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Finished the timeline of the progression of my heroe project on Timetoast and posted it on posterous. This is important because it documents my efforts over the past weeks.
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Short freewrite on the meaning of being a hero.
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We first recieve our papers and information regarding the Heroes Project. We go over details and ask and answer questions.
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Finally, I chose someone to do my project on, and got a book from the library. Darwin was a familiar figure to me, and choosing him as my subject proved to be the most important moment in my project thus far.
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Spent time reading Darwin's biography and taking notes on interesting instances or quotes. This will serve me for references in my final essay.
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I wrote my first blog post about why I chose my subject. Writing it out helped me establish why exactly Darwing was a hero, and how he affected the rest of the world. This paragraph was a major turning point in the project because it helped me organize my thoughts on my hero.
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Made contact with my interviewee, Mrs. Driver, a science teacher, to ask for her to allow me to record an interview for the project and to give her the questions to have answers prepared.
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In this second blog post, I analyzed the meaning of the word hero, and the variations that have come from authors, pop culture, etc. I decided that to me, a hero is someone who does the right thing despite personal repurcussions.
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We were instructed to pick a passage from our biographies that we liked. My passage was a quote from a friend and colleague of Darwin threatening objectors to his work. I thought it was funny how close the group of scientists working on this theory and in related fields were.
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Finished my timeline of the progress of my heroes project. This is important because it documents my efforts over the past weeks.
