Journal

//**__September 28, 2010__-**// I already started to talk to Mrs. Whitlock about my diversity project. She filled out my mentor papers and agreed to help me with everything. She gave me a website with information on it about Mix-It-Up Day, which was helpful. We also talked about how I could do extra things after school to help her in order to pick up hours.

__//**October 10, 2010-**//__ I am still gathering research together on my topic. I will be getting more and more information online/books throughout this whole process. I am also still completing all of the annotated bibliographies when they are due.

__//**October 20, 2010- **//__ Meetings in the morning are about 30-35 minutes each On Wednesday, October 20th I had my first meeting with FBLA and STOP. The meeting was at 7:15 am and we elected officers for both groups. We talked about how we would go about Mix-It-Up Day this year, but didn't come to any final decisions yet. A girls Powder Puff football game is something else that we will be hosting, and we talked about how we would go about doing that as well. Mix-It-Up day is November 9th and the Powder Puff is November 19th. I will be making sign up sheets for the Powder Puff game. I know that's not what my project is, but its apart of what were working on right now. I think next meeting we will get into more ideas about Mix-It-Up Day. Our next meeting will be help the first Wednesday of next month, but I MIGHT be doing extra work for Mrs. Whitlock before then.

__//**October 29, 2010- **//__ This Friday, Mrs. Whitlock and I started to talk about how I would go about starting my project. We also discussed how the posters should look that I have to start making. I will be making two large posters to post around the school to Mix-It-Up Day out there and noticed that it's coming up. We're basically planning everything now, because the official day is November 9th.
 * We brainstormed for 15-20 minutes***

__//**November 2, 2010-**//__

Tonight I just finished one out of two of the posters. It took me about **8 hours** all together to get the materials for the posters, sketch things out, brainstorm what would go on the posters, and to finally complete them. The second one will be completed tomorrow or the following day. I will be talking with Mrs. Whitlock tomorrow on what else we need to do for the project, and go over what ever we haven't yet. She'll will be getting the flyers done for me, and we will start discussing how we will go about that day.

__//**November 3,2010-**//__ Today FBLA and STOP had a meeting. We discussed where I will put the flyers around the school, to make sure the word is defiantly out there. We talked about how the questionnaire for the students will be made, and how we will go about distributing them. We basically discussed hands on things and what I will provide for the group. *Again the questionnaire is a survey that I will be handing out to the kids with questions on it about diversity and once they complete them they will receive a treat*
 * Meetings after school are about 35-40 minutes each***

__//**November 4, 2010-**//__

All of the flyers and posters are finally up to remind the students when it is, what it is, whose included, where it is, and why we are doing it. I specifically answered the who, what, where, and why on my poster.

__//**November 5, 2010**//__-

I have to organize what will exactly happen on the official day. We have already planned how we will go about doing it. All I have to do now is try my best in getting the students to want to participate. I want to get across the word that this is a fun event, and its something different to do so you shouldn't ignore it.

__//**November 8,2010**//__- Tomorrow I will be taking many, many pictures, and possibly recording a video of everything. I'll also keep an updated journal as well of things that are going on there and how well the kids interact with one another. I will bring my treats tomorrow, camera, and all my other supplies; such as the different color papers per lunch table is all at school already. I put a lot of time into trying to organize this the best way I can which such a short amount of time. Before I knew it, Mix-It-Up Day was right around the corner and I didn't have too much time to prep. Hopefully everything goes as planned tomorrow, and I will have made a difference in our school.

__//**November 9, 2010-**//__ Today was finally Mix-It-Up day. It seemed like it happened so quickly. I had to go down to the cafeteria at the end of b block to get prepared. We made sure there were surveys, questions, and colored swatches on each table. Then when the kids started to come in, we had to act quick since there are two doors to the cafeteria. Students received their color papers during homeroom of that day, so most of them should had known where to sit. Since Mix-It-Up day takes place every year, it's not that hard for kids to adapt to how it is run. There are those who enjoy it and those who don't. Not everyone likes to participate. It was funny because I noticed that when students found out there would be a candy reward they started to interact and complete the survey. On the other hand, when they just heard its that dayy and time to change things up a little, they didnt seem too excited. I think this could be better organized in the future, but I would still continue to this in schools because it does give those students who care a chance to become diverse.

__//**December 12, 2010-**//__ Ever since Mix-It-Up day I have been doing all the requirements for the class and getting assignments complete. I was working on a outline for my fact sheet for a few weeks and then finally got the final product complete. We had extra time to do this, so it wasn't too much of a hassle. After that was graded, we began to work on research product 2 outline. Our due dates were never exact because we had some issues that were going on as things were to be graded. So we kind of slacked off a little for a week or so. Then our final outline for r.p. 2 was due, as well as our final copy of it. I did a research paper, so it took me a little while to get things together and everything settled. I had to have my outline completed, along with a works consulted. This entire process took me awhile because there were many steps that I had to take in order to be finally finished. I also had to get a student as well a a faculty member to look over my rough draft, which took a little to do as well. Finally, everything was completed and our final due date for r.p 2 was due right before break started. Now, I am just continuing to keep an updated journal, and we'll see what is set up for next week.

All throughout the rest of December, we were setting up for the presentations to begin. Most people started to present at the very beginning of January. There isn't much to keep a journal on because we aren't doing any work in class, we are just to prepare ourselves for our own presentations.

Around the third week of January is when the presentations started. I continued to get photos for my power point, and keep an updated works cited. We were also told to practice a lot.

Throughout this whole month, I was to plan out what will be said the day of my presentation, prep and prepare for it, and complete it ahead of time for practice. My presentation date was set to January 21st at first, but then got pushed to January 24th, because of weather conditions. Even though I was happy to get more time, I didn't get to use it like I wanted to because I was sick for awhile, had person issues at home, and was in the hospital as well. Overall, I would say that I did find time to get this done, as well as I had no choice but to get it done. January 20-23 I tried to get in as much information and prep as much as I could. I never did a presentation like this with all pictures and no words except little notes I took on note cards; which still wasn't enough. So it was a little difficult, and I was very nervous. I managed to some how pull through it all, and I had everything I needed for my presentation. Even though, Mrs. Ward said I did okay, I think I could have done better, if I wasn't going through so many issues during the process, and prepared a little bit more.