Capstone Reflection #2

Hello my class is doing capstone and we are on the faze of interviewing someone to learn some more info on your subject. My subject is World war 2 was cool listening to a expert on your subject and she provided me with some important information let me tell you more about my interview.

At first when I learned about how we have to do an interview I was thinking I was going to interview a historian or a high school teacher but when I found out the challenges of getting an interview  with a historian I looked at the high school teacher page with the help of Mrs Cooper. I found a teacher that teaches social studies called Mrs Harris. She had her phone number, email and her office location. I was so happy that I found m a person to interview and I straight away emailed her and she respawned an hour later Saying that she would be happy for me to interview. This was not that challenging because I found my interview in 3 days. Once I got the interview scheduled I started working on my questions. I added three of my sub questions and questions that related to my sub questions. I think this was kind of challenging because you had to find out some things about your sub questions before you answer it. Mrs Cooper checked my questions over and made some changes and we sent it to Mrs Harris.

We scheduled a meeting for Wednesday at 4:00pm on zoom. When it was time I got my things ready and when we got on zoom I asked permission to record the interview and she said yes the thing that did not go as expected is there were some technical issues and the zoom crashed so I had to call on my phone and record with my moms phone. The interview went longer than expected because she gave me very detailed and lengthy explanations.something new I learned from the interview was that the reason why Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia, Austria and Poland was because there were a lot of ethnic Germans living there.

I hope you learned the struggles and fun things about capstone from this blog post and have a good day.

Capstone Reflection #1

We are starting capstone and I am very excited to research world war two so Jackson and Dylan are doing world war two. Capstone is where a  5th grader gets to decide a topic that they want to research and interview someone and make a main query question: What factors contributed to the major turning points in world war two? Let me tell you more about capstone!

When I heard that we were going to do capstone I was nervous about due dates and I did not know what my topic was going to be about. I was thinking about wars like world war two, world war one, the cold war, Vietnam and the war in Ukraine. But i cut it down to two topics world war two and the cold war but i chose world war two. But my friend Jackson and Dylan was also doing world war two so i was very concerned on if our capstones were going to be the same when i heard about the main query question i new our projects were going to be much different.

My main query question was going to be what happened in world war two but you had to upgrade your question so Ms Cooper helped me with my main query question to What factors contributed to the major turning points in world war two? What factors contributed to the major turning points in world war two? It sounded great and i was so happy but there was so much to cover.

My sub questions are How did Hitler start preparing to invade poland What factors made certain countries become involved in the war? What factors caused the US to invade Japan? How did Europe try to stop hitler? What were the major battles of WWII? What roles did countries play in world war 2? They are great sub questions that i am very intrigued to read about and do my project on these questions.

I hope you research would war two too and you enjoy it.

 

first week of school blog post #1

trip next Did you know in 5th grade we are having capstone. People say 5th grade is hard and that is what I’m worried about. We are also going on a field month.

I’ve enjoyed the school  specials, I enjoyed P.E. the most, even though we had to sit on the floor for half of the time explaining the rules. We missed  P.E. on the first day of school. Which I was sad about and that I was really looking forward to. 

I am looking forward to getting to know my teacher better this year. She seems nice. I am also looking forward to doing the small projects for example. I love doing the index card challenge. It was fun when we needed to make the tallest tower by stacking the index cards. It was fun because we worked together.

This is the best school year so far and one of my favorite teachers, this year it’s going to end up great!