Feedback that was received

Due to my absence in the first week of school, the feedback received was bias towards my partner. However there was some overall feedback that we received was to finalize our presentation idea and compare ancient war crimes with the modern war crimes. We have finalized our project idea by deciding to change to a podcast with surrounding posters. This way the audience will get a cool listening experience with the information being presented, but in a casual way.

We decided to compare the war crimes in our presentation because that way there is some relevance that perhaps our audience can use to understand better. This way it isn’t difficult to understand the war crimes that were committed hundreds of years ago.

Progress update and what we have achieved so far

Again, we have chosen to do a podcast and posters. We have achieved the task of starting our script of our podcast and constructing some ideas to use for our posters. I was away when Mr Basil suggested to my partner for me that I should look at the Crimes and Consequence in Ancient Rome. Since then, the website has been researched which brings me a deeper understanding of the harsh laws of Ancient times for crimes.

Our plan for the future

For the coming weeks, Jayden and I will be working on the script for our podcast and start to make the posters which will be presented on the night which everyone gets to see each others work. Both of us will start to record our podcast as we both have lots of free time on the weekend and plan to record it then. As for the posters, Jayden and I will start to find designs and pictures for our poster design.

Some difficulties we have found

Some difficulties that we have found was that in the absence of partners it is harder to make decisions that can impact the project. I believe that Jayden handled last week very well as it would have been difficult to make calls about the assignment. Another difficulty we have found is to decide if we are going to do single individual posters, or one continuous poster that will stretch over a few boards when pinned up.

Task Overview

Our task for this Humanities Project is to construct a presentation about two of the following areas, Economics, Civics, Geography and History. For our chosen subject areas, we decided on History and Civics which would lead to us completing thorough research on multiple questions that will take us to our next chapter in the project which for us was a 3D model. Through the rest of the year we will work on our presentation until the due date where we invited our parents in to present our creation to them.

Team Partner

Jayden Gregory

Progress Update and what we have achieved so far

At the end of term three, Jayden and I completed our research question on his area of Civics, and my area of History. Together our research combined for about 15 questions that were thoroughly researched. We had to summarize the website and state it’s relevance in our bibliography which was told to be around 100 words each. As for the other parts of the bibliography we had to include the website, author and the date when the post on the website was published. Another thing Jayden and I achieved was gaining an understanding in each others areas of interest about the project. This lead to us having better communication throughout the week and checking up of each other to make sure we met the deadlines that were set by us. Overall the first part of our project will have a massive impact on the presentation and I believe that the early progress we have made will truly shine in our final days of the project.

Our plan for our future

The original plan for our future was to create some design/ prototype that would present all of the information that we collected. We were going to go to stores and get supplies to construct a 3D model that would present the final workings of our project. Also we will create small little pieces of information that will be around our masterpiece that will allow our audience to gain incite to this specific overall question.

Some difficulties we have found

Some difficulties my partner and I discovered whilst working was that we both intended to be quite chatty and sometimes it would lead up to going off topic and harder to focus. This would happen quite often if people around us were talking and we couldn’t concentrate properly. This problem was simply fixed by going out to the breakout space outside the classroom which was much quieter and was a better environment to work in.