US History II

For this assignment, we were assigned a specific topic about WWI to research on to create a google slides presentation as well as a research paper. We were assigned into groups of 4 (even though there were only 3 people in my group). Our Team was given the topic of "African Americans and Women entering the workforce during WWI". Despite the fact that it was sometimes shard to coordinate who did what, this assignment went fairly well and I am proud of how it turned out. I think that the research paper turned out better than the slides, since the majority of the information was regurgitated from the research paper. Despite all that however, I'd still consider this assignment a glow and think that the slides turned out well and the research paper turned out better than I expected.

The goal of this assignment was to create a slideshow about the effects of a certain group of people in the Great Depression. we were allowed to choose which group we wanted to talk about, to which I chose Asian Americans. Overall we just had to explain what they did during this time, like what jobs they did or how they were treated. It was a fairly simple assignment to say the least. Me and my partner did struggle a couple of times with finding out how to format the slides and what to put first, but we were able to figure it out. Besides that issue, this assignment went pretty smoothly and we were able to finish on time. These are the reasons I'd consider this assignment a glow compared to everything else I've done in this marking period, since it was the easiest to do  and I got a good grade on it as well.

This assignment was a mess for multiple reasons. One of the reasons is that I didn't know I was supposed to be writing in first-person, so I had to frantically make the text I made in the draft into first person. So all the mentions of a name would be replaced with I's. Another thing was that the end of the story was sort of just underwhelming. It ends on a cliffhanger with Kaito agreeing to leave the town in order to have a more stable life, and getting ready to work. it would make more sense to write a time skip, to show what happened to all the characters after they agreed to it. It kinda just came out of nowhere and is a very lame ending. I also feel like I could've done more with the characters, as they are fairly forgettable and uninteresting, besides the neighbor who was harassing Kaito. For these reasons, I'd consider this assignment a grow, as there are a lot of things I could've improved about it.

For this assignment, we had to create a political cartoon based on the Vietnam War. We had to make sure we used at least 3 political cartooning techniques, as well as to have a clear message, good content, and to look good visually. This assignment was probably the most fun to do in this marking period Even though I was limited to trying to make art on a computer, I feel like I created a well made drawing that was, at least mildly, funny. I also got a pretty good grade on it as well, which is obviously also a plus. The only struggle I really had with this assignment is getting some of the proportions for the characters right, as well as trying to keep the visual style consistent. Other than that though, this was simple and fun assignment to do, which is why I would consider it a glow.

Although i did not get a bad grade on this assignment, I feel like I still could have done better one it. The gist of the assignment was that after you were done completing all of the analysis questions above the task, we had to write a forgien policy brief about the Korean War, with what has happened and what President Eisenhower should do about it. This wasnt that hard, since it was fairly short to do. The main detrement, however, was the fact that I was sick while writing it, meaning I had little energy, which overall means a worse product. This was most likely not the main factor, but it was definetly a prominent one. For this reason, i'd consider this assignment a grow.

This assignment was focused on the COINTELPRO documents that we had been learning about for quite some time by then. It required us to write a final essay about how the documents violate multiple of the amendments, and requiring at least 7 of the 10 documents to be used. When I first finished this assignment, I was thinking for the worst to be honest. I thought that I didn't demonstrate my points across strongly enough, and that some parts just didn't make sense. However, I was pleasantly surprised with a 95 instead. Besides grading, this assignment wasn't too interesting, but still felt manageable enough where it wasn't hard to think of a good format for it. For these reasons, this assignment is a glow, and hopefully I continue to use what I did in this assignment with future ones.