FINAL PROPOSAL
| Name: | Ariella Mendal |
You have already written versions of your responses to many of these questions in previous assignments for Senior Project; you may reuse prior writing in completing your Senior Project Plan although edits will be required. For each question, respond thoroughly (paragraphs rather than single sentences should be the standard) with attention to grammar and punctuation.
| Project Name: | My Families Stories and Culture through Food |
Essential Question
This should be the current, clearest version of your essential question.
| How does food impact a culture within my family and society? |
Statement of Definition
This 1-2 sentence description is your elevator pitch; it’s the short, easy to explain description of what you will do for your project.
For my Senior Project, I will…
| Cook different recipies from different cultures in my family tree. I will also interview those family members through their stories of food. |
Overview: Describe your topic and project to the committee.
Describe your project in detail, with attention to the reason why this project appeals to you and how you believe it will allow you to answer your essential question. What is the academic or intellectual scope of this project? How will this project challenge you? How does this project build on your prior learning or knowledge? How will you incorporate any or all of the 4Cs of the LREI education (courage, citizenship, critical thinking, creativity) or connect to the LREI mission statement (LINK)?
| Thisproject speaks to me because it allows me to delve deeper into my family’s history through a specific focus. Furthermore, although I am not super familiarized with cooking, this project allows me to learn how to cook better and expand my knowledge. As much as this project does pertain to me, there is also a social aspect of it. I want to explore how these cultural foods are represented in our society and their connotations. This project relates to the 4C’s of the LREI education since it takes courage to challenge myself and create something new. It also involves citizenship as I am examining my family’s relationship to the food but also societies and my own. This project involves a lot of critical thinking as I am learning about cultures and sociologies through the specific lense of food. I am also exploring my creative side in this project as I am actually cooking and creating the dishes. |
How will you measure your success?
Success should not be measured by product but by process and learning. What outcome from your project will indicate to you that your experience has been a success? What personal goals or achievements will indicate success? If you have a product-based project, what is that product, and how will you measure the success of that product?
| I plan on measuring my success in a few different ways. The first way is the success of the dish. MAking sure that I am sticking to the dish’s authenticity but also making sure that I follow the recipe correctly. Another way I know I have been successful in this project is through capturing a larger tory around my family and our culture and the vignettes about food. Furthermore, I realized that I will not have a concrete answer as to why our society, my family, and myself view food in a specific way but having a deeper understanding of sociology and how we connect food to a culture will be a great success for me. I also realized not every dish I make will necessarily taste good to me but I am not judging my own opinion, although I will mention it, I am judging its authenticity. Lastly, I am also planning on creating a version of a recipe book to compile all of the recipes I have made. |
Resource List
Consider this the bibliography of Senior Project. What resources have you identified to push your understanding? List publications, institutions, media, books, websites, people with whom you have connected, etc that relate to your project. Include the book you will be reading.
| Ingredients for the dishes, all the cooking amenities and utensils, voice memos to record my speaker, a place to record my podcast, and a camera |
Daily Plan & Schedule
Describe, in as much detail as possible, what you will be doing day to day or through the course of a week. This schedule needs to make it clear how you will spend your 30 hours each week. LREI classes, clubs, and ensembles should be noted; cohort groups will likely meet first and second periods on Mondays and Thursdays. (You will also complete a log of hours worked and tasks accomplished for each week of the project).
| I will dedicate a few days to each branch of my family’s culture. In order to explain this I will give an example that’s outline will be used for every culture. For example, I will spend A few days on Colombian culture. Each day I will interview, cook, document and record a podcast around that dish. I will do this for every dish I make. I will be spending around 5 hours on this project 5 days a week. I will cook for about two hours, research and interview for two hours. Finally, I will create and then record my podcast for 45 minutes. Although the podcast will probably be shorter than that I will spend those 45 minutes splitting my time in the script, research and actual recording of the podcast. In the last 15 minutes I will be documenting that day’s work and compiling all of my information. |
Documentation Plan
Explain why this is the appropriate documentation for you and your project and how this plan fits your project. Include the platform or medium (blog, journal, Google Doc), intended frequency of updates, general description of the content (reflective writing, photos, essays, etc), the URL for digital documentation or the sharing plan for analog documentation. (Documentation must be updated at least twice per week and be accessible to the committee.)
| I will be documenting my project via the blog provided. On the blog I will be journaling what I have done that day. Furthermore I will document the cooking aspect by taking photos and writing an overall synopsis on how it went. In terms of the interview I will transcribe parts of it. I will also document what I am going to be and have spoken about that podcast. |
Material Needs
Note the material needs you are requesting from school (including work space & monetary needs) and the needs you are filling outside of school, including materials you already own.
| An app or instalation to record the podcasts. |
Backup Plan
If something goes wrong – an internship falls through, an outside circumstance makes your project no longer feasible, you find that your project is not answering your essential question – what will you do? Ideal backup plans rely on known resources and only a single essential question.
| If this project falls through I will focus on just the interviewing aspects combined with research and watching cooking shows to still answer my essential question discovering the relationship between culture and food. |