Blog 4

1.     My first interview was with a teacher, and she taught me a couple of different ways that I can make sure the content is actually understood by the students. She suggested using any form of visuals to help the students because most learn best from seeing a physical thing instead of just thinking about it. Seeing as I’m not the best presenter,to help my lesson plan, I passed out a visual handout that could help me direct the presentation and guarantee the students know the information, seeing as it is in their hands.

2.     Not many people passed out handouts to the class, so I would say that is what most stood out to me, personally. The lesson I was relied on the entire class seeing the same visual, so I thought a hand out would be a good choice.

3.     The most challenging thing to do was to capture the student’s attention after sitting through about 10 other people talk about their own personal projects. Also, presenting in such a way, that could make the students care about my project even though they really dont have a reason to. 

5 minute Presentation Rough Draft

1.) I’ll start off by engaging the class asking them if any of them know whom Bobby Fischer was. He was a famous American chess grandmaster and is considered to be one of the best players of all time. He also revolutionized the way most people play chess today, giving each move a time limit.

2.) Next, I will pass out a handout that describes a famous game between a 12 year old Bobby Fischer and Donald Byrne that has been described as the "game of the century."

3.) I will speak about the importance of studying old games to improve your skill and try to go over why this particular game was significant and what a chess player could learn from it. 

Interview Check

1.     I plan on interviewing an I-Poly alumnus that also centered his senior project on my topic.

2.     I also want to ask them about their history with chess, 

As a chess player, who did you look up to professionally and what did you learn from them? 

Were did you learn to play the game and how did you improve?

My Topic and Why.

For my senior project, I chose Chess as my topic for a number of different reasons. First, and foremost being my love for the game and all aspects of it. With chess being my topic, I also am really looking forward to learning more about different strategies and studying historic games that I can analyze and learn from.  At the end of the year, I hope to learn the deep history of the game and multiple, unique strategies from my research and accumulate skill to hopefully become an above-average player when compared to other "good" players.