Finishing Up!

Today I'm hoping to finish up my proposal. Over my thanksgiving break I'm going to finish up my notes. Then all I have to do is my Outline. It seems like a lot of work but really I can get it done!

Timeline!

Today I finished my timeline. I'm almost finished with my proposal. I'm going to complete that tonight. Tommorow I should have everything completed. Christina is Editing my Timeline as I type so ill revise it and make it as perfect as possible!

Today

Today I was very tired. But I did continue to write my paper. I am going to have it edited by my mentor, hopefully some time this week. I still have like a paragraph to do, so I'm gonna try to get that done tonight since we are about to leave.

Proposal

Today I worked on my proposal for my action plan. I got a couple paragraphs done I still need to find a very interesting fact to pull someones attention into the paper. I think I might put a little story in, but a tragic one. I'm going to look for one that tells a story about a teen that loses a parent and the other parent doesn't really help the teen so the teen goes into deep depression and kills their self. I think that would be good because people would be like wow! So we'll see if that works out.

If you have any suggestions let me know!

Great Day!

I finally feel like I'm caught up in this class. I'm really happy. I finished the questions to help me write my proposal. I finished my Webliography yesterday. So now all I have to do is take a whole lot of notes, and I will be good to go! If you have any suggestions about anything please let me know.

Thanks Guys! =]

WEBLIOGRAPHY!!!

OK!... so I know it's late but, I finally finished my Webliography. I'm so happy. The reason why it's so late though is because of those family troubles I was having at home. But whatever grade I get I get.

Interview Questions

These are the interview questions I came up with today:



How would you say the grief cycle affects a child?

How would you say it affects an adult?

How would you say it affects a teen?

What do you think a person should do if they see a relative or friend getting deeper and deeper into depression? What if they don’t want to get help?

How do you think the loss of a loved one affects the relationships of the immediate family?

What are some of the ways different cultures deal with grief, do you know what rituals or
customs some of them use?

What do you think is a good way to deal with grieving so you don’t get more depressed?

I know when my dad died a lot of people told me keep busy don’t think about it, is that the proper way to go about grieving?

Would you say Koobler’s grief cycle works for anybody? (children, teens, adults, different cultures)

Do you think that everybody that loses someone who is close should see a counselor or some type of person for help?

Do you think that sudden death makes the grief process longer or shorter?

Do you have any advice on what you should say to people when they just lost someone, or any advice you could give them?

I didnt figure out who exactly im going to interview yet, but we'll see.

Interview

Today we found out about doing our interviews for the project. I looked at several different people that I could interview, but I think the best bet is the Caring Place. I think it's the best because it's local and they will probably be nice, and willing to be interviewed.

yesterday

Yesterday I was not able to blog because I had to go see the counselor for personal things going on at home. So I just thought I would let you guys know that that was the reason why I wasn't keeping you guys posted.

Today

Today was the first day I have been in this class since the library trip. I was having some family troubles so I did'nt come in yesterday. But I got like 4 or 5 books, and I think I'm going to start reading those probably over the weekend or on Monday. Then I will take notes for that.

Carnegie Library

Well we just got to the library and Nothing is really set up. Some of us dont have cards therefore we can't take out books. Ms. King's talking to the librarian now so hopefully works out.

Library Trip!

So, Ms. King told us that were going to the library Wednesday. So we had to find 2 books that were related to our topic at the library in Oakland. I found 6 so I think that out of all of the choices I got I'll find a couple good ones. This should help me a lot during my research process. These books look pretty interesting and I'm pretty excited to read them.

Continuing Research

Today I finished making all my templates for my notes, so now im pretty much all set to start taking notes full speed tommorow. I'm starting to get a little nervous about getting done it just seems like so much work. I'm just afraid I'm not going to get it done and I'm not going to graduate. It's scary just thinking about it now writing it. But hopefully it will all work out and I'll finish on time.

This is my collage that I made to go with my whole project. Its not that great but I'm not that good at Photoshop. I did the best I could so leave some comments. Good or bad.

Essential Questions UPDATE!

Topic Question:

How do issues with grief differ between kids, teens and adults?

Sub Questions
How do children deal with grief?
How can children be supported during grief?
How do adolescents deal with grief?
How can adolescents be supported during grief?
How do adults deal with loss?
How can adults be supported during grief?
How do different cultures deal with grief, what rituals or customs do they use?
When is the time to get help for someone dealing with grief?
How does Koobler's theory relate to all the different types of people?
How does losing a loved one effect the relationships between the intermediate family?

Research!!!

I found out a little bit about different things that happen when elementary school kids and pre schoolers lose a loved one. All this stuff is very interesting, and keeps you engrossed in looking at stuff. I would give my self a 7.5 8 for todays work.

Continuing Notes!

Today I was super tired I thought i was going to fall asleep. I did stick it out though and did some research so I was pretty proud of myself. For my class time used I think that I would give my self an 8.

Notes!

Today I started to figure out what I was going to do for my notes. I think im going to use the one where it has the notes on one side and the sources on the other. Kind of like Dot Jot Notes.

Question

So I finally figured out my main topic question.

How do issues with grief differ between kids teens and adults?

I think that I'm going to end up giving out a survey to different ages of people adults, kids, and teens. Now I think im going to get back to my questions.

Essential Questions

I feel like I know what my main questionn is but its like on the tip of my tongue.

I have thought of a few sub questions though.

1. How do children deal with grief?
2. How do adolescents deal with grief?
3. How do adults deal with loss?
4. How do different cultures deal with grief?
5. When is the time to get help for someone dealing with grief?
6. How does Koobler's theory relate to all the different types of people?

These are just a couple of things, I probably will end up changing the questions tommorow.

leave me some comments if you have any ideas!

I really don't know

Today Ms. King and I talked about what my main question could be but I didnt write it down therefore I forgot what we said. So I've been trying to think shes been helping people so whenever shes free I guess I'll go talk to her.

Sites and Webliography

I am really starting to find some good sites now that I know alot about what im going to do. I talked to Ms. King today and she told me I could research grief in kids teens and adults and just compare the differences. So I got alot of sites and now I just have to do my webliography which i will probably work on over the night or weekend. I'll post it as soon as i complete it.

Researching More!

Today I'm going to be working on my webliography, I am going to find some more sites so i can add them to it. We need at least 10 sites so i have a lot of work to get too. Ill post the webliography when i complete it.

Letter of Intent

Today in class I typed up my letter of intent. Christina Provident Checked it and made some corrections. Ill paste it below:

Ms. King
City Charter High School
717 Liberty Ave.
Pittsburgh, PA 15222

Dear Ms. King:

Grief is a major psychological emotion that happens to almost anyone. It is something really important and I think that everyone should know at least a little bit about. I chose this topic because I went through a really hard time 5 years ago when my Father passed away. It was literally the worst time of my life. I don’t have much knowledge of the topic but I do know a little bit since it happened to me. I would like to know more about it though, so I can understand why it happens.

The sub-topics that I would like to study and elaborate on, are grief in teens, and the stages of grief. I plan to use a lot of different resources throughout the researching period. I will most likely use the internet, the library database, and probably go to the library and get a few books on the topic! I could probably get articles from periodicals too. I also plan to interview a grief therapist or someone who knows a lot about it so I can get the information straight forward.

For my action plan, I would like to volunteer and participate in something at the caring place. I found out that the school can join the caring team and we can have a penny war every year to donate money to them. Also if we do that we could have the chance to go to one of the events and even get a chance to meet some of the Steelers! I would set up everything for the school to join and it would be a great thing to do for the community. In addition I would like to volunteer there a couple times to maybe talk to a couple of the kids and help them get through their loss.

Plagiarism is when you take somebody’s work word from word and copy and paste it without permission. You can use quotes you just can’t copy word from word. The consequences would be failing the grad project and not walking across the stage with the rest of the class. I definitely do not intend to ruin my high school career by plagiarizing I will work hard and get my own work done.

Sincerely,



Jason A. Pace

Let me know what you think any comments?!

Now im going to find some more sites for research, and get started with that soon.

Today!

Today im going to start writing my letter of intent to give to Ms. King. Then I think im going to do some not taking or find some good websites to research on. If anyone knows any good sites on grief let me know, it would be really helpful.

Also, im going to call that guy who works at the caring place soon, and see what i can do for my action plan.

Started Research!

Also I started researching today.

I found some interesting things I think I'll find more once i get deep down into it.

Key Terms!

Today I finished up doing my Key Terms.
Here they are If I Find better ones I'll make sure to add them.

1. Bereavement- State of loss.
2. Hospice- A program that provides special help for people who's lives are near ending.
3. Suicide- Killing yourself from depression.
4. Psychopathology- Psychology concerned with abnormal behavior.
5. Depression- A mental state when someone doesnt want to do anything.
6. Mourning- State of sorrow over death.
7. Loss- Losing someone forever and not having them be around again.
8. Grief- Intense sorrow caused by loss of a loved one.
9. Psychiatry- Study of diagnosis, treatment and prevention of mental illness.
10. Manifestation- Sign that illness is present.

Caring Place Contacted me Back

The Caring place contacted me back today, he said to call him at my conveniance so ill have to do that.

The 5 Stages

I just learned that theres 5 stages in the grief process.


Denial : The initial stage: "It can't be happening."
Anger : "Why ME? It's not fair?!" (either referring to God, oneself, or anybody perceived, rightly or wrongly, as "responsible")
Bargaining : "Just let me live to see my son graduate."
Depression : "I'm so sad, why bother with anything?"
Acceptance : "It's going to be OK."

I think that this is pretty accurate because when my dad died i did go through most of these things.

Contacted the Caring Place!

I contacted The Caring Place by email today.

I told them that i was doing my graduation project, and that i was interested in doing something to make a difference in other kids or teens lives. I have a couple things that i would like to do. One is i'd like to get the school to join The Caring Team, and i'd like to maybe go and talk to other teens about what their going through and how they can cope with it.

there is a website to the volunteer opportunities:
http://www.highmarkcaringplace.com/getinvolved/volunteer.shtml

http://www.highmarkcaringplace.com/getinvolved/caringteam.shtml

I think that this is going to help me and other people that are going through grief, since I've been through it before. Ms. King really helped me think of some good ideas, and was a lot of help.

Hopefully everything pans out with The Caring Place will see, I'll keep you updated!

My Topic

I think for my topic today i chose to do it on grief. I did find a link to a center for grieving and iv'e been looking at information on there.

Here's the Link,
http://www.highmarkcaringplace.com/

I think that this topic is interesting and theres alot i can do for the action plan for it.

Grad Projects

1. I heard that the graduation project at City High is challenging but it will benefit you in your future.

2. Some of my interests that i would like to structure my project around are:

a. Psychology (grief)

b. Football

c. Business

3. Some of the concerns that i have about the project is just im really nervous. I'm concerned that i'm going to screw up and mess up during the presentation part. It's just a very important thing and you have to take it extra serious.

Narrowing the Topics

Narrowing Topics

Football
Grief
Business

Grief seems the most interesting.
I think grief because I went through it before and I know a lot already about it.
I think either grief or Football because there’s a lot out there.
Business is most likely to be used after graduation
I think grief would produce a unique project
Grief because a lot of people go through it.
Grief will be the one ill commit to over several months.
Grief will fit my needs.

Brainstorming

Fine and Performing Arts
Health, Physical Fitness, Sports
Football
Doctor

Business
Entertainment Manager (Manager for music artist etc.)
Head of Operations for business (Casino)

Travel
Italy
The Projects
Antarctica

Careers
Doctor
Manager

Social and Environmental Concerns

Photography, Film, Broadcasting

Directing
Newscaster
Photographer

Human Services, Education
Tutoring Kids

Philosophy Psychology
Grief
Child Psychology

Space
Astronaut
UFO’s

Specialized Hobbies
Myspace

Tech and Math
Microsoft Office

Politics and History
Teacher
Voter

Law and Justice
Lawyer
CSI
FBI

Other
Pilot
Bus Driver

Intro to Blogging

I think that constant blogging indicates signs of an obsession im not going to say that its harmful because its just something for a person to do. Its the same thing as someone whos on myspace all the time or anybody whos on Instant messaging which im on all the time. So there really is not a difference.

I think that something that makes another persons blog worth reading is the layout of their blog. I also think if it has good information or not.

I think that all bloggers should keep their personal information personal, i also think that they all should abide by not putting someone elses name out in their blog, unless the person wants them too, otherwise dont do it. I think that because somebody might not want people to know their name or what happened that involved them, other then that i think anything else is ok.