Progress+Reports

Miguel Cortes Senior Seminar Day 2 A Block Mr. Martin

Progress Report

As of right now I believe I am on a good path. But I’m a bit of pace, I still need to find 10 sources for the thesis based research and also I have to fully define my thesis. I have my mentor, but I haven’t been able to talk to her in a while because of scheduling and it’s been a pain to find good articles on my topic. Even though I am having these little problems I am willing to work hard to overcome these obstacles and for my project I need to start organizing it so that I will be able to conduct it successfully. I also need to find out who my topic expert could be, I think I could maybe make Mr. Medar my topic expert but I’m not fully sure of this decision. My goals for this class are to have a successful research paper and to have a success project and presentation as well. I would like to prove my thesis and make people more aware of soccer and also have a good time doing my hands on project. I think I can maybe start my paper soon and my project; possibly even my presentation. I want to begin all three before the next progress report. As of right now I have only talked to my mentor a few times, but the times we have talked it was to decide what I wanted to do and how I should do it. Mrs. K is a very big help to me but I need to see her more often to discuss problems that come up, problems that need to be resolved.

Progress Report 2 Right now I am a bit behind, i have missed 2 (possibily crucial) classes and now I am unaware of what is due. I also was unaware that we had progress reports due today; though I should have honestly known because of course you ( Mr. Martin) gave us a packet with due dates on it. I'm sorry I will post a better progress report by tomorrow

Progress Report 4? or 5? (the one due on 12/15/09) My progress currently is not bad (for once). I actually got my senior seminar project done, it turned out a lot different than what i had expected; I ended up just setting up a game for thanksgiving (instead of a tournament) and asked my old teammates to take part in it...i also asked our rival team if they could play us. The game ended in a success and a loss but other than that it went by pretty smoothly and what i learned from this is that soccer is an extremely complicated sport (especially when you're the one setting things up) and that although soccer is semi corrupted by salaries and trading, that FIFA does an exceptional job. Some things that are obstacles to me now are that I haven’t talked to my mentor in a while, along with other school work and the fact that I don’t have the compatible Microsoft PowerPoint to work on my presentation at home. i will (unfortunately) have to stay after school and work on it. Also senior itis is really getting to me; I truly need to overcome this otherwise I will be seeing you soon again. I never got a topic expert, i hope that this isn’t a factor. Also I am having a hard time starting on my speech, I have an idea of what to write but it's not complete yet. Goals for myself are to this project done, make it look out of this world and give to you (ultimately) a presentation that would be A material and hopefully enjoyable.