FHP Reflection

Justin Baker

Family History Project
Class: Humanities Date:October 18, 2007

The purpose: of this project was to learn about a Historical Narrative, a memoir, and on how to interview a person in your family. To learn to organize and learn about history using tools. We learned how to research and how to not talk in plagiarism. We learned to do it in our own words. In order to learn about a narrative we had to take notes that were about the person we chose and the notes i did were on my grandpa who fought at the Solomon islands. We wrote four pages of notes and write them as if it was a article back then. We also had to do a interview that had our grandpas involved in. In order to do the interview we had to meet with who we were doing it on. For example since my grandpa was dead i had to interview my mom who had a lot of things on my grandpa. We had to write a paper on our person and what they did that impressed you and viewers.
I learned: about a lot of things in this project like how to do a narrative, a memoir, and how to write a interview. I explored the concept of how my grandfather made it out of the war alive. I went to my mom and some letters he wrote and found out that he was deaf and that he was taking out of the war. But he said he wouldn't of survived without his friend. But his friend took him this far in the war and actually saved him. I explored that and found out about my grandfather and his strengths. In this project, i learned how to write better and also gather information and put it into a narrative or a interview write up. I learned how to be a better typer because of how much typing was involved. I learned how to be a overall worker because this project taught me to step it up and be a strong hard working student. I learned a lot from this project and hope to learn more from the next projects.
Reflection: I enjoyed this project because it gave fun in working hard. It gave interest because it is fun to learn about your past relatives and what they did. It is pretty cool to look back on your grandpa and see what he did in the war and how he went through the war deaf. I feel like i could have done better on this project because i didn't really come into the project working hard and i thought i could of finished this project earlier if i didn't goof off a little bit into the project. Next time, i would probably work hard right off the bat so i can finish earlier and give myself a break.
Artifacts: I would have the map on where my grandfather went because it shows the places he went when he was fighting in the war. It also shows where my grandfather went from all the Solomon islands. I would also chose the movies that were unrated because it shows a lot of information and important things about the war. I would also chose the pictures because they show how my grandpa looked. It also shows the metals and ranks he was in. which shows a lot of how good he was in the war.