Statement of Process

When I started off my Exit Project, it was completely different than what it is now. Before my topic was approved, It was "Womens Suffrage." While conferencing with Mrs.Sackstein, she recommended for me to do something different because there were a lot of people using "Womens Suffrage" as their topic for the Exit Project. Then, she gave me a completely different idea for my project that I liked much better. My topic was then changed to "Children Rights."

First, I started gathering information on my topic. I didn't know much about my topic in the very beginning. Also, I didn't get all of my information once I began my project. Instead of getting pages of notes and turning them into genres for my posts, I gathered my information for each post one at a time. This way it was easier for me to learn at a good pace while giving lots of new information in every genre.

I started out with one post, which was an interview with John Birley. I was going to use the interview as a genre. However, throughout my revision process, I decided to take the information from the interview, and turn it into a journal entry. My journal entry started off as one paragraph. I thought it was to short and not detailed enough. Therefore, I added two more paragraphs that shared more information.

As I was looking through some websites, I read another interview. The interview was with Sarah Carpenter. It gave detailed information on her life as she was growing up so I decided to read on and turn it into a character profile on Sarah Carpenter as one of my genres.

After I read her life story, It made me feel stronger about Child labor and I got more connected with my topic. In order to show how I felt about child labor, I made an advertisement against it to inform people what kind of work the children had to do and how they were treated. This became another genre.

After doing more research, I wanted to do something fun for my new post. I was looking at the Exemplar projects and noticed that one of my classmates made a crossword puzzle. I thought it was a great way to learn about child labor in a fun way so I used some of my information and made a crossword puzzle using paint.

For my next post I decided to do a time line because I was still new to the topic so I thought a time line would provide me with some new information. The time line I found showed how Child labor changed throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth century. After I read the time line, I changed it into a way that I understood it better and so my classmates would understand it when they read it and so it would be in my own words (not plagiarized)

By this point, I had five posts. I began to add some posts (not a genres) with pictures and explanations. I also made posts containing the sources that I used so I can get my information and give credit to the people I got it from. Next, I added some more genres which were a one act play, Editorial, Poem, letter, and a descriptive paragraph.

I got feedback on my posts, then revised and made changes. I made a glossary and a reflection too. Now, I am proud to say that I am done with my Exit Project.