Still the Paper

I've been working on my paper still; pretty boring. I am up to about 11 pages now but I still have a lot of work to put into it. Its getting completed, slowly but surely.

Half a First Draft

I have been working on my paper for the last couple days and I got about six pages done. I have only got through about two and a half pages of my seven page ouline so I still have a lot more to write. We have to turn something into Ms. Fussum today to let her check on our progress.

Research Paper

Yesterday I started working on my research paper. So far I got about 3 and a half pages written. I have a lot more to get get through. I only made it through about a page and a half of my outline so its looking like this paper is going to be pretty long. There are still a few things that I am going to half to add to my outline, so there are some holes in my paper but they will be filled when I'm done with the first draft of this paper.

Finishing the Outline

I haven't been blogging much lately because I have just been adding to my outline. It is coming together good, I just keep adding more and more information to it. There are just a few more things that I need to add to it for complete it. After that I will be able to start on my research paper.

Thesis Statement

With global warming on the rise we need to do all that we can to try and reduce our energy usage and green buildings are a step in the right direction.

Revising the Outline

Today I brought together all the notes that I have been taking in class for the past week or two and started putting it into the my outline. I ended up pretty much redoing my whole outline but I do feel that it is going to be for the better.

Sketch Up

I was absent on Friday from this class so I did not get a chance to do any work on my Graduation Project. But Yesterday when we came back from our break I got the program Sketch Up on my computer. This is the program that ill be designing my green building on. When I first got it I had no idea how to use it, so I spent pretty much the whole day yesterday trying to familiarize myself with the program. I got some of the basics down but I still Have a lot of work to do to know what I'm doing with it. I'm going to talk to my friend Morgan who used this program last trimester and ask her to help me and show me how to us Sketch Up better and become more proficient with it.

Research

I continued finishing my research today. I found some more benefits for green buildings and I also read a couple articles about some of the green buildings that are being built today. One of the articles that I found really interesting is that hotels are starting to get into the green game and are started to become LEED certified.

Back To Research

The only thing due today was the revised action plan that we did today and that we had to have our blog set up. Being as I already had a blog set up since last year and that I had completed my revised action plan yesterday I had today to continue my research on Green Buildings. I found a lot of good information today by looking on the LEED website. This website has a lot of good information on Green Buildings and things like the Benefits or the LEED rating system. This website also had referred me to other websites for even more sources I can use. I added the two best sources I found today to my project links list on this blog.

Action Plan Revisited

I looked back on my Action Plan that I created back in 11th grade and revised it a bit to match the new final schedule that I will be working with this trimester. We also had to write a paragraph about what are projects were going to be about and what are tangible product will be.

Back to Blogging

I haven't blogged for like five months but now I'm back to it. I have my graduation project class now for the 12th grade. This time it is a two hour class everyday to work on my graduation project. I have a lot to get done this trimester. I have to finish finding notes and creating my outline for my at least ten paged research paper that I will be doing on Green Buildings. Then I have create my website about my project and also create my design of my Green Building on Sketch Up. This all has to be done by about March 10th because that is when we will have to present are projects.