Update....Questions

I have my essential questions finished and my foundation questions:

"What is the success rate of high school drop outs compared to non-dropouts?"
1.Why do they drop out of high school?
2.Who is dropping out? (particular gender, race, wealth status)
3.Where are they going when the drop out?
4.What are they doing once the drop out?
5.When over time has this become an issue?
6.What education options are open to dropouts?
7.How are most of them making a living?
8.How is the dropout crisis costing America?
9.What is being done to decrease the number of dropouts?

I also have finished the annotations for my webliography and after doing that I now realize that I need more sources and more information. Today i started my pre-writing questionnaire for my proposal and its going quite well.

It just came together

I have finished my collage for my project and I am surprised with the outcome. At fist when I was told about this assignment I was worried because my photoshop capabilities aren't that great. Once I got started though it looked much better and it all seemed to just come together! Also, I've been doing my essential and foundation question list and that's coming along well but I know I need more but...I'm not sure what other questions to ask. Things are moving along great and you can take a look at my collage at the bottom of my page.

1. Some project requirements that students had to meet in others schools are: research paper, a display board, presentation to a judge panel, and a creation of project, have a community mentor, minimum 25 hour of requirements, and possibly an explanation of why they're ready to graduate.



2. Students like Jubal Brown at Wood River High School went beyond the 25 hours that the project requires and spent 87 hours and 20 minutes on it. His project was repainting and rebuilding a bike. That's how he took his project beyond the research component. Steven Brickell also took it past the research by performing an actual embalming, video taping it (with commentary), and presenting it to the judges.



3. From the ideas listed in the articles, I've brainstormed possible ideas for the embalming project that were probably taken:

--finding a mentor

--research the history, facts, and information

-- watch and/or perform embalming

--present learned information to judges

4. Some ideas/concepts that may help the thinking or planning of my project are having passion for the topic I choose because passion leads to inspiration and more interest in what you've chooses and that will help you produce the best results. Also, one student says that staying motivated and being patient is good as well as staying on schedule which is obvious.