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Project is introduced
Today Mrs. Simmons assigned us the heroes project, which we will work on for the next few weeks -
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Heroes Project Timeline
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Ideas-gathering with parents
Today I talked with my mom about her hero. She said that she was very much influenced by strong women figures in history who achieved great deeds despite of the gender limitations. -
Googling for influential people
I went on Times most influential people lists. -
Compiled a list of possible heroes
Barbara Streisand, Barbara Jordan, John Robison, and Ernest Hemingway -
Narrowing down list
I decided to look at more biographies of the influential people -
Decided on hero and found his biography
I decided to research about Ernest Hemingway and found a biography of him by John Tessitore called The Hunt and the Feast: A Life of Ernest Hemingway -
Explored posterous
I made an account with posterous and tested out writing a blog -
Began first blog post in posterous!!!
The first post: How I chose my subject:) -
Databases!!!
Read all the databases I could find on Hemingway:) -
Almost finished with reading the first biography
The Hunt and the Feast (A Life of Ernest Hemingway) by John Tessitore -
Started on second post on second post on posterous
Posterouswww.posterous.com Second Post: Analyzing heroes in literature -
Finished reading The Hunt and the Feast book
Yay! After reading this book by John Tessitore I was very surprised to learn that the hero I've always imagined Hemingway to be wasn't as heroic as I thought! Not everything written about him was bery flattering and he too had many flaws any common man would have. -
Tried contacting local authors
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Continue reading second biography about Hemingway
This other book I found in the library is called A Hemingway Odessy, which is about all the special places in his life and what the locals say about him. -
Brainstormed on interview questions
Looked up some examples on the internet -
Interview candidate
Asked Natalie Black if she would interview with me. -
Working on interview questions!
Started formulating interview questions. Natalie is very busy, but she agrees to do the interview. I hope we will follow through:)
