So far I have been contemplating on how to present my senior project to students, but also how I am to be graded by my review panel. I recently been in contact with the people who are to grade me and so far I haven't chosen a specific date yet, but I'm pretty sure it'll be after May 13th for two reasons. First, one of my review panelist won't be available until after May 13th and secondly, I tend to show my display my presentation as soon as possible and days before I actually get graded. But how am I to display my project without having people there to evaluate me? I received help from one of my teachers to suggested that I show the movies that have helped me in my life. Of all this I want to show the movies separately, by first showing middles school students Remember the Titans and some episodes of Band of Brothers, since the mini-series is too long. After they are done the first night, depending which movie the want to see, I'll then show the same movies to high school students who are interested in watching the movies. Of course Remember the Titans is well over two hours of movie time and Band of Brothers has episodes that are one hour long each. This will require some study hall time to be diminished to those who want to see these movies of course. I plan to show these movies in the upstairs classroom, the avocado room, where I won't just show the movie, but lead the discussion and provide some questions for the other students. I also want to show the movie first instead of having to pause the movie every few minutes to talk about it. It'll be a good experience for the students, with, if possible, food and drinks provided. I'll lead the discussion by first passing out sheets of paper that has detailed questions about the movie, what it makes them think, what they feel, what they understood from it, and what elements are useful and can be incorporated to them.
Of course, I tend to also see which students found the movies to be touching or focused, but also remind them of the things that we may have forgotten as friendship, camaraderie, leadership etc. After watching the film, I will then talk to them or maybe just let them write down their ideas or thoughts. Their comments will be valuable. And upon reading their responses I will post a blog about it and even prepare to show my presentation to my review panel. For now, I plan to write down what I want to say to my review panel and show some clips from different movies and remind them what my project was about along with the ideas and comments that the students provided upon my presentation.
Yet, I first have to work on a settle date and make sure everything goes according to plan. So far so good.
