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toc = Wiki Organization = The York School Personal Project Student Handbook information is written in brown.

**Action items (due dates, forms etc.) are written in red.**

YOUR PROCESS JOURNAL ENTRIES SHOULD BE WRITTEN IN BLACK. PLEASE MAKE SURE THAT EACH ENTRY IS PROPERLY DATED.

= Process Journal = = = Maintain a process journal containing all your thoughts, decisions and actions. This document allows you to record your progress as you work on the project. It should be completed honestly and regularly to show how your project is developing. The process journal will also help you as you write the various sections of the report.

* //Adapted from MYP Personal Project Guidelines, Jan 2004// The process journal should be written in each of the following stages of your personal project: Investigate, Design, Plan, Create and Evaluate. Today, for the first time in a while I sat down with my list of recipes and decided when I was going to cook/photograph each one. In order to prepare for this I made a calendar. I got a blank August calendar and filled in when I am going to make each recipe. I previously had made a list of the ingredients I need for each recipe. This is helpful because now I know what to buy for each recipe and I won’t be rushed, it is a very organized method. I didn’t run into any problems during this step except for that I had trouble finding a good calendar. I wanted a simple one that I would be able to write on easily. I searched Google images but the calendars that came up from there I was unable to type on. After a lot of searching my sister gave me a good website, [|www.office.microsoft.com] this website had blank templates that I could easily download and fill in. My only problem was solved very easily. Above is a screenshot of the finished calendar, I only took a screen shot of the week that I am cooking/photographing everything. I am making everything in a short amount of time because I need a lot of time to choose pictures, edit pictures and put the book together. On the left side of the calendar the apple crisp is highlighted in blue which indicates that I have baked and photographed it. This means that I am complete with that recipe and can move onto the next. This is a good system because it is easy to highlight and it confirms that I won’t make a recipe more than once. Later in the day I prepared my first recipe. I was originally going to make the chocolate chip meringues but then I realized that I don’t have the cornflakes needed. I switched to apple crisp because I had all the ingredients and I’m going to make the chocolate chip meringues tomorrow. To make the apple crisp it was a really simple recipe and I had no problems. The apples took a long time to cut but it was okay because I had a lot of time. When I was finished with the apple crisp I had to take pictures of it. At first I wanted to do the pictures on a wooden table but I decided that I didn’t like that pattern very much. I moved it to the floor and then I’d put it on a rug that had a nice pattern, I chose black checkers because I thought that they looked nice. That problem was solved really easily. Another problem that I ran into was that I didn’t have enough light. I put on the flash but even with the flash the pictures came out very dark. My dad found a large flashlight that he pointed at the crisp which really made it stand out. As you can see in the pictures I put a scoop of ice cream beside the apple crisp as well as an espresso in the background to add to the photo. Overall it turned out really well with some minor problems that I easily fixed. Today, as you can see on the calendar above, I made chocolate chip meringue and crème brulee. I made the crème brulee first and then I made the meringue while the crème brulee was cooking. Both of the recipes were really easy to make. One problem that I ran into while I was taking pictures of the crème brulee was that the bowl was much bigger than the contents. When I was taking pictures it was hard to show the contents because it was only half full. Instead of taking pictures of the side of it I am taking pictures from the tip (bird’s eye view). This solved the problem because in the pictures you can now see the crème brulee. To make the top of the crème brulee look burnt you have to pour sugar on it and then torch it. I got a picture of my torching it so I can put that in my book. It looked really good in the pictures but it didn’t taste very good. It was a little bit too much of a liquid. I think that next time I do it I should bake it for longer and make it sweeter. The chocolate chip meringues were a really easy recipe to make. Once I finished making them I placed them on the cookie sheets. The batter seemed very runny but I just ignored it. After I took them out of the over the final result looked very gross. The meringues were really thin and a bit burnt; they were kind of hard and not very good. I was thinking about still photographing but then I realized that it would be a waste. They would look really gross and I wouldn’t have anything good to say about them in the book. I threw out the meringues and now I have to make a new dessert which is haven’t decided on yet. Today was pretty successful because I got another recipe photographed and I dealt with some small issues but I am very sad that I can’t use my meringues in my book. Today I went through my original calendar with my mom. Right now I’m at my farm and we have many guests coming up in the next week. I switched the calendar around according to who is coming up. This is good because I am helping my mom with her cooking schedule so she won’t have to make as much. I highlighted what I have completed on my calendar because then when I look at it I can easily tell what I still have to make/photograph and what I still need to make. Above is the updated calendar that I described before. It has all of my new recipes written down and when I will make them. The recipes highlighted in blue mean that I have completed them. For lunch I made the chevre and roasted red pepper tarts for an appetizer because we had guests over. This recipe was really easy to make, the only problem was that I didn’t have enough white bread, to solve the problem instead of using white bread I used multigrain. This was a good solution because it made the tarts healthier and I didn’t have to go to the store to buy anything. I really like this recipe because in total it only took about 20 minutes and I found it very easy. When I was photographing it I found it really easy and I chose a nice background. I think that this is my favorite recipe that I have photographed. In the pictures I put pieces of rosemary on the plate because it makes it look more appealing and I like how it makes the plate look more interesting. Later in the day I made lemon spaghetti and mustard salmon. I was originally going to make salmon teriyaki but right when I was about to make it I noticed that I was supposed to let the salmon marinate for 1 day before I cook it. Clearly that wasn’t going to work so my mom gave me a different recipe. We already had all the ingredients to the mustard salmon and it tasted amazing. At first when I saw the problem with the salmon teriyaki I thought that it was a really big deal but then I thought about all the ways I could fix it and it turned out to be alright, this recipe was really yummy. For the picture I put it on a white plate and then I put some rice beside it so that it wouldn’t look as boring. On top of the rice I put basil which made it look really good. I like taking the pictures from a side profile because I think that it makes the food look better, especially if it’s really close up. Also with the mustard salmon I made lemon spaghetti. It was really easy and good as a side dish to the fish. The lemon spaghetti didn’t run into any problems while I was making it. Instead of using spaghetti pasta I used linguine which was just as good, I had planned to do that a while ago. When I took the pictures I didn’t like the lighting very much. I found that it looked kind of dark even with my dad’s light. To solve this problem I moved the light closer to the spaghetti so that it made it look brighter. I think that this was a really easy recipe to photograph. To make the pictures look even better I sliced lemons and put them around the side of the dish since it is lemon spaghetti. This made it more colorful and looks more appetizing, I am happy with how those pictures turned out. Today I made grilled salami and Caprese salad. The grilled salami was done on the barbeque and then I put it right onto a white square plate. I chose this plate because the salami is a really dark color so I thought that the white on the plate would make it stand out. This is my own recipe and its really easy to make. I wanted to take pictures of the salami outside because I thought it would look nice so I brought it to a picnic table. When I took the pictures I didn’t find that they looked very good. They seemed really boring and I didn’t like them. To fix this problem I took a yellow piece of Bristol board and put it under the plate. This made my background bright yellow white looked so good. Afterwards I made Caprese salad. It was a really easy recipe but the hard part was presenting it. I had no problems when I made it. To photograph it I decided to stack 3 on a white plate and then drizzle olive oil around it. This made it look really good and juicy. Then I took basil leaves and put 3 in the corner, I really liked this because it made it look more interesting and elegant. When I was taking the photos I decided I really like them but their all so alike. To solve this problem I organized them a different way and took more photo’s of them in this pattern. Now when I put the pictures into my book I’ll have two different ways to present them and it won’t look repetitive. Today I made a skor bar cake and Carbonera pasta. The skor bar cake is like a vanilla kind of cake with skor bar crumble all around it. This is a really good cake to photograph because the skor bar crumble looks so good. In the photo’s I put the cake on a white plate and started taking pictures of it. I didn’t like how the pictures turned out so I decided to make it a lot busier, I did this by adding blueberries and strawberries all around it. This added a lot of color, I also wanted to make the background nicer, I did this by putting big flour, sugar and tea containers behind it and I put everything onto a blue Bristol board. The Bristol board made it look like the table was blue which was really nice. After taking a bunch of photo’s I thought of a good idea. I took a mirror from the wall and put that beside the cake so there was a reflection of the cake and you could see both sides of it in the picture. I found that the cake looked to simple even with the background and everything. My sister came up with an idea to cut a slice out of the cake and take pictures of the cake with a missing piece. I tried this and it worked really well. I liked how it looked because it made it look like the cake was less simple and it gave the picture more to look at. Afterwards, for dinner I made a Carbonera past which is mostly made of bacon and a creamy sauce. The pasta looks really good and it was really easy to make. It was a bit spicy but still really good. The pasta took a bit longer than I expected so when instead of taking pictures before dinner I decided to take them after. I put a bowl of past aside and we ate dinner. After dinner I went back to the pasta but I realized that it had dried out during dinner and it didn’t look as good as it did before. To make the pasta look good again I put about a cap full of olive oil and I drizzled it over the top of the pasta, I also sprinkled a bit of water on it to make it look shiny again. After all that I heated it up for about a minute in the microwave. After it was heated it looked really good again. I was happy with how I made it look but I think that I shouldn’t have waited until after dinner and I know to never do that again. When I took the pictures I think that they all turned out really well. I put cutlery beside them to make it look less boring and I’m very happy with the final pictures. Although I waited until after dinner to take the pictures I’m still happy with them but I know I won’t do that again. I think that I solved all of my problems and these pictures turned out really well. Today I made a pasta primavera and sun-dried tomato pesto on brie, I also added to my calendar. I decided I want to make a couple more recipes’s than I had originally planned. I took away tiramisu because it’s really hard to make and involves a lot of ingredients that are hard to find and I added cupcakes, spiced steak, ginger molasses cookies, grainy mustard potatoes and raspberry pie. I thought that my book may be a little too short so I added a couple recipes to make it longer. Above is a copy of my new calendar, you can see the 30th and 31st I added all my new recipes to since I won’t be doing anything those two days I have a lot of time to cook. The highlighted recipes are the ones that I have completed and the others are one that I’m going to do in the future. I now have 6 desserts, 5 appetizers and 5 main courses. First I made the sun-dried tomato pesto on brie. Cutting the sun-dried tomatoes took ages, after I was finally finished cutting them I had to let them soak in water for 15 min which was very annoying. I prepared everything for the next steps. I finished making the brie really late so I was in a rush to make dinner. When I went to photograph the brie I had an issue because one of the cheeses fell over, this was bad because since the cheese was so melted it spilt all over the plate. I had to clean up the cheese and continue photographing, the pictures turned out okay but one thing I really don’t like about them is a find the cheese looks a little yellow, I had no way of fixing this which was really annoying but hopefully I can edit it when it’s on the computer. After the brie I made pasta primavera. I think that this was definitely the hardest recipe in the book. It took a lot of cutting and chopping because there are so many vegetables in it. The pasta is supposed to be served at room temperature and is really good pasta for the summer. I had a lot of friends helping me with the pasta so it went by faster than if I were to do it alone. When I was going to photograph it, it was really late so I was kind of in a rush because I wanted to eat dinner. I didn’t get to many good shots of it but I think that it will still look good because the pasta was really good. I got some pictures of me holding it up with a spoon which looked really good so hopefully that’s enough. If you look at my new calendar you can see that today I made cupcakes, spiced steak and ginger molasses cookies. These three dishes were new recipe’s that I had never made before, I had a couple problems but I think that I dealt with them the best way I possible. First I made the cupcakes, cooking them was really easy because I have made them a bunch of times before and the harder part was decorating them. To make the icing I used vanilla icing and mixed them with blue, green and red die so that I could make colored icing. I wanted to make the cupcakes look simple but nice so I put raspberries on the red ones, blueberries on the blue ones and grapes on the green ones. When I photographed them I put them on a white plate and they looked so nice. This is my favorite dessert because I got such nice pictures. I wanted to switch it up a bit so I put one of the blueberry cupcakes on its own plate with three blueberries beside it and I took photos of just that. These pictures turned out so nice and they look so simple which I love. The cupcakes also tasted very good. The spiced steak was a little bit of a challenge to grill. I have never used a barbeque before so I had to learn how to use one. The steak is my own recipe and it is really simple, all I have to do is add different spices and then barbeque it. Since I just learned to barbeque I’m still not very good at it. I had some issues turning it on because I forgot to switch the temperature at one point, to solve this problem I called my dad who is really good at barbequing and he helped me through the problem. In the pictures I put the steak on a white square plate and then I took an ice cream scoop and put 3 scoops of rice beside the steak. It looked so good because the ice cream scoop made the rice look very exact, I also put cutlery beside the plate. The pictures looked really good and I didn’t have any problems with it and I’m very happy with the end result. For dessert I made ginger molasses cookies. I have never made this recipe before but I love these kinds of cookies. During making them I didn’t have any problems and it was really simple. The last step is pouring course sugar over the cookies but I didn’t have course sugar, to fix this problem I poured granulated sugar over the cookies, they didn’t look as good as they were supposed to, but I still think they look good. To take the pictures I stacked cooking on top of each other, I made three stacks. I took pictures of them stacked for a while and then I laid them out which looks really good. I poured some more sugar over them to make them look better and I think that the pictures turned out really nice. Today I made two dishes; I made raspberry pie and grainy mustard potatoes also known as roaster baby potatoes with shallots and mustard. The potatoes I made as an appetizer, they were really easy to make and you just had to let them cook for a while. When they are served they are normally put with sour cream to dip them in. in the pictures I put sour cream beside them since that’s usually how they are served. After I took a bunch of pictures with all the potatoes I put one potato on a plate and took pictures of that, I found the pictures looked a little boring so I put the plate of potatoes in the background, now when you look at the pictures you can see the large plate of potatoes in the background but their blurred out a bit so you can’t see them perfectly, I think that it looks really good. After the appetizer I made a raspberry pie. Instead of buying the crust and then making the filling I made the crust from scratch. This made the pie taste a lot better but it added a lot of time because you have to let the pie crust sit in the fridge for about 1 hour so that it hardens. I had no problems making the crust or the filling and with my sisters help she made the filling with me. Once the crust is in the pie and the filling is over it you have to make the top. My sister and I used the other half of the homemade crust and did a woven lattice top. This is a complicated weaved top that was hard but we did it. It wasn’t as hard as we expected and it looked so good at the end. During the process of making the pie top I took pictures throughout so that I can put a small description of a woven lattice top in my book and I now have step by step pictures of the process. Making the pie wasn’t difficult and neither was taking pictures. Since the pie looked so good it wasn’t hard to get good pictures of it. I put the pie on a red placemat and I put a bowl of raspberries behind it. This way when you look at the pictures you see a blurred bowl of raspberries in the background which looks really good. The pie looked so good in the pictures and it was really easy to photograph because I didn’t really have to do anything to it. During these 2 recipes I didn’t really run into any big problems and I think that it was a very good day. Although I originally said that I wasn’t going to make anything else I decided to make another appetizer because I found one that would be really good to photograph and easy to make. This recipe is called marinated goat cheese. It doesn’t involve any cooking and the only hard part is you have to let it sit for a couple hours. I liked making the recipe because the end result looked so good even though it took so little work. I didn’t have any problems while I was making it. I decided I would take pictures of the goat cheese outside so I put it on a white oval dish and brought it outside. I took pictures of it with a nice field in the background which looked really pretty. I like the pictures a lot because the background has trees and its really green and pretty. I didn’t have any problems and it was definitely my easiest recipe to make and I’m really happy that I did it because it added a lot of pictures to my book.
 * Process Journal **
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**The process journal will be collected along with your written report on the due date for submission: December 11, 2009.** The process journal is your account of the progress you make with the personal project. It is about:

a) What you are doing at that moment. b) What you are thinking c) What you are accomplishing d) How you are coping with each of the different stages of your project e) How well you are dealing with problems and what you are learning about yourself as a result f) What makes you happy, annoyed, angry, nervous, disappointed, proud g) It needs not contain only written material, you can use pictures, photos, sketches, checklists, recordings, anything which provides evidence of your planning and progress

For example:


 * Date || Thoughts/plans/challenges/decisions/accomplishments || Materials/Sources consulted ||

=Guiding Question (Big Idea)=

__ How can I share my favourite recipes through my own photographs? __

=I. Investigation=

**Part I: Brainstorming:**

[|Investigate_Brainstorming.pdf]

**Part II: Some questions to consider**

Is there anything that you want to learn more about? That you’ve always wondered about? Are fascinated by? Is there anything that you’ve always wanted to learn to do? What are you interested in finding out about yourself? What challenge would you be willing to take? Have you traveled anywhere that changed your view of life? Where did you go? Have you ever experienced anything that changed your view of life? What was that experience? If you could go anywhere (country, city, building, behind the scenes) where would it be? If you could meet anyone, who would it be? Is there any deceased person that you wish that you had met? Who and why? Is there something in your culture/heritage to investigate, bring attention to, celebrate?

Do you have future aspirations? Describe them. Do you have any hobbies? What are they? Do you play any sports? Which ones? Do you participate in any competitive activities? What are they? Do you play any musical instruments? Which ones? If you don’t play any musical instruments, would you like to play any? Which ones? Have you developed any skills that you could use in your personal project? What are they? What are your major personal accomplishments? Why do you consider them accomplishments? Do you belong to any clubs, community organizations etc. that could be incorporated into your personal project? Which ones?
 * Part III:** **Questions to consider**

**NOW READ ALL THAT YOU HAVE WRITTEN AND SEE IF YOU CAN MAKE MORE PROGRESS IN FINDING A SPECIFIC TOPIC FOR YOUR PERSONAL PROJECT. YOU MAY WANT TO DO THIS BY:

1. USING A MIND MAP VIA INSPIRATION OR BY HAND. YOUR MIND MAP** **WILL NEED TO BE SCANNED AND INSERTED INTO YOUR WIKI.**
 * 2. WRITE OUT ANSWERS ON LAPTOP OR BY HAND.**

1. Eliminate (cross out) any repetitive ideas 2. Eliminate any ideas that you really are NOT interested in pursuing 3. Put together any similar ideas 4. How can you relate your ideas to an Area of Interaction? Which one? Or two 5. Consider how relevant the ideas are to real life (are they doable?) 6. Consider the ideas most meaningful to you. Consider what, of yourself, you can bring to your ideas. 7. Can you formulate any questions about your ideas? Take a point of view? 8. Is your idea “researchable, interesting, realistic?


 * BY NOW YOU SHOULD HAVE A MORE DIRECTED TOPIC FOR YOUR PERSONAL PROJECT. DO YOU HAVE ONE? WHAT IS IT?**

1b) Areas of interaction [[image:tyspersonalproject:AoI.png caption="AoI.png"]]
[|Areas of interaction as lenses.doc]

1c) Focusing to a guiding question
**WRITING THE GUIDING QUESTION**

A good guiding question is characterized by the following:

i) that prompts students to ask more questions ii) has multiple answers iii) ensures students learn content and do research iv) promotes deep thinking about an area of interaction v) not easily answered

Examples:


 * **Topic** || **Guiding Question** ||
 * Safety || ‘How can I better design traffic flow around my school?’ ||
 * Poverty || ‘How can I help reduce poverty in my city?’ ||
 * Sport Violence || ‘How can I bring awareness to soccer violence and how can this be reduced?’ ||
 * THROUGH YOUR PERSONAL PROJECT YOU MUST ANSWER THE GUIDING QUESTION YOU CHOOSE ****.**

__ ** MYP PERSONAL PROJECT 2009 PROPOSED TOPIC ** __ ** THIS MUST BE COMPLETED BY Feb 25th ** 1. My topic/area of interest is: Cooking/photography 2. Briefly explain what inspired you to choose this topic. I have always loved photography, and for my bat mitzvah I got a camera and a book about how to take proper pictures. My dad is also very good at taking photos and has a really good camera which he has taught me how to use. I love cooking and when I’m older I want to be a chef. I cook for my family all the time and have a list of some of my favourite recipes. I want to create a book with recipes and photos of some of my favourite recipes that I have made. This uses both of my skills of photography and cooking and I have a lot of inspiration from my family.

3. Highlight applicable AOI

Environment Community and Service Human Ingenuity
 * Health and Social Education**

4. My guiding question is: (be as clear as possible). How can I share my favourite recipes through my own photographs? 5. Briefly explain how the above AOI(s) will be the focus of your project and how your guiding question is connected. My personal project question is related to health and social education. I think it relates because in the book there will be recipes on how to cook the food. The recipes are related to social education because it gives people a recipe that they can cook for others. It educates people on their cooking and to broaden their choices of what to make. My cook book will have multiple different types of food and will help the social environment to educate them on cooking and trying new recipes.

Ask yourself the following questions: 1. What kind of information do I need to research? 2. Who has information about my topic? How do I contact people? 3. Where do I find the necessary material? 4. Do I need to interview individuals? 5. Do I have to carry out my own experiments? 6. Do I need to prepare, circulate and analyze surveys/questionnaires? 7. Do I need to visit a museum? Gallery? Gathering the Necessary Material and Research ** When you have found a source of information and/or inspiration, you will have to decide how useful it is. The list of sources in your report should only include those you have actually used. Write an annotated bibliography for each resource in the section below. Remember to keep your personal project goal in mind. This will help you to select what is useful and relevant.
 * A book, journal, internet site: see **Bibliographic Resource tab** to the left.
 * An interview: record date of interview, name, address, title of person
 * A work of art: record name, artist, location of gallery/museum
 * An experiment: apparatus, circumstances

__1d) COLLECTING RESOURCES__ Fill out this table below as you go... (at least 1 print source, 1 website, 1 interview) //List below:// || || ||
 * **Questions:** || **Y/N** || **Which resource addresses my guiding question, AoI,** ||
 * Have I collected a variety of resources?
 * Are the resources enough to answer my question? || || ||
 * Do the resources support the area of interaction(s) || || ||
 * What changes could I make in my design(planning) and research to attain better results? || || ||

=II. Design=

**STAGE 2 DESIGNING THE PERSONAL PROJECT** After collecting and analyzing resources you are now in a position to make decisions about the best way to carry out your personal project.

Consider a table weighing out the different options you could take evaluating the pros and cons of each design option.

__** CHOOSING and APPLYING TECHNIQUES **__
 * Design/Technique || Pros || Cons ||
 * 1
 * 1

Coffee Table Book || - Shows all of my photographs - Can be a nice layout - Hard cover - Good looking presentation - Descriptions on each recipe - Easy to make - Can have a title - Will be able to pass around or give out to people || - May not have the recipes in it - Could get ruined - Has a limited amount of space - Kind of expensive ||
 * 2

Photography Board || - Will show my photographs - Can lay it out any way I want - Cheaper than making a book - Bigger and more bold - Easy to work with - Will be able to explain my recipes || - Has a limited amount of space - Will take more time to build - Takes up more space - Wont look as nice and fancy as a book ||
 * 3

Cook Book || - Hard cover - Will show some pictures - Easy to build - Will be able to pass around or give out to people - Can have a nice layout || - Will be more focused on the recipes than the photo’s - Could be expensive - Has a limited amount of space - Recipes will take up a lot of space || Decide which design/technique you will use and write an explanation why you chose it. I am going to choose my first design. I like that one the best because it seems to have the most pros. It’s also going to be really easy to make and I will be able to choose the layout I want. I think that it is a good choice because it will have a lot of pictures but it is also going to have some writing and maybe even the recipes in it. I have to make it so that it is very photo based and has more photographs then writing. I am very interested in cooking as well as photography and so this idea is the best because it will have a little bit of both. I don’t like the idea of a cook book because I think that the recipes take up too much space and I won’t have room for pictures. I think that a coffee table book will be a perfect idea for me and I will enjoy making it and the final result will turn out to look really good.

What will my ideal Personal Project look like/be when it is completed?

My ideal personal project will be a large hard cover book that has a nice cover. I want the title on the cover to be really catchy and the front cover to have a really nice picture on it so that it stands out from a distance. When you open it every couple pages will have different photos of recipes made by me. The recipes will be sorted by appetizer, main meal and dessert. Each recipe will be chosen from different cook books and made by me. I might change a small thing about the recipe to make it more personal. I will cook my favorite foods and make them so they look good and take pictures of them. One of the main parts of my book is to design the foods correctly. I have to make sure to add a lot of light so they look bright and nice. I will take pictures of each course in different angles until I get the right shot.

On every page there will be a little caption talking about the ingredients in the recipe and tips that I would suggest to use. I will write about 200 – 300 words on each page. I have to make sure not to write too much because the point of the books is about the photographs and not the writing. The book is going to involve mostly pictures versus words because I think that it is a better way of presenting food. I will choose a format and color scheme that I think is the best for the finished product and make my own catchy names for each type of food.

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=III. Planning=

**STAGE 3 Planning the Personal Project **

After your research you are ready to plan how you will carry out your Personal Project.


 * Step 1:** Make a chronological list of steps you will take


 * Step 2:** Prepare a list of materials/resources needed and where and how you attain them (consider associated costs, people to consult and scheduling challenges if applicable).


 * Step 3:** Prepare a time line showing what you will do at each step (ie. A calendar or table itemizing action plans/anticipated results).


 * Step 4:** Include back up plans/alternatives should changes need to be made.

Planning and Development Worksheet:
__Due Date:__ April 29

//This is the first step of your project – to plan and to make a goal. Your goals and timelines may change throughout the project somewhat, but it is important to state and explain clearly the reasons for the changes in your process journal.//
 * You must complete this worksheet and share it with your supervisor at the your first meeting. At the end of the meeting both you and your supervisor will sign this sheet.**

Topic: __ Cooking/Photography __ __ How can I share my favourite recipes through my own photographs? __

Focused Guiding Question/goal:

Area of Interaction (AoI): __Health and social education__ Justify and explain how your chosen personal project fits into the above stated AoI and guiding question. __ My personal project question is related to health and social education. I think it relates to health and social education because in the book there will be recipes on how to cook the food. The recipes are related to social education because it gives people a recipe that they can cook for others. It educates people on their cooking and to broaden their choices of what to make. My cook book will have multiple different types of food and will help the social environment to educate them on cooking and trying new recipes. My final design will relate to my guiding question because it will share my favourite recipes through my own photographs and there also will be a bit of writing. Since I’m most likely not going to be writing the recipes in the book there will be more room for pictures. __ D escribe the process you will carry out to address your personal project guiding question

Outline a detailed plan and timeline of what you hope to achieve. (Recognize plans can change, but only if there is a plan). You will want to take into account the deadlines that have already been set by the school (see page 2 of this guide) I will look through each cook book recipes that I want to make. I have to record the page and the book I got them from and make specific notes if I need special ingredients or kitchen supplies. __ Make list of materials – June 10th __ I have to write down a list of materials that I will need in order to make my recipes (ingredients and kitchen supplies) and I also will need other materials to make the book and take the photo’s (laptop, camera) __ Prepare different designs and layouts for the book – Late June __ I will draw out 3-6 different layouts that I want the final book to look like. This can consist of the recipes I will use, the way I will sort them and the colours I want. __ Write rough drafts of the writing that will be on the pages – Late June __ For each recipe in the book there will be about 200 – 300 words talking about the ingredients and tips on how to make the recipes, I have to write rough drafts of each of these paragraphs so I will have a lot of time to check them over. __ Buy utensils needed to make the food – Late June __ Make sure to buy all of the kitchen supplies and food supplies needed to cook everything. __ Buy all the ingredients – August __ Look at my list of ingredients and buy what is needed. __ Cook the food – August __ Over about 1 week I need to cook all of the recipes to perfection and re-do some if I make a mistake or they don’t turn out right. __ Place the food correctly – August __ Before I take the pictures I need to make sure that all of the food is presented properly. I will talk to designers to find out how to do that the correct way. __ Photograph the food – August __ Take pictures of the recipes once they are laid out correctly and upload them to my computer once I get the right shot. __ Plan what will be on each page – August __ Make a detailed plan of what each page in the book will look like. Include colours and the pictures I want. Try to sketch out where the writing will go on each page and how much I will add. __ Design the pages online – August __ I will go to Piko.com in order to design the pages that will go into my book as well as my cover. __ Write the final copy of the writing on each page – August __ Go back to the paragraphs that I wrote for each page and make sure that the grammar and spelling is correct and that there is the right amount. __ Add the writing to the book – August __ Go back onto Piko.com and add the writing into the pages with the proper font and size. __ Print the book – September __ After all of the above steps are completed I can order the book I had just designed at Piko.com __ Pick up the book – September __ Once the book is finished being made (takes about 2 weeks) I can pick it up at the studio which is in the distillery. __ Write the rough draft of final report – October __ At the end of the personal project I have to write a final report (4,000 words) about my personal project, in this step I will do the rough copy. __ Finish/ write the final draft of the report – December 12th __ Edit my final report and make sure that it is all complete and ready to hand in. ||
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List __all__ the resources needed to carry out your personal project (this includes print sources, people, organizations, community services). - My dad (Larry Goldberg) - My mom (Jane Goldberg) - Piko.com book designing - Doug Caplan The cook books I will use: - Magnolia - Teen Cook = = = = = =

= = = = =IV. Creation= **STAGE 4 CREATING the PERSONAL PROJECT** After research, choosing the best technique and planning you are now ready to create your personal project.

Ask yourself the following:

Have I written in my process journal regularly? Have I taken photographs (if applicable) at various steps? Have I attained all the materials that I need?

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= = = = = = =V. Evaluation and Reflection= ** Writing the Personal Project Report FIRST DRAFT DUE DATE: November 6th
 * STAGE 5 EVALUATING and REFLECTING
 * **CONTENTS** || Yes or No ||
 * I have a contents page written with sections labeled introduction, description of research, process, analysis of process, conclusion, bibliography, appendices (if applicable). ||  ||
 * **INTRODUCTION** //Written in future tense approximately 1-1.5 pages// ||  ||
 * I have clearly identified my goal within its context (i.e. WHY it is important), and some background on my inspiration towards the chosen project. || ||
 * I have justified my choice of AoI focus. ||  ||
 * I have written a detailed outline of the steps taken to achieve my guiding questions, this includes a variety of resources (at least 1 print, 1 website, 1 interview). ||  ||
 * **DESCRIPTION OF PROCESS** //Written in past tense approximately 1.5-2 pages// ||  ||
 * I have described the possible techniques suitable to answering my guiding question and have justified my choice/technique. ||  ||
 * I have described my process clearly (all production steps/components) referring to my plan in the introduction. ||  ||
 * **ANALYSIS** //Divide into 2 sections research analysis and process analysis// ||  ||
 * I have reflected on the resources collected (design stage) to attain my project goal and the AoI chosen: emphasizing the value of the resources. ||  ||
 * I have considered if the AoI is well connected to the resources. ||  ||
 * I have supported my arguments thoughtfully with evidence. ||  ||
 * I have reviewed my goal: challenges and achievements. ||  ||
 * I have reviewed the process (plan and doing phase): considered the timelines, ease/challenge of 'doing': reliance upon others/experts, materials/equipment. ||  ||
 * Review if your chosen AoI is effective in your project process. ||  ||
 * //*Analysis is not description which is telling. Rather identifying factors that shaped the idea/point. It can be comparing and contrasting. It may also be understanding the significance.// ||  ||
 * **CONCLUSION** ||  ||
 * I have analysed the outcome: the strengths or weaknesses in my final outcome/project? ||  ||
 * I have considered how to improve upon the project. ||  ||
 * I have shared new insights gained about the project. ||  ||
 * **BIBLIOGRAPHY** ||  ||
 * I have completed an annotated bibliography following a format outlined in the Bibliographic Resources tab. ||  ||
 * I have correctly cited borrowed ideas in the text of my report. ||  ||
 * **PERSONAL ENGAGEMENT** ||  ||
 * I have organized my work logically and clearly. ||  ||
 * I have met deadlines and made use of my process journal. ||  ||
 * I have shown enthusiasm and commitment. ||  ||
 * I have correctly cited borrowed ideas in the text of my report. ||  ||
 * **PERSONAL ENGAGEMENT** ||  ||
 * I have organized my work logically and clearly. ||  ||
 * I have met deadlines and made use of my process journal. ||  ||
 * I have shown enthusiasm and commitment. ||  ||
 * I have shown enthusiasm and commitment. ||  ||

WRITING the SECOND DRAFT and SUBSEQUENT DRAFTS

Do not expect your first written version to suffice. Check your project with the ASSESSMENT CRITERIA and YOUR MENTOR.

Have the first draft read by, for example, a peer, a parent, or your mentor and ask for feedback. After consulting with one or all of the above persons you are ready to edit your draft. Remember that this draft should be as complete as possible and follow the structure outlined in section B of this booklet. The more editing the closer your report will likely meet the assessment rubric. FINAL COPY - DUE DECEMBER 12, 2008

The written piece should not exceed 4000 words.

=Resources and Bibliography=