So far for this project it seems that it’s going well. I have planned out up to six separate individual topics that I’m going to be doing for my blogs. They are all good topics that will give me a lot of information for my elevator pitch and they will help me to prove my case.

It’s kind of hard to find some change agents though. It seems that when I find places that I think would be good I can’t find any contact information. The change agents that I have found don’t seem to be responding to my e-mails. I will try to send them another one but I don’t think that they are very persuaded by the ideas of mine. Mostly because they might think, why listen to a teenager when I can listen to an adult who most likely knows more about the issues? So I guess that I will just have to wait.

2/12/08

    From the explanation of this project as a whole, it seems unbearable. Completely impossible. My expectations were that there was no way I could do it. When I first looked it over, I didn’t even know how or where to begin. At this point in time though, I’m pleased with the progress I’m making on this project.
    Don’t get me wrong, this project is HARD. It’s REALLY hard, but I feel like I am getting somewhere. The pluses are that I feel like I am learning about my topic, I am finding some really good examples and I’m learning about a lot of different sub-issues that are covered under my topic. The things I’m struggling with so far are definitely narrowing down my topic. I think as of now, my topic is pretty large. It covers a lot. I think to move on, I really need to refine and decide exactly what I want to focus on.
    I’m generally happy with how this is going so far. I think there are things I need to work on and things I need to fix, but I don’t think I’m nearly as lost as I was when I first found out about this challenge. I think the progress is going up at a steady pace. I think the obstacles are there, but not impossible. Mostly, I think that as a 10th grade English class, we are doing something different and amazing. That’s the most satisfying progress so far.