• What has been most helpful to you in this process? My group already had the same idea so it took like 2 minutes to copy our idea from the other plans and we usually work together so that helped a lot too.
• How can Gev. Noorlander help you in the future work of this project? Maybe if our group is having trouble, then we might need you to help us do them.
• How do you think working with a group will be helpful to you? If I don’t wanna put salt in the chicken, then someone else in my group can help. Also, the people in my group I work very well in so that makes it easier too.

How did your research guide your plan? My plan materials and steps are all from my research that I did so it made a big part in my plan.

What information do you still need to find? I think that when I make my plan with my whole group, I’ll put a few more steps to make it make more sense.

What new information did you find as you planned? A lot of new information especially about how much your chicken should weight.

How do you think this plan will work with your group members? I already read a few people’s plans and they are very similar to mine.

How can you make sure every person’s voice is heard in the group? We should make jobs for everyone so everyone has a part in the project.

What did you think of your finished product? I think that my finished timeline is very good and is what I wanted it to be like. Everyone else wanted to put actual pictures in except for me because I wanted to make it all drawings because from the timelines examples online that I saw, they were all drawings on the timeline.

How did this challenge you? I’m not very good at drawings but I still wanted to do the drawings anyway so that was my biggest problem. Also a few times I made some noticeable mistakes that I had to find out a way to fix them which was also very hard. Overall this wasn’t a very big challenge for me.

What was easy about this for you? I have some-what good handwriting so it was easy for people to be able to read my timeline. Even though my first few drawings were very hard after those they were very easy.

1. How do you analyze documents with a partner? We both read it and then discuss it.
2. What is useful about working with a partner when you analyze sources? I get to see a different point of view.
3. What did you not like about working with a partner? Why? Nothing we worked very well together.
4. Did working with a partner help you better answer our essential question? Why or Why not? Yes because I was with my friends so we had a lot of fun doing it.

• What role did your character play in causing the Civil War?                                                                                                    She helped take people from the South to the North.
• Did your Character believe in slavery? Why? Why not?                                                                                                                        No, she was a slave and didn’t like it.   
• Does your character believe that the government should have the power to tell states what to do?                                No, she didn’t like state rights.
• What other person/people does your character believe is most at fault for causing the war?                                           South is more responsible.
• Do you like the character you were assigned? Why?                                                                                                                   I had to use Harriet Tubman for this because the person I was assigned to was James K. Polk and he didn’t have to do with anything in the civil war. I liked him because I didn’t have to do as much work as others. 

What were 3 causes for slavery? 

• People need other people to do there work
• People were lazy and wanted other people to do there work
• If you had a lot of slaves you looked rich

What did white slave owners use their slaves for? Why?

They used them to farm and sometimes build things. Because they didn’t want to work and they needed to raise a family!

What crops did slaves harvest? Why these crops?

Tobacco, wheat and cotton. Wheat to make bread and other foods with wheat. Cotton for clothes.

Where were most slaves from? Why?

Africa, they didn’t have as much as Europeans so it was easy to dominate them.

Why did so many slaves move to the colonies? Was this their choice? Explain.

To help people here farm and help them make things. It wasn’t there choice, they got captured and were crammed in to boats to colonies.

Why were there so many slaves in the colonies?

They got captured, even though most died on the ships they took so many of them that they still got many of them.

What about this project went well for you? Explain. I already knew a little about Marquette so I didn’t need to research a lot more than others.

What about this project did not go well for you? Explain. I don’t think that my presentation was more than 2 min because I forgot about doing making it that long.

How can you create a better project next time? I can make it longer and I could have put more pictures on and I could have written more on each page of my slide.

How did you think the planning process went? Were you able to find all the information you needed? I found a lot but it was difficult because a lot of websites were not trustworthy.

What could Adon Kaufman and Gev. Noorlander do differently next time? Let us do groups.

What impact did explorers make? Explorers are the way how we found new lands and they discover/discovered new places to live.

How do you think you have grown as a learner since the beginning of this unit?

Now I write more sentences and know about NA.

What topic this unit has been most interesting to you? Explain. Christopher Columbus because I didn’t know much about him and I thought he was a good guy until now.

Think about our school values.

• What has this unit made you wonder? Christopher Columbus and why he did all that bad stuff.
• How has this unit made you feel empathy? The NA and what we did to them to hurt them.
• How has this unit strengthened your feeling of Tikkun Olam? We should help the NA and give them reparations.

What can we (your teachers) change to make this unit better in the future? Tell us more even about the NA and deeper into Christopher Columbus.