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Plan For My Booth:

Since My Last Progress Update:

As you can see from my timeline. I have made quite a lot of progress since my last progress update. Last week I found some more research and organised all of my information from my references onto one word document. I also drew up a plan for how my presentation is going to look at the exhibition on the 11th of November. I’m going to have 3 pieces of cardboard stuck together in a wall-like structure displaying information. There will also be criminal files of all the main suspects of The Zodiac, along with a notebook explaining how the killer managed to get away, and a file with stories of each of his victims.

How I Have Been Incorporating My Capabilities Into My Project:

In my last progress update I mentioned the capabilities I would be using to complete my project –

• Creativity
• Organisation
• Inquisitive

But this is more in depth-

Creativity

I have used creativity in my project to create a plan on how I am going to present my information in the exhibition. It was hard at first but after a few tries, I finished with a diagram of a booth which I am proud of and am looking forward to creating. Without creativity, I wouldn’t’ve been able to develop something as cool as what I have made; its more than just a PowerPoint, or words on paper. Hopefully it will attract the eye of the parents and students walking through the exhibition in Week 5.

Organisation

Without a good plan of how I was going to work for the next couple of weeks, it would be very difficult to produce a good quality project by the end with a large amount of research inside. I created a timeline of all the tasks I needed to do in the lead up to the exhibition, to ensure that I would have enough time and not just be rushing everything in the final few days. I tell myself goals of what I should complete by the end of the week to make sure I don’t fall behind. And as of right now, I am right on time.

Inquisitive

I found that this project has made me much more inquisitive about things than I was before. Since starting, I have shown much more interest in what I am learning which is something I struggled with before. This is greatly due to the fact that we got to choose what we wanted to do our projects on. I chose a crime case because I thought that it would be cool and unlike anything I’d ever done before, and it turns out I was right. I love working on this project and I am far more motivated to have a successful outcome when I am curious about what I am researching.

As part of our Year 10 Humanities course we are able to research a topic from either History, Civics, Geography or Economics, and create something that we can showcase at our final exhibition on the 11th of November, in Term 4. The topic I got was Civics which I was really happy with because I am interested in law, and with that murder and crime, which was what I wanted to do for my project as soon as I found out about this project. The crime I decided to research on was the Zodiac Killer because I have always found his case really interesting as he is one of the only serial killers that has ever managed to get away with no one knowing his identity.

So far I have found all 10 resources for my annotated bibliography. My annotated bibliography includes links to sources I found containing information for the Zodiac Killer as well as a brief description for each link of what was on the source, the authors purpose and how useful I found the source. I have also completed some pages in my booklet like the timeline, which gives me an idea of the tasks I need to do to be able to complete the project by the exhibition date in Week 5 of Term 4.

My plan for continuing my project is to get more onto the side of writing down points and using my links to gather all of the information about the Zodiac Killer in one place. Very soon I will start planning different ways that my project can be presented for the exhibition. I was thinking presenting it with a bloody dark/theme to match the crime.

I have started and plan on developing further, many capabilities from the capabilities wheel. These include:

• creativity
• organisation
• inquisitive.