write a 3-paragraph descriptive essay on this: What was the first research assignment you remember ever having? Were you in elementary school, middle school, or high school? Exactly what grade were you in? What do you remember learning about the research process? What did you choose to write about or was a topic assigned to you? Did the teacher who gave you the assignment teach you about the research process? Or was it the school librarian? Or both? What sources do you remember using? Encyclopedias? Books? Articles? The Internet? Other sources? As you did with the last writing prompt, describe the research process you went through. Did you enjoy it? Hate it? Find it fun? Find it boring? Find it tedious? If you answer this writing prompt in a 3-paragraph descriptive essay, you will get full credit for having written on your blog for this week.

The first research assignment I did was on Madame C.j. Walker.  I believe I was in the 6th grade at I.S. 61. What I remember learning about the research process is that Madame C.j. was the first female self made millionaire due to her cosmetics and hair products. I remember using wikipedia, encyclopedias, books focusing on her and various websites. The research process I went through was searching her biography and learning about her early life leading into her adult life. I researched how she began doing cosmetics and where her start to success began. I did not find it tedious because I was researching someone I had interest in because she was one of the first successful American women of all time. I highly enjoyed the assignment and learning so much about about Madame C.J. and her contribution to both African American History and the idea of feminism

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 When was the last time you were assigned a research project? In what subject was it? What did you do? How did you feel about it? What did you think about it? Was it hard? Easy? Interesting? Boring? A burden? A joy? What was your project about? Did your teacher give you a choice of topics or was a topic assigned to you? If you answer these questions, you will get full credit for the past week's blog posts. If you've already written on your blogs, great! You'll only have to write on your blog once next week as I want everyone to answer these questions. You don't have to answer every single question, just get to the gist of what I am asking. I am not grading your writing. I just want you to write.


The last time I was assigned a research project was last year in my english class. We were studying gender roles and I had to do a great deal of research on the roles of women throughout history and how they were discriminated against because of their gender. I loved the research project although it was a lot of work it was great to learn about women and their gender roles and make an argument on how women deserve to be treated equally. The teacher did give the class a choice between gender roles, The 1920's, and also about Prohibition, however gender roles seemed most intriguing to me because I am a proud young woman and I believe we should  be treated equally.