I am done with my literature review. Also I am done with my website but I have to add my film to it and Mr. Mays is going to do that. Mr. Mays said that he did it and at the moment he is trying to show me but he has to put my website on his C drive because it was not working on his flashdrive.

Today I talked to Hamilton about my presentation and I feel like I am on the right track. I figured out a way that I can tie in my film to the presentation. Also I talked to Savido about how I am going to grab everyones attention. I feel pretty confident about my project but at the same time I am really nervous. Hamilton and I understand the point I am trying to get across but I'm not sure if everyone else will get the point at first.

My website is just about done. The only thing i need to put on my website is my film and Mr. Mays is trying to figure out how. For my powerpoint I think that I am done with that as well. For my essay I'm have another teacher look over it. For the most part I feel that I am just about done with everything.

For the past couple of days I have been working on my website and powerpoint. I am just about done with my website except for puting my film onto my website. Mr. Mays is going to help me figure out how to do that. I have a good start on my powerpoint.

I finally meet up with Mr. Duty to put my film on my computer last week. Also I have finished my self-edit and peer edit. I also have a really good start on my website.

I redid my literture review but now I have to do the self editing sheet. I am also working on my website at the moment. Either tomorrow or sometime next week I have to meet up with Mt. Duty.

So Far...

At the moment I finished my first draft of my literature review. I have also started on my website and have gotten a good bit of it done.

Over the weekend I finished my film. My film is a little more than seven minut es long. I didn't get to work on my essay like I wanted too, I had to much stuff going on this weekend with family things and other homework I had to get done first.

At the moment I am working on my literature review and I have a good bit of it done. Over the weekend I am going to try to work on it a little more. For my film I only have a little bit more to do then it will be done. Next saturday I plan on having a few people over my house and showing them my film. While I am showing them my film I am going to record myself what I am doing.

Over the break I worked on my action plan. I got a few people together and started to work on my film. I got all of the filming done. Since I was done filming I have been going over my cousins house a couple times a week to work on editing the film. He showed me a lot on how to edit a film, but half the stuff he showed me I forgot how to do it. Well, I am just about done editing my film it should be finished by this weekend. I problem that I ran into was that we can only have 8 minutes of film during our project and I believe it is longer than that. So I have to show my plan to a group of people and talk to them about it while I am doing this I am going to have to film myelf doing this. That is what I am going to show as my action plan.

Today I finished my outline and table of contents. Over the break I am going to start doing research on a certain serial killer and start to write the script for my short film. My sister is probably going to help me write the script for ideas and to make sure it is good.

Yesterday I finished my proposal. Today I made a cover for my proposal and then my whole proposal was completely done. Also today I started making my outline. I got a lot of my outline done today but I also have a lot more to do. For the next two days we are going to be working on the outline during class but I am thinking if i have time at home that I might some of the outline at home. That is if I don't have any other work to do.

Today I started working on my proposal. I got about I paragraph done. Yesterday I was reading one of the books I got from the library for more information but this book is not every useful so far, unlike the other book I had.

Today I finished transferring the information from the book, "Tracking Serial Killers." Into my questions and answer word document. Also I cited all of the websites, book, and movie that I did do yet. I believe I have everything that I needed to put into my timeline. Now I am going to start to read a new book, "Criminal Shadows: Unlocking the Minds of Serial Killers and Sexual Predators and Cracking Cases."

Last night I finished reading the one book that I have, "Tracking Serial Killers." While I was reading it I was putting a lot of post-it notes in the book for information that will help me. Today I started putting the post-it notes that I had in the book in a word document. I only have a couple more post-it notes that I have to transfer into the word document. Either tonight or tomorrow I will start reading a new book.

Today I finished my pre-writing. After I finished my pre-writing I sent this woman, Christina, interview questions that I had. Once I sent the interview questions I started reading some more of one of the books that I borrowed from the library, Tracking Serial Killers. I am about half way threw the book. I keep putting post-it notes in the book when I come across important information. Tonight if I have time I am going to put some of the information that I have found in the book with the rest of my information that I have. If I don't have time to do this tonight, tomorrow I am going to either read some more of the book I have or start putting some of the information that I have with my questions.

Last night I did not have a chance to work on my project. I do plan on trying to work on some of it this weekend, depending on time. I have a lot of other things that are going on this weekend. So it might be a little hard for me to do what I plan. I would like to finish my one book and take some notes. Today I worked on my pre-writing. Which I am almost done with the pre-writing. I have about 3 more questions that I have to finish.

Today I started my pre-writing for my proposal. Over this past weekend I went to the library and got some books about serial killers. I started looking at the one book I got, "Tracking Serial Killers." I only read about 20 pages so far and it has a lot of information that I can use for my project. I also found a few keyterms that I can put on my blog that are good to know. Tonight if i have time I would like to read some more of the book to get more information. I would like to finish this book by the end of this weekend so that I can start on another book that I got.

I finished my power point today. Yesterday when I went home I watched the Zodiac. I forgot to take notes, so I was planing on watching it again tonight and take some notes. I rented this movie because I thought that it would be very helpful to me. It helped me see what might actually happen. It also helped me find information out that I didn't find out in the websites that I found.

Today we started working on our presentations. I am almost done with mine. I just have a few more things that I need to add to it. Then I will be finish.

Today I found a few more answers for my foundation questions. I also was looking up different DVD's that I could watch that might help me out. I was looking up book about serial killers that might also help me out. I was thinking about going to the library to look for the books that I found and look for other books as well. If I go to the library I will also look for DVD's that may have information about serial killers that can help me out. I am hoping that either reading or watching these DVD's will help me answer my foundation questions better because right now I am having a hard time trying to find things on the internet.

Today I used easybib to cite some of my websites that I found. I also was searching the internet for more information that will help me with my project. I am having a hard time on trying to find some informatio.

Today I was looking for more information for my foundation questions. I didn't any information that I was looking for, but I did find this odd website. It was about serial killers and you could order things like movies, magazines, ect. I might take a better look that the website another day.

Today I have came up with interview questions to ask the two people that I plan on interviewing sometime in the future. After I was done with the interview quesetions I started working on my foundation questions again.

I continued on answering my foundation questions. I got some more good information for my questions but I am still not done with answering all of the questions. I have either not of finished answer my foundation questions or I have no answered them at all yet. I am thinking about with rewording some of my foundation questions so that they fit the information that I am finding. Also I might come up with a few other foundation questions that will fit the information I am finding and will also help me a lot to answering my essential question.

Today I picked up on my foundation questions from where I left off yesterday. I looked at a coupled different webpages to get the information I needed to answer a few of my foundation questions. I am still not done answering my foundation questions. Either the questions are not complete or some of them I haven't even gotten an answer for them yet. Tomorrow I will continue answering my foundation questions that I have. I am thinking about going to the library this weekend and looking for some books that might also help me out with answering my foundation questions.

Today I got a lot of information for a few of my foundation questions. I have also found this chart that I think that might help me with my project but I also found it interesting. The chart was about different types of killers; Serial Killers, Mass Killers, and Spree Killers. The chart also gives you information about each one.

Today I wrote down all of the questions in a Word Document. I looked at a website and started answering two of my foundatoin questions. Tomorrow I will start looking at the other websites that I have and answer some more of my foundation questions that I have.

Today I finished my work cited. When I was working on it I thought of an other Foundation Question. What do Forensic Scientist do on a crime scene? I feel that i need to come up with some more Foundation Questions for my topic.

Found some more "Did you know?

• A serial killer is a typical white male, ages 20-30, and are usually in the USA.
• There are organized and disorganized serial killers
• Organized killers plan things out
• Disorganized killer murders someone as a spur of the moment

Today I worked on my citations. I have just about all of them done except for one, which I will finish tomorrow.

Today I found more Did you know? I have already posted them. I also cited some of the website that I have used. Tomorrow I am going to work more on finishing my citations.

More..Did you know?

· 84% of American killers are Caucasian
· 16% are black
· Men make up at least 90% of the world wide total of serial killers
· Victims:
o 65% are female
o 89% are white
· 44% all killers start in their twenties
· 26% start in their teens
· 24% start in their thirties86% are heterosexual

Did you know?

· When a serial killer kills someone the victims usually have something in common, occupation, race, appearance, or gender.
· There are certain steps that Forensic Scientist follow to catch a serial killer:
o Interview
o Examine
o Photograph
o Sketch
o Process
· Serial killers have patterns
· Computers can help to catch a serial killer
· In 2007 there were 16,929 murders
· There are a few people that work on a crime scene:
o There’s the first officer
o Patrol Supervisor
o Detective
· When a serial killer is going to kill someone they need to watch what they are doing. So that they don’t make any mistakes that will tie them to the murder.
· CATCH – Computer Acided Tracking and Characterization of Homicides. It helps catch a murder.
· 85% of the world’s serial killers are in AmericaThere are 20 – 50 unidentified active serial killers at any given time

Today I finished my collage and put it on my blog as a gadget. I started looking up Did you know? information about serial killers

Questions

Essentional Question:

1. How do Serial Killers get away with murder?

Foundation Question:

Forensic Scientist:

1. What do forensic scientist look for at a crime scene?
2. What are somethings that forensic scientist might miss on a crime scene?
3. What do you see on a crime scene?
4. How do you catch a serial killer?

Serial Killers:

1. How do serial killers cover their tracks?
2. How many serial killers are alive today?
3. Do serial killers plan their murder?
4. How many murders are there in a year? Solved and unsolved?

I made a gadget today of 10 key terms that will help me with my project. And also clarify some of the meanings of certain words. I also read a couple pages of the book that I have about Serial Killers. This book is helping understand some of the things that certain serial killers did to cover there tracks and how some of the got caught.

Today I got a couple of key terms that I defined. Also I have writen some foundation questions that I have.
1. What do forensic scientist look for at a crime scene?
2. What do serial killers do to cover their tracks?
3. What are somethings that forensic scientist might miss on a crime scene?
4. What are somethings you might see on a crime scene?
5. How many serial killers are alive today?
6. Why do people become serial killers?
7. How do you catch a serial killer?
These are the questions that I have came up with so far.

Today I finished looking for my website that will help me on my topic. Also today I came up with a couple more questions that I had about my topic. And I read a few pages of the book that Megan lent me. Over the weekend I was trying to think of different TV shows and movies that relate to serial killers or murders.

Over the past couple of days I have been looking up different web sites that could help me with my topic. I have also been reading the book that Megan let me borrow. Also I have writen some other questions that I either had about my topic and relate to it.

What I am going to do

Megan lend me a book that is about serial killers that I am going to read.To get ready for the interviews I am going to come up with questions I am going to ask them. I am not sure when the interviews are going to happen but all I know is that it is going to happen soon, probably within the next couple of weeks. I found a few websites that relate to my essential question, how do serial killers get away with murder?

Topic

I am going to do my graduation project on serial killers and what happens on a murder scene. I know some people that I am will be able to talk to. I know someone that is a cop and that is going to school for Forensic Science, I believe. I am going to interview them and get some ideas about what they do and/or see on a murder scene. Then I was thinking about maybe after I get more information about my topic I might make a short film of a murder.

Assignment One

1. I really have not heard much about graduation project at City High. I do know that the graduation project is to be taken very seriously, it is very important. I do not know of any 12th grade students that have completed their graduation project.
2. I am interested in TV shows like CSI or movies like the Zodiac. I want to do my graduation project on murders, serial killers, or even what the crime investigraters do on a crime scene.
3. The only thing that I am really concerned about is that I have no idea how I could get involved in a topic like this.