History Essay #2 Reflection

1) Your progress from essay 1 to essay 2.
2) How did your process mesh with your partners? If you had it.
3) How did you handle creative conflict? If you didn't, what made your collaboration work?

1) I believe that my progress from essay 1 to essay 2 was tremendously great! For the second essay, I had talked with Craig a LOT more for advice and tips as well as asking questions like "Is this okay?" and "How should we do this?". I think that actually talking with the teacher and showing that this essay was important, helped me to work harder than I had before on the first essay. In comparison, the time that I had spent on the second essay was much greater than on my first essay. I really went over the story and made sure to include every detail necessary.

2) & 3) My process meshed with my partner well. We both contributed our own thoughts and ideas which worked greatly. I don't believe we had any conflicts between us because we both agreed and supported one another's ideas. When Ramila gave an idea, I added on my ideas to hers. When I gave an idea, Ramila added her on thoughts onto mine. This allowed our essay to become very creative from two different people's perspectives. We made sure that during every class period, we engaged into necessary conversations and commented on one another's opinions. Because we hadn't wasted our time, I believe that our essay turned our to be a success. When outside of school, we would constantly e-mail one another at home and added our own sides to the story, then when we came back to school, we would talk about the contributions we've made and mash together our ideas.
At first when I became partners with Ramila, I was unsure on how well we would do. I thought to myself, "I don't really know her that well and the way we think seems to be opposite from one another." Little did I know that once we were given the rubric, we got a start on the essay right away! We starting spilling out a bunch of ideas and in the end agreed to write a mini-play. There was none of that "she contributed more than the other" and whatnot. We both equally put in our own thoughts into the essay, which I'm really happy about. For once, there was NOTHING to complain about with my partner, Ramila. She did her part and I did mine and we both helped each other out. Now that I look back and think about the progress I've made, and also developing a friendship with my partner, I'm very glad that I had became partners with her. (: