milena

//**Week 1 **//

// Monday 31st January: // We had our first Research Project class today, and this year as my Research Project teacher I have Mr. Street, and I hope we get along and everything goes well. As this was our first lesson today, we did not do much of work, we were just talking of what we going to do this year. It sounded interesting and scary at the same time, but we will see how we go.

// Tuesday 1st February: // Ms. Mcinnes class was kind of big and because of my subject changes I had to move to Mr. Streets class today. Mr. Street was my teacher last year so im happy that i have him as a teacher again. Today he was just explaining to us what we are going to do this semester, and as he was explaing he said that we are going to use Wikispaces again so im kinda happy with that because i used it last year and i liked it.

// Thursday 3rd February: // It was a double lesson today so we went to the library to look at some books, which might help us with our decision on what topic we going to research about. We had to sit in groups of 4-5 people and look at different kind of books. Looking at those books I had such a difficult time to chose one of them. I was thinking of doing something like Child abuse, Body image or Teenager Crime. Second lesson we went back to class and Mr Street haded out Develop Topic of Research sheets, and that will help us choose a topic. After reading and doing some research i decided to do "Teenager Crime".

Week 2

Now that we already chose the topic that we are going to research about we had to come up with a hypothesis about our research.Since i am doing teenager crime i was thinking, maybe my hypothesis can be: " Why does teenager crime exist?" Also i had to come up with 5 more quesrion that will help me through:

1. What is teenager crime? 2. What is the reason? 3. What do they think while doing a crime? 4. Do they think of "what if"? 5

I also have decided to do a 1500 words report on my topic instead of an oralpresentation. This week Mr. Street gave us some sheets and they helped us understand how SACE board will assess us this year. I have started my proposal this week and i am hoping to finish it soon so i can give it in.

Week 3

This week i was trying to finish my proposal but i had troubles because i did not know how to do it and i didn't think that i had enough informations, so because of that i was just writing it up using some sheets that Mr. Street gave us and i asked him to go through it with me which did help me a bit. I decided to write it as a report. I explained what my topic was about, the reasons why i chose this topic, what i am aiming to learn etc. I started on my draft :)

Week 4

This week again we didn't do much. I was just doing my proposal using some of the notes that i had, and the rest i did at home since we didn't have double because of school assembly.

Week 5

Finally i finished my proposal :) I started writing down questions for survey which will help me get other peoples thinking, i am thinking of surveying year 11&12 students as well as some teachers. I was also reading some books by Justin Healey that i got from school library. I still didn't search internet, because most of the information that i need are in the books, but i'll start searching and trying to find some life-stories on the internet.

Also i started to plan my draft which is due week 10.

Friday i had a visual art excursion with Mr. Corbet, so i wasn't in class!

Week 6

first Mr. Street was telling us that we need to so some interview with him and that he needs to record us. he told us that its going to be easy and just basic stuff will be asked, something like : Why did I close this particular topic? What have I done my topic already? What am I planning to do my topic? Do I have to change anything that I already planned for my topic.eg : hypothesis etc

When we had double lesson Mr interviewed each student and asked them/us few questions about the topic that they are doing. My interview went for like 10mins and i was quite scared :( but then i think i did good *well i hope*

I also finished with my survey questions which i need to get Mr Street to mark them so i can give them out to people.

Week 7

I missed out on some lessons but i still did my work, (i couldn't get Mr to check my survey because of other students interview but ill ask him next week) Right now i'm planing my draft for my essay so i can get some feedback from the teacher, so i can correct it and give him the good copy by the end of this term.

week 8

I really need to start interviewing people for my research. i was plaing on interviewing my home-group teacher becasue shes a cancellor and i am sure she works with "bad" people. im also thinking of interviweng some boys that have done some crime in their past, so i have to get myself and start doing that soon. I already made up some questions that i am going to ask them but i just need to find some free time and finish the interview.

Week 9 This week i didn't do much because i was sick so i wasnt at school, but while i was at home i was planning writing my draft.

Week 10 This week i gave out my surveys and i got them back with some really interesting answers. i even made apoinment for next week with my home group teacher, becasue i was planning on interviwing her :)