What Is Something I Need Help With, Where Can I Get It? I think I mostly needed help with people to just read my work to check for small things that don't sound right, or typos, or find punctuation errors. For example usually I would ask for a peer or a teacher to read over my work to see if I had any errors in my work. Also, if I had any questions on how to cite something in my work or how to do a certain part of a works cited I would ask Ms. Nowakowski. This shows that I just needed help with little things in my research reports or subtopics because I asked a few people to help me reread my work. Another thing I needed help with was composing emails to people because I don't write many emails so I didn't want to sound rude or anything. For example I asked my mom (Mrs. Chan) how to write an email asking if someone could still do an interview or reminding them because they hadn't replied in a few days. This shows that I am not very experienced with emailing because I wasn't sure how to compose a certain email. To conclude, there were a few things that I needed help with like rereading my work for typos and composing emails. 

What Strategy Have I Used In Learning This Topic? While learning this topic I have used a few different strategies. I have used planning, communication, and organization. I used planning for thinking about what I need to get done and when it needs to be done. This has been helpful because if I need to get things done then I know when to start it and when it needs to be done. I have used communication by asking my teachers questions and emailing them if I have a question about work that I'm working on. This has been helpful because sometimes something is confusing or I'm not sure how to do something then I can ask to make make sure my work was done correctly. Finally, I have used organization because to make sure I complete all my work, keep track of what I have to do, and just be organized I have to use organization. This was helpful because all of my work was organized and easy to find and I turned it all of my work on time which is good so I don't get graded down for being late. All in all, I have used organization, planning, and communication on the isearch.

Why is the isearch difficult for me? I believe the isearch has been difficult for me for a few reasons. The reasons are, it's a lot more research than I've ever had to do before, there is a lot more work in general, and during the last month there's been a lot of other things going on while we're working on isearch. The reason that the isearch is more research than I have done before is because I've only done about three research reports before and the isearch is like five research reports combined. For example each subtopic is five paragraphs long and for me the whole thing is four pages long including the works cited; and there's five subtopics. Additionally, there's even more work like two interviews, six learning logs, and a website. Finally, there's been a lot of work going on. For example job shadowing is happening and Raya didn't shadow with me so Kelly did and the situation is just kind of weird and complicated. Also every day I have at least an hour of after school clubs and sometimes two hours. Additionally, there's just the normal homework and stuff like that to do. To sum it all up, I think isearch is difficult because there's a lot of stuff going on and the  isearch is challenging.

What is my plan of action? My current plan of action for this week is to finish my reference sheets over the next few days because five are required. They are due next week (April 19th) and I have only done about one and a half and since I have a few extra to do because I have an extra sub-topic I will need a few days to work on them. Then, I am going to try to contact a worker from the San Francisco Scavengers (Lipman had an assembly to learn about landfills and learn how to recycle correctly and a field trip to see a landfill and how materials are recycled) to plan an interview or two people for my two required interviews, just to plan ahead so I don't run out of time. After that I am going to start working on my Introduction for my isearch because it's due April 25th, and is the next thing due after the reference sheets. All in all, for my isearch my goal is to make sure I give myself plenty of time so I'm not ending up trying to rush and finish something messily for the isearch the night before it's due.