Us history reflection

did you learn a lot?
I feet that because of this project I did learn a lot and now have a better under standing of world events. I like that not only did our class focus on events of the pass but also current events. With out the project I would not have stayed as up to date on these events as I have now.

what helped you learn what you did?
I like that we got to use the internet as our source. I think that it was a good modern to learn about the world around us.

could you have learned more?
I could have learned more because this project was not one of our biggest ones so we did not spend as much time on it as we did with other projects. If we had spent more that just a couple minutes a week on this project I could have learned some more.

what would you do differently next time?
I would try to to postpone doing the bookmarks every week. I would leave them until the last minute and then I would forget to do them and there was noway to fix this mistake because I had waited to the end of the week to do my bookmarks.

what could Mr. Scott do differently next time?
Next time I would spend more time explaining how to do the wiki post. Even after all this time I am still not quite sure that I exactly know what they are for or how we are supposed to use them. I think more time should be put into explaining how to use a wiki and what we are trying to accomplish on the wiki because it is a part of the current events project that I have always struggled with.

do you think you'll continue to read the news?
Probably not as much because it is something that is no longer required of me. I would like to try to stay updated on most world news though. I do believe that in the end this project has influenced me to try and continue on in staying aware of important news.


*From whose viewpoint are we seeing or reading or hearing? From what angle or perspective?
I am hearing this news being presented by an outside source because the BBC is a news company in Britan and it is reporting on events that are happening in the middle east.
* How do we know when we know? What's the evidence, and how reliable is it?
I think that this information is pretty reliable. News can never be fully unbiased and with the troubles that our country and other countries are facing with the middle east it is hard to keep all bias' out of the news
* How are things, events, or people connected to each other? What is the cause and what is the effect? How do they fit together?
With lots of fighting and on going tensions between different countries and different groups there seems to be a theme of violence a lot of fighting.
* What's new and what's old? Have we run across this idea before?
In every region that I have researched countries are not only fighting with themselves but they are fighting within themselves as well. Also in other regions oil has also come up a lot. Because of thee tensions that I have read about in the middle east now it helps build my knowledge of what I learned about countries trying to find alternative places to find oil such as China.
* So what? Why does it matter? What does it all mean?
The middle east war is something that has effected our country greatly because we are a war with them. This war has effect everyday life becuase it has effect gas prices.