"A Lady to Remember"

 

 February 3 was this year's "Faces of History" for Simpsonville's CC Essentials' class.  Each student was to pick an American historical character they would like to know more about.   Once they picked their characters the writing process would begin.  Over the next three weeks resources were gathered, specific topics were chosen, key word outlines were made and then fused, resulting in a research paper that was then edited and dressed up.  Finally, this research paper was transformed into an oral presentation given only with the help of a key word outline.

As our school year kicked off Sophie heard a snippet about the life of Abigail Adams.  At that moment she knew that would be her choice figure when FOH rolled around.  The process was a hard, long, tedious effort that resulted in a beautiful presentation of "A Lady to Remember."  It also resulted in a young girl seeing that sometimes things don't come easy and if you push through and reach beyond your comfort zone you can surprise yourself and stretch your comfort zones to include what seemed like such a big challenge.

Sophie's teacher was such an encouragement to us.  She was great to walk the class step by step through the expectations placed on them.  This sweet lady also took the opportunity to speak to Sophie about her hesitations of presenting in a new way in such a manner that Sophie knew if Mrs. Debra thought she was capable do this there must be a reason ;)  She gave it her best shot and hit the mark!

 When Sophie finished I wanted to stand up and cheer, cry, and high five her all at the same time!  There wasn't much time for that as the next student was up and enlightening us on the discovery they had made as they researched their character of choice.  That is such a neat part of this class too,  Sophie was so excited to hear each presentation as she routed on her friends who had walked this process with her.

So proud of everyone of these American characters!!