Outline

I am almost done with my outline and I only have a few more websites to put on my bibliography. LAST FULL DAY OF SCHOOOL!!!

Interview

Me and Julia conducted our joint interview with Dr. Wertheimer about our two topics. We both got some useful information out of it and had all of our questions answered thoroughly. We took notes on the questions and filmed the interview for later facts and quotes. Today was a great sucess.

New sources

I just added some new books to my webliography that proved to be helpful. The books don't just state the facts they also provide examples that relate back to real life.

Some Progress

I had my Thursday meeting with Ms. Savido and we looked at my missing questions. She helpped me find some good site that I could use because I was having trouble find good information.

Print and Highlight

Today Mrs. Savido wanted people who are using the internet for information to print all of their sorces and then highlight everything. So now I have 50 paper to go through and highlight. This will be fun.

Possibilities

I have a possible interveiw with Mr. Kalida. Julia ask me if I would like to join her in interviewing him so we have two side of the argument.

My Research

I have been doing lots of research on my topic. I have already answered a couple of my foundation questions. I have found even more sites with loads of information on them, and they are all really helpful. Next week I will post some of the sites and maybe some answers for my foundation questions.

Proposal

I am half way done with my proposal and it is moving pretty smoothly. Its a little boring but that is because im doing it for school. I have found some really interesting sites and they are filled with information, one day I will post them on my blog for everyone to see I just don't seem to have the time.

Timeline

I have been working on a timeline for my proposal. I have been working on it in excel and it is comming together pretty good. I haven't been blogging because I haven't had the time so I figured I should blog about this.

Did you know...

· The average age of a marijuana smoker is 17

· 14.8 million Americans age 12+ used marijuana at least once in the month

· 60% of high school students smoke marijuana

· It takes about 2 days for THC to exit your system

· Adult males were 50 percent more likely to have smoked marijuana in the last month than females

· You can’t get physically addicted, but you can be mentally addicted to marijuana

· Police arrested an estimated 723,627 persons for marijuana violations in 2001

· Possession of marijuana comprises nearly half of all drug arrests in the United States

New York

Tomorrow I'm leaving for New Yoork City and I'm hoping to get some ideas while I'm up there. There sould be some advrtising about teen abuse of marijuana and I'm hoping to come back with a better knoledge of where I want to go with this project

Essential Question

How can a commercial be designed to influence teens not to smoke...?

Give me some feedback I don't like how it sounds.

These are the links

This is the main web site for Above the Influence:
http://www.abovetheinfluence.com/facts/default.aspx?id=google


This is an informational site about marijuana it has some useful facts that i've used.
http://www.drugfree.org/Portal/drug_guide/Marijuana

I hope you have found these usful.

Some sites

Today iv'e been looking at some really helpful sites about marijuana and the affects of it. There is so much information about this topic that I am kinda overwelmed with all of the information I have, but it will all be very helpful in the end.

Blogging: Day 1

From what I have heard people expect a lot out of these grad projects and you don't graduate if you fail. I've heard how stressful it can be in 12th grade. I just want to get it over with already. I think I'm going to base my project around the abuse of alcohol and drugs. I feel that some teens have problems with addiction and I would like to help. Some of the concerns I have about this project is that I wont finish in time or I'll choke while I'm presenting. "That's all I have to say about that." Forest Gump