Now that you’re three weeks (half way) into your senior project experience, are you answering your essential question? 

1. How are you exploring your essential question; is it different from what you expected? If you don’t feel like you’re answering your essential question, what is happening that’s different from what you expected? 
2. Are you surprised by any of the challenges that you’ve faced so far? How have you met those challenges and what can you do going forward to deal with them?
3. Writing on your essential question: What have you learned about your essential question so far? What further questions do you have? and/or Has your essential question changed? If so, how?  What do you want to know more about?

Now that I’m roughly half-way through Senior Project, I’m feeling a little dissatisfied with the progress I’ve made on exploring my essential question. Going into Senior Project, the challenges I most highly anticipated were making a work schedule and staying motivated. I don’t think that I’ve gotten off to the best start in either of these areas, so it’s something I really want to be cognizant of this week. While I feel like I’ve been struggling to hold myself accountable simply because of my own laziness, I also think that I’ve been feeling a little scared to do my own creative work. I think I expected this to happen, but I am kind of surprised by how hard it’s been for me to work on the creative aspect of my project. I think that I’ve become a little overly precious with my work, which is something I really want to work on – especially because I intend my projects to be more on the “flash art”/“short and sweet” side anyways. However, my conversations have proved to be really supportive project and I’ve been getting a lot of ideas from people’s responses to my questions. I’ve been particularly moved by people’s responses to what’s you’re favorite canto of Inferno and what draws you to it? So far I’ve heard Canto 26, Canto 1, Canto 4, Canto 16, and Canto 5. From each response I’ve garnered interpretations and analyses that I had never even thought about (like that Canto 16 is also a lesson for teachers), which has been very interesting for me as I explore my essential question.