Reflection on NHD

For my National History Day Project I worked with a group. That’s what I wanted to do, I didn’t want to work by myself. The people who worked with me were my friends of course their names were Kameko, Shaquetta and Kate. When it came down to the point where we had to pick a topic we all wanted to do something on women but we didn’t know what. First we picked Women’s Suffrage but our history teacher Mr. Brasof said it was to board. We got stuck and couldn’t find a less board topic so Mr. Brasof just told us to do our National History Day Project on The Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery. When it came down to the point when we had to do our research on our topic in the beginning I thought it going to be easy but I found out it was kind of hard but I got through it and finished my 25 annotations. Then it was time to decide what were we going to do a documentary, an exhibit, or a performance. We all sat down and had a little discussion, we had pros and cons. A paper was out of the question because if I did that I would have had to do that by myself, a documentary was out of the question too because first of all, none of us didn’t know how to work the computer. So we were left with doing an exhibit and performance. Everyone was doing an exhibit and we wanted to be different so we picked performance. We all took parts in writing the script. Kate wrote the process paper and I did the annotations (I had to put all of my groups annotations together in ABC order). Every thing worked out fine. Everybody liked our performance and guess what we made it to city’s of course. What I think we could of did better was making the script longer and getting along with each other because we stayed arguing with each other. What I would have kept the same would be the people I worked with. I got better at researching. And there is nothing else I have to say about The National History Day Project. Oh yes I do NHD is very stressful and it annoyed me. If it were optional I would not even do.