Summary:
CYOA stands for "Choose Your Own Adventure", and for this project our humanities class wrote a book that allowed the reader to make their own decisions. This idea was inspired by a series of adventure books that allowed the reader to choose what happens to them. The only difference between our book and the adventure book series, is that ours is about U.S. History starting from the beginning of the 1900's to the end. Each person in our class took a separate section of history that interested them and wrote about it. My topic was World War I, from the perspective of an African American. I answered five different guiding questions which were:
- Why were African Americans moving to the North?
- What was it like for African Americans during the Great Migration?
- What was it like for African Americans during WWI?
- Why did they want to join the war?
- What did it lead to?
Reflection:
During this project I learned a lot of information about history, but the most important thing I learned that was going to benefit me in the future was learning the importance of primary sources. Using primary sources is very important because if you do not use these you could be giving your audience information that is not credible and biased. Finding documents from that era were the most difficult thing to find for my research. The library had great databases that had documents from that time period, but they were only from the perspective of white people and not African Americans. This project has made me a professional at find sources that are un-biased and credible. I am not really sure on what I can improve on for research.