Critical Reflection 3
Now that you’re three weeks (half way) into your senior project experience, are you answering your essential question?
- 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?
- 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?
- 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?
The way I am exploring my essential question is not very different from what I expected. I think that I have been trying to keep it in mind but not let it overshadow my work. I’ve been trying to jot down moments or quick thoughts that arise as I translate that might pertain to the question. I know that by the end of this project, I will not have definitively answered it— it is a question answered by living, speaking, reading, listening. But I will have an experience that will arm me to better understand and navigate it. And that will surely inform the answers I give along the way.
I am not surprised by any of the challenges I’ve faced so far. I expected them and planned for them. I have the resources I need for practical help and the skills I need to keep going if I get stuck in a rut. Something I’ve been trying to do to break up my work is going on walks to clear my mind and also to ruminate on some of the things I’ve been thinking about.
I have learned about my essential question in terms of expanding my vocabulary and working on the mechanics of language to make things flow and sound natural. My questions haven’t changed but I have come to realize that their answers are much more complex than I might have thought at first.