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 * __Reflection for February 14th and 16th__**

By the end of Thursday, we had looked at a book source and an online encyclopedia, fulfilling two out the three source requirements. From the book and encyclopedia, we finished the first chapter on early life and began the areas of adulthood and accomplishments. On the rough draft sheet, we have the information recorded and the sources notes. We recorded where the information came from, but it is not yet in a full citation in MLA or APA format. We have more information that we still need to categorize into “adulthood” or “accomplishments.” Also, we have not yet begun to compile pictures. On the step on the checklist is working on the rough draft outline.

On Tuesday, we reviewed notes that Miguel had already taken and expanded on them by beginning to look at the book that he checked out. Thursday was more repetitive in that we discussed those notes again and began to categorize into what section they would fall into as far as “early life,” “adulthood,” and “accomplishments.” We also wrote the first “Dear Diary” entry for early life where Miguel did an awesome job of tapping into what Jesse Jackson would have been concerned with as a kid and how he probably felt. Once we got going in the beginning, Miguel did wonderfully. He listened very well and became only mildly frustrated. An area that was a challenge, especially at the beginning and toward the end was getting or keeping him motivated and focused on the task that we had to accomplish. We overcame that challenge by taking a bit of a step back from pouring over the book or the iPad to just talk about Jesse Jackson in general, as a person.

In our next session, I will make an effort to allow Miguel to take more of the lead. It is a comfort zone for me to take charge and attempt to complete the task as soon as possible, and as well as possible, but that is not the purpose of my role in this situation. Miguel will learn more if he has to do more of the discovery on his own. I think that what I did pretty well this week was keeping us on track to finishing and supporting Miguel, in general. Although I could have let him take the lead more, as a buddy I could be more organized in our next session. There were a few points where I think I gave him too many options and overloaded him. So, next time I will try to enter with a clearer game plan of what we need to accomplish and what order we should go in.

I agreed that I would try to find some pictures that we can add to the project, specifically from when Jesse Jackson was a kid. So I will try to find those from reputable sources, which may be difficult. Before going on Tuesday, I will make a list of things that I want us to accomplish by the end of the week, or even Tuesday. I think I will err on the side of being more ambitious, because I think we both need to get into the mindset that we are getting things done, because these two sessions have been a bit of a holding plan. Also, I plan to bring him a pencil because the one he was using didn’t have an eraser.