Essential Question Post #11

In my last essential question post, I talked about my essential question (Why do people feel the need to always buy the newest, best, "in" thing? Why are there always so many fads, and why do so many people follow them?) and how it related to one of Mrs. Watson's previous student's quality project because we have started discussing quality projects in class. We will have to choose a topic for our own quality projects very soon, and I think I want to do something similar to her dress project, but not exactly the same thing.

Essential Question Post #10

We have just started to think about quality project ideas in English class. One of Mrs. Watson's previous student's quality project was really interesting to me because it had to do with fashion and fads just like my essential question(Why do people feel the need to always buy the newest, best, "in" thing? Why are there always so many fads, and why do so many people follow them?. In her project, she used parts of her old shirts to make a dress. She wrote a story about each shirt that she used in her dress. Her finished quality project included around 5 stories and the dress that she made out of all of the different shirts. This shows how someone can do the opposite of the normal. Instead of buying something new, she used her old shirts to make a cool new dress. I think that this is interesting because a lot of times people think something has to be new to be "cool", but she used her old shirts to make a dress that turned out really nice. Also, i think it's a really nice, happy feeling when you wear something that you made. When people ask you where you got it, instead of saying you bought it from some store, you can say that you made it and everyone is amazed.