After finally finishing this social studies project I don’t even know where to begin. So to hop straight into it I’ll begin where I started and that was choosing my topic. For me this was George Washington’s Crossing the Delaware. I chose this because when I read a magic treehouse book It seemed like a pretty big thing that I wanted to learn much more about. To make matters better two other of my classmates were also doing this making it so I wasn’t the only one. 

From there was the research process which was simple besides finding the information that in my opinion was the most straightforward, in a way that until ducksters came up I didn’t know if there even were three crossings nor when the 2nd and 3rd even happened. But In the end I was successful as the research process was completed. Besides that the sources that were the most helpful were wikipedia, ducksters, and  mount vernon in that order. 

After this was transforming my narrative into a script which to keep this short and simple was very easy, probably the easiest part of the whole thing not time wise but was just not something that gave me one bit of a challenge. Not soon later a surprise came to me as choosing the format of my project was much harder than expected. I was either gonna do a ted talk or a movie. After a lot of thinking I did a movie which I have no regrets about. So I hopped on wevideo, was taken into the makerspace and did a recording which was into parts which was just as simple as it seemed. Next came images which was by far the hardest part, I tried to walk through it but I really couldn’t due to the restrictions I was given. First when getting a picture I had to use creative commons. which for sure narrowed my options down. I kept arguing about this and even though It took me nowhere I kept doing it. Secondly I also had a small issue with screenshotting because I did it to later figure out screenshotting wasn’t allowed but, due to citing my sources this didn’t have a big affect on me. After that, another problem I had was how I could only use an image if they were a jpeg. which narrowed down things even more and gave me steam for all my arguments.

 After all of that last but not least was the timing of my images which each image had to be in a range of 2-6 seconds long which made things even harder. There was a certain point in this process that I was basically stalling telling my teacher to talk to Mr Casal about the whole 6 second rule thing. It was like I genuinely expected him to make these restrictions less harsh. The thing was when the results were back nothing went my way. It wasn’t until wednesday June fifth where I realized the clock was really ticking and that’s when I pushed through as the project was all I wanted to to to the point where I skipped recess in the morning just to do my project which I thought was the turning point of the whole thing then after all of that after all my activities were done I decided I was going to finish my project and the rest is history. I came to school the next day with a basically finished project and after adding some finishing touches the whole thing was complete. 

Something I learned that I hope to apply to life more often is first whether you win or lose, 99 percent of the time arguments take you nowhere. Secondly another thing I learned is just to get things done. Besides that, I’d like to reflect positively on this whole process besides the images, whether it was for the better or the worse the images is the only thing I remember about this whole project. I’d like to say It was because it gave me the biggest challenge or just because it was something I needed in life. To conclude this was a fun process that I definitely needed in life now I just need to finish it off and present my project.