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The I -Search Your Senior Project

The I -Search Your Senior Project. The Undiscovered Country: Challenge Yourself Explore Grow. Choosing a topic :. You decide! Meaningful, engaging, fun. Compelling and personal Active engagement Be an expert, a warrior, an artist, a thinker, a learner. Dance Arts and crafts

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The I -Search Your Senior Project

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  1. The I-Search Your Senior Project The Undiscovered Country: Challenge Yourself Explore Grow

  2. Choosing a topic: • You decide! • Meaningful, engaging, fun. • Compelling and personal • Active engagement • Be an expert, a warrior, an artist, a thinker, a learner

  3. Dance Arts and crafts Drama / Film Eastern Medicine Sports Medicine Religion Careers Computers Photography Architecture Brainstorming

  4. Requirements • Maintain a Senior Project Binder and a 2 Column Work and Product Log • Letter of Intent • Proposal • 3 Interviews (one in class ) • Visitation • Secondary Research • I-Search Paper • Product & Product Log • Presentation

  5. LAUNCH • Brainstorm • Sell your topic/Question • Strategize • Start you Letter of Intent

  6. Persuasive voice Explain your motivation Inventory of what you know A list of resources 2-3 pages. Why have you chosen this topic? What do you know to be true about this topic? What questions do you have about this topic? What do you hope to discover? Proposal

  7. Mentors • Consider a mentor • A coach • A problem-solver • A resource • A proofreader • Over 21 • Professional in the field

  8. Mentor Meetings First MeetingSecond Meeting Third meeting Review Review work to-date Show 2nd or Requirements 3rd draft of paper An Interview Brainstorm about Perhaps give paper The FOCUS of Paper Resources to mentor ahead of time research Journals Review outline of Discuss Interviews presentations Ideas for product Visitation Ask mentor to attend Outline of paper presentation Presentation and write letter to Ms. Sutherland

  9. Mentor Documents Mentor Requirements Mentor Editing Sheet Mentor Agreement Form Turned In Mentor Letter included In Final Portfolio

  10. Interviews • Interview two people who will help answer your research and challenging questions • Individual must be integral to Project • 2 typed pages • Interview format, no scripts • On topic writing • Reflect preparation

  11. Visitation • Silent Observation • Reflection • Fly on the Wall • Third Person • Show Not Tell Writing • Choose well grasshopper

  12. The Paper • 8-10 Pages + Work Cited Page • An Integration of your • Research • Visitations • Interview • Reflection

  13. Paper, Paper, Paper • Make sure your paper reflects your search • Discuss and show how you obtained your knowledge • How the combination of visitation, interviews, research dovetailed to a new understanding • Weave these elements throughout your paper

  14. Mentor Letter Your mentor reflects on: • The process • Product • Paper • You • Enclosed in Senior Project Portfolio

  15. Product • Representation of how you have grown from the Senior Project • Product Log documenting 15 hours

  16. Teaching or Leadership Product Teach junior high health class about marine archaeology Teach about knights and armor to a 6th grade class Coach a little league team Set up a neighborhood action committee

  17. Written Product Book of poems Newspaper Novelette

  18. Physical Product • Stained glass window • Computer program • Outfit • Rebuilt engine • Or • Learn to scuba dive • Run a marathon • Start a fitness program • Go on a wilderness survival trip

  19. Performance Product • Dance • Instrumental or singing recital • Speed Racing • Magic show

  20. Career-related product • “Shadow” a police offer • Write or speak about an experience to others • View and document medical procedures • Volunteer time at a local veterinarian • (Note: simple shadowing without an extension of the experience, such as a presentation or written document is lightweight

  21. Presentation • One 3x5 card • 3 visual aids • 15 minutes long • Dress professionally

  22. Most importantly • Take time to choose • Passion is not always easily accessible • Challenge yourself • Be true to yourself • Follow your bliss • Strive for excellence • Have fun

  23. Points to Ponder • “We could you know. We can live any way we want…The thing is to stalk your calling in a certain skilled and supple way, to locate the most tender and live spot and to pug into that pulse”. A Dillard • “How can we know the dancer from the dance?” W.B. Yeats

  24. Life is after all a search for the secrets of growth and no one is expected to have them all We are judged not by what we know But by the honesty of our search M. Shain

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