You and a classmate will interview each other about your respective research project ideas. When you interview your partner, write down their answers to your questions, which you will then report back to the rest of the class.
What is your partner’s topic or research question? Why does your partner care about that topic? How did they narrow down their topic to arrive at their research question? Be specific: what did your partner narrow down his/her/their topic from and to? What sources will your partner use? Post your partner’s answers to these questions below in the comment section. Let me know if you have questions.
Let’s begin looking at the Unit 3 Guidelines to see how your Unit 3 project builds upon your Unit 2 RAB project. Please ask any questions you might have in class.
Sophia’s topic is war in Gaza. She narrow it down to how that war affects children 5-10 mentally. She says that people don’t focus on what children’s are going through, they just focus on the war and the territory but not what happens to children so she feels that people should focus ore on children mental health it should be the priority. She used google scholar for her sources.
My partner was Qianying.
Topic and questions: Covid-19. Where did the coronavirus come from?
Why does she care about that topic? Because Covid made that a lot of people couldn’t go out and the schools were closed.
She narrows down the topic looking for articles about how the virus came from the animals and bats.
Her sources were articles online.
Topic was Dominican republic racism towards haiti and research question was How can two countries that are too close up each other be in a continued battle when they should be working together for the peace and growth of both countries?
The topic that care about was Why do we love Haitians to do our hard work, but we discriminated them for their skin tone?
They narrow down by growing up from that place.
The topic was from article and to college board.
The source my partner use from Systemic Racism and Anti-Haitianism in the Dominican Republic from Andrea C.Restrepo Rocha and another was Race and Nation in the Dominican Republic from Michiel Baud.
My partner was Maria.
What is your partner’s topic or research question?
Sophia’s topic is war in Gaza.
How did they narrow down their topic to arrive at their research question?
She narrow it down to how that war affects children 5-10 mentally.
Why does your partner care about that topic?
She says that people don’t focus on what children’s are going through, they just focus on the war and the territory but not what happens to children so she feels that people should focus ore on children mental health it should be the priority.
What sources will your partner use?
She used google scholar to find her sources (Boukari, Yamina, et al. “Gaza, armed conflict and child health.” BM.J Paediatrics
Open 8.1 (2024). https://pmencbi.nim.nih.gov/articles/PMC10868171/ ).