Humanities This Year

I believe the most important "thing" I have learned this year would have to be how the colonies seperated from Great Britain and how John Adams contributed to the seperation.I never really learned about how the colonies seperated from Great Britain. The trial that took place after the soldiers shot into the mob it set a foundation for he seperation and John Adams led the trial. The socratic seminar also really helped me understand the importance of the case and why John Adams thought it was his best work.

The work I am most proud of this year would have to be the Newspaper project. I never learned about the Lincoln-Douglas debates to this extent and writing the article about the Alton debate really helped me with writing overall. This project was a difficult project t get done, but my group worked hard and we finished on time. I also think made a large contribution to the finished product, such as how the layout looked and I also helped fill in blank space on the Newspaper. For example I said we should have four columns and I made an extra article about a gun that was coming out at the time of he debates.

If we had more time to work on the Newspaper I think they would have come out alot better. We had some typo's and allignment issues that we could have revised. In the future I will reread the whole article and edit mistakes/typo's. There was also no one in the group familiar with the program we were using so we had to get tech support alot of the time. During this project I learned alot about ledes, the teacher gave us specific directioins on how a lede shoud look and what it should include. The teacher also showedt us captions, pull quotes, by lines etc.. and other things we might find on a Newspaper that we should include in our project.