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AmRev Blog Post #2

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In social studies, as we progress I find that I am more independent, that I am pushing myself to make sure my project is to its fullest. As we are entering the last phase of the project I feel very complete and proud of myself for doing all of this hard work. Not only am I proud of myself, but I am also proud of my classmates for pushing through and cooperating with each other. 

At the start of this project I didn’t think about it for what it really was, by that I mean I didn’t realize what a big deal this was. Now as we are getting closer and closer to presenting I feel what a big accomplishment this will be for me. Reflecting back to the process of making this happen, my favorite part was rehearsing with the slideshow, and really making my presentation special. A part of this process that I felt I needed more help with, and struggled with was memorizing my script and finding the pictures. The only problem with finding pictures was that we could only use pictures that were creative commons licenses so that we wouldn’t be stealing the pictures from people. In the beginning of the research I wanted to choose a topic that really, nobody else would choose, I wanted this presentation to be different. I didn’t want my project to be remembered as another one of the Boston Massacre presentations, or something that everyone else was doing. That’s why I chose Women During The American Revolution. I wanted to begin preparing for capstone next year. So not only did I choose to present my information as a TED Talk because I will be doing one next year, I have decided for capstone I want to study about the evolution of women’s fashion and makeup. My topic this year helped me because I got to research a little bit about women’s fashion during that time period, and now I feel a little bit more prepared for capstone. I think that presenting this year will help me improve at my public speaking, and feel less scared to perform in front of people. Going back to the beginning of the project, the research part of the project, I learned that getting the information wasn’t the hard part, but turning the information I found into my own words and putting it into my narrative and research really challenged me. The easier parts of this was starting my narrative given my love for writing, and organizing my notes before turning them into a narrative. Overall this project has been an amazing experience, and I really hope after capstone, I will have more opportunities to do something like this again.

AmRev Blog Post #1

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For my AmRev project I wanted to study women’s roles in the revolution and how women changed over the war. At first it was hard to find resources to use because I was studying a topic most people weren’t. I just started to search for things on google and see what I found. Well, I can safely say that the chunk of information that pops up on the top of the google page is not the most reliable thing to use. After finding that google is not the most reliable thing to use I decided to go broad and just search for women’s roles in the American Revolution. I have to say, that went pretty well. I found a bunch of resources that led me to really planning out how I wanted to organize my notes. Anahita also introduced me to a really good website called Museum of the American Revolution, that website really helped me figure everything out when I was kind of lost. Then to help me even more Mrs. Rago made a document with everybody’s focus and some websites that I might want to look at, and I just want to say thank you Mrs. Rago and Mrs. O’ Neill for all of this help on my project so far. The only thing I regret doing is focusing too much on the clothing, and women at home rather than studying more specific women who fought in the war, If I could have gone back I would have probably started with studying specific women such as Abigail Adams, or Martha Washington, but I didn’t get into that until much later in the process. I really like my topic because I wanted to think out of the box so I did something to help with my capstone and that was interesting to me. I felt very passionate about my gender and I wanted to research what my life as being female would be like if I had lived in the revolutionary period. I think this topic was a good one because it also challenged me, and if you know me, I love a good challenge. I learned about women’s jobs in general but I wanted to learn more about women who actually experienced that, and tell their story. I felt that telling their story would kind of be remembering them and recognizing all of those incredible acts they did for our country. My topic is all about women’s jobs and all of the hard work they did to prove that they did not get as much recognition as they should have, and that the American Revolution was kind of a starting point for them fighting for their recognition and their legal rights. As we are moving into the scripting process and memorizing lines I honestly feel a bit nervous. I only feel this way because when we did our weather ignites it was hard for me to memorize those 30 seconds of speaking at first so I can’t imagine how this will be. Otherwise, I am so excited and I just want to keep my mindset positive, and hope for the best.