This week wasn't as productive as I had hoped it would be. I decided to back-up a little bit and take a look at the Social Studies text book that our school uses to see if there were any particular events that occured during the American Revolution that were particularly rich in content and meaning and that would be a good topic for my WQ. One of the reasons I selected social studies and the American Revolution in particular was that it is not an area of the curriculum that I know very much about. I was looking forward to learning as I go. While this was a noble idea, it really gets in the way of knowing what I'm doing. I've done some reading and gone back to review a number of the websites I had found a week ago, just looking for those sites that line up the best with information on various battles that I'm considering for the focus event of the WQ. Hopefully I'll have the event selected very soon.
In the meantime, I've started to build the Google website. Regardless of what the exact topic of the WQ is, the format of the website will be the same. Website development is going well. I've got the navigation bar complete and all of the pages to go along with the tabs have been created. I've got my "Introduction" page and "Teacher Page" completed and I'm working on the "Process" tab at the moment.
As I look at what I've accomplished and what I have still in front of me, I'm feeling like I'm in a pretty good place. This feeling has me a bit worried, as I'm afraid I'm overlooking something, but I think I'll just enjoy the sense of calm for the moment. Hopefully I'll have great things to report in my next posting!
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