Inquiry Project Blog Post

Did you ever present a slideshow to people? Well I just did that, it was really fun and I will teach you about two things you learned about my topic and two things you learned about the research/presentation process.

Two things that I learned about my topic are that I learned what states are swing states and how they are important, and I also learned that 5 presidents have won the presidential election without winning the popular vote. I learned that Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin are all swing states and that they are important because they are not easy to guess who will win them. I also learned that the five presidents that have won the presidential election without winning the popular vote are, John Quincy Adams, Rutherford B. Hayes, Benjamin Harrison, George W. Bush, and Donald Trump. They have done this because they have won the majority of 270 electoral votes without the popular vote.

Two things that I learned about research and the presentation process are that when taking notes it is easier to write in not full sentences and that it is better to not focus on the people you are presenting your slideshow to when you are presenting it. During the research process it is easier to not write in full sentences because you can just transfer your notes into a narrative because that is pretty much your script. I also learned that it is better to not focus on the people you are presenting your slideshow to when you are presenting it because it can get you really nervous, but it is not a big deal if you forget a word or two.

Now that you know about two things you learned about my topic and two things you learned about the research/presentation process. I hope that sometime you will do a presentation.

AmRev Topic and Research

My topic for the AmRev presentation was the Boston Massacre it was fun going through the process of researching and finding the information that I need to find and doing my own searches. It was not very hard to find the information that I needed. All I did was a Google search and a paragraph for the answer to my question will pop up or a link to a website that helps me find information that contributes to the presentation. If I could go back to the start of the unit I would do bullet points instead of going strait to the narrative. I would have had stronger sentences that are short but packed with information. Now I feel like I have a lot of run on sentences that I don’t know where to put the period.  As we are moving into the next phase I feel very comfortable because I think that I have done well so far and that I can start rehearsing because I think my script is good. I didn’t read that many books to find the information for my narrative which would eventually turn into a script to turn into my final idea that turns into the presentation.