Week 3

This week we have moved forward on our project. We have completed our profile map and we are almost finished with or timeline. Every member in our group has finished making our note cards and the bibliography. I still need to get my notes and biography signed off however I have finished both. The next step in the project is to finish our time line. So far we have picked our 10 most important events from our note cards. We have also picked the 5 most important points related to our social class from our ten most important points that we picked. Most people in our group have finished writing the 2 sentences for each point. What has gone good is we are working together as a team and moving forward on the project. What is not good is we need to finish the timeline tomorrow and we don’t have much time so we are going to need to stay focused and on class. If we don’t finished we will arrange to finish over break.

Week 2

The Big Project is going good for our group. We have completed our profile, and we have begun working on our timeline. We successfully completed the first step of the project and we are successfully working on the second step, which is to make note cards of what we find from websites, books, magazines or what every source we find and then site our sources in a Microsoft Word document. In my research I learned that China was affected by the Opium war, which effect many people in China. I slightly remember hearing about this in the past however it has now become clearer in my mind. Questions that I still have about my social class related to the time period from 1800-1914 in China` are how did the events in this time period affect my social class.

Week 1

Last week our group wrote our proposal for the country that we wanted. Our first choice was Japan because we get a lot of things such as; cars, and electronics from them. The country that we ened up with was China which was our second choice. We picked China because we thought that this would be an interesting country to study. We also completed reading our articles of different class figures. The class figure I got was a farmer in China. I learned that farmers in China are poor, barely have enough food to survive, have little or no formal education, and our highly taxed by their goverment.Our group was succesful in completing reading to the text and writing our 5-point summaries for our articles. We were able to go around and take notes on each persons writing which we hope to turn in and get signed off at the begining of the next class. Some questions that I have about my social class figure are:
1. Why do farmers in China suffer so much?
2. Why are the farmers so poor they can barely afford to buy food and or education
3. How did the farmers feel about their goverment
4. Has the life of farmers changed in the last 2000 years and if so are they better or worse now?