This week has been very busy for both me and Kailee, so we are going to make up some ground on our project. We for sure have a lot of information that we have gathered, so the plan for the next week is to consolidate the to the main points and analysis. We have our […]
Weekly Blog Posts
Week Nine
Hello everyone, Things are looking up for me and Kailee. We were in a rut because of not being able to have permission to use photos from our local newspaper, but we were referred to a professor here on campus from Dr. Wallace and Dr. Welch. We talked to the professor who is part of […]
Week Eight
Hello everyone, This week has been all over the place. First, we have started our Fall Break this Friday. My grasp on days have been off. We were able to finish our goal of collecting our materials. Our next goal is to make sure we are both able to organize the materials. We want to […]
Week Seven
Goal: October 5: Visit the heritage center and revisit the Virginiana Room and campus library to gather research materials in the form of newspaper articles from The Free Lance Star and photographs of the events related to the conflict. Permission is requested for photos from The Free Lance Star. Hello everyone! Kailee and I have […]
Week Six
Hello everyone! This week has been super busy for Kailee and I. We have done the finishing work of photocopying all the newspaper articles for our regional library. We also came on a good day of finding the local archivist for the other center in Fredericksburg that could have possible information on our topic. Kailee […]
Week Five
Blog #5 – September 25, 2017 Kailee and I are starting to finalize the tasks we need to do for the upcoming weeks. We plan to finalize the places we need to research for out topic. We plan to go to our regional library, and to go to the Heritage Center to get archives. Kailee […]
Week Four
September 17, 2017 For this week our main goal was to finish our research proposal. We have a good foundation of what we want to do for our topic, so we were good on what we wanted to express in our introduction to the proposal. We figured out the main points, but we were struggling […]
Week Three
Blog #3: September 10th, 2017 UPDATE Kailee and I have honed more on our topic. We are going to study on the different schools in our area that were affected after the Brown vs. Board of Education decision from the 1950s to the 1960s. It took about a decade after the court decision to have […]
Week Two: Proposal
Hello everyone, Here is the overview of what Kailee and I did this week. When we were thinking about our proposal Kailee did some research on small conflicts that occurred in Fredericksburg, but our first venture to finding information was harder than we thought. It is good we are going to do this now rather […]
Week One: Introduction
Blog #1 – August 29, 2017 The idea of having an online video chat with people from all over the country came into practice for me this week. This first class I attended was on Thursday, so I really felt grateful that this class can be recorded. I have gotten a better understanding of the basis […]