Peer review: 
Project 2 draft 1 review I gave to other classmates: 
"I think that this sentence is the thesis statement, "Why Sixteen-Year-Olds Should Not Be Allowed To Vote." I believe that this is an overarching argument because some people may feel differently and may think everyone should be able to vote regardless of age. This student does a great job at composing toward a summary/ paraphase of there quotes. I think after the second paragraph a picture may be helpful. I also think that there could be a picture after paragraph 3. I believe that hyperlink information would be helpful to me as a reader at the end of the research essay."
Peer review I gave on Script/Storyboard/Description:
"I love how this student showed there idea for the script. Why wouldn't you think that electric cars would be in the future? I suggest providing more of the script."

Mini Activity 7: 
 

2) Project 1: Final Draft

 

Education has a very specific role in the everyday lives of children and young adults. This applied to me in a very special way because I remember all through high school I had a very good reputation to keep up. My mother was a known teacher who was a loved Instructional Lead Teacher at Banks County Middle School. I was always told to act right and to do my best, and I was always trying to do this. But how can I make others view me the way my friends and I view myself? What follows is an example of this difficulty.

I had a friend named Jade Moye. She was a well-known girl around the school but was a very shy girl in person before you got to know her. I was just like her, so we were two peas in a pod back then. I had some amazing friends that I was especially close to through my freshmen and sophomore years at Banks County High School. Likewise, I was a very shy, insecure sophomore just trying to get through every obstacle life would throw at me. Little did I know how much this one friendship would affect me in the long run. 

I remember one time we were sitting in social studies together, and she had a huge crush on the boy sitting at the desk in front of her, who she thought was cute. She slowly got enough courage to begin to talk to him, knowing he had a girlfriend. She and this guy slowly started talking more and more as time went by. He finally broke up with his girlfriend a couple of months after they had been talking back and forth. Jade finally got her chance with him. They started going out on dates, and he started coming over to her mom’s weeks later.

 I then met him a couple of times, and he would hang out with Jade, her brothers, and me at her mother’s house. Eventually, more and more at school, there started to be cat fights back and forth over text messages and on different social media. This gradually  started to have an impact on how other people viewed me as this situation continued to go on. Jade wasn’t very mature then, so I was put in the middle of all the arguments and text messages. I had to listen to all of it. Little did I know this would affect how Jade’s boyfriend’s ex-girlfriend saw me about a year after all this drama between the two of them. 

One time, Jade and I were sitting side by side at lunch, and her boyfriend’s ex-girlfriend decided she wanted to start sitting at our table with a couple of her friends that were in our friend group. Jade and I didn’t grow very fond of her. His ex would stare at us while we were trying to eat to try to intimidate us, but I’m a bigger person, so immature girls don’t intimidate me very much. Jade finally brought it to my attention that she was trying to intimidate us and wouldn't stop eyeballing us. I looked that way and cocked my head to the side, making sure she saw me, and she finally looked away. She  continued to go around spreading rumors about Jade and me to my other classmates. I never once had a face-to-face online or online conversation with his ex-girlfriend; I just simply read their text messages back and forth, arguing with one another.

 About a year later, my boyfriend had a great idea to go to Brusters to get some ice cream for a cute little dinner date. There his ex-girlfriend was at the window ready to take our order. Head poking out of the window staring my boyfriend down just like she had done to us at the lunch table years back. She wouldn’t even bother to look me in the eye or glance at me. My boyfriend said “Ew, why is she looking at me like that?” as he backed away from the window. I had no words for what just happened. She finally gave my boyfriend his ice cream and my milkshake. I joked right before getting into the car to check our drinks to make sure she didn’t spit in them. I checked my drink to find a woman's curly hair in my drink. Then I knew It was the girl's hair in my drink. I quickly opened my car door, poured all of my milkshakes out on the ground, and threw my cup out of the car on the freshly cleaned cement. I had absolutely no words for her. My boyfriend then checked his drink to find that he too had hair in his drink that was the same texture as hers. He then walked up to the window and said “That nasty girl right there put her oily hair in mine and my girlfriend's drink. I want a refund.” 

This made me completely switch my thoughts about my peers and all the time I had spent at my old high school the couple of years I was there. It made me think about all my other peers and what their thoughts were about me. I wondered if other people that I was friends with had things going on that might reflect on me. I remember that my reputation at school was ruined because of this one girl. A year after all the stuff that happened between her and Jade she still remembered I was Jade's friend from high school. The most important takeaway from this experience is that I will never run with the wrong crowd or have my reputation disrespected or ruined because of one person or persons that I hung out with 3+ years ago. She would just run around running her mouth about anyone and everyone around her. It affected how I learned and the people I was around. I felt like I couldn’t trust any of my peers after that from this one girl. From this one experience, I have learned to go with the right mature crowd which I still haven’t found yet but I’m still looking for it. I only have 2 friends from my old high school but I’m rarely able to talk to them because they are in college just like I am. The very few people I could trust are an hour away from me. 

I refuse to allow anyone to take away my worth because of what somebody else has said about me. I believe that others should have an open mind and not believe everything that comes out of someone else's mouth unless it is a proven fact. This has negatively affected my education because I am more focused on people liking me than my education which affects my life outside of my education as well. It affects my friendships, my relationship, my relationship with my parents, and my siblings. My experience in high school and the effect it had on my education and my mental health was really bad. It has affected my self-esteem drastically. This has affected my work ethic a lot. After all, I put off work if it’s a social setting because I am so worried about being judged by the people around me. This stands out to me because I've never had something like this before where someone has judged me for who I hung out with or I’m around. This has taught me that how someone views me sometimes has nothing to do with me but with other people. I had my parents correct the way I dress and act because of the way people perceive us on the outside. I think that quite a few people can learn that someone else’s relationship with another person shouldn’t define who you are as a person.

 

Project 2: draft

 

Oct 10

Taylor Grizzle

Molly MacLachlan

ENGL1101

10 October 2023

 

The Holocaust

I remember the first time I had ever heard about the Holocaust I was sitting in a social studies class wondering how it was even possible for someone to be so cruel to people that are just like them but have different religious beliefs. The Holocaust is about the mass murder of millions of Jews the intellectually disabled, political dissidents and homosexuals by the German Nazi regime. The word “holocaust,” from the Greek words “holos” (whole) and “kaustos” (burned). The Holocaust was historically used to be able to describe a sacrificial offering burned on an altar(in a religious sense).The Holocaust was the genocide of jews during the World War II. Between the years of 1941 and 1945. Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Germany from 1933 until his unexpected suicide in 1945. He rose up to power as the leader of the Nazi Party. Adolf Hitler is unquestionably the central figure in the story of the Holocaust(because he was the dictator). It is the combination of his very virulent hatred of Jews and his success in creating a political movement that was able to seize control of Germany. Although the Jewish people were the main target of the terrible Nazi persecution in World War 2, but, approximately 5 million non-Jewish people also fell victim and need to be remembered.

https://www.dosomething.org/us/facts/11-facts-about-holocaust

https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/the-holocaust

The devotion of the Holocaust. Their devotion to what they personally believed was that racial purity and their opinion on racial mixing partly explains their hatred towards Jews, Roma and Sinti people, and black people. Slavic people, such as those from Poland and Russia, were considered inferior and were targeted because they lived in many areas that were needed for German expansion. This website states, “The Nazis also wanted to ‘improve’ the genetic make-up of the population and so persecuted people they deemed to be disabled, either mentally or physically, as well as gay people. Political opponents, primarily communists, trade unionists and social democrats, as well as those whose religious beliefs conflicted with Nazi ideology, such as Jehovah’s Witnesses, were also targeted for persecution.” Hundreds of thousands of lives were destroyed because of the way Nazi’s beliefs were. Many groups at the time did not receive the acknowledgement of their suffering they deserved until years after. I can’t even imagine growing up with certain beliefs and someone telling me and treating me differently because of my beliefs. 

 

The beliefs of these Nazi’s were wanting purity in their future children to the point where they would racial profile and kill black african americans (not including the other major groups they targeted). Many black people who lived in Germany during this time, under the Nazi regime were persecuted, alienated, and murdered during this period in time. The Nazis viewed these kinds of people as a huge threat to the purity of Germany's race. Nazis propaganda posters that were showing the friendship across racial groups in Germany at the time were referred to as ‘a loss of racial pride.’Around the time of the Holocaust, around 24,000 Black people were living in Germany at the time. African-German mixed race children were economically and socially marginalized in German society, and not allowed to attend university just because of their skin color. Under the Nazis black people no longer had jobs and were excluded from many aspects of life based on their race. Underlining Hitler’s obsession with racial purity, by 1937 every identified mixed-race child in the Rhineland had been forcibly sterilized, in order to prevent further ‘race polluting’. They physically took something from these mixed-raced children without their consent not because of medical issues, just based on the color of their skin and the Nazi’s beliefs. 

Adolf hitler was also homophobic against lesbian, gay, and transsexuals. Nazis' conceptions of race, gender and eugenics dictated the Nazi regime’s hostile policy on homosexuality. Repression against gay men, lesbians and trans people commenced within days of Hitler becoming Chancellor gaining all the power where he then killed hundreds of thousands.  On 6 May 1933, the Nazis violently looted and closed The Institute for Sexual Science, burning its extensive collection on the streets just because they believed that gays, lesbians, and transsexuals weren’t “pure” enough for the future of Germany. Unknown numbers of German gay men, lesbians and trans people fled abroad to different countries, states, cultures, and others entered into non-homosexual marriages in order to appear to conform to Nazi ideological norms, experiencing severe psychological trauma from how the homosexuals were treated because they were deemed “different.” The thriving gay culture in Berlin was lost during this time because of the Nazis ideological norms. 

 The rise of Adolf Hitler and the mass murder of the Jews. UN News states,“During one deadly uprising, Jewish resistance leaders had buried metal milk cans, filled with notes describing the horrors they faced. A teenager had written a painful request: “may history attest for us.” It also states that, “For Mr. Hilsenrath’s sister, Susan Warsinger, the first tastes she remembered upon arriving on New York’s Ellis Island in the 1940s while being processed as a refugee was of gooey soft “Wonder Bread” and a mysterious candy that lasted all day. It was her first taste of bubble gum and genuine safety, following the evacuation from France. However, the overall taste of that era is bittersweet. Ms. Warsinger was one of around 200,000 Jewish refugees hosted by the United States, which turned away many, many more than it admitted. More than 100 antisemitic groups were founded across the country, which was cloaked in a depressed economy, segregation, and public wariness of immigrants.``I believe that this is a horrible piece of history that should have never happened. The Holocaust has ruined countless lives. The UN News also states, “Words are not enough,” he said. “Hateful words always mutate into violent actions. Anti Semitism is a global pandemic. No Jew should ever live in terror.”” I can’t even fathom not having my own freedom to do so as I please. So how do you think this made the Jews and the survivors feel? 

https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/02/1133387

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Did you know that the Jews weren’t the only group that the holocaust group targeted?We know that all of the Nazis and the people who agreed with them also committed mass violence against many other “different” groups that had different beliefs or looked differently. A full understanding of this complex history depends on both similarities and also, crucially, the wide variety of differences between the experiences of these victim groups. This website states that, “There were distinct reasons why each group was targeted and they experienced persecution in tellingly different ways. Many young people seem to collapse a variety of different crimes and their victims into an all-encompassing ‘Holocaust’ in which Hitler and the Nazis simply targeted and murdered anyone perceived as ‘different.’”

https://holocausteducation.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/1.-Non-JewishVictimsOfNaziPersecutionMurder-Digital.pdf

During the Holocaust there was also a big part of people that had mental and physical disabilities that also regarding the Nazis beliefs were “unfit” for having kids and having the same treatment as “normal germans.” Severely mentally and physically disabled people, as well as those perceived to have disabilities, were targeted because of Nazi beliefs that disabled people were a burden both to society and to the state. The ‘Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring’ was passed, which allowed for the forced sterilization of those regarded as ‘unfit’ to reproduce. This included all the people with conditions such as epilepsy, schizophrenia and alcoholism. Prisons, nursing homes, asylums, care homes for the elderly and special schools were targeted to select people for sterilization due to how easy it was to take advantage of these people. It has been estimated that between the time of 1933 and 1939, around 360,000 individuals were subjected to forced sterilization. In 1939 the killing of hundreds of disabled children and the hundreds of adults began. All children under the age of three who had illnesses or a disability, such as Down’s syndrome, or cerebral palsy were targeted by the Nazis under the T4 programme. A panel of medical experts were required to give their approval for the ‘euthanasia’, or supposed ‘mercy-killing’, of each child that was deemed ‘unfit’. Many parents were unaware of the horrible fate that their children or family members had coming for them. Following the outbreak of war in September 1939 the programme was being expanded larger. Adults with disabilities, chronic illnesses, mental health problems, and criminals who were not of German origin were included in the programme to be sterilized. I believe that this is so inhumane to take the ability of these “disabled” people's ability to have children of their own or to even live a life they believed for themselves.

The Nazis also had a hatred for Freemasonry. The Nazis rejected Freemasonry, and freemasons, the Nazis then banned Freemasonry in January 1934, partly because it was associated with Jews. The secrets are associated with certain Masonic rituals and their certain beliefs that have always made the organization very susceptible to a bunch of conspiracy theories associated with it. The Nazis believed that the Freemasons were a part of a conspiracy working against the interests of German nationalism. The Nazis thought that the freemasons were trying to “argue” or change the German interests to the beliefs of the freemasonry. Criticism of Freemasons was a regular theme in Nazi propaganda – often framed in antisemitic discourse about the threat from ‘World Jewry’.Thousands of Freemasons were persecuted by the Nazi regime. This means that they murdered a bunch of innocent freemasons just because of all the conspiracy theories regarding freemasonry and their beliefs. 

Starting in 1939, the Nazi government ordered all Jewish people to wear a yellow Star of David on their clothing. The tactic isolated Jews from the rest of society and made it easier for them to be identified and targeted.The Nazis constructed over 44,000 incarceration sites, which included detention centers, forced-labor camps, and killing centers. They functioned independent of any judicial review, and torture, starvation, and mass murder were frequent.Appoximately 6 million Jewish people died during the Holocaust, and nearly a third of them died within the span of three months during the killing campaign Operation Reinhard. Ultimately, two-thirds of all Jewish people living in Europe during World War II were killed by the Nazi regime.

In conclusion, by the spring of 1945, German leadership was dissolving amid internal dissent, with Goering and Himmler both seeking to distance themselves from Hitler and take over the power. In his last will and political testament, dictated in a German bunker that April 29, Hitler blamed the war on “International Jewry and its helpers” and urged the German leaders and people to follow “the strict observance of the racial laws and with merciless resistance against the universal poisoners of all peoples”—the Jews. The following day, Hitler died by suicide. Behind Every Name is a story. It is also becoming a permanent part of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s records

 

 

Mini Activity 1:

Education has a very specific role in the everyday lives of children and young adults. But I remember all through highschool I had a very good reputation to keep up. My mother was a known teacher who was a loved Instructional Lead Teacher at Banks County Middle School. I was always told to act right and to do my best.But how can I make others view me the way my friends and I view myself? I had these 2 amazing friends that I had all through highschool but was especially close to through my freshmen and sophomore year at Banks County High School.My friend's name was Jade Moye. She was a well known girl around the school but was a very shy girl in person before you got to know her. I was just like her so we were two peas in a pod back then. I was a very shy, insecure little sophomore just trying to get through every little obstacle life would throw at me.  Little did I know how much this one friendship would affect me in the long run. 

 

Mini Activity 2:

This is the feedback from my peers that need to be revised:There is some showing language, but the amount of descriptive sentences could be increased to put the reader in your shoes.The story the writer is telling take a while to state the experience that they had.The effect running with the wrong crowd had on you is very clear, but I think breaking up this big paragraph could assist the reader to better follow the narrative.

 

 

Education has a very specific role in the everyday lives of children and young adults. This applied to me in a very special way because I remember all through high school I had a very good reputation to keep up. My mother was a known teacher who was a loved Instructional Lead Teacher at Banks County Middle School. I was always told to act right and to do my best, and I was always trying to do this. But how can I make others view me the way my friends and I view myself? What follows is an example of this difficulty.

I had a friend named Jade Moye. She was a well-known girl around the school but was a very shy girl in person before you got to know her. I was just like her, so we were two peas in a pod back then. I had some amazing friends that I was especially close to through my freshmen and sophomore years at Banks County High School. Likewise, I was a very shy, insecure sophomore just trying to get through every obstacle life would throw at me. Little did I know how much this one friendship would affect me in the long run. 

I remember one time we were sitting in social studies together, and she had a huge crush on the boy sitting at the desk in front of her, who she thought was cute. She slowly got enough courage to begin to talk to him, knowing he had a girlfriend. She and this guy slowly started talking more and more as time went by. He finally broke up with his girlfriend a couple of months after they had been talking back and forth. Jade finally got her chance with him. They started going out on dates, and he started coming over to her mom’s weeks later.

 I then met him a couple of times, and he would hang out with Jade, her brothers, and me at her mother’s house. Eventually, more and more at school, there started to be cat fights back and forth over text messages and on different social media. This gradually  started to have an impact on how other people viewed me as this situation continued to go on. Jade wasn’t very mature then, so I was put in the middle of all the arguments and text messages. I had to listen to all of it. Little did I know this would affect how Jade’s boyfriend’s ex-girlfriend saw me about a year after all this drama between the two of them. 

One time, Jade and I were sitting side by side at lunch, and her boyfriend’s ex-girlfriend decided she wanted to start sitting at our table with a couple of her friends that were in our friend group. Jade and I didn’t grow very fond of her. His ex would stare at us while we were trying to eat to try to intimidate us, but I’m a bigger person, so immature girls don’t intimidate me very much. Jade finally brought it to my attention that she was trying to intimidate us and wouldn't stop eyeballing us. I looked that way and cocked my head to the side, making sure she saw me, and she finally looked away. She  continued to go around spreading rumors about Jade and me to my other classmates. I never once had a face-to-face online or online conversation with his ex-girlfriend; I just simply read their text messages back and forth, arguing with one another.

Mini Activity 3:

I'm going to be using MLA Format.

https://www.ushmm.org/remember/holocaust-reflections-testimonies/behind-every-name-a-story

https://www.auschwitz.org/en/history/holocaust-denial/

https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/holocaust-remembrance-oral-histories

https://www.dosomething.org/us/facts/11-facts-about-holocaust

https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/the-holocaust

https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/02/1133387

Behind Every Name is a story consisting of essays describing all of these survivors’ experiences during the Holocaust, written by all of the survivors or their families. It is also becoming a permanent part of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s records.

Mini activity 7:

 

full list of items you are considering including

the items you have selected from column 1 (including the pieces of project 2 you have to represent the whole process)

• Wheel chair

• Masons

• Clothes the Jews wore

• The Nazi flag

• The rise of hitler

• Racial purity

• LGBTQ Flag

• Images of the barbed wire around the camp

• Although the Jewish people were the main target of the terrible Nazi persecution in World War 2, but, approximately 5 million non-Jewish people also fell victim and need to be remembered.

• The beliefs of these Nazi’s were wanting purity in their future children to the point where they would racial profile and kill black african americans

• Adolf hitler was also homophobic against lesbian, gay, and transsexuals. Nazis' conceptions of race, gender and eugenics dictated the Nazi regime’s hostile policy on homosexuality.

•  The rise of Adolf Hitler and the mass murder of the Jews.

• Many young people seem to collapse a variety of different crimes and their victims into an all-encompassing ‘Holocaust’ in which Hitler and the Nazis simply targeted and murdered anyone perceived as ‘different.’”

• During the Holocaust there was also a big part of people that had mental and physical disabilities that also regarding the Nazis beliefs were “unfit” for having kids and having the same treatment as “normal germans.”

• The Nazis also had a hatred for Freemasonry. 

• The Nazi government ordered all Jewish people to wear a yellow Star of David on their clothing. 

•  German leadership was dissolving amid internal dissent, with Goering and Himmler both seeking to distance themselves from Hitler and take over the power.

• Wheel chair

• Masons

• Clothes the Jews wore

• The Nazi flag

• The rise of hitler

• Racial purity

• LGBTQ Flag

• Images of the barbed wire around the camp

• Although the Jewish people were the main target of the terrible Nazi persecution in World War 2, but, approximately 5 million non-Jewish people also fell victim and need to be remembered.

• Adolf hitler was also homophobic against lesbian, gay, and transsexuals. Nazis' conceptions of race, gender and eugenics dictated the Nazi regime’s hostile policy on homosexuality.

• During the Holocaust there was also a big part of people that had mental and physical disabilities that also regarding the Nazis beliefs were “unfit” for having kids and having the same treatment as “normal germans.”

• The Nazis also had a hatred for Freemasonry. 

• The Nazi government ordered all Jewish people to wear a yellow Star of David on their clothing. 

•  German leadership was dissolving amid internal dissent, with Goering and Himmler both seeking to distance themselves from Hitler and take over the power.

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In my ePortfolio I chose to do my pages in order as possible so there isn’t any confusion. I also chose to use the same font size for all titles and the same sizes for all explanations in my ePortfolio. The title size is 56 and the explanation is size 27. I chose this kind of font type because I thought it may look very classy and elegant. I chose the color black for all my font colors so it’s more simplistic.  I also know that there needs to be at least one working button so I chose to have the V button at the very beginning of my ePortfolio. I finished all of my work previously for this assignment so I didn’t have to make any revision’s besides trying to make fonts and colors match. I just simply posted my material. I also chose the color and design of my ePortfolio pages to try and give a more classy vibe to my pages. I noticed that my work is very organized into one place now. The ePortfolio project taught me how to start and create my own website. The ePortfolio project also taught me how to make sure every text box is the same. Creating my own website also taught me how to make sure each design of the pages stay the same or at least similar which helped me learn the usability of all the different buttons.

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Case Study:

With this semester almost being over I’ve learned a lot of necessary information to use in the future and that might be of use in many possible future courses. My preconceived notions about this course was that I believed that it was going to be a normal boring english class but ten times harder than I’ve been used to. I thought this course was going to be difficult if you acknowledge the fact that I’m used to reading uninteresting books and giving feedback. However, the difference in this course is that it is very easy, but you have to be good with time management. My view on this course has shifted because with the majority of the mini activities I got to choose what the topic was about and I absolutely loved that about this course. 

Let's start from all the way at the very beginning of the semester. To be able to develop these projects and mini projects you have to have your own writing process. Personally, my writing process is that I have to throw all of my possible sentences into a draft essay and continue to throw my ideas on paper. The way I like to revise my projects Is I like to read the entire essays and correct my sentences as I go. I also like to make sure that there aren’t any sentences that may be able to go into a different paragraph or deleted entirely. After editing my draft I do another edit to get to my final draft. I make sure there aren’t any run-on sentences, incorrect vocabulary, and I make sure that the format is correct.

After all my years going to school I’ve learned so much that I’ve been able to use in my current courses but one major transferable thing I’ve learned that will support my college career and my communications beyond academic settings is the time I spent in school. Everybody knows you get those pesky little bullies but nobody knows how just being somewhere can put someone in so much stress and never know it. I struggled with social anxiety and anxiety in general. So being in school taught me there are good people and bad people out there that may not have your best interest in mind. Another transferable thing that I’ve learned that will support my college career and my communications beyond academic settings is setting reminders. This has significantly helped my grades and my participation for this year in all of my many classes. This has helped me turn grades in on time, to remembering quizzes, and to remembering finals this week. The last transferable thing that I’ve learned that will support my college career and my communications beyond academic settings is setting reminders is to make sacrifices for my grades and education. I have caught myself this semester being so down because I can’t go hang out with my friends because of my education. But I think I may take my education for granted. I hate the early mornings and constant work but many others I know in my life don’t have access to an education outside of highschool. This breaks my heart knowing that some students that have potential may not be able to get the education they deserve based on their situation. 

This semester I’ve been very successful at expressing my thoughts through words. I thought this semester was going to be filled with heaps of reading but I was wrong. Thankfully, this semester I wrote a lot down but I actually understood the information that was being asked of me. I could finally understand how to properly do the assignment. I think a major thing I have been less successful at is simply trying to get all the assignments done by the due dates. Personally I’ve had a very hard semester making sure I got all assignments done but sometimes it’s easy to let one slip if you're not paying close enough attention. 

The research process is long and sometimes difficult for many. Reading research uses scientific procedures to obtain knowledge about how young children develop reading skills, how children can be taught to read, and how children can overcome reading difficulties. I’ve learned that the research process has taught me how to put all the information in a pile then put it on paper in the right place. This helps me alot with getting my ideas in order and making sure what's in my head is on paper. The research process also has helped me gain knowledge on my Holocaust research paper. The  Research Process helps me pick a topic of my choice, and the writing process helps me  remember what I  have learned and understand it on a deeper level.

There is one thing that has impacted me the most this semester. I had the overall few of this class as a hard class I had no interest in, however, at the end of the semester I now have a new look at reading. Recently, I wrote an essay about the Holocaust for this class. The Holocaust was the slaughtering of jews, but one thing I had no clue that there were multiple different groups of “different” people at the time back then being slaughtered or treated poorly as well. I learned something from reading. Being able to comprehend things more easily because I can choose topics I’m curious about has definitely impacted me for the better this semester. 

One project I liked overall this semester was the research essay of our choice. I picked to write about the Holocaust to research for this assignment. I liked that the topic the project had to be on would be of my choice. I liked how I was able to use whatever websites to get information from and I overall actually learned something from researching this topic. One major thing I don’t like about this project is the word count amount. Personally I feel that I could have definitely used less words and still could have gotten my point across to whomever was reading my Holocaust research paper.

I think the most useful thing about being able to create, design, arrange, and curate an ePortfolio is that I have all my necessary information in one place. This makes it so much easier for myself. It also makes it a lot easier for my professor to look back at all my information and work for the semester to determine if I put all the necessary material for the last grade of the semester. The most useful thing about being able to design my own ePortfolio is that I can create it however I want to create it. I also like that being able to create my own ePortfolio means I think being able to change the background is going to be useful because I can make it my own. I think personally that curating is one of the most important parts. Being able to organize the pages allows students to acknowledge the appearance of their work, not just their writing allowing them to be able to be more understanding of their work overall. 

In conclusion, I think that overall I had a very good semester. Overall, I know that I need to focus on quiet spaces while composing in different settings. Being able to have a quiet space causes my mind to have to focus on what's right in front of me. I also know I need to focus on how composing in different settings may have an affect on my writing.  This class because it was one of my more simplistic and less stressful classes so I’m so grateful for that. I enjoyed everything I learned in this semester including the reading, the writing process, revising process, drafting process, and through the mini projects as well. I think I’ve made so much more progress in my reading and understanding of the simplest things that I may need to look back at in future courses. I would like to thank my great professor for this amazing semester. I want to thank her for the time she takes out of her day to be attentive to students.