Family History Project Reflection

Name: Trent Smith

Family History Project Reflection
Class: Interlandi/Humanities
Date: October 18, 2007

The Purpose:
The purpose of this project was to learn what a historian does. How we did it was to find a historical event that happened in your family. We had to research on the Internet or read books to find information of what your family member did that made it a historical event. Also the member of your family had to be alive in order to do it on them. To get this project completed we had to write a personal narrative, we had to make questions about the historical event so we can interview them, we also had to type the answers up when you interviewed the person, we had to make a bibliography and also we had to find pictures and make captions of your pictures about the historical event.

What I Learned:
In this project I learned much more things about my Aunt. I learned that she had to give up a lot of things in order for her family to immigrate. Some skills that I learned was that I learned how to do history. I learned how to research and find information and I learned how to analyze evidence. I also leaned how to write a great personal narrative and a great bibliography. I also learned how to make a great interview. It was my very first time making a interview. I also learned when doing a interview is to listen very carefully when doing a interview also not to interrupt the speaker and let the interview do the talking. Also to redirect the interview if the interview is getting off topic and also to jot down key word and short notes. And last to write the most important information when doing a interview. And that is what I learned.

Reflection:
I liked this project a lot. It was a very good project but the only thing I did not like about this project was getting pictures. It was hard for me getting the pictures because I had no pictures of my mom's side of the family. I had to email people and call me people to email me a picture. A lot of the times they didn't reply. So I had to find photo albums of pictures on my mom side. It was very hard for me. That is the only thing I had trouble on. The things I liked about this project was making a personal narrative and learning what my Aunt did when he immigrated. It was very exciting. I also enjoyed doing my family tree. It was very fun.

Artifact:
I am putting a picture of my scrapbook and my family tree on my DP. I also might put a picture from my scrapbook on my DP to.