Writing

A couple months ago my teacher announced we were going to a capstone project. As you know from my last blog post I need to start writing an essay to answer my main inquiry question. Just in case you forgot, my main inquiry question is: What are the top 3 benefits of using social media during wartime?

 

After looking over my research I came to the conclusion that the top 3 benefits are: Fundraising, Winning Public Opinion, and Spreading Information. I was thinking of doing information instead of disinformation, but my Mom told me disinformation is stronger and has more evidence.

 

Writing my essay was tough because I was sick, and had to do it at home. Luckily my Mom was always there to help, just in case, I needed it. When I came back to school my teacher, helped me a lot, and I was happy with the final product.

 

Finding evidence wasn’t too hard. I had a lot of evidence in my research which was really helpful. My interviewee also taught me a lot about Fundraising on Facebook which was critical information that I needed.

 

Winning Public opinion was probably the easiest part of writing my essay. I had tons of supporting evidence which allowed me to form the paragraph.

 

Spreading Disinformation was probably the hardest part. I didn’t have too much research on it. But my mom saved me, she gave me a bunch of websites with a lot of evidence.

 

I spent all weekend finishing and revising my essay. After a lot of work, my teacher reviewed my essay and confirmed that I could start my script.

 

The script wasn’t too hard because I mainly based it on my essay. I did add some things from time to time just to make it more clear when talking to an audience.

 

Unfortunately when I timed it was a bit over, so I took out some things and talked a little bit faster.

 

Working on my slideshow was definitely harder than working on my script. I needed to find good-quality images in the correct size range. Not many photos on my topic were very big, but in the end, I found some.

 

Memorizing was not too hard, but once I memorized I sometimes forgot what I had to say, and kept looking up. Luckily I practiced a lot at home and I fixed my problem. 

 

Overall capstone was really fun, I hope I do another project like this in middle school.

This narrative project was one of my favorite writing units that I ever had. I got to write about anything that happened to me, and I wrote about cycling up a mountain of death. I chose to write about this because the experience I had in Germany is one that I will never forget, because it was really dangerous, and it also shows that I like to travel, because I was in Germany.

 I think that the most challenging part of writing the narrative was probably editing and revising, because I had to read through my whole story searching for errors. One helpful strategy I used when revising was checking with a partner because they always pointed out what I was going wrong.

One of my favorite parts of the unit was probably reading other kid’s stories. It was interesting to see what they went through, and I got more ideas of what I should do for mine.

 Another challenge I went through was to design the book cover, the reason is because the black in the color printer isn’t working, so I had to draw my whole cover. But I think it was worth it because I really like my cover now.

My favorite memory in this unit is coming up with the idea, because it just popped into my head and I thought yup that’s the one.

 Overall this unit was full of great jubilation and fun challenging things.

At the end of the unit we had a celebration of finishing our narratives. We set our narratives on our table and for approximately 30 minutes we went around reading others and giving them feedback. I really enjoyed reading my feedback.

 

Last Narrative

Hi this is my personal narrative!