Blog 22: Mentorship

Hannah Leonard

 

North 12

 

 

Blog 22: Mentorship

 

Content:

LIA Response to blog:

    Literal

·     Log of specific hours with a total and a description of your duties updated on the right hand side of your blog

·     Contact Name and Mentorship Place

    Interpretive

     What is the most important thing you gained from this experience? Why?

The most important thing I gained from this experience was an understanding of an issue that is extremely downplayed in society and not recognized as as big of an issue as it actually is.

   Applied

     How has what you’ve done helped you to answer your EQ?  Please explain.

What I've done has helped me answer my EQ because my mentorship supplied me with the most in depth, reliable information and therefore gave my answers background and detail.



Blog 23: Final Lesson Reflection

Hannah Leonard

North 12

May 22, 2015

Blog 23: Final Lesson Reflection 

(1) Positive Statement

What are you most proud of in your block presentation and/or your senior project? Why?
I am most proud of my activities because they were very effective in demonstrating my answers. 

(2) Questions to Consider

a.     What assessment would you give yourself on your block presentation (self-assessment)?

AE       P          AP       CR       NC

b.     What assessment would you give yourself on your overall senior project (self-assessment)?

AE       P          AP       CR       NC

(3) What worked for you in your senior project?

My mentorship really worked for me in my senior project.

(4) (What didn't work) If you had a time machine, what would you have done differently to improve your senior project if you could go back in time?

If I had a time machine, I wouldn't go back and change anything. 

(5) Finding Value

How has the senior project been helpful to you in your future endeavors?   Be specific and use examples.

The senior project has been extremely helpful in the way that it has helped me figure out what I want my future endeavors to be. Through this project I have discovered what I want to study in college and what I want to major in. My major is gender and women's studies. Also this project helped me make connections with people that can help expand my opportunities in life as well as, not just a mentor but someone that I can look up to.  

Blog 21: Exit Interview

Hannah Leonard 

North 12

May 6, 2015

Blog 21: Exit Interview 

Content:

(1) What is your essential question, and what are your answers?  What is your best answer and why?

My essential question is "How best can a person overcome the effects of domestic violence?"

Answer 1: Coordinated Community Action 

Answer 2: Education 

Answer 3: Trauma Therapy

Best Answer: Education  
Education is my best answer because education works in all stages of domestic violence. It can be preventative, help a victims get out of a relationship, or help them heal afterwards. Education is the most effective and the easiest to implement because people seek to understand. 

(2) What process did you take to arrive at this answer?

It was a combination of independent research, mentorship experience, and critical thinkings. Putting all of the pieces together that make up the complex dynamic that is domestic violence was key to coming up with my best answer.   

(3) What problems did you face?  How did you resolve them?

I had trouble coming up with an essential question in the first place because I didn't want it to be a question with an obvious answer and I wanted the question to be  organic, something that I would actually ask. Mrs. Ortega helped me come up with an essential question that fir this description. 

(4) What are the two most significant sources you used to answer your essential question and why?

Bancroft, Lundy. "Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men". New York: Putnam's Sons, 2002. Print.

"Why Does He Do That?" goes in depth about how a batterer works and this was very helpful because the batterer is the most confusing portion to the domestic violence dynamic with the constant mood swings.

My mentors, Ashley Solis and Marina Wood

They gave me both of my best sources as well as most of what I know about domestic violence. They were/are amazing sources of information.

Levy, Barrie. "In Love & In Danger." Seal Press, 2006. Print.

This book gives first hand accounts of domestic violence relationships and helps create a clearer picture of what occurs in them.