Building my IDeaI was very indecisive with my project's topic. It was the first time someone had said to me "make a project on whatever you want" it took me the first of three weeks to come up with the topic of mental health. Then another few days to begin actual project building, causing me to be constantly in and out of meeting with the teachers. I knew I'd wanted to do a story, but I wasn't sure how, when (for reasons I don't remember) I'd thought about The Diary of Anne Frank. So my project was born, I would do a few diary entries showing the mental deterioration of my character.
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Creating My Project I struggled a lot with the writing process. Unfortunately I'd had a lot of indecision during the process of idea creation, which left me with very little time to actually write my story. I had originally planned to write about five to ten entries. With my time crunch, however, I was unable to complete that goal. So I'd ending up with a new goal, to create three entries.
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contextualization in social studies and english
Since I created a story to encompass the entirety of my project I had to contextualize the time period through the the text. For English I used the period typical phrases. Throughout the story I attempted to incorporate different colloquialisms from the 1950s. they are especially present within her first excerpt. I tried to include phrases that would be common among 1950s teens, such as "doing a bit" or "being pinned". For social studies I used the more situational ideals and "current" events to help contextualize the late 50's setting I was implying. In the first chapter I did a lot with 50's relationships and a major event during 1957. In the second chapter I tried contextualizing with the fact that mental health was not accepted and the main goal of that time is not to stand too out of the crowd, and also common expectations. My last bit of contextualization was within the hospital, and the familial roles. Also used the font type, a cursive style, to contextualize, as most students grew up learning to write in script as compared to now, where the common writing style is print.