Putting together and eventually presenting my research pecha kucha to the class made me realize that i have two things that I must now focus on. One is finding a way to make my topic less broad and refine my question to a specific part of the civil war and secession. Another is finding a way to craft my question and research so that there is a clear and present “they say” and a way for me to respond to that with an “I say.” As of right now I’m not really sure what I say, and how I’m going to make a dent in the circle of secession discussion.

The questions after my presentation pretty much made me realize the same thing. I kind of just have a bunch of information about an extremely broad topic and not really a focus of what I want to say.