Everything is coming together awesomely and I'm excited to present on November 20th at 8:30 am (First to present) = D

<---- (Color Guards at the 2009 Partners of Leadership Awards.)

I did my action plan on Thursday October 29, I helped out at the "2009 Partners of Leadership Award". Now I'm working on my Power Point and getting ready for November 20th when I present my Graduation Project.

On the 29th of October I'm gonna volunteer at the Gala at Carnegie music hall in Oakland. I will be taking pictures of both me volunteering and what happens at the Gala.

First, I got to do is ask Mr. Duty for a permission slip so I can borrow a camera for the 29th

Second (which is a little more crazy), ask my teachers if I "skip" school so I can help set up for the Gala and be exempt from all the work in that day. (I highly doubt it)

Third, find someone I can trust to take the pictures of me volunteering, I can always have one of my friends at the Veterans Leadership Program (VLP) to help me with that.

Finally forth, dress up in my suit and tie for that day so I can leave from school to Oakland so I can help with as much as possible.

I've finished my first draft of my Literacy review with self and peer edits.

= D

I finished my literature review and my self edit = D

Today I was working on my literature review and some how i got side tracked and started to write about a little boy and his ball.

I've been working on my Literature review paper. SO FAR SO GOOD! I've started to think about I'm going to talk about when I'm in front of the panel when i present my project... i don't know if that's good or not but I'm doing it.

I'm getting some final notes and websites in and documented in important and different files as adding these new websites to my blog. I feel that I'll finish with these notes by Monday and start on my Literature Review on Tuesday.

Today I'm starting my Senior year at school. While we were on our summer break i was volunteering at the Veterans Leadership Program of Western PA. I worked and talked with many veterans, they told me many stories and tales about what they did while they were in service in the US military. Now I'm back at school and doing/working on my graduation project once again.

Lately I have been moving my interview notes with Al Mercer onto a word spreadsheet so it can be clearly read. I have also added some of the information on my did you know notes.

Interview With Al Mercer Today

Today I worked on making sure I had everything prepared for my interview today with Al Mercer.

Today I posted a Survey on my blog asking "Do you think that Veterans get enough benefits from the government and veteran organizations?"
I hope to get a good number of replies so I can use the results I my project.

Today I Started to work on my timeline for my project and I made some edits and added some new questions for my interview with Al Mercer on Friday.

Today I added a new link to the Pennsylvania Department of Military and Veterans Affairs website to my blog.

Today I gathered more notes about veterans aid/help.

Today I worked on my "Show and Tell" and I made a new collage for my blog page.

Today I e-mailed Ken McCoy about an interview time with Al Mercer (Executive Director at VLP) Friday March 20th at 1 pm.

Today I worked on my Did you Know Notes and adding information about my Foundation Questions.

Foundation Questions

1. Who are Veterans?
2. Where can you send veterans to go to get help?
3. What kind of programs are made for veterans?
4. What kind of problems do veterans have when they come out of active duty?
5. What is the government doing to help Veterans?
6. What are the ways that Veteran organizations helping veterans?
7. What kind of benefits do veterans get?
8. What are the different ways veterans receive help?

Essential Question

How might a person who doesn't know anything about veterans, help them with their problems/struggles they are facing?