Monday January 10th : The Essay Came Together

Over the weekend, we Asha took home one book, while Amberly took two. Also, got the timelines from all of the books as Amberly has so graciously scanned them for Fea and Asha. In addition, Asha got some pages about operation mongoose and President Kennedy’s reaction to the Cuban missile Crisis from Amberly, that Asha had asked for on Friday. These scans were important, because they enabled us to use more than one source to write our paragraphs, and had additional information than the other source. During the weekend, Fea and Asha sent their parts to Amberly, who put each of the parts together to make the first draft. On Monday, we convened together to discuss the essay. Fea still hadn't written in her in-text citations, so she spent most of the class doing that. Asha also spent time doing the citations, as on the pages Amberly sent, there were no page numbers or bibliographical information. Amberly spent time improving the introduction so that it gave a good summary of the Cuban missile crisis, the book Bartholomew and the Oobleck, and how the things that happened during the book and during the crisis were related.  In addition, we discovered that our essay was about 800-900 words too long, mostly because there is so much information on the Cuban Missile Crisis to decipher and summarize. This would prove to be a difficult thing to do, since most of the information is necessary.