Reflection

I feel so smart and confident about this project. I think it was perfect for an exit project. I had a little hard time in the beginning because i didn't have enough information and i didn't know how I was suppose to do the genres. I spoke to Ms.G a lot and Tessa who helped me a lot, after speaking to them i felt very good and I just started writing and posting. I think that having benchmarks was really smart and helpful, i got to give my work in on time and not leave the project for the last day. I got to give a lot of attention to it and Ms.Sackstein was there to help me and comment on my work. I tried my best to make it sound really good but I was nervous. One problem that I have is that if I think that Ms.Sackstein is not going to like a writing or work that I do, I will not give it in. I get nervous and not finish the work. Like i was afraid to do some of the genres because I thought that if I did it wrong, Ms.Sackstein was not going to like it, but i finally learned that I shouldn't be afraid and do what ever it takes. I'm really glad I chose to do this project about treaties, it was a subject that got my attention and since no one decided to do it, i thought it was a great thing to learn more about. I hope I pass this project and hopefully get more in 8 grade.

Statement of Process

I did not have a hard time doing this project because since the first one was easy i knew this one will be easier. At first I started doing the easy genres like the poem, descriptive paragraph and so on. The first one I did was the poem because it was very easy. In the poem I wrote about people asking for help to the treaties, since we had a lesson on how to write a poem, it was very fast and easy. Then I made an advertisement, I found a picture of the Treaty of Paris and I wrote what it was, who signed it and what it changed. I tried to make it sound exciting and like Ms. Sackstein said not to throw out a bunch of information. The third thing I worked on was the Letter. I decided to write it as the first person , I played a soldier in the war writing a letter to my mom about the treaty of Paris. I had a lot to say so I wrote two letters. I tried to put myself of a soldiers shoes and try to feel emotions. I stopped at this three posts for a while and had a hard time thinking of a new post. I started to look for information in books and websites and make up posts as draft but i wasn't satisfied so I wouldn't publish them. I asked my friends for help and learned what each genre was and how to do them. After a while I got back to posting and published more genres. In class we learned how to write news articles. I understood it very much which is why the next post was a News article. It was hard for me but i did it, it took time for it to sound exciting and formal enough like a real news article.I did other posts like a character profile which was really easy and fun, I learned a lot about the character Nicholas Trist, I wrote a lot about him and after my friends read it they learned a lot too. After that I did a timeline. It took me a long time to get the dates and what happened, I got the information from the book source because I didn't really find the exact date in the websites. The last one i did was make up a interview with Nicholas Trist ,I'm not really good at writing formal like they did in the early years but i tried my best not to use words from now. In the glossary I put the words that i thought people could get stuck in, it was easy and I used the dictionary from the Internet. I wanted to do a game but it was really hard, my classmates also have trouble doing a game so i just forgot about it. Now i have to do a reflection and finish the revisions. I am trully in love with this project.

Bibliography

WEBSITES:

Mission Statement. “The Paris Peace Treaty of 1783”. Archiving Early America. http://www.earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/milestones/paris/
Copyright 1996-2008

The Office of Electronic Information. “Treaty of Paris, 1783”. U.S Department of State.
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ho/time/ar/14313.htm
Copyright December 20, 2007

Nussbaum, Greg. “Treaty of Paris”. MrNussbaum.com.
http://www.mrnussbaum.com/history/top.htm
Copyright 2005-2006

Yi-Tao, Joe and Peng. “Timeline”. RFN.
http://library.thinkquest.org/C0110901/standard/timeline.html
Copyright 2001

BOOKS:

Hakim, Joy. "From Colonies to Country". A History of Us.
New York. Oxford University Press, 2005.

Nicholas Trist Talk about the treaty!!

This week reporter Andrea Quintana got the chance to interview the Chief Clerk of Cuba Sir Nicholas Trist. Here is what they said:

AQ: What made you choose to work for the president of Cuba?
NT: It was something that never occurred to me, I worked as a Chief Clerk which I still do, and after a while I started speaking to the president James J Polk and he really liked me. We later became great friends and he asked to me work for him and it turned out great.
AQ: After you worked for Mr.Polk, What happened for the friendship to end?
NT: I wouldn't say the friendship ended, it's just ended up on the wrong track. Me and Polk never wanted it to happen but as he realised that I was becoming great friends with General Winfield Scott he wasn't very happy. It was after a while that i realised that it was bothering him. Since it was during the U.S-Mexican war, I felt that I needed to be there for him.
AQ: What made you go against Mr.Polk in the U.S-Mexican war?
NT: During the war, I thought it was very unfair and a waste of time. I told him many times that there was no reason to fight for more land. He got very mad at me and I decided to make a peace treaty because it had to somehow end.
AQ: When you helped sign the treaty did you ever feel like you and Mr.Polk were almost enemy's now?
NT: No Not at all, As I was signing it I felt that I was doing the right thing and that the war could be over soon. I stayed positive and made sure that It went as it was suppose to.
AQ: Finally! how does it feel to know that thanks to you the war is over?
NT: It feel great and I hope that people know, that if you can end a war, do It.
AQ: Thank you so much Mr.Trist
NT: You're very much welcomed