Essential Question: What can we learn from other people’s stories of resilience that we might be able to use in our own lives?

Objective: Reflect on how you are connected to your historical figure and community member and what you have learned from the research and interview process and timeline creation.

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Compose a reflection blog post using your Connecting Yourself information . How did your research of the historical figure  and interview the resilient community member connect with you. What sites were the most helpful in finding information about your historical figure. How did you feel about and what did you learn from the interview process. You also need to include your impression of the process of researching, interview, and using your research to create the timeline using tiki-toki. Your post should include the essential elements of a great post and include:

• Three paragraph (minimum) reflection on the research, interview, and timeline.
• Catchy title
• A critical question or thought about your findings
• Links to the 2 most useful sites you found during our research
• Image of the person you research
• MLA citation of websites.
• Spell and grammar check your document

Rubric:

Criteria	4	3	2	1	0
Analysis of topic & question	Initial blog post on topic and/or question is answered accurately and with much detail	Initial blog post on topic lacks some accuracy or detail	Initial blog post is limited in accuracy and/or detail	Initial blog post lacks any accuracy and/or detail (did not address prompt)	Initial blog post was not started or only a cursory attempt was made
Outside research cited	Three or more outside sources including personal experience are used in support of blog post and add valuable evidence and are cited	Two or more outside resources are used but do not support the post. Sources are cited.	Two or more sources are provided but not cited	One or two sources are provided but not cited	No sources are provided
Critical thinking question or thought	A critical thinking question or thought relevant to the topic and/or question is provided	A critical thinking question or thought, not relevant to the topic and/or question is provided	A question or thought is provided	A question or thought is not provided	No evidence of an attempt at critical thought
Mechanics	Posting is mechanically and grammatically correct	Posting contains 1-3 spelling, grammatical, or punctuation errors	Posting contains 4-6 spelling, grammatical, or punctuation errors	Posting contains more than 6 spelling, grammatical, or punctuation errors	Posting contains more than 6 errors that impede the readability
Timeliness	Post is submitted on time	Post is submitted by the next class period	Post is submitted 1-2 days late	Post is submitted 3-5 days late	Post is not submitted for review at end of a week

Rubric adapted from:  http://www.goramblers.org/document.doc?id=1307