My Inquiry
What I am trying to learn:
This year in my Legacy class, I want to focus my inquiry on the American judicial system. I chose this topic in particular because when I took AP Lang last year, I was fascinated by the lack of ethicality and regard for basic human rights that went into creating the system that governs our country. I am quite interested in this because personally, I don’t understand it. I understand the logic that went into creating a lot of these laws, but I simply don’t understand how the government rationalized any of them without feeling extreme remorse. Basically, as much as I want to learn about the judicial system, I also want to learn about the people behind it. I want to understand their intentions, how they possibly justified their actions, and how they live with the consequences of those actions.
I feel that this idea connects most strongly to the Portrait of a Learner Solution Seeker competency. I am going to portray this competency by finding the root of the issue with the judicial system. I will do my best to find effective solutions to the problem, even if they don’t seem plausible. I will also need to come up with a series of different, smaller scale, solutions that can be implemented sooner in place of one major solution that would take longer.
Because I am not fully educated on the topic yet, I feel that I am going to have to reach out to local professionals and hear their opinions. I think the best people for me to communicate with would be anyone currently working in law, or maybe even someone in town government. I could try to set up a Zoom meeting with them to discuss their thoughts on the issue. I would ask questions regarding their thoughts on the topic, any advice they have for me, or any more recommendations as for who to meet with. I hope that they are able to offer a different kind of insight on the topic, giving me a better understanding of why, perhaps, the system is structured this way.
I plan on achieving my inquiry goals through time management, and writing down my goals weekly. I use a planner in my day to day life, and I believe that, combined with the Weekly Goals doc will help me finish everything on schedule and break down what exactly I need to do each day. However, I do not want to create an extremely detailed schedule for myself because I believe that there will be many changes to my project as I work on it, so I have created a rough timeline as follows:
October: Create and work on my website, gather baseline information.
November: Dive deeper into research. Figure out who I can contact to interview, and have a solid list of questions to ask them.
December: Reach out to the people I want to interview. Set up Zoom meetings, ask them the questions, and develop more questions and potential solutions from there.
January: Fully develop potential solutions to the posed problems, answer all my originally asked questions. Be able to fully explain how the court was created and who runs it.
February-March: Finalize my project. I am unsure how I want to present this project so far, but I assume it will mostly be through my website.
As for sharing this information with others, I plan on maintaining a fully functional website throughout the whole year/project. Once my project is complete I want to be able to find another way to share it on a wider scale, just to give people a greater understanding of what exactly goes on in the judicial system.
This year in my Legacy class, I want to focus my inquiry on the American judicial system. I chose this topic in particular because when I took AP Lang last year, I was fascinated by the lack of ethicality and regard for basic human rights that went into creating the system that governs our country. I am quite interested in this because personally, I don’t understand it. I understand the logic that went into creating a lot of these laws, but I simply don’t understand how the government rationalized any of them without feeling extreme remorse. Basically, as much as I want to learn about the judicial system, I also want to learn about the people behind it. I want to understand their intentions, how they possibly justified their actions, and how they live with the consequences of those actions.
I feel that this idea connects most strongly to the Portrait of a Learner Solution Seeker competency. I am going to portray this competency by finding the root of the issue with the judicial system. I will do my best to find effective solutions to the problem, even if they don’t seem plausible. I will also need to come up with a series of different, smaller scale, solutions that can be implemented sooner in place of one major solution that would take longer.
Because I am not fully educated on the topic yet, I feel that I am going to have to reach out to local professionals and hear their opinions. I think the best people for me to communicate with would be anyone currently working in law, or maybe even someone in town government. I could try to set up a Zoom meeting with them to discuss their thoughts on the issue. I would ask questions regarding their thoughts on the topic, any advice they have for me, or any more recommendations as for who to meet with. I hope that they are able to offer a different kind of insight on the topic, giving me a better understanding of why, perhaps, the system is structured this way.
I plan on achieving my inquiry goals through time management, and writing down my goals weekly. I use a planner in my day to day life, and I believe that, combined with the Weekly Goals doc will help me finish everything on schedule and break down what exactly I need to do each day. However, I do not want to create an extremely detailed schedule for myself because I believe that there will be many changes to my project as I work on it, so I have created a rough timeline as follows:
October: Create and work on my website, gather baseline information.
November: Dive deeper into research. Figure out who I can contact to interview, and have a solid list of questions to ask them.
December: Reach out to the people I want to interview. Set up Zoom meetings, ask them the questions, and develop more questions and potential solutions from there.
January: Fully develop potential solutions to the posed problems, answer all my originally asked questions. Be able to fully explain how the court was created and who runs it.
February-March: Finalize my project. I am unsure how I want to present this project so far, but I assume it will mostly be through my website.
As for sharing this information with others, I plan on maintaining a fully functional website throughout the whole year/project. Once my project is complete I want to be able to find another way to share it on a wider scale, just to give people a greater understanding of what exactly goes on in the judicial system.