Meaghan+White+2

Hi Meaghan, I know we talked today. Once you get your knew question up, I will provide feedback. -Crystal

Process:
The first question I was originally going to explore stemmed from my love for the Civil War and topics surrounding that era. I was going to look into the racial divide of the time period and compare both Union and Confederate soldiers. When I began my research I had a really difficult time trying to find primary sources and ones that I could read (if they weren't transcribed). I was growing increasingly frustrated with the topic and I spoke with Crystal about my issue. She provided some other websites that may help in my research, but after looking through those I still couldn't find sources that really answered my question. Last week in Crystals class we had a really interesting discussion about 9/11 and how a teacher would go about teaching these events. Then I began to think about questions surrounding 9/11 and how I could explore this topic. 9/11 holds a dear place in my heart because I was in 9th grade and I lived 45 minutes from NYC when it happened. Being that close to the city a lot of my friends parents worked there and I knew a lot of people who lost family members in the attack. I also realized that my brother and I saved a lot of the newspapers from the days following the attack - so I already had a lot of my primary sources. After some consideration I decided to change my topic rather late in the game to events surrounding 9/11.

Topic: How did newspapers portray the events of September 11, 2001?

 * 1) Panic/Fear of unknown
 * 2) Nationalism
 * 3) Conspiracy

Primary Sources:
1. Poughkeepsie Journal Article - September 12, 2001 "Nation Saw Evil: Hijacked planes destroy World Trade Center; Pentagon in flames; thousands feared dead". 2. Poughkeepsie Journal - September 11, 2002 (A year in review, actual newspaper) - Historical Context 3. [|Political Cartoon] - Nationalism 4. New York Times ([|Conspiracy]) - Doubt in government

Secondary Sources:
1. [|History] 2.Poughkeepsie Journal - A year in review 3. President Bush ([|speech])

Research for this topic has been much easier than my original topic. I am also learning quite a lot about a topic I thought I knew pretty well!

Paul Harvey Ideas:

 * 1) The irony in the fact that the attacks occurred on September 11th (911)
 * 2) Tracing the origins of the attack through the U.S involvement in the Middle East in the late 70's and 80's.

Inquiry Drafts:




Paul Harvey:


Upon completion of this draft and peer editing, I realized that I made some mistakes with my paper. I am going to go back and re-do the entire assignment so that it better fits the guidelines. After last weeks class I have a much better understanding of what is expected of my final Paul Harvey paper.



I had a difficult time writing this portion of the assignment. It was very difficult for me to write a story instead of a more fact based historical paper. I have a character I was describing, I tried to describe the events of September 11th in different voice, more like story-telling. Then when I got to the irony portion I feel like it turned back into a historical paper, and I feel like I had to do this to get the information across.

Paul Harvey Digital Video:
http://voicethread.com/share/5078411/