad and his answers were very heartfelt and had more detail on his personality. Using the answers I had I made a narration on his journey and it was difficult to not just state the facts I knew about him. I was able to make it more like an actual story and then I had to make a script for my video from my narrative. Next I got a crazy amount of images from my grandma who had multiple photo albums. Next using adobe spark I had to combine my script and images to make the final video! When my dad watched it he cried from joy because it made him remember his dad.

I learned a lot about my grandfather and his personality and I got to learn about how other people thought about him after he died.

This was an amazing project and I really liked making it.

Refugee Questions

These are some of the questions that my class and I asked while we were reading the Refugee by Alan Gantz and these are my answers to these questions.

Why did Hitler hate Jewish people ?

There is not a definite answer to this because he was insane and he wouldn’t tell anyone but people think he was jealous and that he didn’t want people to be different. 

What had Josef’s father experienced in the camps?

Josef’s father had seen people be shot, beat, drowned,  and hung. He also was nearly starved to death. All this and more caused him to go insane because of what he had experienced.

If it weren’t for the refugees, would there be a U.N. after World War II?

There most likely have been a U.N. anyways because all of the world was involved so they all saw how horrible this was and wanted to stop another refugee crisis.

 

Constitution Project Reflection

The purpose of this project was to teach us more about the Constitution and I think that this project related to our unit by teaching us more about parts we didn’t know a lot about and how important they are to our every day life. My research project was the Freedom of Press and I choose it because I thought that it was more important then I first realized and I was excited to learn more about it.

The research was the first part of the project and I really liked learning about how many big events occurred because of the Freedom of the Press.  Some of the things that I learned was that Abraham Lincoln made it punishable by death for a newspaper to give information to an enemy and that when a newspaper broke this law the building and contents were burned!

The script was my favorite part because I got to show how important my topic was.  The main way that I did this by talking about the biggest events related to my topic. Another way I did this was by explaining how big some of the changes to the Freedom of Press were.

After the script done I had to make the slideshow. I found it difficult to find all the images because one of my major events took place a long time ago but I did find a great image for that slide. But it was easy to find an image of Cato and I was a bit worried about this because I only ever heard of him while I was researching the causes. But I did find a good image after not a lot of searching.

The last part of the project was the screen cast this part was not really difficult. But I had never used screen cast before so it took me 10 tries! I ended up figuring out how everything worked and if you want to see the final version just copy the link at the bottom of the post.

To summarize I really enjoyed making this project. I am proud of all of the work that I did and I hope that you now understand the importance of the freedom of press . I also hope you enjoyed my project and I hope to do another project like this in the future.