Civil War Project

For my Civil War Project I worked with Nathan Corchis and Connor Mcnamara on learning about the causes that led up to one of the bloodiest conflicts America had ever seen. This project was a very drawn out, trying project for me. This was because we had very many issues dealing with members of my group, experts and presenting. These were very hard things to come through but they are things that I will always remember about this project.

When I was paired up with my group I knew that it was definitely going to be interesting. I liked working with them because they are very entertaining people to get to work with. But sometimes I had to put my patience to work because everyone works differently. So there were definitely times when members would not cooperate which I was expecting. There were also tons of times when we couldn't stop laughing that will always be remembered.

Once we had gotten through our project we had to send it to an expert each. I had found a history professor from Virginia Tech. I was very pleased with his background knowledge on the subject but not so pleased with the fact that he never wrote back. This also happened to my other two partners, so we wrote to three more experts. This process went on two more times lasting about 3 weeks. We had given up hope, so Mrs. Amy pulled some strings with her prior employer and got a teacher to look at our work. He provided a great response with some much needed comments to help us finish up our project.

Presentation Day came sooner than we expected. Even though we had prepared for 3 days I was very nervous with not knowing whether our technology was going to pull through for us or not...and it didnt. We were planning on doing a newscast that would have Connor and Nathan interviewing people who had claimed to have seen our website and it was going to be a very good introduction to kind of amp up a very boring website. But we just went with the flow and introduced it ourselves and as negative as I was that day I have to say now that I think about it was not that bad of a presentation.

Overall I learned a lot from this project and not just about the causes to the Civil War. I learned to have patience when working in a group, dealing with experts and how to just roll with it and breather no matter what happens because they will always be a failure. But to be able to succeed you have to have failures.