discussion v special project ideas

I am setting up this forum up so people can briefly share what they are doing for a special project and get suggestions from fellow students. I also want to make sure we have topics on a wide variety of cultures and time periods. (I want to avoid topics that would normally be covered in US History classes.) I will post guidelines for the Special Project in the Assignments section at the link for Special Project: Research Report.

Please reply directly to share your topic. Put a title at the top so people will get a quick idea of what you are doing. For example, it might be “Ottoman Empire Palaces (scale model)” or “Peasant Life in 19th Century China (slide show)” or “Reflections on the 100th Anniversary of the Versailles Peace Conference (poem)”.

Please share a little bit about your topic and why you think it is interesting. Also, please tell what sort of project you are doing (such as a slide show, short story, collage, etc).

Please give feedback to at least two other students. You might tell they why you think their topic is interesting, make suggestions, or perhaps ask questions. I have noticed that even when people do similar topics they tend to emphasize different aspects of the topic, and they tend to find different ways of conveying the information.

This forum is intended to be informal and it is officially worth 15 points. You can get up to 20 points if you do a particularly good job giving feedback or suggestions to fellow students.