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This podcast made me more aware of what it means to be an American citizen because when I’ve listened to the others podcast, everyone’s ancestors came from somewhere different Everyone is different and no matter what race, ethnicity, color or gender you are we are all welcome in America.

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I’ve learned that’s talk really fast, and I kinda forget to mention things, because I’m talking so fast. I’ve also learned that I’m not very good at giving lots of information to one topic I kinda just give a little bit here and give a little bit there and call it good. I can be an effective communicator by slowing down my speed, trying my best on giving lots of important information about the topic, and listen to what others have to say about what I need to work on.

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I researched my grandma. She doesn’t really know much about her family heritage so I got would I could get. For some of the questions I had to go back and kind of evaluate on what she said just to make sure the person that was listening to my podcast could understand. I found lots of information my grandma could not cover.

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What I learned and did for the fifth graders connects to this standard because not only the fifth graders learn new things but I got to know a few more things about the government and how everything works. Before this project I didn’t really know lots of information about our government and the three branches but I learned mainly about the three branches of government and how they work and why they matter to me.

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What I learned and did for the fifth graders connects to this standard because I got to research and find different things about the judicial branch to teach them. They not only learned a little bit about what the constitution is but also about why it matters to them as fifth branders. I think it’s important to teach them why it matters to them so then they can kind of start learning their rights as American citizens.

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What I’ve learned and did for the fifth-graders connects to the standard because my group and I researched the Constitution and the three branches and we broke it down into pieces to make it more simple so the fifth graders could understand it better. I think this was a good idea because if you throw everything at them at once they won’t really understand it at first but since we broke it down into pieces like we did with the three different branches they will definitely understand it better, and they did.

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What I’ve learned and did for the fifth-graders connects to the standard because my group split off into three groups there was the judicial group (2 people ) the legislative group (2 people) and the executive group (2 people) and we each taught our kids the important things about the branches and why they mattered to them. Since the kids knew little to no information about the judicial branch my partner and I made them debate on laws or questions we came up with so they could see how the judicial branch works.

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What I learned and did for the fifth-grader connects to the standard because it’s very important to be organized with your group. This project is laid out into a plan so you had to have a plan for everything you were going to do and everything was timed so you kind of had to have a time reference for each section you were going to do and it’s important to make sure that everything made sense before you actually did the presentation so that everything was under control and nothing went wrong

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I allowed individuals to engage in th lawmaking process by choosing a very serious topic that not everyone really realized is going on. My letter was effective because I added different statistics from our 2017 world into it. The reason I added those statistics was because you can’t compare racial profiling from 1980 to now. Everything is way different.

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I researched my topic by comparing what my topic was back then to now. I now know how worse and worse our world is getting, which is very sad. I also know know that if we don’t take things like this into consideration and we don’t discuss the consequences things could get out of hand for those who have or is experiencing racial profiling. I was able to find out about how to contact a memeber of Congress from the links on PowerSchool.

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I learned that you had to have like a main focal point. Like it wasn’t just picking a topic and writing about it, it was picking a topic and researching it and trying to figure out how this issue could be solved and, make out world a better and safer place.

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During this convention I learned about how everything works. I have learned that you really have to take these things serious because there are plenty of horrible things going on in our world that need to be fixed. I have also learned that it is very important to be extremely educated on these topics. You really don’t want to go off of what your parents agree with, you should be highly educated to be able to go with what you believe in and agree with.

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I think that it is extremely important for us kids to now be able to voice our opinions, because again we are the future and we should be highly educated and we should be able to make our own decisions when it comes to politics and not have to follow what our parents believe in.

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I really liked how all of the candidates had different ideas. So when they were speaking I really tried to listen well and try to understand why they would say that. There were plenty of times where I had one set idea in my head about a topic and I heard others delegates opinions and I changed my opinion. I liked that because it really made you think and make sure everyone and not just one group of people are getting benefited.

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During the convention I did not speak, but when my other fellow delegates went up I kinda told them what to say. I was planning on speaking but every time I would want to go up someone would kind of say my idea. Which is fine because that means I was extremely engaged the whole time and listened very well.

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I felt that my group and I were extremely organized going into this project. We did an amazing job on getting everything don and it really paid off in the end.

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During my interview with Mr. Dickerson I could tell that he was extremely organized and engaged in his job. He told my partner and I everything about what is takes to be a school board member, and he also told us about the huge referendum taking place at the Junior High.

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My partner and I got to know a lot about the sports Mr. Dickerson played when he was younger. He was an amazing athlete, so I asked him what kept him positive with all of that going on and he said hard work and dedication.

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My Partner and I brainstormed engaging questions to ask Mr. Dickerson. With those questions I got to know more about his education and why he chose Madison and a college.

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During my podcast interview I learned that Mr. Dickerson is a very hardworking person. He mangaged go get a great gpa while being a varsity athlete. Mr. Dickerson is now enrolled in the school board for the DC Everest school district.

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I am glad my partner and I decided to chose Mr. Dickerson with our podcast interview because